Culture Change in America

 
 

Culture Change

Improving Quality of Care and Quality of Life

Across the nation many nursing homes are questioning the traditional model of caring for residents in institutional, hospital-like settings.

Their vision is to radically transform themselves to provide resident-centered care in home-like environments - a process known broadly as culture change.

Proponents of culture change believe that implementing a resident-centered model of long-term care changes the atmosphere for both residents and staff, making these facilities better places to work and to live.

In their current contract cycle (2005-2008) with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Quality Improvement Organizations are promoting organizational culture change within nursing homes in each state. QIOs have been working with nursing homes since 2002 to improve the quality of care in specific clinical areas such as pain management or use of physical restraints.

 

 


 

Some of our residents in the Men's Group activity.

 

Some of the programs at Archie Hendricks Sr. SNF

The Starlight Programs:

We stared the Star Light Programs which is a dementia activity program in effort to encourage our resident to participate more in our many different activities. In addition to encourage participation we will be monitoring episodes of agitation, falls and number of activities offered that our residents participate in. The average of residents that participate in each session are seven.

We continue to meet the set up five projects during each year. Other goal is to increase the number of residents that participate in these programs and other programs like music and aroma therapy, alzheimer memory box, also continue with the intergenerational activities.