Engaging Front-Line Staff: How a Long-Term Care Home Is Using Evidence to Build a Quality Improvement Culture

Abstract

St. Peter's Residence at Chedoke in Hamilton, Ontario, a 210-bed long-term care facility, is building the capacity of front-line employees to become engaged in quality improvement. With training & tools, teams made up of front-line & other staff are becoming engaged in creating a quality improvement culture. This innovative initiative was recently featured in Promising Practices in Research Use, a series produced by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation highlighting organizations that have invested their time, energy & resources to improve their ability to use research in the delivery of health services. Tell the Foundation your own stories & visit the Promising Practices inventory at http://www.chsrf.ca/promising/index_e.php. Adapted from the source document.