Focus of Day-Long Conference will be Person-Centered Care
Oklahoma City, OK –The Oklahoma Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (OKAHSA) recently chose the Institute for Caregiver Education to be their sole provider of Person-Centered Care Education for their Annual Spring Conference on May 8, 2008. The symposium will offer training on a variety of person-centered care practices that are designed and proven to elevate the quality of life and the quality of care for residents in nursing home settings.
The Institute team will facilitate four sessions including: An Introduction to Person-Centered Care; The First Year of Implementation; Retention, Work Force Development and HR Practices; and Making the Business Case. The first session, An Introduction to Person-Centered Care will include an in-depth look at how we de-value our elders by the nature of our own society’s perceptions of aging, and how this affects our work in long term care.
The First Year of Implementation will focus on initiatives designed to educate the entire nursing home community, including resident interviews, employee orientation, buddy-systems and how to communicate new concepts to families.
Retention, Workforce Development and HR Practices is a two-part session in which attendees will discover fundamental principles necessary to move from a traditional model of workforce development that is top-down oriented, to a model that embraces a flattened hierarchical structure that encourages empowered decision-making.
The final session, Making the Business Case, is designed to answer questions including “Why should we adopt this change?” “How much can it cost?” “How will it affect the bottom line clinically and operationally?” “Will the state and Federal surveyors support it?” and finally, “How will it affect our presence in the market?”
The Oklahoma Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (OKAHSA), organized in 1993, represents over 100 not-for-profit, private, fraternal, religious, and government-sponsored nursing facilities, assisted living, retirement communities, housing, and adult day service centers. OKAHSA members serve more than 8,000 persons in facility-based settings. Association members employ over 85,000 people and involve countless volunteers.
The Institute for Caregiver Education is a nationally-recognized leader in Culture Change education. For more than 15 years the organization has provided quality caregiver education to nursing homes from California to Maine. Over the last seven years the IfCE team has educated hundreds of long-term care professionals on a myriad of Culture Change topics at such national conferences as ASA, NADONA, AAHSA, AHCA, ACHCA, The Pioneer Network, the VA Summit and numerous state associations. The Institute for Caregiver Education is currently a leading Culture Change educator for a number of state QIO organizations as they work with the 8th Scope of Work and CMS.
For more information about this event, or to request a speaker, please contact Allison Lantieri, Director of Communications at 702-567-2769 or e-mail her at alantieri@caregivereducation.org.
