Diabetes
Provider-to-Patient Letter to Promote DEEP Classes
Is Mountain-Pacific Quality Health helping facilitate Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP) classes in your area? Download this letter, adding your letterhead and making any edits for your personalized communication, and send it to Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes or pre-diabetes.
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Sugar Substitutes Handout
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Wyoming Diabetes Empowerment Education Program Facilitator Meeting
Watch this webinar for announcements and helpful hints for finding success in your diabetes self-management education classes.
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Person and Family Resources
C. difficile Infection Fact Sheet
From the CDC’s Vital Signs, this in-depth fact sheet provides statistics and best practices for making health care safer by stopping Clostridium difficile infections.
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Patient Portal Handout for Patients
This educational handout explains what a patient portal is and how it can be a useful and secure tool for patients to connect with their health care providers, get quick access to personal health information and make appointments.
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Passport to Heart Health
This booklet helps patients set up and follow a personal plan to improve heart health.
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Passport to Heart Health (508)*
This booklet helps patients set up and follow a personal plan to improve heart health.
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Patient Safety – Hand Hygiene Poster
Patient safety is in the hands of hospital staff. Display this poster as a reminder and thank you for practicing consistent hand hygiene.
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Heart Failure Booklet
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Take Control of COPD
This booklet helps patients take control of their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their lives.
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Nothing About Me Without Me – Webinar BROKEN LINK
The full title of this webinar is “Nothing About Me Without Me: The Value of Engaging Your Patients…
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Take Control of COPD Formatted for Accessibility
This booklet helps patients take control of their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their lives.
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Medication Safety and ADE
Custom Take Back Locations
Teach-Back techniques for improved patient understanding of medical information
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed resources to help patients, families and health professionals in primary care settings work together as partners to promote improvements in care. Link includes teach-Back techniques for improved patient understanding of medical information; patient engagement tools to reinforce preparation and engagement for provider visits; and medication management tools.
State PDMP:
The purpose prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) is to create a 24/7 seamless point-of-care access system so practitioners and pharmacists help identify, deter or prevent drug abuse. They support access to legitimate medical use of controlled substances, and facilitate and encourage the identification, intervention with treatment of person(s) addicted to prescription drugs. Additionally PDMPs inform public health initiatives through outlining of use and abuse trends.
Wyoming
Hawaii
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Alaska
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Montana
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Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
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Partnership for Patient Materials for Adverse Drug Events
The Partnership for Patients aims to engage 100 percent of the nation’s acute care medical centers participating in making hospital care safer, more reliable and less costly. The resources listed provide information on preventing adverse drug events, preventing medication errors, medication reconciliation and other medication safety initiatives.
CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
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Common Barriers to Medication Adherence provider educational handout
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HCUP Fast Stats: Opioid-Related Hospital Use, state-level rates
HCUP Databases contain information on inpatient stays, emergency department visits and ambulatory care. Opioid-related hospital use includes opioid-related external cause of injury codes (E codes) for accidental poisoning and adverse effects in the calculation of the state-level rates.
Care Coordination
Behavioral Health Services
Kalispell, MT
CMS Care Transitions Event: National Engagement Compendium: Effective Care Transitions Interventions
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Self-Management Plan for Stroke Disease
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Take Control of COPD Formatted for Accessibility
This booklet helps patients take control of their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their lives.
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Teamwork Poster
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Know Your Wounds: Identification and How to Properly Wrap – Webinar
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Assessing and Treating Wounds in Your Facility – Webinar
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The Two Midnight Rule and Care Coordination – Webinar
Learn more about care coordination and short stay reviews in Montana and Wyoming. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is changing the selection process for medical records for Short Stay reviews, so join us to get the latest updates.
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Partnering with Firefighters to Prevent Hospital Readmissions – Webinar
Ben Anderson, RN, BSN, and Nicole Barnes, LICSW, CCM, describe the unique partnership Park Nicollet Methodist…
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CUSP in Action – Webinar
Presenters Veronica Taylor, RN, MS, CIC, and Julia Norlin, RN, BSN, MSN, are both infection preventi…
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Pharmacists Transforming Care in Patient-Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations – Webinar
This webinar defines the patient-centered medical home in terms of the characteristics and component…
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Utilizing IP and OP Pharmacists During Care Transitions To Improve Medication Safety
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Cardiac
Cardiac Crosswalks:
Hypertension Control and Screening and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Quality Payment Program Crosswalk
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Know Your Wounds: Identification and How to Properly Wrap – Webinar
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Heart Failure and Screening Quality Payment Program Crosswalk
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Cardiac Health Waiting Room Workout – Immunizations
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Assessing and Treating Wounds in Your Facility – Webinar
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Cardiac Reporting Toolkit
A Guide to Cardiac Quality and Alignment with the CMS Quality Payment Program
Heart Failure Booklet
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Passport to Heart Health
This booklet helps patients set up and follow a personal plan to improve heart health.
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Passport to Heart Health (508)*
This booklet helps patients set up and follow a personal plan to improve heart health.
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Take Control of COPD
This booklet helps patients take control of their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their lives.
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Take Control of COPD Formatted for Accessibility
This booklet helps patients take control of their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their lives.
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CUSP in Action – Webinar
Presenters Veronica Taylor, RN, MS, CIC, and Julia Norlin, RN, BSN, MSN, are both infection preventi…
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Home Health Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement Webinar
This learning session explains how Home Health Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement (HH Q…
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Pain Management in the Elderly – Webinar
Presentation by Steven Atkinson PA-C, MS
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Kidney and UTI Recognition and Management – Webinar
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Medication Safety in Home Health
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Preparing for OASIS-C2
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Zone Tools
Care Coordination – Warning Signs – Wound Care
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Care Coordination – Warning Signs – Pneumonia
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Care Coordination – Warning Signs – Foley Catheters
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Care Coordination – Warning Signs – Depression
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Care Coordination – Warning Signs – COPD
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Care Coordination – Warning Signs – Congestive Heart Failure
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Care Coordination – Warning Signs – Asthma
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Medication Safety and Adverse Drug Events
Making Meaningful Clinical Interventions
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Adult Immunizations
10/18/2018 – Improving Strategies for Vaccination Rates
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9/28/2018 – FluFIT Webinar Series
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Creating a Successful Influenza Vaccine Program for Health Care Personnel
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Community Acquired Pneumonia – Acute Treatment Recommendations
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NHSN: From Enrollment to HCP Flu Shot Entry Webinar
The goal of this webinar is to show participants how to enroll in NHSN. In addition to learning abou…
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Mobile Flu Shots: A Model for Partnership – Webinar
Presentation by Coleman Cutschins, PharmD, BCPS
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Healthcare Worker Immunization Webinar
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Pain Management in the Elderly – Webinar
Presentation by Steven Atkinson PA-C, MS
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Healthy Living for Life – Immunizations—Myth Busters: The Truth about Vaccines
This episode discusses the truth about vaccines.
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Pain Tool Packet
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Nursing Home Collaborative Monthly Planner
This monthly planner was created by Mountain-Pacific to support the nursing home collaborative and help guide participation.
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Psychopharmacologic Interdisciplinary Medication Review
This is a sample form that can be used to help conduct a psychopharmacologic interdisciplinary medication review.
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The Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes
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Severe Sepsis Across the Continuum of Care – Webinar (9/10/2015)
Sepsis happens in hospitals, nursing homes and other settings. Understanding the fundamental principles of recognizing and treating sepsis is equally important across the continuum of care. Dr. Steven Simpson, who believes sepsis is the number one killer in American hospitals, discusses how to be appropriately prepared to manage the sepsis patient.
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Surviving Sepsis – Early Management Saves Lives – Webinar (4/16/2015)
This webinar discusses the incidence of sepsis, the differences between sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock, how to recognize severe sepsis early and evidence-based interventions.
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Reducing Clostridium difficile Infections among Nursing Homes: Learning from a Collaborative in Kentucky – Webinar (1/8/2015)
Learn how a collaborative of 36 nursing homes in Kentucky successfully set out to reduce the incidence of C-Dif infections by 15 percent as well as reduce the use of antimicrobials for non-symptomatic bacteriuria by 25 percent.
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NHSN Data Analysis - Video #1 - When to Report a C. difficile LABID Event
This video will describe NHSN surveillance definitions for reporting a C. difficile LabID Event into NHSN.
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NHSN Data Analysis - Video #2 - Common C. difficile Data Reporting Errors into NHSN
This video will describe common C. difficile data reporting errors into NHSN.
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NHSN Data Analysis - Video #3 - Introduction to NHSN Data Analysis
This video will demonstrate how to generate a data set in NHSN, describe line listing and rate table reports and how to use the NHSN annual facility survey report to demonstrate adherence to the CDC’s 7 Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes.
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NHSN CDI Reporting in LTC
A 30 minute segment discussing reporting CDI in HHSN.
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1/28/16 - Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Wellbeing Part 1 – Webinar
To kick off this three-part webinar series, G. Allen Power, MD, introduces an alternate, "experiential" model and presents a framework that centers around enhancing wellbeing for older adults, especially those living with changing cognitive abilities.
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2/25/16 - Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Wellbeing Part 2 – Webinar
Continuing his three-part series, Dr. G. Allen Power shows how various aspects of wellbeing can be eroded, not only by cognitive illness, but also by physical environment, operational systems and our approach to care.
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3/24/16 - Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Wellbeing Part 3 – Webinar
In this segment, Dr. Power will explain how his experiential approach can be used to understand distress and provide lasting solutions.
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7/18/2017 - Resident-Centered Care: Natural Awakening
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3/8/2018 - Delirium Overview and the Risk Factor for Falls
Geriatrician Dr. Stephanie Rogers discusses diagnosis, treatment, and strategies to prevent delirium, as well as the impact delirium may have on patients/residents, especially related to falls and hospital readmissions.
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Mobility: Promoting Physical Activity for People Living in Nursing Homes
This 22-minute recorded webinar is intended for nursing home leadership and staff and provides an overview of strategies and resources to help maintain or improve mobility for people living in nursing homes. Specific topics include utilizing the Nursing Home Change Package and applying strategies from the mobility bundle into your nursing home, exploring use of the “Seven Dimensions of Wellness” model to support health and wellbeing and understanding how using the Plan, Do, Study, Act Model for improvement can support quality in your nursing home.
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Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a new rule that will require nursing homes to have an antibiotic stewardship program. Join adult infectious disease doctor, Sarah Kabbani, MD, MSc, a medical officer with CDC’s Office of Antibiotic Stewardship for a discussion of CDC’s Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes.
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Building an Antibiotic Stewardship Program in LTC
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Antibiotic Stewardship tools and resources
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The Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes
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Antibiotic Stewardship tools and resources
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7/9/15 - Promoting Mobility – Webinar
This presentation is about increasing mobility in long-term care facilities.
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Antipsychotic Drug Use - Data Collection form
Quick Data Collection Form for Antipsychotic (AP) Medications
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Alternatives to Using Antipsychotic Medication
Suggestions for Reducing Antipsychotic Medications
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6/14/12 - Video: Antibiotic Stewardship Program Development and Updates with a LTC Focus
Watch Dr. Sarah Kabbani from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in this timely webinar focused on antibiotic stewardship programs development and updates with a LTC focus.
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5/26/09 - Video: “Gladys Wilson and Naomi Feil,” from the PBS documentary “There Is a Bridge”
Naomi Feil, founder of Validation Therapy, shares a breakthrough moment of communication with Gladys Wilson, a woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and is virtually nonverbal.
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5/10/17 - Healthy Living for Life - Dementia
Dementia is more than sometimes grasping for the right word or misplacing your car keys. Dementia is a category of disease that causes loss of memory and other mental functions. And it can’t be cured. It robs a person of independence and it steals precious time with family.
Healthy Living for Life is a weekly series sponsored, produced and hosted by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health.
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10/22/13 - Antipsychotics – Can we really reduce their use, and should they be a standard of care? Learn more:
Video: “The Villages of Southern Hills: A Champion for Change,” posted by OFMQ
Leadership and care providers at the Villages of Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, support a national and state initiative to reduce unnecessary antipsychotic medication. In this video, you will meet Bill and hear how his providers engaged him in the decision to reduce and ultimately eliminate the antipsychotics he had been on for years.
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9/30/14 - Video: Health Matters news segment, posted by Alberta Health Services
A new program being rolled out across Alberta, Canada, is helping long-term care residents live brighter lives. The Covenant site, Youville, in St. Albert, shares success at reducing the use of antipsychotic medications in those with dementia.
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11/5/11 - Video: “The Pill Paradigm in Dementia Care” by Dr. Allen Power, posted by AgeSong Senior Communities
Dr. Allen Power’s presentation at AgeSong in April of 2011 about using drugs and biomedical approach to dementia care
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11/3/11 - Video: “Delusions and Hallucinations in Dementia” by Dr. Allen Power, posted by AgeSong Senior Communities
Dr. Allen Power’s presentation at AgeSong in April of 20ll about using an experiential view to understand delusions and hallucinations in dementia
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11/3/11 - Video: “Economics of Culture Change in Long-Term Care” by Dr. Allen Power, posted by AgeSong Senior Communities
Dr. Allen Power’s presentation at AgeSong in April of 2011 about the economics of culture change in long-term and dementia care
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8/10/14 - Video: “Dementia beyond Disease: Enhancing Well-Being” by Dr. Allen Power, posted by ChangingAging
This session presents a radically different approach to understanding and responding to distress in people who live with dementia. Using a framework of seven domains of well-being, Dr. Power explains why even our best efforts at person-centered care often fall short. He then outlines a strength-based, proactive approach that enhances well-being, even for those with significant cognitive disability, and creates a pathway for sustained success.
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Tips for Success: Antipsychotic Medication
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Antipsychotic Drug Use - Data Collection form
Quick Data Collection Form for Antipsychotic (AP) Medications
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Antipsychotic Reduction; Resident Prioritization Tool
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Alternatives to Using Antipsychotic Medication
Suggestions for Reducing Antipsychotic Medications
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10/25/18 - Video: Antibiotic Stewardship Program Development and Updates with a LTC Focus
This webinar will provide a brief explanation of antibiograms and will delve into their value in acute care, long-term care and outpatient settings. Using antibiograms to support improved antibiotic use in the broader community will also be discussed.
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3/14/12 - Video: “Nursing Home Residents Prepare to Play,” a news segment from KXAN
More than 500 residents of Austin assisted living centers and nursing homes are in training for the annual Games of Life.
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