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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 29, 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 represented
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,
the goal of September 29th’s Quality Summit was 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 initiative, please visit www.nhqualitycampaign.org.
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