Nursing Home Links

Listed below are links to Web sites related to nursing home quality improvement:

• Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes
  The Advancing Excellence Campaign is a national effort of 28 stakeholder groups including provider associations, consumer and advocacy groups, government agencies and others coming together to help nursing homes improve quality of care and life in nursing homes. The Campaign, launched in 2006, was initially planned as a two-year effort. Because of its success, including improvement in care by Campaign participants, the Campaign leaders decided to launch a second phase of the Campaign in October 2009. The Campaign relies on statewide coalitions called Lead Area Networks for Excellence (LANEs) to get the word out, provide free, evidenced–based technical assistance on eight areas of nursing home care and management, supports frontline staff and encourages consumer transparency. NMMRA serves as the LANE Convener for New Mexico.
  
  
• MedQIC
  The Medicare Quality Improvement Community Web site (MedQIC) was developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to be a comprehensive online resource of quality improvement information for Medicare's National Quality Improvement Priority Topics. Information on MedQIC is organized by setting and clinical topic.
   
• Nursing Home Compare
  Nursing Home Compare contains information on Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes. Search nursing homes by geography, proximity, or name. View nursing home quality measures as well as other pertinent nursing home information.
  
  
• PEAK - Promoting Excellent Alternatives in Kansas
  PEAK is a project created by the Kansas Department on Aging charged with disseminating information about changes in the nursing home profession. This Web site contains several educational modules that may be used for education and training purposes.
  
  
• Action Pact, Inc.
  Action Pact is a company comprised of trainers, consultants and educators who assist nursing homes and other elder care organizations in becoming resident-centered models of care.
  
  
• Pioneer Network
  Pioneer Network is an organization dedicated to transforming the culture of aging. The Web site offers a 10-page preview of Getting Started: A Pioneering Approach to Culture Change in Long-Term Care Organizations.
  
  
• The Eden Alternative
  Eden Alternative is an organization committed to remaking the experience of aging, creating coalitions of people who help to create better social and physical environments for elders. Key to the Eden model is helping elders overcome the three plagues of loneliness, helplessness and boredom.
  
  
• The Wellspring Program
  The Wellspring Program is an alliance of nursing homes with top management committed to empowering staff and making quality of resident care a top priority. The alliance shares the services of a geriatric nurse practitioner (GNP), who develops training materials and teaches staff at each nursing home how to apply nationally recognized clinical guidelines.
  
  
• The New Mexico Health Care Association
  The New Mexico Health Care Association (NMHCA) is a professional trade association for facility-based long term care providers. Members include nursing homes, intermediate care facilities and assisted living/residential care facilities.
  
  
• The American Health Care Association
  The American Health Care Association (AHCA) is a non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations, together representing more than 10,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, developmentally disabled and sub-acute care providers that care for more than 1.5 million elderly and disabled individuals nationally.