5/22/2012 - A new Commonwealth Fund–supported Web site offers educational resources for consumer groups and can serve as a platform for sharing ideas and strategies for improving care for dual eligibles.
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4/17/2012 - The Patient-Centered Medical Home Assessment is a self-assessment tool that was developed by the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation and Qualis Health for the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative to help practices understand to what degree they function as a medical home and to identify opportunities for improvement.
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4/17/2012 - The patient-centered medical home is a model of primary care that can improve health care quality as well as clinicians', staff members', and patients' experiences. The model can also increase efficiency. As part of the Commonwealth Fund-supported Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, Qualis Health and the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation have identified eight key strategies that primary care sites can implement to become patient-centered medical homes.
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2/27/2012 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is in the process of identifying person-centered attributes and indicators for its Medicaid home and community-based services programs. To assist CMS and assisted living stakeholders, the Center for Excellence in Assisted Living, a nonprofit collaborative of 11 national organizations, has published recommendations for person-centered HCBS attributes and assisted living indicators.
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1/9/2012 - With Commonwealth Fund support, Sarah Lewis, M.S.P.H., of the University of Chicago, and colleagues have developed two surveys and a scoring algorithm to capture the experiences of safety net providers and staff as they adopt medical homes.
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7/18/2011 - With Commonwealth Fund support, Jonathan M. Birnberg, M.D., of the University of Chicago, and colleagues have developed an evaluation scale customized for safety-net clinics.
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4/14/2011 - This set of six online modules aims to help nursing faculty base their selection of nursing home sites for undergraduate student practicum placement on a rigorous assessment of facility performance, with a special focus on nursing homes involved in resident-directed care and culture change.
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8/19/2010 - INTERACT II is a series of educational and clinical tools that is designed to reduce the number of avoidable transfers from nursing homes to hospitals.
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7/8/2010 - This Clinical Guide—designed to accompany the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents—provides authoritative, evidence-based guidance about the most effective and efficient ways to deliver child preventive services.
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4/29/2010 - The Bright Futures training and implementation materials are designed to help office staff improve developmental screening and preventive services for children under age 5.
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8/28/2009 - The Family Council Manual and Toolkit: A Guide for Creating and Sustaining Effective Nursing Home Family Councils is a practical handbook for family members interested in setting up a new family council as well as a comprehensive resource for more experienced leaders facing new issues or wanting to reinvigorate an existing council.
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8/28/2009 - With support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and partial funding from The Commonwealth Fund, the Rhode Island Department of Health conducted a project called the Individualized Care Pilot.
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8/28/2009 - Based on the experiences of more than 400 nursing homes, the Staff Stability Toolkit is designed to serve as an evidence-based resource for nursing homes that are working to reduce staff turnover.
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4/21/2009 - The State Investment in Culture Change Toolkit, created by the Institute for the Future of Aging Services, the research arm of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, aims to help states play an active role in getting nursing homes to initiate or expand "culture change" efforts.
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4/21/2009 - The Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut has released a report, A Framework for Child Health Services: Supporting Healthy Child Development and School Readiness of Connecticut's Children, that offers a strategic vision and a series of specific recommendations for strengthening and integrating children's health services into a comprehensive system of early childhood services.
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