Partnering in Assisted Living Symposium (PALS) 2026

If you are a Wisconsin State licensed assisted living community (RCAC, CBRF and AFH), information on How to Join WCCEAL is available on the WCCEAL website.

Yes, at this time there are 4 WCCEAL Sponsors and they are the 4 Wisconsin Assisted Living Associations (DSPN, WALA, WiCAL and LeadingAge WI). If you are a member of one of these associations or interested in joining, please speak to one of their representatives. Their contact information is available on the How to Join WCCEAL page.

Membership in WCCEAL is currently free to all Wisconsin State licensed assisted living communities (RCAC, CBRF and AFH), however in order to join WCCEAL you must first be part of an approved quality improvement program available through one of the WCCEAL Sponsor Associations. Membership in these Associations or their quality programs may come with a cost. Please talk to your association representative about these details.

Core benefits of WCCEAL for ALCs

• Membership in a statewide coalition that represents providers, regulators, payers, residents, and quality improvement experts.
• Access to a secure data-driven platform to assess their quality improvement structures, processes, and outcomes using measures co-designed by statewide stakeholders.
• Regular feedback through data-driven reports that they can customize to compare themselves to ALC peer groups of their choice.
• Targeted support to adapt their quality improvement efforts, including expert coaching, peer mentoring, and active engagement in a state-approved quality improvement program.
• Free access to the Clinical Resource Center including the PALTmed (formerly AMDA) clinical practice guidelines for assisted living.
• Access to promotional media resources.

Additional benefits of WCCEAL for ALCs in good standing

• Public recognition on the WCCEAL website.
• Regulatory flexibility: If an assisted living community that qualifies for the abbreviated survey is a member of WCCEAL in good standing, that assisted living community is surveyed later than assisted living communities in the same situation that are not members of WCCEAL in good standing.
• Eligibility for premium discounts for liability insurance.

Once you have joined WCCEAL through your Sponsor Association, you will be given login access to QID. QID houses the WCCEAL, eQuality and CRC websites, all of these websites are available to WCCEAL members via their QID user. eQuality is WCCEAL's online data and reporting system. All ALCs using eQuality are expected to follow the WCCEAL Timeline. This includes submitting Quality Improvement (QI) Variable data, as well as administering the Satisfaction Survey.

Four times a year the ALC users must log into eQuality and enter their ALC's QI Variable data. This is done during a 2 week window following the end of each quarter. The data must be submitted for each quarter before the 15th of January, April, July and October. The first time an ALC's data is entered it may take approximately 30 minutes (depending how prepared the user is), subsequent quarters usually take between 5-20 minutes to complete.

Once each year the ALC users must administer the WCCEAL Resident Satisfaction Survey between February 4 and April 23, instruction sheet PDFs and surveys for each of your ALCs are created and downloaded from the Survey page of the eQuality website. There you can choose how you would like to administer your ALC's surveys, either online or on paper. Surveys can then be returned in self-addressed envelopes (available from your Sponsor Administrators), in bulk mail or upload by the ALC or they can be entered directly into the system by the resident, resident's helper or ALC staff. Paper and PDF surveys must be postmarked or uploaded by April 9 and online surveys can be entered into the system through April 23.

The following document includes a table to help you track and record the expected tasks throughout the year:

• ALC eQuality Tasks for WCCEAL

Your Sponsor Association may have other duties necessary to keep in good standing with their QI programs; these are the ALC requirements within WCCEAL.

WCCEAL is a group of dedicated people organized to improve the outcomes of individuals living in Wisconsin assisted living communities (ALCs). The state of Wisconsin recognized the importance of addressing quality in Assisted Living. In 2009, the Wisconsin Coalition for Collaborative Excellence in Assisted Living (WCCEAL) was formed to redesign the way quality is ensured and improved for individuals residing in ALCs. This public/private coalition utilizes a collective impact model approach that brings together the state, the industry, the consumer, and academia to identify and implement agreed upon approaches designed to improve the outcomes of individuals living in Wisconsin ALCs. WCCEAL utilizes QID's eQuality system for online data collection and reports for ALC members, sponsor organizations and stakeholders.

To learn more about the WCCEAL coalition and the initiative please view this 25 minute comprehensive video presentation which summarizes the WCCEAL coalition and its online data reporting system, eQuality.