Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan missing some nursing home participants

Both King and Pierce Counties have been fully engaged in the process to develop and implement a Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan (LTC-MAP) for many months.

There are 30 nursing homes in King County who have not responded to efforts to participate in this process, and Aging Services has been asked to work with our members on that list (if you are already involved, please let me know and I will update the county's records) to enhance participation.

Russell Phillips & King County Public Health will be hosting a briefing with nursing homes to get their facility data uploaded into the King County Mutual Aid Site on December 14, 2009. The few Nursing Homes who attended the last briefing (held on October 28) said they found the briefing to be very beneficial to gaining a more thorough understanding of the process involved in participating in the LTC-MAP. So far 28 King County Nursing Homes have entered their information into our mutual aid website. This leaves a gap of ~30 facilities in which we have no available data.

Please participate in the December 14 call by sending your RSVP to Lydia.ortega@kingcounty.gov.