This free website offers unbiased quality ratings of California's long term care providers — information to help consumers make better choices and to encourage providers to improve quality — plus helpful tools and resources.

When poorly handled, transitions from hospital to home result in bad outcomes and unnecessary suffering for patients. Hear from two Sonoma County providers who partnered to do better.

Electronic clinical decision support tools can help nursing home staff compile data and spot trends for pressure ulcers and other dangerous, but preventable, conditions.

What's the right level of care at the end of life? The answer is not always "more" — even for the very ill. The pink POLST form helps medical staff respect patients' wishes in their final days.

The California Culture Change Coalition has been working for the past five years to promote principles of transformational change and person-centered care in the state's nursing homes. Their successes and ideas for moving forward are described in this paper.

The PREPARED project aimed to help nursing homes reduce unnecessary transfers of patients who are near the end of life. The intervention included hospital-provided clinician educators assigned to nursing homes to offer education, role modeling, and coaching.

The PACE program for frail elders, despite beginning in San Francisco and thriving in many states, is growing slowly in California. This report examines the issues and looks to the future of PACE in the state.

Aging within the community is possible for many seniors when appropriate services and supports are present. This report looks at innovative models for senior living and discusses policy, financial, and other issues associated with community living for elders.

This policy briefing, which coincided with the release of a related CHCF issue brief, examined a framework for helping elders remain in their homes longer and avoid institutionalization.

Revealing facts, figures, and trends on subjects ranging from bed supply to payment sources, this report provides an overview of issues shaping long term care in California and the nation.

To improve patient transitions from one care setting to another, CHCF funded the implementation of the Coleman Care Transitions Intervention in 10 California communities.

This issue brief looks at six innovative models of care that can offer better experiences for nursing home residents as well as the frontline workers who care for them. The models are part of the culture change trend that is gaining a foothold in California.

This issue brief looks at two models for improving care transitions, which is the moving of patients from one health care practitioner or setting to another as their condition and care needs change.

This issue brief examines the litigation risks associated with physicians practicing in nursing homes in California and whether the fear of those risks has an impact on quality of care.

This report summarizes the research findings and analysis on the efficacy of the California Nursing Home Search Web site, extrapolating lessons that can be applied by other online tools that seek to provide long term care information and options to consumers.