46 replies to this topic

[emrob23]

Help! I need a little advice regarding resident council meetings and minutes. Well, I KNOW how to keep the minutes, but what is the best way to have each discipline respond to concerns and get their response in the minutes? We are assisted living and have just added a skilled wing so we are new at this council thing! Thanks in advance for any input!


When I am writing minutes from my Resident council meetings, I type the minutes as a whole, including each department. I then create a form in which I type the specific concerns on a separate piece of paper for each department head. At the end each department's form, I have a space for signatures for the appropriate department head, the Administrator of the facility, as well as myself so that I can assure responses are addressed. When the department head addresses the concerns, he/she signs the paper, passes it along to the Administrator, if it is an acceptable response, the Administrator signs and returns the sheet to me. This works well for my facility because by the time the form gets back to me, the concerns have already been approved by the Administrator. Hope this helps!

[Pennie]

I have gotten a few questions lately about Resident Council Groups etc. So I thought it might be helpful to place this discussion /topic back to the front of the message board again.