The Western New York Alliance for Person-Centered Care (WNYAPCC) held a region-wide symposium on culture change and person-centered care on March 10. Read the full story

Culture change in U.S. nursing homes is the subject of a feature article in the February 2010 issue of U.S. News & World Report. Read the full story

Kathy Greenlee

Assistant Secretary of Aging Kathy Greenlee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will deliver the keynote address at “Creating Home in the Nursing Home II: A National Symposium on Culture Change and the Food and Dining Requirements.” Read the full story

Susan Misiorski, PHI Director of Organizational Culture Change Initiatives

The New Hampshire Quality of Life Council held its 3rd Annual Quality of Life Awards Ceremony on September 29 to celebrate the transformation of nursing homes into “vibrant centers of life” and to recognize homes in the Granite State that have successfully implemented quality-of-life practices. Read the full story

The lead paper among a set of six issued by the SCAN Foundation (pdf) is a report titled “Direct Care Workers: Essential to Quality Nursing Home and Home Health Care,” arguing that the most important factor affecting quality of care is the quality of interactions between consumers and direct-care workers. Read the full story