Grant helps improve nursing home resident quality of life by
amplifying the voice of residents and direct care staff
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality
Coalition received a $1.69
million grant from The John A. Hartford
Foundation (JAHF) to continue its work to improve nursing home
resident quality of life and to support staff for the next three
years.
The Coalition is a network of 1,600+ nursing home residents,
care partners, staff, advocates, and others who are developing,
testing, and promoting policies and practices to address common
challenges in nursing homes. The challenges were outlined in the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's 2022
report, The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home
Quality.
"Any effort to improve the quality of nursing home care must
empower residents within their communities," said Margaret Barajas, Pennsylvania Long-Term Care
Ombudsman and Moving Forward Coalition Steering Committee Member.
"With this grant, we can coordinate resources, scale partnerships,
and effectively create nursing homes that foster a culture of
resident engagement."
The Coalition has spurred improvements in nursing home quality,
including collaboration with the federal Geriatrics Workforce
Enhancement Program to include a focus on developing
apprenticeships for direct care workers; brought attention to the
Department of Housing and Urban Development's role in financing
nursing home quality improvement; and worked with Michigan's state survey agency to train
nursing home surveyors on person-centered care.
Over the next three years, the Coalition plans to:
- Develop and test a certified nursing assistant apprenticeship
program to build and strengthen the nursing home workforce;
- Provide nursing home staff with tools and a process to identify
and prioritize "what matters" most to residents;
- Empower residents to create and strengthen a Resident Council
that advocates for change and improvements within their nursing
home; and
- Convene stakeholders, experts, and policymakers to identify the
most promising paths forward for nursing home quality
improvement.
"New practices and policies that enhance nursing home care are
taking root thanks to the Moving Forward Coalition, and that
benefits everyone," said Terry
Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of JAHF. "The Coalition's
work shows that a broad set of partners from both the public and
private sectors can work together to improve nursing home care and
create a sustainable platform for driving change."
The Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition is
funded by JAHF and draws on leadership from LeadingAge, the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and other national
organizations and advisors.
About the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality
Coalition
The Moving Forward Coalition is a diverse group
of individuals and organizations that came together in July 2022 to prioritize recommendations from the
2022 National Academies report on nursing home quality. The
Coalition's purpose is to develop and promote action plans to
address those priorities in partnership with national, state, and
local organizations, including professional associations, nursing
home providers, clinicians, researchers, advocates, long-term care
Ombudsmen, Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement
Organizations, and others. The Coalition is funded by The John A.
Hartford Foundation, a national philanthropy dedicated to improving
the care of older adults. More than 2,000 people have signed up as
Coalition participants at movingforwardcoalition.org.
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