Resources

Pioneer Network is an inclusive, grassroots movement of culture change stakeholders committed to transforming aging. The organization sponsors annual meetings and supports a website filled with the latest news, resources, and stories from the field. M.O.V.E. is an affiliate of the Pioneer Network.

Other State Culture Change Coalition Web Sites

• California Culture Change Coalition
• Colorado Culture Change Coalition
• Florida Pioneer Network
• Illinois Pioneer Coalition
• Iowa Person Directed Care Coalition
• Kansas Culture Change Coalition
• Minnesota Culture Change Coalition
• Missouri Coalition Celebrating Continuum Care Change
• Nebraska Aging Enrichment Coalition
• Innovation Network of New Mexico
• North Carolina Coalition for LTC Enhancement
• Ohio Person-centered Care Coalition
• Pennsylvania Culture Change Coalition
• RI Generations

Action Pact, Inc. is a company of trainers, consultants and educators who assist nursing homes and other elder care organizations in becoming resident-directed.

Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes. This voluntary campaign monitors key indicators of nursing home care quality, promotes excellence in caregiving for nursing home residents, and acknowledges the critical role nursing home staff has in providing care. The campaign depends on Local Area Networks for Excellence (LANEs) to implement the campaign and builds on other quality initiatives like Quality First, the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), the 8th Scope of Work for Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), and the Culture Change movement.

Almost Home: Changing Aging in America. This companion web site to the PBS documentary, Almost Home, pulls back to give you the bigger picture and see what is happening since filming completed.

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) help millions of individuals and their families every day through mission-driven, not-for-profit organizations dedicated to providing the services that people need, when they need them, in the place they call home. AAHSA’s commitment is to create the future of aging services through quality people can trust.

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 subacute care providers that care for more than 1.5 million elderly and disabled individuals nationally.

Center for Excellence in Assisted Living (CEAL) is a non-profit collaborative of 11 national organizations which aims to promote high quality assisted living and serve as an objective national clearinghouse and convener for research, practices, and policies that foster quality and affordability in assisted living.

The Eden Alternative™ began in 1992 as an effort to improve quality of life for nursing home residents. Their mission is “to improve the well-being of Elders and those who care for them by transforming the communities in which they live and work… [They] create coalitions of people and organizations that are committed to creating better social and physical environments for people.”

The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices envisions a world where all people have positive control over the lives they have chosen for themselves. Our efforts focus on people who have lost or may lose positive control because of society’s response to the presence of a disability. This site helps us foster a global learning community that shares knowledge for that purpose. All are welcome here to share and learn.

Green Houses® are homes for 6 to 10 elders who require skilled nursing care and want to live a rich life through environments that support privacy, autonomy, enjoyment and a place to call home. Green Houses® are developed and operated by long-term care organizations in partnership with the Green House Project and NCB Capital Impact.

LEAP, Mather Lifeways, is a comprehensive workforce development program that empowers staff, increases retention, and promotes staff-resident relationships through a model of person-centered care. Hundreds of senior living and long-term care (LTC) communities across the U.S. have participated in LEAP train-the-trainer workshops.

Live Oak Institute, based in Berkeley, California, is in the business of developing the communities and culture that give meaning, purpose, and power to the role of elder.

Medicare Quality Improvement Community (MedQIC), sponsored by CMS, is a national knowledge forum for healthcare and quality improvement professionals and provides easy access to quality improvement resources and a community of professionals.

Oregon Alliance of Senior and Health Services (the Alliance). For more than 25 years, the Alliance has been the voice of quality long-term care in the state. Representing not-for-profit organizations that are dedicated to providing housing, health care and related services to the elderly and disabled, we are committed to meeting the professional needs of our members.

OGEC Resource Center, is part of the Oregon Geriatric Education Center, a consortium of the Oregon Health & Science University, Portland State University, and Oregon State University. The Resource Center maintains a collection of over 1,500 resources, including books, videotapes, DVDs, games, bibliographies, and other instructional materials. The Resource Center serves a variety of professionals in applied fields and in higher education.

Oregon Health Care Association (OHCA). OHCA is one of the state’s leading trade associations, representing over 570 members who provide services to over 40,000 people each day and employ more than 30,000 Oregonians. Members include for profit and not for profit organizations, multi facility health systems and industry partners. OHCA promotes high quality care and services through professional development and effective advocacy in the shaping of public and private policy.

PHI, Quality Care through Quality Jobs is working to transform long-term care in the United States by addressing the direct-care workforce crisis. Creating quality jobs for direct-care workers is essential to providing high-quality, cost-effective services to long-term care consumers. PHI has developed several training programs, including Coaching Supervision, which introduces supervisors of direct-care workers to the skills they need to effectively help workers solve problems and improve work performance.

Picker Institute sponsors education and research in the field of patient-centered care in cooperation with educational institutions and other interested entities and individuals. The institute’s goal is to foster a broader understanding of the practical and theoretical implications of patient-centered care by approaching healthcare with a focus on the concerns of patients and other healthcare consumers.

Planetree is an internationally recognized leader in patient-centered care. In healthcare settings throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, Planetree is demonstrating that patient-centered care is not only an empowering philosophy, but a viable, vital, and cost-effective model. Our affiliate sites operate in diverse healthcare settings, with each site adapting the Planetree model as required by its unique needs. These facilities range from small rural hospitals with 25 beds to large urban medical centers with over 2,000 beds.

Sharing Innovations in Quality (SIQ): Resources for Long-Term Care is sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and hosted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). It includes summaries of clinical stasndards and guidelines.