Promoting Nursing Home Quality Improvement: Overview

Background

IFAS' nursing home quality improvement agenda addresses three essential components of quality improvement:

• Increasing the supply of empirically validated clinical protocols and caregiving practices.
• Changing the culture of the nursing home to improve clinical care and quality of life for residents and better working conditions for nursing home staff.
• Preparing the nursing home setting to accept and adopt quality improvement changes.

Accomplishments

Evaluated the Wellspring model of nursing home quality improvement in collaboration with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Texas A&M University. The model successfully meshed clinical and culture changes to improve resident care, create a better working environment for employees and reduce staff turnover. Learn more

Readied the Wellspring Quality model for adoption. In partnership with Wellspring Innovative Solutions, IFAS developed a strategic plan for disseminating, replicating and sustaining the model over time and creating an infrastructure to support ongoing training and technical assistance. Learn more

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