JHF Long-Term Care Team Presents on Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home and more at Statewide Conference

Jewish Healthcare Foundation COO and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA, Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, JHF program manager, aging initiatives, and Maureen Saxon-Gioia, MSHSA, BSN, RN, nursing project manager, aging initiatives, attended the 35th annual Pennsylvania Association of Directors of Nursing Administration (PADONA) conference held March 28-31 in Hershey, Pa.

Zionts presented on "Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home: Implementing the Age-Friendly Nursing Home in PA, ROAD TO 100" as a part of both the conference's administrative and clinical tracks. Co-funded by The Henry L. Hillman Foundation, Independence Foundation, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, and the PA Department of Human Services, the Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home (RTNH) initiative implements a contemporary version of the Teaching Nursing Home model in three regions of Pennsylvania to demonstrate how enhanced partnerships between academic nursing schools and skilled nursing facilities can improve quality and cost outcomes. The session was also streamed to all the virtual participants.

At the conference, the aging team met with existing potential partners for the initiative which has plans to expand across the entire Commonwealth in the next three years.

The week-long conference included speakers and opportunities for clinicians and administrative to garner continuing educational hours to augment post-acute clinical practice and leadership skills. The JHF booth at PADONA featured multiple projects run by the Foundation including: RTNH, Dementia Friends, the PA LTC Learning Network, and PA POLST.