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3~ Accomplishments ~- Long Term Care Service Obiective #S0: Establish an Orange County Long Term Care Facility Roundtable (OCI,TCR) comprised of service providers, consumers, advocates, and regulators, who will work to define, address, and resolve Curren[ priority issues related to the quality of care and guality of life of the long term care. facility population, (Goal IV-A) (Revisions to objective in italics -July 2002) Accomplishment: The formation of the Roundtable was postponed until Summer, 2002 when the Aging Director, the TJAAA Long Term Care Ombudsman and a graduate student organized and held two task, farce meetings to deftne the target population, purpose, representatives, and initial meeting agenda, for the LTC Facility Rvundtable. Objective al was revised as indicated above to rejlect the Roundtable's main. focus on the LTC facility population, The Roundtable had its kickoff meeting on May 7, 2003, during which three working subcommittees wez•e, formed to review Master Aging Plan goals, deftne priority issues and .set an action plan for 2004 - 200.5. The three subcommittees were advocacy, policy/legislative and staff/recruitment/z•etention. Participants included long term care facility residents, providers, advocates, and family members; Triangle JArea Agency on Aging Ombudsman Program,° the Orange County Department on Aging; Orange County Nursing Home and Adult Care Hozne Advisory Committees; Orange County Commissioners; Orange County Deparhnent of Social Services; the Orange County Elder Mistreatment Coalition; L/NC Hospitals; Home Health agencies; OPC Mental Health; First Responders; geriatric teamwork graduate students; consumers; researchers and others. The Roundtable held its second annual full membership meeting on April 31, 2004 with approximately 65 people in attendance.. Each of the three subcommittees presented their work, for the past year. ^ The Advocacy Subcommittee compiled an admissions handbook, which was distributed to all long term care facilities in the county for use by residents and family members. The handbool~ divided into 3 sections, covered resident empowerment, family empowezment and, facility best practice. The best practice sections included best practices in facilities, best practices to assure continuity of cure between, facility and hospital, facility, home health and others.. ^ The Policy/Legislative Subcommittee, with input from local and state elected officals, developed an agenda of policy and legislative actions needed to address areas of concern in lung term care. facilities. The agenda was submitted to the Board of County Commissionezs and the legislative items were approved and included in their legislative agenda packet. Many of the legislative items have been addressed. ^ The Staffing/Recruitment/Retention Subcozn»zittee encouraged spo»sorship of two Alzheimer's/Dementia Trainings in the county for caregivers family ,volunteers, stajf members from.facilities, home health, hospice, adult day centers, hospital and others.. The h~ainings were sponsored by the Orange County Department on Aging Elder Care Division, the Triangle JArea Agency on Aging Ombudsman Program, the Orange County Long Term Care Facility Roundtable and the Eastern NC Alzheimer's Association. Comments: Due to lack of'staff and resources, the Roundtable has not had additional meetings since 2004. The bulk of'the work and the cost were absorbed by the Triangle J 18