Initiative Aims to Help Assisted Living Communities Achieve Excellence in Person-Centered Care Credential

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A research- and evidence-based initiative is underway to develop a process to help assisted living communities and other long-term care facilities achieve a new designation of excellence in person-centered care.

The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing received an 18-month, $375,000 award from the Mayer-Rothschild Foundation to develop the Mayer-Rothschild Foundation Designation of Excellence in Person-Centered Long-Term Care. The grant will be used to develop the processes, tools and standards to guide and evaluate assisted living communities, memory care communities and nursing homes on their journeys to achieving the credential… Read more>