AMDA.COM Update
AMDA Web-Based Consumer Outreach Campaign Wins National Award
AMDA's Consumer's Corner--Facts About Nursing Home Quality, a Web-based public education campaign (www.amda.com/consumercorner), has won the Award of Excellence in the 2003 Associations Advance America Awards
program, a national competition sponsored by the America Society of
Association Executives (ASAE) that recognizes associations whose
innovative projects in several key areas help propel America forward.
AMDA's program won for the category of Public Education and
Information.
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ASAE President and CEO Michael S. Olson, CAE, said of Consumer's
Corner, "Your program truly embodies the spirit of the Associations
Advance America Awards campaign. It is an honor and an inspiration to
showcase this activity as an example of the many contributions
associations are making to advance American society."
AMDA developed Consumer's Corner--its first major public outreach
effort--to augment data released as part of the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Nursing Home Quality Initiative. CMS compiled information on
eight measures that reflect a nursing home resident's clinical
condition--such as prevalence of infections, pain or pressure sores. To
help consumers interpret or use the facility-specific quality
information published by CMS, the AMDA Consumer's Corner provides
definitions of the quality measures, questions to ask nursing home
professionals, and explanations about how sometimes, even with the best
effort, nursing home residents may experience a decline in some of the
measures.
As a recipient of the Award of Excellence, AMDA is now eligible for the 2003 Associations Advance America Summit Award, the highest level of recognition, which will be chosen in June 2003.
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