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Advancing Excellence in Assisted Living: The Evolution of CEAL@UNC

Date: March 2025
Topics: Quality ImprovementType: PublicationSource: CEAL@UNC

CEAL@UNC Strategic Advisor Presentations

Date: February 2025
Topics: End of Life, Quality Improvement, Regulation/MonitoringType: Advisor ResourceSource: CEAL@UNC
CEAL@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 2025
Topics: Quality Improvement, Staff/StaffingType: PublicationSource: CEAL@UNC
Dr. 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 2024
Topics: Medicare/MedicaidType: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC
This 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 2024
Topics: Cognitive/Dementia, Families/Caregivers, Medical Care, Medication, Mental Health, Quality Improvement, Staff/StaffingType: ToolkitsSource: CEAL@UNC
CEAL@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 2024
Topics: Families/Caregivers, Medicare/Medicaid, Quality Improvement, Regulation/Monitoring, Staff/StaffingType: ToolkitsSource: CEAL@UNC
CEAL@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 2023
Topics: COVID-19Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

CEAL 15th Anniversary ALW Workgroup Report

Date: November 2019
Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

Impacts of Potential Minimum Wage Increases on Assisted Living and Continuing Care Retirement Communities

Date: September 2017
Topics: Minimum Wage IncreaseType: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC, RTI International

Measures and Instruments for Quality Improvement in Assisted Living

Date: March 2016
Topics: Quality ImprovementType: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

The Future of Assisted Living in the Era of Healthcare Reform

Date: October 2014
Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

Toolkit for Person-Centeredness in Assisted Living

Date: September 2014
Type: ToolkitsSource: CEAL@UNC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Person-Centered Care in Assisted Living: An Informational Guide

Date: June 2010
Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

Medicaid-Impact on Long-Term Care

Date: February 2009
Source: CEAL@UNC

A Manual for Community-Based Participatory Research – Using Research to Improve Practice and Inform Policy in Assisted Living

Date: January 2009
Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

Medication Management in Assisted Living

Date: January 2008
Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

Making Quality Assisted Living an Affordable Community-Based Care Option

Date: January 2005
Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

Assisted Living Workgroup (ALW) Report

Date: April 2003
Type: ReportsSource: CEAL@UNC

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