Advancing Excellence Campaign
Read about the campaign in QualityTODAY!
A new coalition of groups representing healthcare providers, caregivers, medical and quality improvement experts, government agencies, consumers and others are joining together to launch a new two-year Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes campaign.
Statewide SupportThe Missouri Local Area of Network for Excellence (MO LANE) provides resources, tools and campaign information to participating nursing homes. MO LANE is a coalition of stakeholders to ensure the success of Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes in Missouri. Current MO LANE Planning Committee Members
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Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes seeks excellence in the quality of life and quality of care for the more than 1.5 million American nursing home residents by enhancing choice, strengthening workforce, and improving clinical outcomes.
The campaign will track eight key indicators and set goals to significantly improve quality of nursing home care, provide technical assistance to nursing homes that want to improve care, and regularly report on progress to achieve these goals. The campaign acknowledges the critical role of nursing home staff in providing that care.
Supporters of the campaign are committed to working together to engage nursing homes in the goals of this campaign in order to achieve real progress in quality of care; the campaign is larger than the sum of its parts. The campaign supporters believe that quality nursing home care should be an automatic expectation for everyone, nothing less.
Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes will assess progress toward achieving the following measurable goals:
- Reducing high risk pressure ulcers
- Reducing the use of daily physical restraints
- Improving pain management for longer term nursing home residents
- Improving pain management for short stay, post-acute nursing home residents
- Establishing individual targets for improving quality
- Assessing resident and family satisfaction with the quality of care
- Increasing staff retention
- Improving consistent assignment of nursing home staff, so that residents regularly receive care from the same caregivers.
Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes builds on the work and goals of previous quality initiatives such as the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), Quality First, and others, bringing these initiatives (and their supporters) together to help foster continued quality improvement in nursing homes. Joining the campaign can help nursing homes implement many of the goals of NHQI and Quality First.
How to get your nursing home involved
- Go to www.nhqualitycampaign.org and learn more about the campaign and view detailed descriptions of campaign goals
- Commit to at least three campaign goals and begin working on them between now and September 2008
- Register your facility at www.nhqualitycampaign.org by clicking Nursing Home Registration and then Join Today
- Look for a Welcome Packet in the mail from MO LANE
- Visit the following Web sites for campaign information and resources: www.nhqualitycampaign.org, MedQIC, Primaris tools, Missouri Health Care Association and Missouri Association of Homes for the Aging
For more information contact:
Pam Guyer, BS, LNHA
Eastern Missouri Program Manager
(800) 735-6776 ext. 196
pguyer@primaris.org