The Mayer-Rothschild Foundation is issuing this Request for Application to lead academic partner for the continued design, development, validation and implementation of a national Designation of Excellence in Person-Centered Long-Term Care for America’s long-term nursing homes, independent and assisted living communities, and dementia and memory care residences that are serving America’s older adults and their families.
Donor Name: Mayer-Rothschild Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $30,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The Foundation seeks academic and institutional partners for the design, development and implementation of a national Designation of Excellence in Person-Centered Long-Term Care.
The Foundation envision the identified academic partner engaging with five care communities located in diverse geographical locations across the country, serving as Centers of Excellence in promulgating this work.
The Foundation seeks to develop a firmly grounded consumer- and research-friendly designation instrument that denotes person-centered excellence in long-term care settings, and that can both inform and be widely adopted by the long-term care industry.
The purpose of this RFA is two-fold:
- To develop systems, methods, measures, tools, processes and other protocols for identifying excellence in person-centered long-term care for America’s long-term nursing homes, independent and assisted living communities, and dementia and memory care residences that are serving America’s older adults and their families
- To test the design and implement a sustainable instrument–the Designation of Excellence–that reflects state-of-the-art evidence-based design and best practices for delivery of person-centered long-term care in residential settings across a 50-state canvas
The longer-term goal of this initiative is to develop and implement a research platform that can be utilized in multiple ways:
- To improve their understanding of the factors that impact person-centered long-term care and offer insights on how to use this information to continuously improve care
- To support state-of-the-art research opportunities in improving person-centered long-term care, including conducting longitudinal studies dedicated to better understanding and improving the lives of older adults living in care communities, and considering acceptance and compliance with the updated life safety codes introduced by the Hulda B. & Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation
The Designation of Excellence should serve to:
- Increase consumer and industry knowledge about best-practices in person-centered long-term care
- Stimulate long-term care providers to embrace and implement best practices in person-centered care
- Provide clear guidelines for staff, residents and families to assess if best practices are being utilized
- Establish a consumer tool/app to inform the public about best practices in person-centered long term care, creating expectations of care communities using best practices
- Help monitor the industry and identify and promote emerging best practices and continuous improvement
- Celebrate, highlight and provide differentiation for those care communities that are demonstrating deeply adopted person-centered principles and practices across measurable indices of excellence
Funding Information
- Total funds available to single academic institution $250,000.
- Total funds available to institutional partners $150,000.
- Maximum funds available to each institutional partner $30,000.
- Duration of Testing and Validation Funding Award 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants must be faculty at a United States land-based college or university and able to serve as Principal Investigator (PI) in conceptualizing and operationalizing The Mayer-Rothschild Designation of Excellence. The applicant is required to partner with five (5) not-for-profit (501 c3) care community institutions that have the capacity and vision to co-design, pilot test, bring to scale and sustain the Designation of Excellence on a broad national basis. Each would serve as a distinct Center of Excellence for one year and be awarded a $30,000 stipend from the Foundation. The successful project partners must share the vision for improving the lives of older adults living in long-term care and have current experience and expertise in the long-term care nursing home domain. The five Centers of Excellence should be geographically distinct and represent the broad diversity of their nation.
For more information, visit Mayer-Rothschild Foundation.
