Executive Leader Seminar on Coaching Supervision
October 22-24, Traverse City, Michigan
PHI Michigan is pleased to open its 3-day Executive Leader Seminar on Coaching Supervision and Leadership to organizations across the country. This seminar is designed for CEOs, COOs, Managers, and other Executive Leaders in all long-term care organizations to learn more about the PHI coaching supervision program and how it can enhance the implementation of a person-directed caregiving culture.
PHI’s Coaching Approach to Supervision training offers a unique approach to ending the revolving door of high staff turnover. Through skill-based training, long-term care supervisors learn to support direct-care staff while also holding them accountable. By building constructive, positive relationships, managers show their respect for staff while also helping them become better communicators and stronger problem solvers capable of delivering quality care.
Overall coaching supervision has been shown to:
- Create a culture of shared commitment to communication and problem solving.
- Improve job performance of direct-care staff and quality of care for consumers.
- Reduce the number of “fires” that managers have to put out each day.
- Reduce the cycle of turnover and create a more stable workforce.
Since we trained our supervisors in coaching supervision, people think differently. There is more effort to understand the root cause of a performance problem, and supervisors work with direct caregivers to make plans to address problems when they arise.
–Vice President of Clinical Services, VNA of Chittenden County, VT
This seminar allows executive leaders to experience the 2-day Coaching Approach to Supervision and time to think and plan how to bring the approach to their organization.
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Fees for the 3-day session are $729.00 plus lodging, if required. Registration closes October 8, 2008. For more information about the seminar, the location at Spider Lake Resort in Traverse City, MI, and a registration form, contact MIinfo@PHInational.org.
Carol Rodat (pictured), PHI’s New York Policy Director, was the keynote speaker at the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute’s Annual Conference on September 18.
Her address, titled “The Workforce Crisis in Long Term Care: Proven Tools to Help Meet the Challenge,” laid out the demographic imperative for improving the quality of direct-care jobs through evidence-based practices that improve retention. Continue reading ‘PHI’s Rodat Delivers Keynote at Ithaca’
PHI has been covering the effects of rising gas prices on direct-care workers since early this summer. Now, as our nation’s economic crisis grows more severe, the challenge to these low-wage workers has intensified.
The National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center held a webinar earlier this week called “Gas Price Increases & Other Transportation Challenges for Direct Service Workers.” The presentation included an overview of the problem, a description of approaches used by states and providers to address the issue, and information on related Medicaid reimbursement policies and options. Continue reading ‘Gas Prices & Transportation Webinar’
About 50 or 60 long-term care stakeholders were on-hand at a September 11 reception held by the Direct Care Alliance to inaugurate its new midtown Manhattan headquarters.
Stacey Easterling of The Atlantic Philanthropies praised the DCA for giving voice to “a group that is essentially voiceless when it comes to impacting the direction of the long term care field. Not only am I certain that DCWs have a lot to say, they have important things to say,” she added. The Atlantic Philanthropies is one of the DCA’s main funders.
Direct-care worker Bridget Siljander (pictured), a graduate of the DCA’s Voices Institute, focused her remarks on the need for better wages, benefits, and support. “It is very difficult to support oneself and it is more difficult to also support a family on the wages we earn and with the lack of benefits. We often work in isolation and do not have much of a sense of having a professional community. Respect for the profession and the workers is inadequate… Without drastic changes to the workforce, the availability and quality of direct care will deteriorate further,” she said.
The Hartford Foundation’s Chris Langston described the event as “a coming-out party for the Direct Care Alliance, which is finding its footing. It is mobilizing the three groups of stakeholders, getting direct-care workers to raise their voices, and becoming the organization that it is meant to be.”
Aaron Toleos, Online Communications Director
atoleos@phinational.org
Seven states will receive a share of over $8 million in grants from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase awareness of home- and community-based long-term care options for people leaving hospitals who otherwise may enter a traditional nursing home.
The $8.3 million in grants are part of the Real Choice Systems Change (RCSC) grant program, which is designed to help states and territories rebalance their long-term support programs to help people with chronic illness or disabilities reside in their homes and participate in community life.
Over $7 million of the awards will be used to develop person-centered hospital discharge planning models. These new models for the discharge planning process will place greater emphasis on involving patients and their families in after-care plans, including exploring home-based alternatives to institutional care.
| Organization |
FY08 Award |
| Kansas Department on Aging |
$1,272,179 |
| Oregon Department of Human Services |
$1,600,000 |
| State of Alaska, Dept. of Health and Social Services |
$1,237,107 |
| Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services |
$1,598,913 |
| South Carolina Lt. Governor’s Office on Aging |
$1,224,801 |
| Idaho State University |
$800,000 |
| Total New Grants |
$7,733,000 |
| Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services |
$332,746 |
| State of Alaska, Dept. of Health and Social Services |
$241,867 |
| Total Supplemental Awards |
$574,613 |
| Total Awards for FY2008 |
$8,307,613 |
Since fiscal year 2001, the CMS has awarded approximately $270.3 million in Real Choice Systems Change (RCSC) Grants for Community Living.
Aaron Toleos, Online Communications Director
atoleos@phinational.org
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