Care givers and your staff need to be paid more, receive better benefits, and need to be recognized with professional training, education, and other reward systems. Encourage market development You must help providers move into lower cost care giving with regulatory support and financial incentives. Think creatively about resources that can help you develop more affordable and accessible resources. We helped leverage state financing to launch assisted living development and were instrumental in creating a lower cost alternative to nursing facilities. Rethink regulation Recognize that while quality is one of the most important goals, a highly regulatory approach tends to squelch creativity.
Regulators are better off in a collaborative relationship with care givers.
Develop more meaningful measurement and monitoring activities that reinforce standards and give providers good and clear information about expectations. Support long-term care providers as they strive to provide high quality care. Address your own entrenched ideas and values Government staff also need education and training. Integrating a system means bringing together people with different cultures and biases. Diverse agencies have different funding sources and philosophies.