Grantee Name
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Funding Area
Special Projects Fund
Publication Date
November 2015
Grant Amount
$232,715
Grant Date:
March 2009 – February 2012
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Poor medication management poses one of the greatest risks to elderly home care patients.
Contributing factors to problems in medication management include weak supervision by frontline nurse managers; lack of training and development opportunities for home care staff; and high turnover rates among home care staff. Developed by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), the Collaboration for Homecare Advances in Management and Practice (CHAMP) training program is a national initiative to improve the quality of geriatric home care services. CHAMP offers a variety of tools to advance home care clinical practice and improve quality, including for geriatric medication management.
In 2010, NYHealth awarded VNSNY a grant to offer the CHAMP training to home care agencies across New York State.