Nursing Home Links

Listed below are links to other Web sites related to nursing home quality improvement and resident-centered care that may be of additional interest:

• MedQIC
  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created MedQIC, 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 and includes resources for each Medicare Priority Topic. You also may search the entire database for literature, tools, and other information related to improving quality of care.
• 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, 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.
• CMS Survey & Certification Online Course Delivery System
  This Web site provides on-line education and training on a variety of long-term care topics at no charge. Presentations may be viewed for up to one year.