Advancing Excellence Campaign Announces Nine New Goals

The Advancing Excellence Campaign has announced nine new quality goals and toolkits.

The nine new goals are:

• Process Goals: 
• Improving staff stability
• Increasing use of consistent assignment
• Increasing person-centered care planning and decision making
• Safely reducing hospitalizations
• Clinical goals
• Using medications appropriately
• Increasing resident mobility
• Preventing and managing infections safely 
• Reducing the prevalence of pressure ulcers
• Decreasing symptoms of pain 

The goals will be featured in a free webinar on September 10. To register for the webinar, click here. 

The Campaign's goal is to engage and challenge nursing homes to provide valuable data as well as make quality improvements. More than 60 percent of nursing homes have joined the Campaign and are committed to working on at least one process and one clinical goal. 

To learn more, click here.