Institute Team to Provide Full-Day Symposium for Oklahoma Association of
Homes and Services for the Aging
Focus of May Conference Will Be Person-Centered
Care
Oklahoma City, OK -The Oklahoma Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging (OKAHSA) recently chose the Institute for Caregiver Education
to be their sole provider of Person-Centered Care Education for their Annual
Spring Conference on May 8, 2008. The symposium will offer training
on a variety of person-centered care practices that are designed and proven
to elevate the
quality of life and the quality of care for residents in nursing home settings.
The
Institute team will facilitate four sessions including: An Introduction to
Person-Centered Care; The First Year of Implementation; Retention, Work Force
Development and HR Practices; and Making the Business Case. The first session,
An Introduction to Person-Centered Care will include an in-depth look at
how we de-value our elders by the nature of our own society’s perceptions
of aging, and how this affects our work in long term care.
The First Year
of Implementation will focus on initiatives designed to educate the entire
nursing home community, including resident interviews, employee orientation,
buddy-systems and how to communicate new concepts to families.
Retention,
Workforce Development and HR Practices is a two-part session in which
attendees will discover fundamental principles necessary to move from a traditional
model of workforce development that is top-down oriented, to a model that
embraces
a flattened hierarchical structure that encourages empowered decision-making.
The
final session, Making the Business Case, is designed to answer questions
including “Why
should we adopt this change?” “How much can it cost?” “How
will it affect the bottom line clinically and operationally?” “Will
the state and Federal surveyors support it?” and finally, “How
will it affect our presence in the market?”
The Oklahoma Association
of Homes and Services for the Aging (OKAHSA), organized in 1993,
represents over 100 not-for-profit, private, fraternal, religious, and government-sponsored
nursing facilities, assisted living, retirement communities, housing,
and adult
day service centers. OKAHSA members serve more than 8,000 persons
in facility-based settings. Association members employ over 85,000 people and
involve countless
volunteers.
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 seven 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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