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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 16, 2014 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 4 -a <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Long Term Care Quality Service Awards <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Janice Tyler, 919 - 245 -4255 <br />PURPOSE: To recognize the winners of the Orange County Long Term Care Quality Service <br />Awards. <br />BACKGROUND: As part of the Orange County 2012 -17 Master Aging Plan, the Department on <br />Aging was asked to develop a mechanism to help increase the quality of care provided in <br />Orange County's long -term care facilities and home care organizations. <br />In 2013, the Advisory Board on Aging created the Orange County Long Term Care (LTC) <br />Learning Collaborative to bring administrators and direct -care staff together to learn about and <br />share successful approaches to quality care. The Aging Board wanted to provide organizations <br />the opportunity to learn about these new approaches and to support them in their <br />implementation. <br />Long Term Care organizations were invited to a series of seminars in the summer of 2013 which <br />focused on two areas 1) activity programming and 2) administrative practices to reduce staff <br />turn -over. LTC organizations that attended the seminars were then challenged to implement <br />and evaluate the results of at least one of these practices over the coming year. <br />The Advisory Board on Aging was so impressed with the results of some of these <br />efforts /projects that it would like to honor them with a 2014 LTC Quality Service Award. It is <br />hoped that the recognition of these Long Term Care organizations will be used as motivation for <br />other organizations to implement practices that support high levels of quality care. <br />2014 Long Term Care Quality Service Award Winners <br />Livewell Assisted Living - Executive Director Diane Beckett and Activity Director Marriettie <br />Morris <br />Livewell is a 6 -bed family care home located in Chapel Hill. Many of its residents are <br />persons with dementia. The goal of its project was to implement an individualized <br />