Advancing Excellence

The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care is proud to be a part of the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes Campaign (Advancing Excellence), which is helping skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities achieve excellence in quality of care and quality of life for millions of nursing facility residents and patients across the country by working to improve the profession’s infrastructure, strengthen the workforce and improve clinical and organizational outcomes.

Launched in 2006, Advancing Excellence began as a two year initiative to measurably improve the quality of care in America’s skilled nursing facilities; however, after initial successes and positive feedback, the campaign continued and has developed a strong foundation of participants, achievements and resources. Today, Advancing Excellence is a coalition of nearly 7,200 nursing facilities that are making great strides in improving the quality of lives of patients, residents and staff. Statistics have shown that skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities that have joined the campaign and set goals and performance targets have made more dramatic quality improvements as compared to the nation’s performance overall.

Advancing Excellence provides its coalition members with valuable tools and resources such as Webinars and teleconferences that are organized and developed by leaders and experts within the long term care community that help facilities to better educate their staff and improve the overall quality of care that they provide. Through the use of evidence-based resources and best practices, participating facilities are experiencing measureable improvements in areas such as high risk pressure ulcers, physical restraints and post-acute care pain.

Advancing Excellence recently launched “Phase 2” of the Campaign at which time the coalition members set new targets for their organizational goals in key quality areas including staff turnover, advance care planning and resident satisfaction. The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care remains committed to achieving excellence in patient care.

The chart below illustrates quality improvement trends in key areas for participating versus non-participating Advancing Excellence facilities.