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Social Research, Policy, and Practice

Policy Series: Moving Forward Nursing Home Coalition Call to Action: Building a System for Resident Goals, Preferences, Priorities

Friday, November 15, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
Location: Room 211
CE: 1.5

A 2022 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on nursing home quality called for nursing homes to provide care aligned with residents’ goals to ensure autonomy, quality of life, and to manage risks. While there are existing structures to support care planning clinical needs, most nursing homes lack tools and procedures to systematically identify and provide care that aligns with resident goals, priorities, and preferences (GPPs). GPPs are part of the care planning process that translates into actionable interventions supported by measurement to determine if care aligns and is concordant with GPPs, and health information technology to collect GPPs. Many nursing homes are working to improve the way they gather residents’ GPPs, and develop and implement unique care plans. These efforts represent an opportunity to improve outcomes and reduce disparities. Experts representing the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition are developing an integrated approach to these challenges. This presentation will describe the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition and a) the purpose and structure of the new Guide for Addressing Resident GPPs; b) an evaluation that explores whether a resident’s self-directed GPPs were included in their care; c) a description of the tools that assess GPPs and the feasibility of using those tools; and d) discussion about the development of technology advancements promoting HIT readiness and person-centered care. When completed, proposed work will provide evidence of successful and feasible quality improvement approaches to care planning resident GPPs that can inform future policy changes and guidance to surveyors.

Learning Objectives:

  • After attending this session, participants will understand the purpose and structure of the new Guide for Addressing Resident Goals, Preferences, and Priorities (GPPs) and how it can be used in nursing homes to support care planning quality improvement for collecting, documenting, and using resident GPPs in daily care.
  • After attending this session, participants will be able to describe technology advancements within the Moving Forward Coalition to promote HIT readiness and person center care. Further, participants will recall the importance of collecting goals, preferences, priorities and how to measure care concordance related to GPPs used for person centered care.
  • After attending this presentation, participants will be able to describe the properties of tools that assess nursing home resident goals, priorities, and preferences. Further, participants will be able to evaluate the feasibility of using tools that assess nursing home resident goals, priorities, and preferences in practice.

Presentations:

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    The Design and Piloting of a New Guide for Addressing Resident Goals, Preferences, and Priorities

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Laci Cornelison, MS, LBSW, AHCA (she/her/hers) – Kansas State University

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    Moving Forward Toward a Nursing Home Measure for Goal Concordance and Evaluation of Resident Goals

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Laci Cornelison, MS, LBSW, AHCA (she/her/hers) – Kansas State University

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    Identifying Tools to Measure Nursing Home Resident Goals, Priorities, and Preferences for Person-Centered Care

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Tonya Roberts, PhD, RN (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    Moving Forward Toward Deploying Health Information Technology in All US Nursing Homes

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Gregory L. Alexander, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIASHI – Columbia University