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F A L L 2 0 1 9 N E W S L E T T E R @UofUUGEC @UofU_UGEC W W W . U T A H G W E P . O R G UTAH GERIATRIC EDUCATION CONSORTIUM OVERVIEW The Utah Geriatric Education Consortium received another 5 years of funding as a Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program from the Health Resources and Services CONTENT Agency (HRSA). First funded in 2015, the UGEC aimed to enhance primary and geriatric care in 20 nursing homes in Utah through educational programs for students and nursing home providers and staff. The new funding which began July 1, 2019 allows us to expand 02 - Upcoming programs across the Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) settings. To do so, we Events & HIghlights welcome new clinical partners – the Ensign Group, Community Nursing Services, Legacy Retirement Communities and Aspire Home Health & Hospice – to join with our established partners - Mission Health Services and Avalon Health Care. We are excited to partner with Comagine Health, the University of Utah, the Salt Lake Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, the Utah Commission on Aging, Utah 03 - Program Department of Health, the Utah Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Utah Updates Health Care Association. Read more about our partners on page 4. The focus of UGEC programs will be on the 4 M’s of Age Friendly Health Systems – mobility, medications, mentation and what matters most. We are pioneers in bringing the 04 - Our Partners Age Friendly Health System Movement to Long Term Services and Supports settings! We will continue some of our programs, such as the Nurse Residency Program and the Learning Communities; however, they are being updated and expanded. We are planning some new programs as well such as hosting Fireside Chats with our partners to discuss aging issues, particularly Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia. Read more about 05 - Meet Our some of our programs on page 3. Faculty The next five years in Health Care are going to bring many changes. Our goal is to support our partners and make the lives of older adults in LTSS better. Please contact me with ideas about how we can do so! 09 - UGEC Grant Team Thank you for joining us on this journey. Linda S. Edelman PhD, RN UGEC Program Director This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U1QHP28741. UPCOMING EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS **If you would like to join the GWEP list serv, which sends out related events and information, please email [email protected]** Learning Community Presentations (2:00 PM-3:00 PM) December 19, 2019 January 16. 2020 February 20. 2020 March 19, 2020 April 16. 2020 Congratulations to our most recent May 21, 2020 Faculty Fellow, Katarina Felsted, for June 18, 2020 receiving the 2019 Rising Star Early Fireside Chat Career Faculty Award from The December 4, 2019 Time TBA Gerontological Society of America! This Legacy Village at Sugar House award recognizes new faculty whose We look forward to offering this quarterly series teaching and/or leadership stands out centered around ADRD, age-friendly health systems as impactful and innovative. and dementia-friendly topics. The first fireside chat presentation is "Screening for Depression, Delirium and Dementia". Nursing students enjoy nursing home rotation Nurse Residency Program Bootcamp At the University of Utah College of January 16, 2020 Time TBA Nursing, 3rd semester nursing students Central Utah Veterans Home 1551 N Main St spend six weeks in Global Health Payson, UT 84651 Nursing. They have the The UGEC Nurse Residency Program will be having opportunity to work and learn from nurse our kick-off event to meet all the new nurse residents preceptors in the community. Several of and explain the program in its entirety. We are excited the students will have the opportunity to to start with this new cohort of nurse residents! Thank spend time at the SLC Veterans Nursing you to Avalon Health Care for letting us use their Home. This rotation has been identified beautiful Payson facility for this event! by past clinical students as "one of their favorite clinical sites", and they "loved working with the veterans". Here's Kaitlyn and Eliza (undergraduate students) along with Midge (Masters of Nursing Student) visiting with Frankie (resident tortoise) at the facility. 2 PROGRAM UPDATES NURSE RESIDENCY- NANCI MCLESKEY Our Nurse Residency Program (NRP) team (U of U CON and Comagine) are excited to again have the opportunity to work with our partners Mission and Avalon and to also work with our new partner Ensign in educating Long-term Care nurses in caring for the older adult. As the co-director of the program, I'm pleased to welcome Jacquie Telonidis (U of U) who will be working on the NRP curriculum/course and Joan Gallegos, Julie Wagner and Gina Dorsan (Comagine) who will be educating and guiding the nurses in completing a quality improvement project during the course. Mid-January there will be a Boot Camp to kick-off the Nurse Residency Program and the NRP course will begin. The course will run from mid-January to mid-May followed by a graduation/retreat. Please stay tuned for more updates! ALZEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIAS (ADRD)- KARA DASSEL The UGEC hosted two American Indian focused dementia caregiver conferences in September 2019. The first conference was held in Cedar City in conjunction with Four Points Health. The second conference was held in Montezuma Creek in conjunction with Active Re-Entry. The focus of these conferences was on providing general information about dementia (e.g., diagnosis, cognitive and behavioral symptoms, etc.), discussing how to manage caregiver stress, and introducing attendees to local services focused on dementia care and respite. We received positive feedback from both conferences and were invited to come back again to conduct more trainings. LEARNING COMMUNITY- CHERIE BRUNKER UGEC expands to include Home Care & Hospice and Assisted Living, with Community Nursing Services (CNS) Home Health & Hospice Care, and Legacy Village at Sugar House joining our group. We also welcome The Ensign Group and our present PALTC partners, Avalon Health Care and Mission Health Services. These sessions are on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 2-3 pm through the Zoom conferencing platform. Our next presentation on Thursday, November 21, 2019 is Dr.'s A. Enrique Varela and Lea Erickson discussing strategies for maintaining oral health in people who have lost/are losing capacity for self-care. For instructions on joining, please contact Jacquie with any questions: [email protected]. IPE STUDENTS- SUE CHASE-CANTARINI The Utah Geriatric Education Consortium (UGEC) Interprofessional Education (IPE) in Long-Term Care Immersion course, NURS 5285/6285, is designed to enhance students’ understanding of IPE care for older adults in long-term care settings through an interactive immersion. Students will also receive instruction on historical and current trends in caring for older adults. During their rotation, nursing home staff will lead case-based discussions on coordinating a team of health care professionals in the care older adults with multiple chronic conditions. An interdisciplinary group of students will visit the Salt Lake Veterans home for a four-hour clinical immersion experience from 11am to 3pm on the following dates: Friday, March 6, 2020 and Friday, March 27, 2020. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES CONSORTIUM- LINDA EDELMAN The UGEC will partner with seven other GWEPs participating in the Indigenous Peoples Age-Friendly Health Care Consortium. The purpose of the consortium is to identify the essential elements of age-friendly AI/AN/Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander healthcare and to share best practices for training local service providers, older adults, and families in age-friendly, culturally competent care for indigenous people. This year UGEC faculty are meeting with American Indian tribes and individuals across Utah to better understand the needs of aging elders and their families. If you are interested in learning more about this exciting and important initiative, please contact Linda Edelman at [email protected]. 3 OUR PARTNERS Without our partners, our work would not be possible. We are excited to move our project forward with them! Avalon Heath Care's care legacy is based on personal Comagine Health, formerly Qualis Health and HealthInsight, integrity and a commitment to provide compassionate, is a national, nonprofit, health care consulting firm. They work responsible, quality services to over 50 communities that they collaboratively with patients, providers, payers and other serve. They strive to provide industry-leading care in a patient- stakeholders to reimagine, redesign and implement centered environment and they embrace a reverence for life sustainable improvements in the health care system. As a and a heart for healing. Avalon’s comprehensive senior care trusted, neutral party, Comagine Health works in services include: skilled nursing, senior living, pharmacy, communities to address key, complex health and health care rehabilitation therapy and hospice services. delivery problems. Mission Health Services (MHS) is Utah’s premier long-term Community Nursing Services (CNS) provides compassionate healthcare services provider. Founded in 1990, MHS is a home health and hospice care to patients and families who community-based, non-profit organization. Since 2008, have experienced illness or injury – all in the comfort of the Mission care communities have committed to The Eden patients' home. Other services provided through CNS are Alternative philosophy. Striving to improve the wellbeing of respiratory services, infusion pharmacy and durable medical Elders and those who care for them, they are transforming equipment and mobile vaccination clinics. The highly skilled the communities in which they live and work. In 2012, 2013, CNS team is comprised of nurses, social workers, chaplains, 2015, 2017, & 2019 Mission Health Services received the physicians and home health aides who truly care about driving designation as the “Best Skilled Nursing Facilities” in the quality clinical outcomes and a positive patient experience.