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Artifacts of Culture Change Development
Artifacts of Culture Change Tool Development (cont’d)
Five researchers volunteered to be commenters on the value of the items, clarity of language and the structure and scoring of the tool:
• Joe Angelelli, PhD, Pioneer Network Director of Networking and Development. Prior to joining the Pioneer Network, Dr. Angelelli was a Penn State professor of Long-term Care Management and Research Methods.
• Maggie Calkins, PhD, IDEAS Institute and SAGE (Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments). Maggie is a renowned design expert on the long-term care environment and SAGE board member.
• Les Grant, PhD, University of Minnesota. Dr. Grant developed the Culture Change Staging Tool with LaVrene Norton that has been used by the Beverly Corporation and My Innerview. Dr. Grant has conducted research on some of the earliest pioneering homes such as Big Fork Valley.
• Yael Harris, PhD, CMS, OCSQ, Quality Improvement Organization Culture Change Initiative Lead
Vivian Tellis-Nayak, PhD, My InnerView. Dr. Tellis-Nayak is known for extensive research done on the CMS- 672 Resident Census and Conditions collection tool used in each standard survey and is the Vice President of Research at My Innerview.
The invited researchers were selected as commenters for their expertise in applying research methods to culture change practices.
Analysis of both focus facilities’ and researchers’ comments resulted in some items being deleted and others added or reworded. From the suggestion of a researcher, a scoring system was added to the tool. Thus, a baseline for each facility is a score of zero, having none of the artifacts of culture change, and a benchmark becomes the total possible score for a home that has achieved a perfect score, having them all.
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