April 27, 2011
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Program Result Report
Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.
April 25, 2011
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Program Result Report
The lead agency for the 40-member Pennsylvania coalition for the Better Jobs Better Care project divided the state into five regions in order to provide a local focus on long-term care worker issues in the large state.
April 25, 2010
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Program Result Report
North Carolina Foundation for Advanced Health Programs created a voluntary, special state license to recognize long-term-care providers who offered a supportive workplace for their direct-care staff. The project was part of Better Jobs Better Care.
July 31, 2008
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Program Result Report
Project staff at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., expanded a program that relied on volunteers to work with geriatric patients to prevent and reduce delirium, an underreported condition that can result in higher mortality and morbidity.
May 15, 2008
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Program Result Report
If anything defines the transformation created by the palliative care initiative at the Pines it is the shift in the way staff members view their role in caring for patients, and the results of their greater involvement.
May 1, 2007
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Program Result Report
Researchers at Brown Medical School identified, recorded and disseminated collaborative solutions (best practices) for end-of-life care in nursing homes with hospice services.
January 25, 2007
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Program Result Report
The Green House(TM) is a model of skilled long-term care designed to transform traditional skilled nursing facilities into homes providing meaning and growth for the people who live and work in them.
January 25, 2007
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Program Result Report
Mildred Adams moved into a Green House in Tupelo, Miss., in the spring of 2003. In her previous large, long-term care facility, she seldom spoke, was disengaged, and had stopped feeding herself.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
Thomas's RWJF audience included program officer David C. Colby, Ph.D., a member of what was then the foundation's Supportive Services Team. The team's portfolio included long-term care, and Colby was on the lookout for promising new approaches that ...
December 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
Thomas's RWJF audience included program officer David C. Colby, Ph.D., a member of what was then the foundation's Supportive Services Team. The team's portfolio included long-term care, and Colby was on the lookout for promising new approaches that ...
