Volume 6, Issue 5
June 16, 2010
In This Issue
- 2009 Annual Report Celebrates 10 Years of Social Work Grantmaking
- Hartford Foundation Co-sponsored Brookings Institution Forum
- New Resources from the Hartford Foundation Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative Now Available on POGOe
- Hartford Grantees Call for Stronger Focus on Chronic Illness in Primary Care
- Eight New Practice Change Fellows Selected
- 2010-12 BAGNC Scholars & Fellows Announced
- Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy Selects Second Cohort
- In Case You Missed It—Highlights from the Health AGEnda Blog
- Hartford Program Officer Amy Berman to Pursue Geriatric Nursing PhD
- Upcoming Hartford Program Funding Deadlines
- Communications Tip: Make the Most of Your Message—and your Data—with BandwidthOnline.org
1. 2009 Annual Report Celebrates 10 Years of Social Work Grantmaking
The Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our 2009 Annual Report, titled Geriatric Social Work Initiative: Celebrating Ten Years of Visionary Leadership. To explore the importance of geriatric social work in more depth, we are also hosting a six-part blog series on the annual report and GSWI on health AGEnda, the Hartford Foundation blog. Please check out the first three posts, by Nora OBrien-Suric, Cory Rieder, and Rachael Watman. We welcome comments on the blog—please take a moment to reflect with us on the importance of expanding geriatric social work programs.
2. Hartford Foundation and Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence Announce Exciting New Partnership
The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence have announced that they will work together via the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program to increase the number of well-qualified geriatric nursing faculty members. This two-year partnership will support nine doctoral candidates in geriatric nursing during the first year, one at each of the nine Hartford Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (CGNE) nationwide. In the fall of 2010, each CGNE will select a Jonas/Hartford Scholar. Each scholar will receive mentoring and leadership training and take part in Hartford-sponsored Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) activities, including the annual BAGNC Leadership Conference. The Jonas/Hartford program will be administered by the BAGNC Coordinating Center housed at the American Academy of Nursing.
The Jonas scholars will use their awards to pursue the goal of becoming faculty in geriatric nursing, particularly in geriatric mental health or community-based care for elders. The program reflects a shared commitment by the Hartford Foundation and the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence to addressing the nation’s accelerating nursing shortage through faculty development. Hear more about the partnership in this video, featuring Barbara and Donald Jonas.
For more information about the Jonas Center for Excellence, visit: www.jonascenter.org. To learn more about the Hartford Foundation’s Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, visit: www.geriatricnursing.org.
3. New Resources from the Hartford Foundation Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative Now Available on POGOe
The Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative, a Hartford grantee, has developed several new resources to draw attention to the special needs of older adults with mental health concerns and psychiatric/substance misuse disorders.
- Geropsychiatric Nursing Competency Enhancements. These enhancements are not intended to stand alone but rather to enhance existing or anticipated competencies by relevant professional nursing organizations.
- Key Concepts. These key concepts are foundational to the geropsychiatric nursing competency enhancements.
- Definition of Geropsychiatric Nursing. This definition serves to guide future discussions about preparing nurses to care for older adults who have mental health concerns.
These resources are available on the Portal of Geriatric Online Education (www.POGOe.org) under the product ID 20660. You must register to search for the product, but registration is free.
4. Hartford Grantees Call for Stronger Focus on Chronic Illness in Primary Care
Writing in the May issue of the journal Health Affairs, several prominent Hartford grantees have issued a call to action for improving primary care doctors’ ability to deliver higher-quality, more cost-effective chronic care. It is titled “The Urgency of Preparing Primary Care Physicians to Care for Older People with Chronic Illnesses.” Authors Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Steven R. Counsell, MD, of the Indiana University School of Medicine; Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; and Robert A. Berenson, MD, of the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute outline several aggressive measures. These include: improving funding for medical schools and residency programs that teach innovative new models of chronic care, linking Medicare’s educational subsidy to these reforms, and invoking state requirements that doctors earn continuing education credits in geriatrics in order to maintain their licensure or to practice as Medicaid providers or medical directors of nursing homes. They also call for developing leadership among and teaching capacity building to geriatricians. Read more in this health AGEnda blog post or click here to read an abstract (subscription required for full text).
5. Eight New Practice Change Fellows Selected
The Practice Change Fellows program, supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and the John A. Hartford Foundation, has selected its 2010 Fellows. This prestigious two-year program focuses on building leadership capacity among nurses, physicians, and social workers who have operational responsibility for geriatric care. Through participation in the program, eight Fellows will each receive $90,000 and the support of local and national mentors to further develop their leadership skills and complete a project aimed at implementing a new geriatric service line or aging program.
The Fellows and their project topics are as follows:
Andrea R. Fox, MD, MPH, Squirrel Hill Health Center
Creating a Geriatric-friendly, Federally Qualified Health Center
Melissa A. Frey, MSW, Rush University Medical Center, Johnston R. Bowman Center
Reducing the Health Disparities for Spanish-speaking Older Adult Trauma Survivors
Shirley F. Jones, MD, Scott and White Memorial Hospital/Texas A&M Health Science Center
Reducing Re-hospitalizations in Critically Ill Patients: The ICU Survivors Follow-up Care Program
Denise L. Lyons, CNS, Christiana Hospital
Implementing a Comprehensive Functional Model of Care in Hospitalized Older Adults
Ursula McClymont, MD, Baltimore Medical Systems
Geriatric Medical Home: Integrating Somatic and Psychiatric Care for Community Health Centers Patients
Hermia Parks, MA, Riverside County Community Health Agency
Achieving Health Equity in the Older Adult Population: A Public Health Approach
Jennifer B. Porth, MSW, Palmetto Health
Implementing a Care Coordination Model for Older Adults within an Accountable Care Organization
Thomas Price, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
The Safety Action Plan—Assessment and Sheltering of the Victims of Elder Abuse
For more information on the Practice Change Fellows program, visit: www.practicechangefellows.org.
6. 2010-12 BAGNC Scholars & Fellows Announced
The American Academy of Nursing recently announced over $2 million in awards to its latest cohort of fellows and scholars in academic geriatric nursing. Eight Claire M. Fagin postdoctoral Fellows will each receive $120,000 to support advanced research training, mentorship, leadership, and career development. Eleven pre-doctoral Scholars will receive a scholarship of $100,000 to support their doctoral training and launch careers in academic geriatric nursing.
The 2010-2012 Claire M. Fagin Fellows and their project topics are:
Dana Carthron, PhD, RN, Duke University
Trajectory of Self-management Activities and Provider Support Among African-American Primary Caregiving Grandmothers
Corjena Cheung, PhD, RN, St. Catherine University
A Pilot Study Testing an Iyengar Yoga Exercise Program for Older Women with Osteoarthritis
Linda S. Edelman, PhD, RN, University of Utah
Injuries Occurring to Older Adults Living in Rural Areas
Teresa Goodell, PhD, RN, Oregon Health & Science University
Skin Perfusion and Oxygenation in Critically Ill Elders
Niloufar Hadidi, PhD, RN, University of Minnesota
Problem Solving therapy for Treatment of Post-stroke Depression
Caroline Stephens, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents Stuck in the Revolving Door of the Emergency Room: The Influence of Resident, Organizational, Market & Policy Factors
Todd Ruppar, PhD, RN, University of Missouri, Columbia
Pilot Program to Improve Statin Adherence and Lower Cholesterol in Older Adults
Deirdre Thornlow, PhD, RN, Duke University
Cascade Iatrogenesis: Postoperative Respiratory Failure in Hospitalized Older Americans
The 2010-2012 Pre-doctoral Scholars and their project topics are:
Charlene Aaron, University of Iowa
African American Family Dementia Caregivers: At What Cost?
Eeeseung Byun, University of Pennsylvania
Factors Affecting Outcomes of Family Caregiving for Older Adults with Stroke
Daniel Cline, New York University
Nursing Care of Older Adults in the Rural Hospital Setting
Ben Remor Inventor, Rush University
Managing Behavior Symptoms of Persons with Dementia in Long Term Care
Susan Lysaght, University of Pennsylvania
Quality Care Outcomes in Hospice
Siobhan McMahon, Arizona State University
Enhancing Motivation for Physical Activity to Reduce the Risk of Falls Among Community-dwelling Older Adults
Melissa O'Connor, University of Pennsylvania
The Impact of Home Care Length of Stay and Number of Nursing Visits on Acute Care Hospitalization
Tonya Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Process and Outcomes of Person Centered Care for Nursing Home Residents
Marleen Thornton, University of Colorado, Denver
Optimizing Outcomes for the Oldest Old
Kathy Wright, University of Utah
The Correlation of Care Manager Relationships with Older Adults and Adherence to Self-management Behaviors
Carolyn Ziminski, University of California, Los Angeles
Influence of Family Structure on the Social Construction of Elder Mistreatment
For more information about the scholarship and fellowship program, visit: www.geriatricnursing.org.
7. Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy Selects Second Cohort
The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), has selected the second cohort of fellows for the Hartford funded Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy (GNLA). The purpose of the GNLA is to develop the leadership skills of geriatric nurses in positions of influence in a variety of health-care settings. This growing group of experts has begun a collective movement toward national influence in improving care for older adults. The 18-month mentored leadership experience will begin in June 2010 with fellow-mentor participants representing 13 states and a diverse range of practice settings and educational backgrounds ranging from bachelor’s of nursing to doctorate degrees.
Accepted Fellows and their project topics are:
Jean A. Benzel-Lindley, Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center
Infusing Gerontological Nursing into a Multi-System Acute Care Setting
Jennifer L. Bright, Main Line Health/Riddle Hospital
Achieving Geriatric Excellence
Julie Britton, Genesis HealthCare
To Establish an Appreciation of Cultural Diversity as a Core Principle of Culture Change
Tamara L. Burket, Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Up! Up! Up! Safeguarding Functional Status in Hospitalized Elders After Trauma
Matthew Clarence Clerc, Banner Boswell Medical Center
Creating a New Generation of Gerontological Nurse Experts through National Certification
Gina M. Connolly, Wishard Hospital
Implementation of NICHE at a County Hospital
Amy M. LeClair, Kindred Healthcare-Village Crossings at Cape Elizabeth
G.R.A.C.E. Wellness Program
Karen A. Madden, Providence Health and Services
Nursing Program Redesign
Stephanie G. Martin, Chenal L Heights Nursing and Rehab
Decrease Staff Turnover by Empowering the Certified Nursing Assistant to Increase Hydration Thereby Decreasing the Occurrence of Urinary Tract Infections in the Geriatric Population at Chenal Heights Nursing and Rehab Center
Ginger Rogers, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing
Partnerships in Aging in Place
Catherine Roscoe-Herbert, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
The Acute-LTC Model to Improve Care of Older Adults Across the Health Continuum: A Specialized Training for Nurses–Hospital to LTC
Karen A. Smith, Scottsdale Healthcare
Providing Targeted Care to Telemonitored Pneumonia Patients
Shirley M. Tuller, Carol Woods Retirement Community
Promoting Elder Health: Preventing Falls
Pauline M. Youngren, Providence Benedictine Nursing Center
Strengthening the Role of the Nurse in the Culture Change Movement in Long Term Care
For more information about the GNLA, visit: www.nursingsociety.org/LeadershipInstitute/GeriatricAcademy/Pages/introduction.aspx
8. In Case You Missed It—Highlights from the Health AGEnda Blog
The 2009 Annual Report [http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=1750] hasn’t been the only recent topic on health AGEnda. Learn how we are helping attract talented medical students to careers in geriatrics in Wishing Upon an MSTAR, by Marcus Escobedo; gain new appreciation of the plight of direct-care workers in Thank You, Iman, Hugo, and All of the Nation’s Other Direct Care Workers, by Cory Rieder; and consider the importance of putting the patient on the team—or the crew—in Sailing the Ship of Health Care by Christopher Langston.
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9. Hartford Program Officer Amy Berman to Pursue Geriatric Nursing PhD
Congratulations to Hartford Foundation Program Officer Amy Berman, RN, BSN, on being accepted into the University of Utah’s prestigious distance-learning PhD program. Amy is principally responsible for the Foundation’s Integrating and Improving Services portfolio of grants to develop and disseminate innovations in geriatric care. She will be working over the next several years toward a PhD in geriatric nursing. The Foundation believes in adding to its capacity through developing the talents of its staff and is very proud of Amy’s accomplishment.
Because the nursing program at the University of Utah is a Hartford Foundation grantee, the Foundation will take all possible steps to prevent any conflict of interest. Amy has declined the scholarship support she won as part of her admission package and will recuse herself from any staff-oversight responsibilities for nursing grants that might raise concern. Questions or comments may be directed to Christopher Langston, PhD, the Foundation’s program director.
10. Upcoming Hartford Program Funding Deadlines
August 2, 2010
Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric Social Work
www.gswi.org/programs/hdf.html
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