CEAL@UNC Resources Advancing Excellence in Assisted Living: The Evolution of CEAL@UNC Date: March 2025Topics: Quality ImprovementType: PublicationSource: CEAL@UNC CEAL@UNC Strategic Advisor Presentations Date: February 2025Topics: End of Life, Quality Improvement, Regulation/MonitoringType: Advisor ResourceSource: CEAL@UNCCEAL@UNC regularly invites organizations and individuals committed to advancing well-being in assisted living through practice, research, and policy to present emerging and relevant topics to its Strategic Advisors. View Presentations CEAL@UNC Guest Columns: McKnight’s Senior Living Date: February 2025Topics: Quality Improvement, Staff/StaffingType: PublicationSource: CEAL@UNCDr. Sheryl Zimmerman, Executive Director of CEAL@UNC, is a guest columnist for McKnight’s Senior Living. These regularly published articles reflect the perspectives of CEAL@UNC advisors, and address timely topics relevant to the well-being of the people who live and work in assisted living. View Articles CMS HCBS State Transition Plans Date: September 2024Topics: Medicare/MedicaidType: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNCThis interactive map provides a high-level summary of Statewide Transition Plans (STP) with Final Approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The map is updated as CMS updates the states’ approval status. Be Well in AL Recommendations: Resident/Family Checklist Date: June 2024Topics: Cognitive/Dementia, Families/Caregivers, Medical Care, Medication, Mental Health, Quality Improvement, Staff/StaffingType: ToolkitsSource: CEAL@UNCCEAL@UNC recognizes the benefit of ongoing quality improvement in assisted living, including through the implementation of consensus medical and mental health care recommendations disseminated through the Be Well in AL Initiative. This checklist, to be used by residents and their families considering or residing in assisted living, is a helpful tool to understand recommended care […] Potential Actions to Advance Well-being in Assisted Living Date: April 2024Topics: Families/Caregivers, Medicare/Medicaid, Quality Improvement, Regulation/Monitoring, Staff/StaffingType: ToolkitsSource: CEAL@UNCCEAL@UNC recognizes the benefit of ongoing quality improvement in assisted living. Numerous feasible solutions have been suggested that may improve care and outcomes in assisted living, including those in this information sheet. Feel free to utilize and distribute this information sheet among your networks to advance the well-being of the people who live and work […] COVID-19 in Assisted Living: Protecting a Critical Long-Term Care Resource Date: February 2023Topics: COVID-19Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC CEAL 15th Anniversary ALW Workgroup Report Date: November 2019Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC Impacts of Potential Minimum Wage Increases on Assisted Living and Continuing Care Retirement Communities Date: September 2017Topics: Minimum Wage IncreaseType: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC, RTI International Measures and Instruments for Quality Improvement in Assisted Living Date: March 2016Topics: Quality ImprovementType: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC The Future of Assisted Living in the Era of Healthcare Reform Date: October 2014Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC Toolkit for Person-Centeredness in Assisted Living Date: September 2014Type: ToolkitsSource: CEAL@UNC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Person-Centered Care in Assisted Living: An Informational Guide Date: June 2010Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC Medicaid-Impact on Long-Term Care Date: February 2009Source: CEAL@UNC A Manual for Community-Based Participatory Research – Using Research to Improve Practice and Inform Policy in Assisted Living Date: January 2009Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC Medication Management in Assisted Living Date: January 2008Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC Making Quality Assisted Living an Affordable Community-Based Care Option Date: January 2005Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC Assisted Living Workgroup (ALW) Report Date: April 2003Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC