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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 30, 2006
Good Samaritan Center at Advent Christian Village Awards
Culture Change Transformation Contract to the Institute
Dowling Park, FL - The
Institute for Caregiver Education has been awarded a contract to facilitate
the transformation of Advent Christian Village’s Good Samaritan Center
from a clinical model to a social model of care. Advent Christian Village provides
a full continuum
of care to more than 800 residents, including independent living, assisted
living and skilled nursing care. Good Samaritan Center is the skilled nursing
component of the Village’s suite of elder services and cares for approximately
160 elders and employs 250 team members. Leadership at Good Samaritan Center
contacted the Institute team about a possible contract after attending a
regional Institute for Caregiver Education Culture Change seminar.
Long known for
its history of excellent clinical care, Good Samaritan Center is on the
Consumer Reports list of the top 10% of nursing homes in Florida. In addition,
the Advent
Christian Village community is known nationally for having established
the first fully-recognized retirement home in 1913. Good Samaritan Center has
embraced
Culture Change transformation as the next necessary change in eldercare—again
proving that the community is an early adopter of the very best elder services
available in the country today.
“It is such a pleasure to work with
these committed and talented healthcare professionals,” says Teresa
McCann, RN and Senior Consultant and Educator for the Institute’s
Florida-based services. “The community is on the cutting edge of
eldercare, and it is a testament to their drive to be the best that they
should embrace Culture
Change.”
The main goal of the contract is to assist Good Samaritan
Center to change the culture in its skilled nursing services departments
from an institutional model to a resident-centered model of care. The
initiative
will ultimately cultivate a model of care that will focus on the holistic
needs of the elders to improve their quality of care and quality of
life. The contract
execution will feature four main elements:
- transforming the current
nursing home culture to a resident-centered approach
- empowering
frontline team members
to help address issues related to the delivery of customized,
high quality care
- changing the environment to foster a homelike experience
- linking
transformation of the nursing home culture to quality indicators
Keri
Hilliard, Good Samaritan
Center’s Administrator in Training says “We envision
that both elders and team members will be empowered to make
decisions that
affect their
lives and their work. We believe that this transformation
will create stronger relationships between residents and
staff and
a shared feeling
of community
and involvement, which is the foundation of a culturally
changed home.”
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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