We are so grateful for YOU, our supporters who are getting the word out about LiveWell. I am so appreciative of my excellent team: Ana (our newest member), Steve, Marcus, Whitney, Ann, Miles, and Judy. And to the Administrators, Executive Directors, and corporate leaders who invested the time in LiveWell up front and are now experiencing what it’s like to have engaged and empowered staff, residents, and family members: You are building high quality care cultures. Congratulations!
— Barbara Kohnen Adriance
A Year's Worth of Highlights
Learning Collaborative members get creative with their Community Quality Boards
Expanding the LiveWell Learning Community
Coached 69 staff from 14 assisted living/memory care communities on our flagship 15-week program, The LiveWell Method™
Created a leadership program, LeadWell™, as a companion to LiveWell for directors seeking to leverage strengths-based leadership, emotional intelligence, and growth mindset.
Adapted our coaching and facilitation to better support leaders dealing with the staffing crisis.
The ScoreApp Assessment offers an instant report of a team's QAPI proficiency.
Generated New Digital Assets
Created a QAPI Proficiency Scorecard to assess communities’ capabilities in four critical domains: person directed care, teamwork/communication, improvement culture, efficiency/organization. The tool helps providers assess what they need to work on to build high quality care cultures.
Created 12 new studio-quality LiveWell training videos. They are fully accessible on Thinkific’s learning platform. We now have a total of 28 lessons organized into three foundational courses.
Created captivating ads in Caregiver magazine.
Dr. Marcus Ingle, PH.D., senior advisor to LiveWell and retired Professor of Public Administration at Portland State University (PSU), talks with LiveWell CEO, Barbara Kohnen Adriance about the role of leadership in quality improvement.
Amped Up our Messaging!
Created new thought leader videos for our five core principles – Engage, Empower, Explore, Excel, Evolve – and introducing Marcus and Steve on our YouTube channel.
Engage a business accelerator for entrepreneurs to bring more visibility to LiveWell as we expand nationally. (DENT KPI Program).
Published a special report, Missed Opportunities, Sacrificed Profits: The True Cost of Overlooking Staff Development in Long Term Care.
Building a social media presence on LinkedIn. Our engagement rate doubled in the second half of 2023. We’re happy that the LiveWell community is growing online!
Doubled our opt-in subscription list in order to reach more facilities and staff.
Sponsoring Exhibitor at Oregon Healthcare Association and LeadingAge Oregon Conferences
Connected with hundreds of care professionals at the annual and semi annual conferences hosted by Oregon HealthCare Association and LeadingAge Oregon.
We reunited with a few LiveWell alumni too!
Putting Our Values into Action
We care about the health of people and the planet. So we partnered with B1G1 to support education and enable access to clean water in Central America.
We also support reforestation by indigenous farmers in the US.
Why should you join a learning cohort and do LiveWell?
LiveWell also helps retain staff and build community. Communities that do LiveWell have a 60% decrease in staff turnover. LiveWell improves the quality of life for staff AND residents. Residents have fewer falls and fewer medication errors, while staff experience fewer workplace injuries.
LiveWell communities reduce their costs. Reduced falls and increased staff retention help communities save an average of $135,900 annually.
LiveWell also helps you create the kind of communities where staff and residents thrive together. Where literally everyone works in sync to innovate care, nurture dignity, build community, and honor elders. It is possible.
We can do this if we focus on five core principles:
ENGAGE: LiveWell offers practices and tools that include everyone, which helps staff and residents build an equitable and inclusive community. Every person knows that they belong and are a valuable part of making their community a better place to live and work.
EMPOWER: These same practices and tools improve teamwork and communication, making it easy for people to take meaningful action in order to improve the care and safety of residents and staff.
EXPLORE: Curiosity about new ideas, technologies, and ways of living and working is key to becoming an innovative learning organization.
EXCEL: LiveWell-trained teams know what excellent care looks like, use their strengths to model excellent teamwork and communication, and are skilled in best practices of tracking measuring, root cause analysis, and tests of change.
EVOLVE: Over time, organizations that are committed to excellence and a growth mindset find learning opportunities everywhere. They develop a culture that sustains continuous improvement, nurtures innovation, and above all ensures that everyone belongs.
Wishing you the happiest of Holidays,
— Barbara, Steve, Marcus, Whitney, Ann, Miles, Judy, and Ana