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�Taking Action Now!�Alice Bonner, Chair�Isaac Longobardi, Associate Director�

Global Ageing Network

February 14th, 2023

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What is the Moving Forward Coalition?

The Coalition is a group of individuals and organizations that have come together to drive specific, actionable improvements in nursing home quality, while building a sustainable network to continue this vital work.

In the first two years, we are developing, testing and promoting action plans to advance initiatives to improve accountability and financing, strengthen the workforce, and expand equitable, resident-driven care.

We are funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation. 

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Coalition Vision and Mission

Our Vision is that every nursing home will be a community in which lives are nurtured, residents are empowered, and people want to work.

Our Mission is that we will make vital changes in policy and practice through the power of bringing diverse voices together now.

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Goal 1 | Deliver comprehensive, person-centered, equitable care that ensures residents’ health, quality of life, and safety; promotes autonomy; and manages risks

Goal 2 | Ensure a well-prepared, empowered, and appropriately compensated workforce

Goal 3 | Increase the transparency and accountability of finances, operations, and ownership

Goal 4 | Create a more rational and robust financing system

Goal 5 | Design a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance

Goal 6 | Expand and enhance quality measurement and continuous quality improvement

Goal 7 | Adopt health information technology in all nursing homes.

NASEM Report Goals

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The Moving Forward Coalition Will…

  • Develop action plans to advance a cohesive set of nursing home quality improvement initiatives in policy and practice
  • Test and promote action plans in diverse communities and at the national level
  • Build a sustainable coalition to continue to advance our shared vision

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How the Coalition is Organized

  • Seven core committees – aligned with NASEM Report recommendation categories, each with two co-chairs
  • Steering Committee (9 members-at-large and 6 committee co-chairs)
  • Participants and supporting organizations (over 750 participants and 40+ supporting organizations) – the greater community

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PRIORITIZE

CREATE ACTION PLANS

ENGAGE NURSING HOME RESIDENTS, STAFF, �ADVOCATES, THE PUBLIC

ENGAGE POLICYMAKERS

CONVENE

Phase 1

June-Sept 2022

Phase 2 �Sept-Dec�2022

Phase 3

Nov-May 2023

Currently here

Develop a sustainable process for continued collaboration

Phase 4

May 2023-May 2024

TEST & PROMOTE

Our Process

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Four Focus Areas

Resident-Directed Care

Workforce

Finance

Accountability

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Cross-Committee Themes we are Pursuing

Quality

Equity

Modernization

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Resident-Directed Living

Vision for Residents: Residents will have the opportunity and support to make choices that drive and shape their own care, experience and life.

Committee #1

Test reliable and consistent processes and systems in which resident GPPs are described and documented on admission and as needed.

Committee #6

Identify and test a measure to assess care concordance with GPPs.

Committee #7

Design and test HIT infrastructure to collect and share residents’ GPPs.

Committee #5

Test a collaborative QA program to provide oversight and evaluation of systems to identify, document and implement residents’ GPPs.

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Workforce

Vision for Residents:

Residents will receive �care and support from a well-trained, caring and consistent team of providers who are appropriately compensated.

Initiatives We’re Exploring:

Developing a resource guide for state administrators, nursing home leaders, and others to facilitate their implementation of existing programs and initiatives that addresses wages.

Proposing a framework for states to integrate workforce metrics into state-based quality incentive payment programs.

Working with the Department of Labor and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to improve nursing home employer and employee access to existing federal workforce development, training, and loan forgiveness programs.

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Finance

Vision for Residents:

Nursing home residents will live in communities with�greater privacy, dignity, and more consistent staffing.

Our finance committee is working with federal agencies and professional associations to discuss possible opportunities for collaboration.

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Accountability

Vision for Residents:

Nursing home residents will know who is responsible for the care they receive, be able to make choices based on that knowledge, and trust government to monitor quality.

We’re trying to make sure that we can get the right, accurate, honest information in the hands of the right party at the time they need it and when they can make a decision about it.

Nancy Zionts,

Member, Accountability & Transparency Committee COO & CPO, Jewish Healthcare Foundation

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2023 Approaches and Outcomes

June 30, 2023

Seven or more action plans will be developed

September 30, 2023

We will further develop, test, and advocate for at least 3-4 action plans

October 31, 2023

We will confirm co-funding/sponsorship relationship with at least one organization

December 31, 2023

We will begin to demonstrate how initiatives advance equity and consistent quality.

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MOMENTUM has a distribution of about 750 participants and organizations.

Our Newsletter goes out monthly

Monthly Coalition Conversations �address high priority topics with �guest speakers and Coalition members

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  • Workgroup coordination and integration with the seven committees
  • Focus on nursing home residents, care partners/family members, and direct care staff
  • Ongoing communication
  • Sustainability

Opportunities and Challenges

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Take-Home Messages

  • We all need to take action together now!
  • We need to create public demand to address nursing home quality and resident quality of life globally
  • We need to bring our message to people outside of the nursing home network, policymakers and other stakeholders

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Alice Bonner, Chair

abonner@ihi.org

Isaac Longobardi, Associate Director

ilongobardi@leadingage.org

Moving Forward Coalition website: https://movingforwardcoalition.org/