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January 12, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
"We've had classical. We've had rock. We've had country. We've had instrumental. You can see the staff and residents bop their head[s] to different ones," Pam Larimore-Skinner, director of nursing at Signature HealthCare of Trimble County in Bedford ...
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
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.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Health foundations have invested in services, research, and advocacy to improve the financing and delivery of long-term services and supports. This article describes some of the broad array of approaches they have taken.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Lasting changes to organizational culture in nursing homes must come via gradual changes to the organizations' cultural artifacts.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study presents findings from a randomized, controlled evaluation of the Retention Specialist Program (RSP).
October 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll
Better Jobs Better Care sought to change public policy and management practice to improve recruitment and retention of high-quality paraprofessional direct care workers (DCW).
September 7, 2010 | Report
The Better Jobs, Better Care demonstration provided grants and technical assistance to coalitions of providers, workers, consumers, and policy makers to improve the quality of jobs of long-term care (LTC) direct care workers (DCWs), improve recruitment and retention, and strengthen capacity to meet future demand.
April 27, 2011 | Program Result
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 | Program Result
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.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This case study of Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce specifically focuses on the work of one coalition, the North Carolina Partner Team, which succeeded in bringing together competing stakeholder groups. The coalition's work eventually led to the 2006 passage of the North Carolina New Organization Vision Award.