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Vol XXV, Jan `07
The LTC-QI Partnership project team developed the National Quality Coalition to:
  • Assess key project benchmarks;
  • Communicate with state chapters and affiliates;
  • Identify representatives at the state level to serve as CPG implementation educators and mentors;
  • Provide educational and training forums at your national and regional meetings; and
  • Disseminate project information via your publications, websites, and listservs.

With the project drawing to a close, we are thinking about how to continue partnering with you as the AMDA Foundation moves forward with other long-term care ventures. The information provides a framework for our thought processes and continued work together.

A Call to Action

How can the Foundation and the National Quality Coalition sustain our partnership? What are the benefits of continuing to work together, and what are the next steps?

In the last few months, Foundation staff surveyed you about transitioning the National Quality Coalition from a project-specific entity to something akin to an advisory board. Our survey indicated that the majority of you are interested in working with us to identify longterm care research topics and goals.

Sustainability & Spread

Sustainability involves carrying the Partnership’s successes past the end of our three-year project, while spread involves expanding our efforts.

Some of our work lends itself to very clear-cut spread, including our objective of taking lessons learned from CPG implementation and identifying a workable model to spread CPGs to other nursing homes. Some of our work, however, is more nebulous; this includes the various partnerships, like the National Quality Coalition, that form the backbone of this study.

At the Partnership, we believe that continued work with the National Quality Coalition will be an important way to sustain our collaboration at the national level as the project comes to a close.

Working Together

What do we gain by reconfiguring and continuing the National Quality Coalition after this project ends? Each member of the National Quality Coalition brings a unique perspective, skill set, and knowledge base to the table.

As Weiss (2002) indicates, together we can:
  • Think in new and better ways about how we can achieve our goals;
  • Plan more comprehensive, integrated projects; and
  • Strengthen our relationship to the broader long-term care community.
Moreover, according to Oswald (2002), “Collaboration between organizations rests on the assumption that each party will be more successful by virtue of common work towards a shared goal.”

Next Steps

Our next steps are to begin working with you to shape our future collaboration. Discussion will open on our Wednesday, January 24th conference call. See ‘Upcoming Events’ at left for more information about this one-hour call. We hope you can all participate.

References
  1. Weiss DS, Anderson RM, Lasker RD. Making the most of collaboration: Exploring the relationship between partnership synergy and partnership functioning. Health, Education, and Behavior 2002; 29 (6): 683-98.
  2. Oswald N. Structured collaboratives: Accelerating quality improvement in California. July 2002. California Healthcare Foundation.
 
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