FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 21, 2007

JIM KINSEY FEATURED SPEAKER AT ILLINOIS PIONEER COALITION MEETINGS

Statewide, IL - Institute for Caregiver Education team member Jim Kinsey was a featured speaker at several statewide Illinois Pioneer Coalition meetings in March. The Illinois Pioneer Coalition is one of a growing number of state organizations dedicated to bringing Culture Change to the forefront of the national long term care conversation. The day-long conferences, titled “Pioneering Approaches to Long-Term Care: Culture Change in Action” were held in North Chicago, Peoria and Joliet, Illinois.

The conferences were designed for long term care professionals who are actively engaged in transforming their eldercare organization from a medical model of care to a social model. The day consisted of four learning building blocks that are essential to a successful Culture Change transformation. They included: Transforming the Assessment/Admission Process; Resident Mentoring; Transformational Leadership and Leading the Generations.

The Illinois Pioneer Coalition was organized to provide long term care settings with the education and tools needed to effect deep Culture Change, thereby transforming long term care settings into real homes and improving the quality of life for individuals and staff in various settings throughout Illinois.

Mr. Kinsey speaks nationally for the Institute for Caregiver Education on a variety of Culture Change-related topics. If you are interested in booking him or another Institute team member for an upcoming event, please call 717-263-7766 for more information.

The Institute for Caregiver Education is a nationally-recognized leader in Culture Change education. For more than 15 years the organization has provided quality caregiver education to nursing homes from California to Maine. Over the last five years the IfCE team has educated hundreds of long-term care professionals on a myriad of Culture Change topics at such national conferences as ASA, NADONA, AAHSA, AHCA, ACHCA, The Pioneer Network, the VA Summit and numerous state associations. The Institute for Caregiver Education is currently a leading Culture Change educator for a number of state QIO organizations as they work with the 8th Scope of Work and CMS.

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