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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 8, 2006
Institute Invited to Participate in National Quality Campaign—
“ Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes”
Washington, D.C. - On September 29th, President Annette Sanders,
RN will represent the Institute for Caregiver Education at the kick-off event
for a ground-breaking new campaign called “Advancing Excellence in
America’s Nursing Homes.” According to the campaign
website, “the new grassroots-focused campaign will build on and complement
the work of existing quality initiatives including the Nursing Home Quality
Initiative (NHQI), Quality First, and the culture change movement.”
In a release posted on the website today, the goal of September 29th’s
Quality Summit is to “assess quality in today’s nursing homes;
the need for public confidence in long-term care; the role of the caregiver
workforce in quality improvement; and how the campaign will be implemented
at the national and local levels.”
“We are pleased to have been invited to participate in this
important event,” says Institute President Annette Sanders. “We
have a long and committed history of working with QIOs in a number of states,
supporting their work with Culture Change education. The work of this campaign
is right in line with our organization’s mission.”
The long term care industry’s top professional, consumer, advocacy and
funding organizations are a part of the campaign. Leading the work of the “Advancing
Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes” campaign are: the Alliance
for Quality Nursing Home Care; American Association of Homes and Services for
the Aging (AAHSA); American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators (AANAC);
American College of Health Care Administrators ACHCA); American Health Care
Association (AHCA); American Medical Directors Association (AMDA); Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractors, the Quality
Improvement Organizations (QIOs); The Commonwealth Fund; The Evangelical Lutheran
Good Samaritan Society; National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA);
National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR); and the
National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care.
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.
For more information about this event, please visit www.nhqualitycampaign.org.
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