Person-Centered Care Training in Oklahoma City, OK

The Institute was asked by the Oklahoma Association of Homes and Services for the Aging to present a full-day conference on Person-Centered Care for their members on May 8th. Teresa McCann and Allison Lantieri teamed up to offer five sessions, including:

• An Introduction to Person-Centered Care
• Person-Centered Care in the 1st Year of Implementation
• Retention & Workforce Development Based in Person-Centered Care
• A Transformative Approach to Human Resource Leadership
• Making the Business Case for Person-Centered Care

There were about 75 attendees on-site in Oklahoma City and another 45 in Tulsa who participated via a live video-feed. The day was sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality, which is the state's Quality Improvement Organization.

We were pleased to receive great feedback throughout the day and afterwards from attendees who are excited about adopting Person-Centered Care practices in their organizations.

Some of the feedback included:

"I attended the culture change seminar that OKAHSA presented yesterday in Oklahoma City. You did an excellent job. It was one of the most informative seminars that I have attended."

Peggy Mitchell, Administrator, Community Health Center—Wakita, OK

“The seminar was wonderful; one of the best I have been to. As a new administrator (1 ½ years), I have been fortunate enough to work at a home where the “idea” of person-centered care is welcomed and I am excited to really put into place a long-range plan to transform our community completely. We have the right attitude in caring for our elders but I never thought as much about the HR possibilities that complete the transformation. Thank you for a wonderful learning experience!”

Casey Garrard, Administrator, Crestridge Place—Watonga, OK

The Institute team is pleased to offer full-day conferences on Person-Centered Care that are customized to meet the needs of your organization. We are able to provide training that meets the needs of non-profits, for-profits, multi-home organizations and independently owned single homes. If you would like more information about our services, please e-mail us at training@caregivereducation.org.

Team Presents for OKAHSA in May

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.

Institute Team to Present Three Sessions at American Society on Aging Conference in March

Sessions will Explore Psychosocial Guidelines for Community Life, Leadership for Direct Care Workers and Practical Nursing Education within a Culture Change Context

WASHINGTON, DC — The Institute for Caregiver Education team is pleased to announce that three of the organization’s submissions for the ASA/NCOA Annual Conference were accepted and will be presented in March. The American Society on Aging (ASA) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) collaborate to host one of the largest annual conferences for aging, eldercare and education professionals in the country. This year’s conference will be held in Washington, DC on March 26-30 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and the Omni Shoreham Hotel. More than 3,500 aging professionals are expected to attend.

Institute for Caregiver Education Senior Consultant and Director of Development Jim Kinsey, AAS will be presenting “Enhancing Lives and Enhancing Compliance: Culture Change and the Psychosocial Guidelines.” This session was created by Mr. Kinsey as a response to the new guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that focus on Activities programming regulation. One of the Institute’s recent focuses has been transforming Activities programming to a “Community Life” model, which embraces Culture Change and expands activities from the responsibility of one staff member to the entire team. In this 90-minute session, attendees will explore how Community Life programs can enhance compliance with regulation and further avoid deficiencies with the new psychosocial guidelines.

Senior Consultant and Director of Development Teresa McCann will present “Organizational and Leadership Development.” In this session participants will explore how to expand the role of the direct care worker into a role of leadership and mentoring. Participants will also explore how to develop interdisciplinary teams, create team standards that build a foundation of success, and the policies and procedures needed to support an expanded role into a Quality of Life Leader.

Associate Consultant and Educator Myrna Eshleman, RN, MScN, will be presenting “Education for Developing Practical Nurses for Long-Term Care.” This session will explore how to integrate geriatric-focused, relationship-based care into a curriculum of practical nursing. Participants will identify and discuss the professional crisis that this curriculum seeks to respond to as well as examples of lesson plans, outcome measures, and implementation guidelines. In addition, Ms. Eshleman will identify how to integrate gerontology, psychosocial elder needs and issues of aging into a practical nursing curriculum.

For more information about the joint ASA/CCOA Conference, please visit www.asaging.org.

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.