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Participating nursing homes in Phase 1:
 7481 (47.6%)

Participating nursing homes in Phase 2:+
  6045 ( 38.5%*)
  • 4708  Charter members
  • 1199  New participants

Participating consumers:
  2542^

Participating nursing home staff:
  1055^

* Percent is based on the latest available count of Medicare/Medicaid nursing homes

^ Phase 1 and Phase 2 combined

+ Charter members participated in Phase 1 and re-enrolled in Phase 2 prior to Jan 31, 2010

Phase 1 ended 10/21/2009
Phase 2 began 10/22/2009

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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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