Quality Focus: How QAPI and the Regulations Can Drive Your Person-Centered Practices
Webinar Registration
Thursday, October 24, 2024
10:00-11:00am Eastern Time
Did you know that your Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program can be about so much more than quality of care and clinical measures? Join us to find out how you can maximize your QAPI efforts to improve quality of life for your residents and your staff. We will explore and rethink how to advance your culture change journey and review some examples of successful projects.
Speakers:
Walter O. Coffey, Founder/Managing Partner – WD International Consulting
Before co-founding WD International Consulting, Walter was the CEO of LeadingAge Georgia and the Georgia Institute on Aging for 18 years. His career spans from Georgia Council on Aging to the Alzheimer’s Association to various senior housing settings. He is committed to the education and development of individuals with an emphasis on supporting organizations to empower and retain their staff.
Walter is a national and international leader in the culture change movement focusing on care for people living with dementia and has the demonstrated ability to transform organizations to become person-centered. He co-founded the Culture Change Network of Georgia. He holds a Master’s degree in public administration with a concentration in Gerontology, from Georgia State University and is a Certified Eden Educator via The Eden Alternative. Currently, Walter is the founder and co-director of The Eden Alternative Spain.
Kim McRae, FCTA
Kim McRae is a consultant, speaker, educator and a “FCTA” (Family Caregiver Turned Advocate). She is the Co-Founder of Culture Change Network of Georgia. Kim is also an Educator and Mentor for The Eden Alternative®. She comes to person- centered care and culture change through a twelve-year history as a family caregiver and a consumer of aging services and long-term care. Kim is nationally known as a vigilant advocate for people who are living with dementia and family caregivers (“consumers”). She is a recipient of The Eden Alternative Empowered Innovator Award and the Southern Gerontological Society Applied Gerontologist Award. She holds a BA in Journalism with a concentration in French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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