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In addition to offering workforce training and career exploration programs, other functions of the Center of Excellence in Long Term Care Practice include:
Research needs in long term care
Research at the local level that is of value to the long term care community in Lancaster County. If any long term care or healthcare employers have topics in long term care or gerontology for which they'd like some research to be done, please contact Melanie G. Snyder, Project Manager, Healthcare Initiatives at (717) 361-2722 or via email at
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. We have excellent relationships with local colleges and universities and could assemble the necessary resources to have the appropriate research designed and conducted through the Center of Excellence in Long Term Care.
For an overview of research in PA, visit the Intergovernmental Council on Long-Term Care of the PA Department of Aging. This site has quite a few downloadable documents that feature original research.
Emerging trends in healthcare and long term care
All employers who are part of the Center of Excellence in Long Term Care are asked regularly about the next big challenges or changes on the horizon in the industry - whether new technologies that employees need to be prepared to work with, new types of equipment they'll have to learn to use, or new types of skills they'll need to have to be successful and continue to grow and change with the long term care industry. For example, with med pass systems and care trackers, both licensed staff and nurse aides increasingly need to be prepared to interact with computer touch screen systems to retrieve and record information - would some basic skills preparation in using such systems be helpful to your employees?
Technology Transfer
We also partner with organizations involved in translating research findings into practice in the industry regionally, across Pennsylvania and around the United States.
- Better Jobs, Better Care is an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is looking at ways to improve the work environment of people in Long-term care jobs.
- Click here for a profile of the group in Pennsylvania that was one of the grantees for the initiative.
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