Culture Change in Nursing Homes

Pioneer Network
http://www.pioneernetwork.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/content.display/page/NewLanguage.cfm
This organization has been a leader in grassroots effort to improve care for older adults in nursing homes.

TLC for LTC on Culture Change
http://www.tlcinltc.org/pioneerpractices/pioneerpractices.htm
Provides some nice tables that illustrates a change in the care paradigm and compares and contrasts different approaches to culture change in nursing homes.

Action Pact - Culture Change Now
http://www.culturechangenow.com/getstarted.html
Organization that has good resources and provides consultation to nursing homes on how to initiate and imbed culture change in the organization.

Getting Started: A Pioneering Approach to Culture Change in Long-term Care Organizations
http://www.pioneernetwork.net/PubData/DocLib/E6030E47-E018-02B1-78FE63A0167B29AE/Preview%20of%20Getting%20Started.pdf
Excellent resource developed by the Pioneer Network that guides long-term care facilities through initiating and imbedding culture change in the organization.

Quality Partners of Rhode Island
http://www.riqualitypartners.org/nursing_homes/index.php
good resources to help nursing homes with culture change.

Eden Alternative
http://www.edenalt.com/welcome.htm
One approach to culture change in nursing homes.

Green House Project
http://www.ncbcapitalimpact.org/default.aspx?id=148
Another approach to culture change in nursing homes.

Wellspring
http://www.wellspringis.org/
And another approach to culture change and quality improvement in nursing homes.

Transforming Long-term Care: Giving Residents a Place to Call Home
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=365728&
Video and slides on the resident centered movement in nursing homes.

What is Culture Change?
http://www.caregivereducation.org/culture.htm
Resources from the Institute of Caregiver Education

Resources on Nursing Home Culture Change
http://providers.ipro.org/index/nhqi_culturechange

Minnesota Culture Change Coalition
http://www.mnculturechange.org/Home_Page.html

Ohio Person Centered Care Coalition
?http://www.centeredcare.org/default.asp

Education resources for Nursing Home Culture Change
?http://www.k-state.edu/peak/modules.htm

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