Household Matters: A Good Life 'Round the Clock

Complete Description

Integrating Person-First Values, Systems Design, and Workforce Development as a Methodology to Initiate and Sustain Culture Change in Long Term Care

Through funding of the Commonwealth Fund, Sunflower Foundation and the Kansas Department on Aging, Meadowlark Hills has created an integrated toolbox of materials and systems for use by long-term care providers (and others) with a stake in transforming the culture of nursing homes in a sustainable fashion. Taken together, the toolbox's components would provide an explicit roadmap for how an organization could shape itself to become a resident directed service model with a well trained, empowered, and satisfied workforce. This packaged tool box will not only assist in assuring culture-change sustainability, but will also be a vehicle for increasing the rate of culture-change penetration in the long-term care community.

Toolkits are $700 plus $28 shipping and handling Toolkits will begin to ship on or before August 31, 2006. To order the Household Matters: A Good Life 'Round the Clock toolkit, please click HERE. Testimonial: "Pennybyrn at Maryfield is in the process of transforming our traditional nursing home into households both culturally and through a major renovation. We have had the opportunity to learn from and be guided and assisted by Action Pact, Inc. and Meadowlark Hills as we have developed our household model. We received tremendous value based on their wealth of experience in this area. To have this experience and knowledge offered in the Toolkit is truly exciting.

We have had the opportunity to preview the Household Matters Toolkit in detail and it contains a wealth of knowledge that will be invaluable to us as we continue our journey. We are extremely excited about the opportunity to fully utilize the Toolkit as we move forward to continue to grow leadership throughout our organization, formalize policies and procedures, and implement human resource systems in support of our major transformation." --Rich Newman, Executive Leader, Pennybyrn at Maryfield

This toolbox Household Matters: A Good Life 'Round the Clock will contain:

1. In Pursuit of the Sunbeam: Leading Change from Institution to Home.
   This is a leadership book that assists providers by providing a change framework based on the Norton/Shields Change Matrix: Self, Leadership, Organizational and Environmental Transformation.
   
   A Practical Guide to Transform Institution to Home
   - a leadership book by Steve Shields and LaVrene Norton
   
   
2. Daybreak - Creating Home:
   A set of policies and procedures shaped for household life. Based on federal regulations, this manual demonstrates that the regulations support culture change principles.
   
   Lead Author: Patricia A. Maben, RN, MN, LNHA
   
   
3. Midday - Living and Working in Harmony:
   An integrated human resources system that reflects the values of the Household Model and for creating a decentralized organization utilizing self-led teams.
   
   Lead Author: LaVrene Norton, MSW
   
   
4. Evensong - Reflecting on Quality:
   
   A system of team-based continuous quality improvement custom designed for the Household Model. A Quality Process and Measurement System
   
   Lead Author: Linda Bump, MPH, RD, LD, LNHA
   

Each toolkit will contain:

The hard copy documents:

• The Leadership Book, In Pursuit of the Sunbeam by Steve Shields and LaVrene Norton -- To view Book Cover, Click HERE (.pdf - 1MB)
  
• A 100+ page spiral bound training guide entitled: Living and Working in Harmony, A Training Guide for Self-Led Teams

Then there are:

3 CDs:

• Policies and Procedures – 355 procedures, over 500 pages.
• Quality Indicators – 100+ files includes auditing tools, household practices, guidelines and QI procedures
• Human Resources – 300+ pages of an integrated system of household specific job descriptions, orientation, in-services, and performance tools

3 DVDs:includes short 10 – 12 minute video clips on:

• Living & Working in Harmony
  ° Come In – Competency Based Hiring
  ° Day in the Life – An Orientation to Households I
  ° Working Together – An Orientation to Households II
  
  
• Living & Working in Harmony
  ° We are People Too – Thinking Person-Centered Care
  ° Learning Circle – Creating Community
  
  
• Living & Working in Harmony
  ° Food For Thought – Kitchen Practices
  ° Let’s Eat – The Dining Experience
  
  Each of these components are completely designed within the framework of:

Resident-directed service by self-led work teams in household community, supported by values-driven resource-bearing leadership, in a process-sensitive outcome-measured environment.