PALTC23 Conference Recordings FR03 Progress and Updates from the Moving Forward Coalition

Progress and Updates from the Moving Forward Coalition

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report on nursing home quality was released in April 2022. The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Family, and Staff provided over 600 pages of testimony from national experts, aging programs and services leaders, nursing home residents, care partners and family members, advocates, government officials, and other stakeholders. In addition, the Report Committee conducted a detailed literature review and synthesis and held several meetings to consider goals and an integrated, comprehensive set of recommendations that may be tested and implemented within certain timeframes. Individuals and organizations, including some people in Congress, do not know how nursing homes operate, the types of care that they provide, resident acuity and needs, and how nursing homes measure outcomes. Many people do not have a complete picture of how nursing home policy, practice, and their role in a person’s care journey interact, or the sorts of changes at the federal, state, and nursing home level that can lead to better outcomes and integration in the larger long-term care system. Continuous, detail-oriented discussions across healthcare communities are necessary to reduce stigma and motivate meaningful progress toward better integrated, more effective, and more equitable nursing home care.Ongoing efforts to educate state and federal legislators and staff, to educate nursing home residents and care partners, to educate medical, nursing, social work, and public health students and faculty are essential if we are to improve nursing home quality in the United States. This session will review how the NASEM Report was developed and published, ongoing work to publicize the findings and suggested next steps, and the current funded initiative, Moving Forward: Nursing Home Quality Coalition, that is focused on prioritizing one goal or recommendation within each of the seven NASEM Report categories and developing, testing, and implementing an action plan for that specific goal.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

• Describe the purpose and activities of the NASEM Report Committee and its goals, recommendations, and conclusions.
• State the purpose of Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition and its goas over the two-year initiative and beyond.
• Provide at least one example of an action plan in response to one of the NASEM Report priority goals.
• List at least two of your own ideas for how the United States can meaningfully improve care and quality in nursing homes.

• 1.0 CME
• 1.0 CMD Management
• 1.0 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.0 management hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.

The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

• Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
• Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
• All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.