Financial Support of WCCEAL

Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has provided funding support for WCCEAL for the initial and ongoing infrastructure development. Activities include but are not limited to ongoing support for the monthly WCCEAL collaborative meetings; creation and ongoing maintenance of the WCCEAL website; and development, testing and implementation of the reporting infrastructure for the resident satisfaction and quality improvement measures as well as benchmark reports.

2015 Wisconsin Partnership Program Community Impact Grant. DHS and UW Madison - CHSRA awarded a $1,000,000, 5 year grant to expand the statewide impact of WCCEAL.

Grant Aims:

1. Ensure that residents of Wisconsin ALCs have access to quality care by expanding the reach of the collaborative to engage more ALCs
2. Improve ALCs ability to report and compare their progress and quality improvement by updating the WCCEAL data infrastructure
3. Address health disparities in ALCs by assessing and targeting underserved communities and resident groups
4. Reach more publically-funded and underserved residents through integrating WCCEAL into the Family Care Quality Strategy
5. Improve specific quality targets for ALCs by developing processes for ALCs to work together with their peers
6. Produce and disseminate evidence to sustain positive systems change through this collaborative

Initial funding for development and implementation of the WCCEAL project was provided by a 2011 ICTR Community Collaboration Grant. On May 9, 2011 UW Madison - CHSRA and DHS were awarded a $200,000 two-year ICTR Community Collaboration Grant be used to help build the infrastructure for the collaborative and to study the effectiveness of WCCEAL.

The Wisconsin Coalition for Collaborative Excellence in Assisted Living was supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, through the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), grant UL1TR000427. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Funding for this project was also provided by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health from the Wisconsin Partnership Program, within the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.