Overview
Learn the increased, with the advent of new, CMS requirements for choice. Residents want choice in sleeping, dining, getting outside and contributing to the community. Some residents are even involved in hiring staff and making decisions regarding the budget! Go beyond care - support residents to live life on their terms. Institutional living is often known for lack of choice. If you have an "ordered" restricted diet and told "you can’t eat that" for years perhaps, what kind of harm does that cause? Use this time to set your community apart by offering residents a life full of choices.
Areas Covered in the Session
- The increased CMS requirements for choice
- Practices that increase resident opportunities for choice
- The harms of not getting to make choice
- The benefits of making choice.
Who Will Benefit
Speaker Profile
Carmen Bowman is a consultant, trainer, author and owner of Edu-Catering: Catering Education for Compliance and Culture Change turning her former role of regulator into educator. Carmen has been speaking for 2 decades now and loves to encourage others in their journey of public speaking. Carmen was a Colorado state surveyor for nine years, a policy analyst with CMS Central Office where she taught the national Basic Surveyor Course and was the first certified activity professional to be a surveyor. As a contractor to CMS, Carmen co-developed the Artifacts of Culture Change measurement tool, authored the background papers for and facilitated both Creating Home national symposiums.
She facilitated the Pioneer Network (PN) Task Forces that developed the new Dining Practice Standards and subsequent Toolkit. Carmen serves on the PN Policy Committee which meets quarterly with CMS Division of Nursing homes. She has a Master's degree in Healthcare Systems, a Bachelor's in Social Work and German, is a Certified Eden Associate and Eden Mentor, Certified Validation Worker, Group Practitioner and Presenter. Carmen co-founded the Colorado Culture Change Coalition, and with Action Pact has authored eight culture change workbooks plus hosts a monthly web culture change talk show called Conversations with Carmen. Carmen is passionate about teaching people how to “be your own surveyor” and how culture change practices are the answer to both compliance and QAPI.
"Carmen has been speaking for 2 decades now and loves to encourage others in their journey of public speaking"
Instructor
Carmen Bowman