Advancing Excellence in America's
Nursing Homes
Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes is a national
campaign to encourage, assist and empower nursing homes to improve
the quality of care and life for residents.
Comprised of long term care providers, medical professionals,
consumers, employees, and state and federal agencies, AE is the largest and
first coalition of its kind to measure quality by setting clinical and
organizational goals for nursing homes.
The coalition stimulates quality improvements by providing nursing
homes with free, current and practical evidence-based resources,
empowering residents and their families with education, and helping
participants reach their targets. Homes can compare their progress with
state and national averages. View the list of coalition
leaders.
Advancing Excellence News
Welcome to the New Advancing Excellence Website and the beginning
of Phase 2 of the Advancing Excellence Campaign! On behalf of the Campaign’s
28 national organizations, we look forward to you becoming a
member of Advancing Excellence and being part of a national effort to
improve the quality of care in America’s nursing homes.
Some important things to know:
- If
you already participate in the Campaign, you will need to
update
your profile and set targets for this new phase
. Because we have new goals, you will also need to take a look
at the goals and decide if you want to keep your existing goals or
choose others.
- To participate, you must identify a minimum of three goals:
one clinical goal, one organizational goal, and one other goal in either
category. You have until January 31, 2010, to change your goals.
- The Campaign has reordered the eight
goals to better accommodate your needs. For example, we have
put Staff Retention as the first goal because having a stable workforce is
so critical to quality improvement.
- Managing pain is now one goal. We have combined managing pain
for long-stay residents and short-stay residents into one goal.
- We have added two new goals: Staff Satisfaction and Advance
Care Planning.
- We are including target setting for all of the clinical goals
because we know that a nursing home selecting a goal and setting a target
improves faster than its peers.
- If you are a new participant, click Join
Now and follow the directions. To join the Campaign, you need
your provider number.
- If you have questions, call your LANE
convener for help or send an email to the helpdesk.
Again, we look forward to your success! We also have updated our
website to make it more user-friendly. Please explore it and give us your feedback.
Mary Jane Koren, MD. MPH
Chair, Advancing Excellence Campaign
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