OHCA Spring Summer 2017

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FEATURE
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Spring/Summer 2017 The Oregon Caregiver
Purple Ribbon Commissioners
Purple Ribbon Commission 2016 Recommendations
Tracy Morgan, Co-Chair, Executive
Director, Alzheimer’s Association of
Oregon
Linda Kirschbaum, Co-Chair, Senior VP
Quality & Services, Oregon Health Care
Association
Dr. Keren Brown Wilson, President,
Jessie F. Richardson Foundation
Ellen Garcia, Executive Director,
Providence Elderplace
Ruth Gulyas, Chief Executive Officer,
LeadingAge Oregon
Cindy Hannum, Family Caregiver,
Retired Administrator, Oregon
Department of Human Services
Dr. Mauro Hernandez, Chief Executive
Officer, Concepts in Community Living
Sarah Holland, Program Director,
Alzheimer’s Association Oregon Chapter
Mary Jaeger, Aging Veterans Services
Director, Oregon Department of
Veterans’ Affairs
Jay Leo, Chief Operating Officer,
The Springs Living
Dr. Jeff Kaye, Professor of Neurology &
Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health
& Science University Layton Aging &
Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Dr. Allison Lindauer, Geriatric Nurse
Practitioner, Assistant Professor, Oregon
Health & Science University Layton
Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Fred Steele, Long Term Care
Ombudsman, Office of the Long Term
Care Ombudsman
Liz Von Wellsheim, Geriatric Nurse
Practitioner, Medical Director,
ElderHealth & Living
Acuity-Based Staffing Models and
Workforce Development
We recognize there are workforce challenges in dementia care.
We encourage participation in the profession by qualified
Oregonians.
• Develop a policy and implementation plan for existing web-
based acuity staffing evaluation tool.
• Identify and promote a set of quality practices to improve
transitions and coordination of care.
• Fund and facilitate the dissemination of staff training,
retention, and compensation strategies.
• Develop and support a workforce plan for long term care in
Oregon, including high school-based vocational programs
that train direct care workers.
Caregiver Training and Competency
We know that having an adequate number of dementia capable,
competently trained caregivers is critical to providing high
quality care to those with dementia.
• Evaluate, refine, and adopt the existing model legislation that
specifies training standards for curriculum and outcomes.
• Require evidence-informed, dementia-specific training
and continuing education across all care settings where
individuals with dementia receive care.
• Review current continuing education requirements and
develop recommendations for dementia training for
medical and health professionals.
• Establish sustainable, ongoing funding for statewide-
accessible free evidence informed trainings.
Family and Consumer Supports and Programs
We support programs that will enable those affected by
dementia and their loved ones to receive the best information
and resources regarding this disease.
• Create and fund a health promotion campaign addressing
diagnosis of dementia, services, and supports.
• Promote a one-stop information support center that
provides disease and caregiving information and connects
people to technology and community resources.
Quality Metrics to Track and Measure Success
We believe there are limited indicators to illustrate a holistic
representation of quality dementia care. Data and quality
metrics demonstrate success in dementia care, and quality care
is driven through key indicators.
• Develop a set of quality measures and tools and incorporate
them into a state-wide quality improvement plan.
• Complete annual comprehensive reviews of the relationship
between quality improvement indicators, abuse, complaint,
and licensing compliance data to inform a state-wide
quality improvement plan.
• Convene a workgroup to examine and adopt a responsive
regulatory model to include incentives (and disincentives)
which recognize internal quality improvement activities
and patient safety principles.