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Creating Home:
The New Quality of Life Revisions to LTC Surveyor Guidance
Presented by Pioneer Network, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) and American Health Care Association (AHCA)
Webinar Recording Now Available
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Pioneer Network, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) and American Health Care Association (AHCA) recently hosted a two-session webinar to help providers learn more about navigating the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines. Surveys after June 17, 2009 will be conducted with a sharpened focus on elements of quality of life. Click here to learn more about the recently concluded series, the specific topics covered and the presenters.
The response to the webinars was overwhelmingly positive. As a follow up, Pioneer Network is offering the opportunity to purchase the archived recording of the series for $89 per session. In addition, hand-outs from the series are available here. Q&A will be posted as quickly as we are able given the large volume of inquiries. Please check back regularly as we continue to add and update.
*Unfortunately, we are not able to provide the PowerPoint presentations for download. Some of our presenters have clearance to use some of their photos for educational purposes ONLY; and are restricted from providing them to others.
Special Thanks to The Commonwealth Fund
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Newly Released Issue Paper Examines Nurses' Role in Culture Change
To further explore and make recommendations about the role and competencies for nurses with regard to nursing home culture change, in 2008 the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing, in collaboration with the Coalition for Geriatric Nursing Organizations and the Pioneer Network, convened an interdisciplinary Expert Panel of leaders in culture change and in gerontological nursing for a one-and-a half-day meeting. The purpose of this meeting was to foster dialogue, to identify facilitators and barriers to nurses' involvement in culture change, and to identify actions that the culture change movement and the broad nursing community might consider in order to promote competencies for nurses in a resident-directed care environment in nursing homes.
The Issue Paper Nurses' Involvement in Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities summarizes the Expert Panel discussion and frames the competencies that need to be developed for nurses involved in culture change and resident-directed care. Click here to learn more and to download this groundbreaking report.
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Travels with Bonnie
Culture change is a journey, not a destination. Read the latest update from Pioneer Network's Executive Director Bonnie Kantor's "travel" journal, The Spirit of St. Louis and the Consumer Movement for Culture Change.
About Pioneer Network
Pioneer Network is dedicated to making fundamental changes in values and practices to create a culture of aging that is life-affirming, satisfying, humane and meaningful. Pioneer Network advocates for culture change in eldercare models from long-term nursing home care to short-term transitional care to community-based care to create homes that are consumer-driven and person-directed.
To advance these goals, Pioneer Network supports public policy changes; collaborates with researchers; collects and shares adaptable practices and procedures that put person before task; creates communication, networking and learning opportunities; and hosts a national conference.
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