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Nursing Home Quality Campaign Celebrates 5,000
Participating Facilities
Focus on campaign during National
Nursing Home Week, Older Americans Month
May 20, 2007 - Steering Committee members of the
Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign this week
announced that over 5,000 facilities have joined the unprecedented
two-year voluntary campaign to improve the quality of care in the
nation’s nursing homes.
The campaign issued a challenge to nursing homes to
register to participate by May 14th in recognition of National Nursing
Home Week, May 13 - 19 and Older Americans month which is celebrated in
May. Those participants that met the deadline will be specially
designated on the campaign Web site as “trailblazers” because of their
early commitment to high quality nursing home care.
Campaign participants have committed to work on at
least three of the campaign’s eight measurable clinical quality and
organizational improvement goals to improve their quality of care.
“As we celebrate National Nursing Home Week, May
13-19th and Older Americans month in May, we are pleased that so many
nursing homes are showing their leadership and commitment to quality of
life for residents and staff in nursing homes by registering early for
the Advancing Excellence campaign,” campaign Steering Committee members
said in a statement.
Leslie Norwalk, Acting Administrator of the Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services, recently stated, “We commend the
thousands of facilities that have already signed up for the campaign.
We hope many more will join this new effort as well."
Campaign Goals
Participating nursing homes will work on at least three of eight
measurable goals:
1.
Reducing high risk pressure ulcers;
2.
Reducing the use of daily physical restraints;
3.
Improving pain management for longer term nursing home residents;
4.
Improving pain management for short stay, post-acute nursing home
residents;
5.
Establishing individual targets for improving quality;
6.
Assessing resident and family satisfaction with the quality of
care;
7.
Increasing staff retention; and
8.
Improving consistent assignment of nursing home staff, so that
residents regularly receive care from the same caregivers.
Additional information about the goals
is available:
·
Campaign Goals and Objectives
·
How the Goals will Improve Quality
·
Goals Q&A for Providers
Nursing homes can access
technical assistance and guidance from quality experts in reaching
their targeted goals. The campaign will report on providers’ overall, or
aggregate, progress—and these reports will help inform consumers' long
term care choices.
For a list of the campaign’s trailblazers and more
information, visit the campaign’s official Web site,
www.nhqualitycampaign.org and click on “Find Participating Nursing
Homes,” then search by state. Nursing homes and consumers can also
learn more about the campaign and register to participate on the site.
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