Another year is slowly but surely marching to a close. As you explore the worthy causes that you care about and support, I would like to add CALTCM to your list. Why? Because we are your voice for post-acute and long-term care services in California. This year has been monumental towards realizing our Vision and Mission.

Thanks to tireless efforts by staff and many of you; particularly James Mittelberger and Debra Bakerjian who were supportive through the entire process. We secured the first large contract/grant to jumpstart the Quality Improvement Training and Implementation of Nursing Home and Health Plan Partnerships: Honoring Wishes and Reducing Hospital Transfers.

Other exciting developments include a new brand name to our trainings "CALTCM SNF 2.0”.  The new brand includes Leadership training for nursing home staff and enhanced INTERACT training and implementation coaching. We have reacquired Leadership and Management in Geriatrics (LMG), as a CALTCM sponsored offering in partnership with UCLA and SCAN Health Plan. This program is an opportunity for our members to take a Leadership course that educates and mentors those who wish to move from bedside to the executive teams in their organization.  It also provides a roadmap on how to unleash leadership and management talents.

The CALTCM annual meeting has sustained a new format of Quality Improvement Education (QIE), allowing participant to be agents of change and implement what they have learned.  As Joe Ouslander, MD, CMD has stated,

“CALTCM is an exemplar for what an AMDA state organization should be. It not only provides excellent education and up-to-date information to its members. CALTCM has taken the lead in building the capacity of interdisciplinary teams to carry out quality improvement projects, and engaging multiple stakeholders, including other health professional organizations and state and federal agencies in order to improve the quality, effectiveness, and value of post-acute and long-term care services in the state of California.”

Last but not least, we are enhancing our digital footprint by offering webinars of key presentations as well as access to the content of the annual meeting for those who could not attend.

These are only highlights of the many initiatives that CALTCM brings to the LTC interdisciplinary community in California.  These efforts and offerings are costly.  The specific grant funds and CALTCM membership fees cover only part of this enormous effort. As a member of our CALTCM audience, we call on all of you to think of CALTCM as one of the causes you and your family will support before the end of the year. No donation is too small or too big.  

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