Mairead Painter, Connecticut’s State Long Term Care Ombudsman, and Nora Duncan, State Director of AARP Connecticut, are teaming up for an important discussion on residents' rights to vote in nursing homes. Facebook Live Event: Your Right to Vote in Nursing Homes! Date: October 24, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM ET Link: https://lnkd.in/eMsGZrJi Did you know that as a resident of a nursing home, your right to vote is fully protected by federal regulations? This live event will walk you through everything you need to know about your voting rights, how facilities must support you, and how to ensure your voice is heard during the upcoming elections. What You’ll Learn: 💫 Your rights under federal regulations to vote in nursing homes, free from interference or coercion. 💫 How nursing home facilities are required to help you vote, whether in-person, by mail, ensuring access to supervised voting, or using absentee ballots. 💫 The role of nursing homes in assisting with voter registration, requesting absentee ballots, and ensuring you have access to voting materials like postage and stationery. Your vote is your voice—don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to protect your voting rights in a long-term care setting! RSVP now to get a reminder and join us live for this essential conversation. Let’s make sure every resident’s vote counts! #VotingRights #NursingHomeResidents #SeniorVoting #AARP #LongTermCareRights #YourVoteMatters #LTCVotes #LTCRightToVote #MovingForward #NursingHome
Moving Forward Coalition
Non-profit Organizations
Improving the quality of nursing home life for residents and staff across the U.S.
About us
The Moving Forward Coalition has been established to improve the quality of nursing home life of residents in the United States. We are doing so by creating a diverse community of expertise and lived experiences to create practical changes in the short term that also set the stage for long-term reform. Launched in August 2022, Moving Forward is comprised of seven working committees with individuals from across the country representing a range of perspectives – including residents, certified nursing assistants, advocates, policymakers, and providers. The work of these committees is to collaboratively identify practical solutions to start making needed changes now – specifically addressing seven known gaps currently hurting nursing home residents. (Source: NASEM Report on nursing home quality care, 2022.)
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www.MovingForwardCoalition.org
External link for Moving Forward Coalition
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- nursing home reform and long-term care
Employees at Moving Forward Coalition
Updates
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' new ownership data reporting requirements are being implemented now. Over the course of the next three months, Medicare Administrative Contractors are completing off-cycle revalidation of all nursing homes using the updated Medicare Enrollment Application Form 855A. https://lnkd.in/e3dmDeW3 The Coalition is glad this new data collection is underway. It's an important first step in realizing key recommendations from the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on nursing home quality and the Coalition's Action Plan on Transparency & Accountability. We still have questions about whether and how CMS will verify the accuracy of collected data and use it to hold owners accountable for quality care. 💫 Check out our vision for moving from basic transparency to robust accountability here: https://lnkd.in/eRsXrmx5 #MovingForward #NursingHome
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Did you miss our fantastic Coalition Conversation with Stephanie Allred, Deputy Associate Commissioner of Licensing, Policy and Training at State of Texas Health & Human Services Commission? Stephanie shared how #Texas is clarifying its policies for nursing home licensure and data collection, as well as CNA certification. Any state could replicate these simple steps at limited cost and with huge benefit to multiple nursing home stakeholder groups. It's really a no brainer! 💫 Learn more about this work in Texas and how you can replicate it in your own state: https://lnkd.in/e2WTe6zK [You can find all referenced resources linked in the video description.] #MovingForward #NursingHome
Clarity in Nursing Home Policy: Perspectives from Texas
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It's Residents' Rights Month! 🎉 We encourage you to celebrate in your communities by refreshing for yourself and sharing with others what residents' rights are, why they matter, and how we can work together to ensure they're honored in all nursing homes. 🗳️ This year's theme is "the power of my voice," which has particular significance as we approach election day. One way you can honor residents' rights month by making sure all residents have the ability to exercise their right to vote! 💫 You can also check out and share these fantastic resources, activities, and materials from National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care: https://lnkd.in/erz3-4n8 #ResidentsRightsMonth #LTCVotes #LTCRightToVote #MovingForward #nursinghome [For more from Consumer Voice: https://lnkd.in/dnfzCQp]
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its guidance to nursing homes on ensuring all residents have the ability to exercise their right to vote. You can read the new QSO here: https://lnkd.in/ek6pqeKR 🎩 Hats off to Carrie Leljedal, Lori Owen Smetanka, Kate Poppenhagen, MH and so many others for their advocacy on this topic. 💫 Now, with 33 days until Election Day, let's make sure this guidance becomes a reality! #LTCVotes #LTCRightToVote #RightToVote #NursingHome #MovingForward
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Thanks to Molly Wylie, Verena Cimarolli, and Robyn Stone of the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston for sharing their #evaluation of the Coalition's first two years of work! 💫Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dwW64wkP 💫Watch the discussion here: https://lnkd.in/ecDMRD-a #MovingForward #NursingHome The John A. Hartford Foundation
Evaluating the Moving Forward Coalition
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In May, Administration for Community Living released a draft of “Aging in the United States: A Strategic Framework for a National Plan on Aging.” The report, developed by an interagency committee, includes a set of recommendations for advancing healthy aging and age friendly communities nationally. The Moving Forward Coalition supports this vital national effort. However, we are disappointed that nursing home residents, staff, and care partners are not a meaningful part of the report or its recommendations. We write: “Of the report’s ten references to “nursing homes” or “nursing facilities,” five position nursing homes as an unfortunate outcome of inadequate home and community-based services (HCBS). While we support all efforts to promote HCBS (given the preference of many older adults to receive care at home), it is nevertheless important to recognize that the 1.3 million people who live in nursing homes are still members of their communities and should have access to the community services older adults receive.” Policies that suggest living in a nursing home is a failure threaten the ability of nursing homes to ensure residents have a high quality of living. They also promote harmful stigma around the residential care that many older adults and their families may need. We encourage ACL and their interagency colleagues to: 💫 update language to include nursing homes in the communities they serve; 💫add recommendations to better integrate nursing homes into age friendly communities; 💫look to "The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality" (NASEM 2022) as a source of nursing home-focused policy recommendations; 💫consider the Moving Forward Coalition and its participants as potential partners. Read our full comment here: https://lnkd.in/e-WbMAr4 #MovingForward #nursinghome #AgeFriendly
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Nursing home policy is so complicated! But it doesn't always have to be that way. Join us for a discussion with Stephanie Allred, Director, LTCR Licensing and Credentialing, State of Texas Health & Human Services Commission Regulatory Services, about her work to clarify complex nursing home policy for diverse stakeholders. Policy wonks and non-wonks alike are welcome! #NursingHome #MovingForward #Texas
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Moving Forward is all about improving nursing home quality! Ultimately, though, we believe nursing homes have to be part of a robust, person-centered continuum of long-term care. That's why we're so grateful for work our Coalition colleagues like Doug Pace, Christopher E. Laxton, Kezia Scales, and Michelle Zinnert, CAE are doing at the Center for Excellence in Assisted Living @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 💫 Check out Sheryl Zimmerman's latest article in McKnight's Senior Living about their efforts: https://lnkd.in/ehcMHzRs CEAL has developed a standard definition of Assisted Living that could help streamline and unify policymaking and regulation across all 50 states. Keep up the great work, CEAL! #MovingForward #NursingHome #AssistedLiving
Toward a common definition of assisted living
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Coalition Conversation on Wednesday! Mairead Painter and Daniel Beem shared some amazing details about how they're launching the Moving Forward Strengthening Resident Council project in Connecticut. Thank you also the Mag Morelli at LeadingAge Connecticut and eliz speidel at the NJ LTC Ombudsman Program for joining the discussion! We were also so glad to see family members, residents, ombudsmen, and providers from so many states. This isn't just about nursing homes in Connecticut. It's about making sure that every resident in every state has access to these vital forums for making their voices heard and shaping the communities they want to live in! You can watch the recording of the meeting here: https://lnkd.in/gFWXJNsp #MovingForward #ResidentCouncils #NursingHome
Strengthening Resident Councils: Project Updates
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