By December 2024 we aim to reduce the number of falls with serious injury by 25% among adults who have transitioned from the assisted living (AL) facility to the nursing home (NH) at a large continuing care retirement community in the southeastern...
The project aim was to rapidly deploy a multidisciplinary team to improve the identification and documentation of desired code status of all residents in a facility; ensure all staff had current cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification.
By November 2024, the Pharmacist-Mentored Implementation Collaborative (PMIC) will reduce the incidence of adverse drug event-related harm in nursing homes in the IPRO-QIN-QIO region for the categories of anticoagulants, diabetes, antimicrobials,...
The aim is to illustrate Narrative Medicine (NM) as an approach to capture resident life stories in PALTC by showcasing 3 QI projects, occurring in different long term care facilities across 3 different states: RI, NC, and Maine. The positive impact...
The goal is to create an effective plan for relocating long-term care residents during natural disasters based on the experience of relocating 30 veterans to ensure their safety and well-being.
The aim is to increase awareness of McGeer’s Criteria among the Nursing Home Providers in a nursing facility, with the goal of decreasing inappropriate orders of urine cultures by 30% by January 2024.
The aim is to better integrate palliative care into the nursing home to ensure residents receive timely goal concordant care and improve quality of life.
To improve the nursing training curriculum within 1 year by understanding the challenges and limitations in geriatric training delivery to the diverse trainee groups and to provide geriatric educators with practical guidance with proposed strategies...
Our purpose was to increase rates of advance care planning (ACP) document retrieval and upload to the electronic medical records (EMR) for patients residing in a community nursing home over an 18-month period. We aimed for >85% compliance to have...
