About Us
In 2022, the Moving Forward Coalition launched to bring diverse leaders, stakeholders and experts together to advance practical solutions to long-standing nursing home quality issues. With The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality – a 2022 landmark report – as our guide, we prioritized recommendations, developed action plans, and laid the groundwork to turn action plans into action.
Now in our third year, we are piloting three collaborative quality improvement projects, convening discussion with Coalition members and policymakers about consensus-backed options for change, and building the infrastructure, resources, and community for future action.
A word from our Chair.
Our Vision
Every nursing home will be a community in which lives are nurtured, residents are empowered, and where people want to work.
Our Mission
We will make vital changes in policy and practice through the power of bringing diverse voices together now.
Core Values
From our earliest meetings and throughout all our work, we’ve committed to four core values:
Feasibility
Sustainable
Impact
Equity
Collaboration
Coalition Leadership
Alice Bonner
Chair
Alice Bonner has been a nurse practitioner for over 30 years. She is currently Senior Advisor for Aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.
From 2015-2019, Bonner served as Secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From 2011 to 2013, Bonner served as Director of the Division of Nursing Homes in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, MD.
Jennifer Baker
Policy Director
Jennifer Baker, MPH, is the Director of the Moving Forward Coalition, and has deep experience developing sustainable initiatives and cross-sector partnerships that drive social change. Jennifer brings nearly 15 years of leadership at the federal, state, and local levels, including serving in the Biden-Harris Administration where she spearheaded the first-ever National Plan on Aging and with then Chairman Bob Casey on United States Senate Special Committee on Aging where she led aging policy. Her work has focused on bringing together diverse voices – including older adults, caregivers, policy makers, and advocates – to enhance quality of life among older adults through policies and programs. Baker earned her Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received an international fellowship focused on dementia care from Hendrix College where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Social justice and Sustainability.
Clare Rogowski
Manager
Clare Rogowski, MPhil, serves as Manager of the Moving Forward Coalition. She brings a multidisciplinary background in aging research, having studied aging through both epidemiological analyses and the lens of the history of medicine. Her experience spans international, federal, and local contexts, with prior roles at the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
She holds two Master of Philosophy degrees from the University of Cambridge—one in Population Health Sciences with a concentration in Epidemiology, and the other in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine—and earned her Bachelor’s degree in History and Public Health from Williams College.
Setting the Agenda
Our Founding Organizations
LeadingAge is acting as the Coalition’s convenor. Guided by the research and experience of its staff and member community in mission-driven aging services and policy, it brings a legacy of integrity, expertise, and collaboration.
The John A. Hartford Foundation committed $1.2 million to support the work of the Coalition. The Foundation invests in aging experts and practice innovations that transform how the care of older adults is delivered.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement will provide senior leadership for the Coalition, and will network with national organizations to design and implement action plans.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing brings leaders in academia, research, service, and policy who promote older adult health. Faculty and students address individual and public health issues in state, national, and global setting.
Supporting Organizations
The Moving Forward Coalition is proud to be working with a diverse and growing group of organizations to help advance our mission and vision.
Supporting organizations may or may not support specific Moving Forward activities, priorities, or action plans.
