National Association for Health Care Assistants
The Arizona Health Care Association has established a partnership with the National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA) to create a model especially for AHCA members. NAHCA is a non-profit association of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and assisted living caregivers providing experience-based, peer-driven solutions to long term care. By member facilities joining NAHCA, CNAs and caregivers become members of NAHCA. Membership includes: t-shirts, NAHCA lapel pins, membership card and monthly PEP Talks by Lori Porter. What a great way to recognize all the hard work CNA’s and caregivers provide to residents in long term care!!
For more information about joining NAHCA, please click here. To visit the NAHCA website click here.
Inspiring Teamwork Through Quality
By Lesley Collins, NAHCA VP Membership Services
After 17 inspiring days of unparalleled athleticism, patriotism and world class teamwork, we said goodbye to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Even if we never have the opportunity to achieve the Olympic heroism we witnessed from every couch in America, we can go to bed at night knowing that we persevered to the end of the day with extraordinary commitment and courage. The commitment I am referring to is the commitment by every frontline caregiver in America to premier quality elder care.
While the world watched over 2,600 Olympians compete day after day throughout February as “one nation of athletes”, another team proved themselves through dedication and tenacity. February began a walkathon like no other where quality care in long term care was the event and the athletes were National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA) members. “Stepping Up for Quality” was a fundraiser held by NAHCA in their member facilities across the country. More than 39 facilities, New York to Florida and as far as Washington State participated in the first annual premier fundraiser. Participants kept track of their workplace steps throughout the month of February using pedometers provided by NAHCA. The fundraiser was one of many national initiatives held by the association. It raised money to assist CNAs and caregivers with education, professional development and national conference opportunities. Over 850 members stepped up to the challenge, taking a typical day of work and ensuring that nothing short of quality was delivered.
Just as 80 countries in the Winter Olympics banded together so did 39 NAHCA member care centers. The teamwork and passion for the challenge was awe inspiring. The Missouri Veterans Home in Warrensburg, Missouri demonstrated this teamwork best when they dedicated their “Stepping Up for Quality” walkathon to fallen heroes and walked for our country’s veterans and the quality care they deserve. They received support from their residents and resident families, the community and state officials. They truly built and inspired “one team” through their dedication to excellence.
NAHCA is dedicated to serving our members whereby helping the residents and the entire long term care profession in which they work. We accomplish this goal by making a positive difference in the lives of those members both personally and professionally. When we positively impact our caregivers we are positively impacting and changing the negative public perception of the long term care profession. In keeping with the NAHCA mission to elevate a caregivers’ professional standing and performance, we strive to recognize their influence, teach them to advocate on behalf of themselves and their profession, educate and empower.
Additionally, the association aims to build a strong alliance with health care providers to maximize success and quality care. For more information on the walkathon or NAHCA visit our website at www.nahcacares.org.
NAHCA/ACHP Newsletter
"NAHCAWOOD: Celebrating the Stars of Long Term Care"
NAHCA's 2010 National Conference will be held June 2-3 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. We hope to see all of our members there! You may register online at www.nahcacares.org. The deadline for award nominations is March 20, 2010. Hotel rooms are limited so reserve yours today. You are welcome to register now and send your attendee names later.
DID YOU KNOW?
Included in your registration fee is a tour of the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, created to honor those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever by the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Scholarship...Scholarship...Scholarship....
Don't miss out on your opportunity to win an all-inclusive scholarship to the 2010 NAHCA National Conference in Oklahoma City. The NAHCA Conference Essay Contest is being extended through March 31, 2010.
To submit your essay visit our website at www.nahcacares.org/essay.htm.
You may also print the essay form and fax it to (417) 623-2230.
Each essay must be 500 words or less describing how you have proven to be a "Star of Long Term Care". Each scholarship awarded will include travel, accomodations and registration fees for the lucky winner! Make sure all your CNAs and caregivers have the opportunity to participate!
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