Assisted Living/Nursing Home/Long-term Care

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Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes Campaign
Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes is a coalition based, two-year campaign that launched in September 2006. The campaign is reinvigorating efforts to improve the quality of care and quality of life for those living or recuperating in America's nursing homes. The campaign's unprecedented coalition includes long-term care providers, caregivers, medical and quality improvement experts, government agencies, consumers, and others. Together, they are building on the success of other quality initiatives, including Quality First, the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), the culture change movement, and other quality initiatives.

American Assisted Living Nurses Association
American Assisted Living Nurses Association (AALNA) promotes successful nursing practice in assisted living beneffiting nurses and residents. AALNA is the only national non-profit association dedicated to assisted living nursing. It is operated by assisted living nurses, for assisted living nurses.

CarePathways.com
CarePathways.com was created and is maintained by RNs dedicated to optimizing a families access to valid information and credible services about senior care and housing options. Their goal is to educate families about the types of care options available in order to help them to better understand what might be the best choice for their aging loved ones. Access to their on-line databases facilitates the difficult search for home care, assisted living, retirement homes, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities.