Acumentra Health Safety and Quality Initiatives
Acumentra Health assists healthcare providers and clinicians in a wide range of initiatives to improve patient safety, effectiveness of care delivery, and quality of care. Specific Initiatives include the Transitional Care and Pressure Ulcers Project Toolkit, the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign and Prescription Drug Safety Project.

Advancing Excellence
This is a national campaign, voluntary in nature, to improve nursing home care. It is entering the second phase of the campaign which includes encouraging nursing homes to sign on to the campaign, select goals (out of 8) for quality improvement; 4 goals address clinical issues (e.g., pain, pressure ulcers) and 4 organizational issues (e.g., staff retention, family/resident satisfaction). Those who sign up for the campaign have access to many resources via the Advancing Excellence web site.

GeriatricPain.org
GeriatricPain.org shares free best-practice tools and resources that support recommendations for good pain assessment and management in older adults, including implementation of quality improvement processes focused on pain management.

GeroNursingEd.org
Gero Nursing Ed is a free public collection of geriatric nursing education resources for school of nursing faculty who want to include content on older adults in their undergraduate and associate degree curricula. Gero Nursing Ed is a product of the Northwest Coalition for Geriatric Nursing Education and funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Oregon Health & Science University and by the schools and colleges of nursing in the NW Coalition for Geriatric Nursing Education.

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
This website contains resources and links to all the products and resources developed by the Institute in the areas of education, practice, research, and policy. The mission of the Hartford Institute has been to shape the quality of nursing care to older adults by assuring geriatric competency of America’s nurses. The Hartford Institute, developed with core funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation, is recognized as unique in academic nursing in its focus on disseminating best practices to nursing students, faculty, practicing nurses, and policy makers.

Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP)
This website provides information about recognizing delirium (new mental confusion). It also describes a program that prevents delirium in hospitalized older people, the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP). Effective 2011, program materials including training manuals, webinars and Power Point presentations are available at no charge on the site.

MOVE(Making Oregon Vital for Elders)
MOVE is the Oregon Culture Change organization. Partners include the LTC trade organizations (OHCA, the Alliance), OHSU, PSU, many providers, consultants who work in LTC). This group holds quarterly education meetings and has presented in Medford. The group is committed to at least 2 programs in rural communities each year.

Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI)
Provides consumer and provider information regarding the quality of care in nursing homes. NHQI discusses quality measures that are shown at the Nursing Home Compare website (medicare.gov), which allows consumers, providers, States and researchers to compare information on nursing homes.

Oregon Alliance for Senior and Health Services
The Alliance represents nonprofit long-term care providers statewide. It is a member of the Association of Homes & Services for the Aged.

Oregon Center for Nursing
The Oregon Center for Nursing (OCN) aims to position Oregon and Southwest Washington as the region of choice for nursing professionals and to achieve and sustain a healthier state.

OCNE (Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education)
A partnership of Oregon nursing programs dedicated to educating future nurses.

Oregon Health Care Association (OHCA)
OHCA represents long-term care providers statewide, including all levels of care. These providers tend to be for profit organizations but they do include some nonprofits as members. It is a member of the American Health Care Association.

Oregon Health & Science University

OHSU Library Library Resources for Geriatrics & Gerontology

Pioneer Network
A national organization committed to "culture change," that is changing long-term care to make it a place people can live, work, and thrive. This is an umbrella organization that supports many models of culture change -- including training programs that will be used in ECLEPs 2 (LEAP and PHI Supervisor training). They hold an annual meeting and have many excellent resources on-line.

Portland State University’s Institute on Aging
PSU's IOA is part of the School of Community Health in the College of Urban and Public Affairs, is a multidisciplinary research and educational organization. Established in 1969, the institute was one of the first centers in the United States to focus on the social, psychological, and economic issues related to aging. Our research is funded by federal, state, and private sources, with projects designed to advance knowledge that serves an aging society. Educational programs are offered at the bachelor’s, postbaccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. The Institute on Aging is actively engaged in community partnerships.

Seniors & People with Disabilities (SPD)
Licensure and regulation (survey teams). SPD has used civil penalty monies to form culture change teams, where nursing home teams partner with a surveyor (not one who surveys them) to develop and implement "culture change" such as changing bathing or dining practices, moving to consistent assignments, direct care worker self scheduling, etc. These are called "CCMU" teams (client care monitoring unit) and at this time there are 12, with another round that will be on board some time this year. Teams are located all over the state.