Knowing how important staff vaccination coverage levels are to protect nursing center residents, Q&I researchers led efforts to understand barriers to staff vaccine coverage.

The IMPACT Collaboratory released a new funding opportunity for researchers interested in the Health Care Systems Scholars program.

The LeaRRn program, with partners Center on Health Services Training and Research and The American Occupational Therapy Foundation, announces the second annual Workshop in Implementation Science and Health Services - WISH.

As part of the IMPACT Collaboratory, which funds and supports research to improve dementia care, IMPACT researchers and the Alzheimer’s Association convened a panel of 12 persons living with dementia (PLWD) and care partners, to learn their thoughts about dementia research and related ethical challenges, and published two reports. 

The IMPACT Collaboratory will be sharing two new grant funding opportunities available to investigators seeking to conduct non-drug dementia studies. The Collaboratory provides funding and support to accelerate the conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials to improve care for persons living with dementia and their care partners.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing center staff have been providing care to vulnerable older adults. Knowing how important staff vaccination coverage levels are to protect nursing center residents, Q&I researchers led several efforts to understand staff vaccine hesitancy and strategies to increase vaccine coverage.

The IMPACT Collaboratory launched an updated website detailing the training and grant funding opportunities available to investigators seeking to gain skills in pragmatic research and to conduct non-drug dementia studies. The Collaboratory provides the resources necessary to accelerate the pace of embedded pragmatic clinical trials to improve care for persons living with dementia and their families.

Although strict adherence with infection control practices is needed to curb the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in nursing centers, most facilities only have one staff member with specialized infection control training, the infection preventionist.

One of two Q&I training and infrastructure initiatives, the IMPACT Collaboratory provides training and grant funding to expand capacity for pragmatic research and propel efficacious non-drug dementia interventions to full-scale trials.

One of two Q&I training and infrastructure initiatives, LeaRRn provides funding and training opportunities to support expanded national capacity for research conducted in partnership with learning health systems.

The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a research team based at Brown University and Hebrew SeniorLife to partner with Walgreens to add customer data to a massive monitoring system of the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination for Medicare beneficiaries.

Q&I's infection control shift coaching program, Infection Control Amplification in Nursing Centers (I CAN), is available to any interested nursing center leaders.

Training Workshop and Retreat: Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials Among People Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners

This week, the National Institute on Aging awarded a grant to a team of researchers based at Brown University to design a monitoring system to identify and track adverse health impacts after elderly nursing home residents receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

We are excited to announce a new study to test strategies to improve COVID-19 testing and reduce inequities in nursing homes, funded by the National Institutes on Health (NIH) as part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics -Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative. We spoke with Professor Vince Mor about this new work:

Eunice Noell-Waggoner, President of the Center of Design for an Aging Society, recently interviewed two leaders from the ACC Care Center in Sacramento, CA, about their experience implementing tuned lighting.

The IMPACT Collaboratory has announced two pilot study awards, to Brent Forester, MD, MSc. at Mass General Brigham, and Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, at the Ican School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) recently funded our application to create the Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network (LeaRRn) -- a resource and incubator to advance stakeholder-partnered rehabilitation research that improves quality, demonstrates value, and enhances patient and systems outcomes.

On April 22, 2020, Matthias Hoben, RN Dr. rer. medic., presented "Improving Nursing Home Care Through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data: The INFORM cluster-randomized controlled trial."

On April 9, 2020, Dr. Stefan Gravenstein delivered a lecture on "COVID-19 concepts and their application to geriatrics."

A technical report led by Naomi Miller, pictured, and published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides a first glimpse at results from Q&I's feasibility study of programmable, tunable LED lighting in a California nursing home.

Laura Gitlin, Eric Jutkowitz, and Rosa Baier gave the inaugural talk for the IMPACT Collaboratory's monthly Grand Rounds series, "Are You Ready for a Pragmatic Trial? The RAPT Model and Implementation Considerations.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded Brown University and Boston-based Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) a five-year grant to lead a nationwide effort to improve health care and quality of life for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, as well as their caregivers.