Advancing Excellence in America's
Nursing Homes
Welcome to the Advancing Excellence Website!
It's not too late to join the Campaign! If you have not registered
yet, all you need is your Medicare/Medicaid provider number. Click
here to have the website walk you through the registration
process. Please remember that your registration is not complete until you
have submitted goals for Phase 2.
If you participated in Phase 1 (from 2006-2009) you need your
username and password. If you cannot remember the password there are
directions on how to retrieve it.
New and returning participants just need to sign in, choose three
goals (one clinical, one organizational and one other), select targets, and
get going!
After you choose goals, Advancing Excellence tracks your
performance and provides you with confidential graphs. Although you cannot
delete a goal, you can always change your targets and add additional goals.
Advancing Excellence News
Phase 2 of the Campaign is in full swing and many new resources
are now available to help you with your Campaign efforts!
The Campaign believes that stabilizing the workforce in the nursing
home is an important first step in quality improvement. A stable work force
also contributes to happier residents and staff. Two new and very important
tools were added to the Resources section — a Staff
Turnover Calculator and Consistent
Assignment Tool. Use these tools to collect your data, set a
target, and monitor your progress for Goals 1 and 2, Minimizing Staff
Turnover and Increasing Use of Consistent Assignment. When you enter your
data on the website you can track your progress and compare your performance
to other nursing homes across the country. To benefit from these
comparisons, you must select Goals 1 and/or 2. (If
you did not select these goals when you registered or re-enrolled, you can
always add them!)
Two new resources are also available for consumers — a Consumer
Tip Sheet and a Consumer
Guide. There are other resources on how to choose a nursing home,
but not much information available about what to do after your family member
or friend is in the nursing home. The Consumer Tip Sheet helps consumers
understand the ongoing care process in the nursing home and identifies areas
to ensure the best care for loved ones. Additionally, the one-of-a-kind
Consumer Guide helps consumers, families, and friends learn about the
Campaign goals and how nursing homes use the goals. It also helps consumers
ask the right questions in the right way to get the right information.
Newsletters
are another great resource on the website. These come out every 4 – 6
weeks and include a variety of articles for providers, staff, and consumers.
While you are on the website, visit the Progress section to see how
individual nursing homes are doing. Click on the Progress button above,
click on Nursing Home, and click on the second option to view the publicly
reported data. Then choose a state and a nursing home. All of the nursing
homes in the nation are listed, and you can view each home’s progress for
the last two years.
Finally, the campaign has a new slogan: Making
Nursing Homes a Better Place to Live, Work and Visit! Let’s
work together to make this goal a reality!
Carol Benner
National Director
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