Announcements Archive

Moving Forward Coalition receives a second round of funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation for its next phase of work.

Coalition member, Dr. Jasmine Travers, spoke on Capitol Hill at a Senate hearing, “The Long-Term Care Workforce: Addressing Shortages and Improving the Profession”. Click this link to listen to the hearing and important changes that are needed.

Coalition chair, Alice Bonner, and members, Doug Pace and Carmen Bowman, gave a Joint Provider Surveyor training focused on changing culture via person-centered care. The training was for Michigan surveyors at LARA (Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs).

Moving Forward Coalition receives funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to support state-based nursing home improvements. Read our press release to learn more about our Michigan leadership team plans to build leadership and quality improvement skills.

We’ve released our nine (9) Action Plans outlining specific initiatives aimed at improving quality of life and work of nursing home residents and staff. Special “Action Plan” Coalition Conversations have been scheduled to review each plan’s intended impact. Led by the very committee members who wrote the plan, these events begin on July 19 (with our Chair, Alice Bonner) and run weekly through August and September. Be sure to register!

Thank you to the Michigan Health Endowment Fund for supporting Moving Forward in launching a state team in Michigan to address state nursing home quality based on our 9 action plans. We look forward to getting to work with our incredible colleagues in Michigan!

Greenhouse Project Elevate Eldercare Podcast: Using Tech to Kickstart Person-Directed Care in Long-Term Care (LTC). Listen as Gregory Alexander and Terrence O’Malley, members of our HIT committee, talk about going beyond the popular vision of age technology, like wearables and virtual reality field trips, to a world in which tech supports both better health outcomes and individual elder autonomy.

Grantmakers In Aging (or GIA) Webinar – Watch this webinar where we discussed the Coalition’s work and opportunities for funders and providers to engage in the work to test some of the Action Plans.

Thank you to MetaStar – a Moving Forward supporting organization and member of the Superior Health Quality Alliance – for its generous contribution to help sustain and expand the Coalition’s work to engage diverse nursing home residents from across the country. The Coalition strives to include residents in all our work and discussions!

Thank you to Columbia University School of Nursing – The School has generously donated staff time and resources to analyze data describing the goals, preferences & priorities of people across the United States. This research is driving the work of Committee #7: HIT to develop and test an innovative and fully interoperable tool to collect residents’ goals, preferences & priorities at or before admission.