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Quality Improvement Award Winners Named |
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 Vol V, May `03 The AMDA Foundation and Pfizer are pleased to announce the winners of the 2003 Quality Improvement Awards, a program created to support innovative projects focused on facility staff education, quality improvement, intervention and treatment research, and health literacy.
The 2003 awardees are:
- Regina Harrell, MD: Behavior Modification Training in Nursing Assistants
- Howard Tuch, MD, CMD: Expecting Death in the Nursing Home
- Gwendolyn Buhr, MD,CMD: Quality Improvement Initiative for Chronic Pain Management in LTC
- John J. Voytas, MD, FACP, CMD: Validation of an Educational Program for Improved Heart Failure Care
- Glendo Tangarorang, MD: Prohylaxis for Elderly Pneumonia with Intranasl Xylitol: The PEP-XN Study
- Marilyn White, MSN, RN: Reducing Dementia-Related Agitation through Nursing Home Staff Support Groups
- Sandra F. Simmons, PhD: Translating Effective Nutritional Interventions into Daily Nursing Home Practice
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