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Lifebridge© is the path to providing residents and staff a calm, safe facility.
The new range of behaviors being experienced in our facilities present challenges we have not been prepared to manage resulting in a new wave of increased daily frustrations. These frustrations are shared by residents, staff, family and leadership. These frustrations are demonstrated in increased challenging behaviors, increased numbers of staff resigning and leaving our industry, and leadership either leaving or cycling and re-cycling the same plans with the same escalating frustrating results. LifeBridge© offers a new proactive approach for our new challenging environment.
LifeBridge© is a full interdisciplinary program utilizing concepts of person centered care based on individualized care. Experience has shown us that as much as 96% of challenging behaviors are actually being set into motion by our own actions. LifeBridge© provides specialized full facility training developing an understanding of the basis and origins of behaviors and the paths of effective interventions for prevention and management. Implementing LifeBridge© has resulted in success of decreasing challenging behaviors, decreasing employee turnover, and increasing both resident and family satisfaction. LifeBridge© trainers have ‘walked the walk’ facing these behavior challenges and share their expertise and successful techniques in developing peace for the facility.
How Lifebridge© fulfills Phase 3 ROPs
The Lifebridge© program is more than just a pathway to effective behavioral management, it also helps facilities comply with Phase 3 RoPs.
The Lifebridge© program was developed with the primary goal of resident and staff quality of life improvement, and also with an understanding of how Phase 3 ROPs and other regulatory changes will affect the quality of care. The new Phase 3 Requirements of Participation are scheduled to take effect Nov. 28, 2019. While it may seem that the first two phases included the most work, Phase 3 includes a variety of programmatic changes that will require extensive training for staff, including comprehensive person-centered care planning, like those found within the Lifebridge© program.
Lifebridge© has specific considerations and fulfilments of the following Phase 3 RoPs:
F741
Behavioral Health
42 CFR 283.40
F699
Quality of Care
42 CFR 283.25(m)
F940
Staff Training Program
42 CFR 483.95
Lifebridge© revolutionizes behavior management, benefitting residents, staff, and facilities.
DECREASED FAMILY CONCERNS & COMPLAINTS
DECREASED RESIDENT-TO-RESIDENT ABUSE
IMPROVED REHAB TO ALTERNATE PLACING
ASSISTS REINTEGRATION TO LESS RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT
DECREASED MEDICATION USAGE
NORMALIZED RESIDENT SLEEPING PATTERNS
INCREASED RESIDENT & STAFF SAFETY
INCREASED RESIDENT & STAFF QUALITY OF LIFE
REDUCED STAFF TURNOVER
INCREASED FACILITY MARKETABILITY
Results are based on real-world implementation and use of the program in an actual, active long-term care facilities.
For the last four nursing facilities (post 1 year of training and implementation representing 51 participating residents) the outcomes collected at six-month and a year intervals were:
| After 6 months | After 12 months | |
|---|---|---|
Reduction in Agitation(behaviors) |
83% |
92% |
Enhanced/maintained cognition |
75% |
99% |
Normalized sleeping patterns |
66% |
75% |
Reduction in medication use |
58% |
75% |
“Lifebridge© changed our resident’s lives for the better — Quality of life drastically improved, and we saw calming in residents with the even the most challenging behaviors.”
Sheila Malloris, RN, Administrator
Access Hospital, Psychiatric Hospital – Dayton, OH