July 21, 2023
Last week, the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition released its nine action plans for nursing homes. Each action plan describes a particular challenge facing nursing homes today, explains why it is important to residents’ quality of life, defines focused goals to address those challenges, and provides a step-by-step path the coalition will take to achieve them over a year. The action plans center on developing and pilot testing strengths-based approaches to promote person-centered care that, in many cases, build on existing improvement activities. They highlight various equity issues that impact residents, CNAs, and others. Finally, each action plan describes how nursing homes, state agencies, federal policymakers, and others can collaborate in the short term while also identifying core funding needs for long-term success and sustainability. In many cases, determining cost estimates and specific funding opportunities will be part of early Year 2 work. The nine plans include:
- Addressing Residents’ Goals, Preferences, and Priorities
- Strengthening Residents’ Councils
- Improving Certified Nursing Assistant Wages and Support
- Expanding Certified Nursing Assistant Career Pathways
- Enhancing Surveyor Training on Person-Centered Care
- Designing a Targeted Nursing Home Recertification Survey
- Increasing Transparency and Accountability of Ownership Data
- Developing a Nursing Home Health Information Technology Readiness Guide
- Financing Household Models and Physical Plant Improvements