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Where are you in the evolving culture of long-term care?

Readiness for change self-survey

The Importance of Leadership Support

Elder Questionnaire

Employee Questionnaire

Family Questionnaire

What would you like to do next?

Review ideas for changing culture

Are you ready to create change?

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Assessments

 

Download a helpful change-readiness assessment, progress self-assessments, or surveys for staff, residents, and families.  These tools will help you determine your progress toward providing care that is truly person-centered – and your readiness to implement new changes.

Use this brief self-assessment to gauge how many of the recommended person-centered care concepts your nursing home has put into action and identify other areas for improvement.  From The Pioneer Network.

                                        PDF (87 KB)                         Microsoft Word (71 KB)

Distribute this survey to members of your organization and use their responses to gauge how ready your organization is for implementing and sustaining change.  PDF (55 KB)                            Microsoft Word (133 KB)

In their book The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner describe effective leaders as those who bring out the best in others and then allow extraordinary things to happen.  Read this article to learn why leadership support is essential for implementing change.  Do you have leadership support for your change strategies? 

                                        PDF (47 KB)                         Microsoft Word (128 KB)

This questionnaire for nursing home residents is helpful in gauging the impact of your efforts to inspire changes in culture and care delivery.  To use this questionnaire to its fullest potential, administer it before any changes have been made and then on regularly scheduled intervals.  This method will allow you to measure resident perceptions over time.

                                        PDF (21 KB)                         Microsoft Word (27 KB)

This employee questionnaire is helpful in gauging the impact of your efforts to inspire changes in culture and care delivery.  To use this questionnaire to its fullest potential, administer it before any changes have been made and then on regularly scheduled intervals.  This method will allow you to measure improvement in employee perceptions over time.                                          PDF (38 KB)                         Microsoft Word (182 KB)

This questionnaire for family members of your nursing homes’ residents is helpful in gauging the impact of your efforts to inspire changes in culture and care delivery.  To use this questionnaire to its fullest potential, administer it before any changes have been made and then on regularly scheduled intervals.  This method will allow you to measure improvement in family member perceptions over time.

                                        PDF (38 KB)                         Microsoft Word (182 KB)

 

 

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Ohio KePRO, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Ohio, is working with committed hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and physicians throughout the state who are dedicated to the common goal of Continuous Quality Improvement for Medicare beneficiaries. 

 

Publication No. 8001-OH-057-3/2006.  This resource was prepared by Ohio KePRO, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Ohio, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy.