Civil Money Penalty (CMP) Funds - Current Projects

Washington Health Care Association
Start Date:  1/1/25
End Date:  12/31/27

Access to Arts - Extension

Seniors Creating Art will provide in-person art workshops three times per month to residents in 22 WHCA member nursing homes.  The goal of this extension project is to increase access to arts programming for seniors residing in skilled nursing communities so that those participating may experience better overall health and well-being.  Seniors Creating Art will provide the in-person art programs and provide all art supplies needed for use during the art programs.     

$320,250.74

Washington Health Care Association
Start Date:  1/1/25
End Date:  12/31/26

Sand Table Creations

This project will be implemented in 33 skilled nursing facilities.  The project is a versatile and enriching tool for dementia care, providing a calming, multi-sensory experience that enhances quality of life through cognitive stimulation, emotional support and social engagement.  It offers a safe, interactive environment where residents with dementia can explore, reminisce, and connect, making it a valuable resource. 

$96,326.99

Washington Health Care Association
Start Date:  1/1/25
End Date:  3/7/25

End of Life Doula Training – Extension

This project, in partnership with the Gentle Passage Doula Collective, will be implemented in five Washington Health Care Association member skilled nursing facilities in the State of Washington.  The goal of the project is to prepare and equip staff with tools to enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities to ease the pain and suffering residents and their families may experience at the end of life.  Staff will learn how to provide support by implementing non-medical approaches and appropriate communication skills.  Participants will complete a two-hour training each week, as well as a pre-test to determine their existing knowledge base and a post-test to determine their knowledge improvement following the project. 

$16,640.00

Window to the Arts

This project is a continuation of the project that ended 8/31/24.  It will be continued in three nursing homes with the goal of improving nursing home residents’ quality of life and to combat isolation through live performance and customized, responsive arts experiences.  A creative therapist was incorporated into each event and provided interactive arts workshops following the performances.  Creative therapy interactions will provide the nursing home residents with meaningful experiences that provided sensory stimulation, engagement on a personal level, validation, and comfort.  The program promotes self-expression through singing, music-making, improvisation, and/or songwriting.

Christian Health Care Center (CHCC)
Start Date: 9/1/24
End Date:  8/31/27

Music Therapy

The Music Therapy project aims to improve resident quality of life by improving their physical, mental, and emotional health.   CHCC will partner with a local music therapist to provide music therapy to residents, particularly those with mobility issues, every other week for a total of 26 weeks per year.  The therapist will use harp music to create a calming and therapeutic environment for residents.  Sessions will include live harp performances, interactive musical activities, and personalized resident interventions aimed at enhancing cognitive function, emotional well-being and overall quality of life.     

$10,920.00

Long-Term Care Consultants, LLC
Start Date: 8/1/24
End Date:  7/31/27

SNFClinic

This project will be implemented in 17 nursing homes in the State of Washington for a three-year period.  The SNFClinic project seeks to provide comprehensive training for nursing facility staff through a centralized technology-based system.  The program will provide these 17 facilities with a centralized system for training, staff management, and resident care resources.  Following the completion of the project, Long-Term Care Consultants, LLC anticipates a reduction in survey deficiencies, improvement in scope and severity tags, improvement in compliance, increase of overall quality of care, reduction in high-risk long-stay residents with pressure ulcers, and increase in short-stay residents who made improvements in function.     

$253,980.00

SilverKite MOREArts ArtKits

This project will be implemented in eight skilled nursing facilities in the State of Washington.  This program will provide the nursing home staffs with the tools, skills, and experience to create and facilitate high quality, fun, engaging, and inspiring arts engagement programming for residents.  Each quarter, SilverKite will create classroom sized ArtKits filled with carefully curated arts supplies and arts activity instruction cards for staff members to use in group settings.  Each ArtKit will follow a seasonal theme and include supplies for activities in a range of art forms such as dance, writing, visual arts, and reminiscence.  SilverKite will also provide an online training session for staff members from the participating communities.

Christian Health Care Center (CHCC)
Start Date: 7/1/24
End Date:  6/30/27

Animal Therapy

The Animal Therapy project is designed to cater to the leisure and recreation needs of residents while also emphasizing their psycho-social well-being.  CHCC will partner with Animals as Natural Therapy (ANT) to provide animal therapy to residents and ANT will provide 10 large animal visits and 14 small animals visits each year.  The goals are to increase resident participation in Animal Therapy activities, decrease reported feelings of isolation or loneliness, and maintain a satisfaction rate of 95% or higher regarding the overall Therapeutic Recreation program’s activities and impact on quality of life.   

$14,850.00

Washington Health Care Association

Start Date: 7/1/24
End Date: 6/30/26

Joy and Vitality Through Movement

This project, in partnership with SilverKite Community Arts, will be implemented in 24 WHCA member skilled nursing facilities in the State of Washington.  This is a program to unlock the transformative power of creative movement.  Teaching artists from SilverKite Community Arts will travel to each of the nursing home communities to offer hour long creative movement workshops approximately twice a month for skilled nursing residents.  Workshops will focus on:  creative expression, mobility/stretching, balance, storytelling, connection and fun!  Twice per calendar year residents will showcase their learning with a sharing/performance for family and friends.   

$238,430.40

Active

Washington Health Care Association

Start Date: 7/1/24
End Date: 6/30/27

Access to Arts

Seniors Creating Art will provide in-person art workshops three times per month to residents in 30 nursing homes.  The goal of the project is to increase access to arts programming for seniors residing in skilled nursing communities so that those participating may experience better overall health and well-being.  Seniors Creating Art will provide the in-person art programs and provide all art supplies needed for use during the art programs.     

Seniors Creating Art

Start Date: 5/1/24
End Date: 4/30/26

Access to Arts – Avamere Skilled Advisors LLC

Seniors Creating Art will provide in-person art workshops twice per month to residents in 13 nursing homes.  The goal of the project is to increase access to arts programming for seniors residing in skilled nursing communities so that those participating may experience better overall health and well-being.  Seniors Creating Art will provide the in-person art programs and provide all art supplies needed for use during the art programs.     

Washington Health Care Association

Start Date: 3/1/24
End Date: 2/28/25

Finding Joy in Their Journey

This project will be implemented in five Washington Health Care Association member skilled nursing facilities.  This training program by Premier Senior Services will help nursing homes develop an approach that will provide optimal care to all residents with dementia. It will equip staff with critical skills and knowledge to help support residents and their families.  Nursing home staff will be able to address each unique need of the residents and provide the necessary care.  Pre-testing and post-testing will be used to determine the knowledge and awareness of the staff, as well as quarterly evaluations monitoring for improvement in resident interaction.

$   8,320.00

Seniors Creating Art

Start Date: 3/1/24
End Date: 2/28/27

Access to Arts - Extension

Seniors Creating Art will provide in-person art workshops three times per month to residents in six nursing homes with the purpose of improving physical and mental health.  The goal of the project is to increase access to arts programming for seniors residing in skilled nursing communities so that those participating may experience better overall health and well-being.  Seniors Creating Art will provide the in-person art programs and provide all art supplies needed for use during the art programs.     

Washington Health Care Association

Start Date: 3/1/24
End Date: 2/28/27

SilverKite MOREArts ArtKits

This project, in partnership with SilverKite Community Arts, will be implemented in eight Washington Health Care Association member nursing homes.  This program will provide the nursing home staff with the tools, skills, and experience to create and facilitate high quality, fun, engaging, and inspiring arts engagement programming for residents.  Each quarter, SilverKite will create classroom sized ArtKits filled with carefully curated arts supplies and arts activity instruction cards for staff members to use in group settings.  Each ArtKit will follow a seasonal theme and include supplies for activities in a range of art forms such as dance, writing, visual arts, and reminiscence.  SilverKite will also provide an online training session for staff members from the participating communities.

$106,455.24

Briarwood at Timber Ridge
Start Date: 4/1/23
End Date:  3/31/26

SNFClinic

This project aims to address the issues of high staff turnover and the need for a centralized system for training, staff management, and resident care resources.  The funding for this project will provide a centralized computer-based system for, among other things, training new hires and ensuring that staff has access to quality in-service and nursing training, as well as care plans, assessments, policies and procedures and other tools.  The use of SNFClinic will benefit nursing home residents by helping to increase staff training and providing services that will increase its overall quality of care.   

$36,200

Seniors Creating Art
Start Date: 3/1/23
End Date:  2/28/26

Access to Arts

This project was implemented in 11 nursing homes over a one-year period (3/1/23 – 2/29/24 in the amount of $89,802.61) and was approved by CMS to continue for an additional two years 3/1/24 – 2/28/26 in the amount of $108,153.10.  Seniors Creating Art will provide in-person art workshops three times per month to residents with the purpose of improving physical and mental health.  The goal of the project is to increase access to arts programming for seniors residing in skilled nursing communities so that those participating may experience better overall health and well-being.  Seniors Creating Art will provide the in-person art programs and provide all art supplies needed for use during the art programs

$197,955.71

LeadingAge Washington

Start Date: 11/1/22
End Date:  10/31/25

SAIDO Learning

This project will be implemented in eight LeadingAge Washington member nursing homes.  SAIDO Learning was developed by the Kumon Learning Therapy Center, part of the Kumon Institute of Education in Japan, as a program designed for individuals with memory impairment. Those with Alzheimer’s and other dementias meet with trained staff for structured sessions of mental exercises focusing on simple arithmetic, writing, and reading aloud to increase engagement of residents. The process fosters confidence and often results in improved abilities and quality of life.   

$367,381.74

LeadingAge Washington

Start Date: 8/1/22
End Date:  7/31/25

Eversound Resident Engagement and Interaction Project 

This project will provide the Eversound equipment to 12 nursing homes in the State of Washington. Hearing loss and impaired sensory processing are challenges faced by nursing home residents and these are linked to psychosocial distress, decreased well-being, and quality of life.  Training will be provided so staff can use it with residents to enable them to fully engage regardless of their level of hearing loss.  Eversound is referred to as an “engagement amplifier” and is designed to help deliver sounds directly and without distraction into the ears of those with hearing deficiencies or who lack focus due to dementia.   

$257,187.72

Pennant Healthcare, Inc.

Start Date: 7/1/22
End Date:  6/30/25

Moments of Truth to Engage, Nurture, Stimulate, Inspire, Grow and Network (ENSIGN) with It’s Never 2 Late (iN2L)

This extension project will provide the iN2L engagement technology to four additional Pennant Healthcare, Inc. member nursing homes in Washington.  The iN2L is a comprehensive, multi-dimensional approach to engaging residents in life-enriching activities and rehabilitation interventions.  The iN2L offers thousands of computer-based experiences through technology with continuous training and support of staff to ensure program consistency and sustainability.  The goals are to reduce opioids and antipsychotic medications and reduce falls through the use of the technology.  

NewGen Healthcare

Start Date: 5/1/22
End Date: 4/30/25

Increasing Resident Engagement and Interaction with It’s Never 2 Late (iN2L)

This project will provide the iN2L engagement technology to seven nursing homes in the State of Washington.  iN2L is a comprehensive, multi-dimensional approach to engaging residents in life-enriching activities and rehabilitation interventions.  The iN2L offers thousands of computer based experiences through technology with continuous training and support of staff to ensure program consistency and sustainability.  This project seeks to reduce social isolation and increase activity engagement, subsequently improving the quality of life for residents. 

$387,766.16

LeadingAge Washington

Start Date: 3/1/22
End Date: 2/28/25

SilverKite MOREArts ArtKits  

This project, in partnership with SilverKite Community Arts, will be implemented in 11 LeadingAge Washington member nursing homes.  This program will provide the nursing home staff with the tools, skills, and experience to create and facilitate high quality, fun, engaging, and inspiring arts engagement programming for residents.  Each quarter, SilverKite will design and create classroom sized ArtKits filled with carefully curated arts supplies and arts activity instruction cards for staff members to use in group settings.  Each ArtKit will follow a seasonal theme and include supplies for activities in a range of art forms such as dance, writing, visual arts, and reminiscence.  The communities will be able to tailor the ARtKits to their residents’ needs by selecting from a menu of activity options each quarter.  SilverKite will also provide an online training session for staff members from the participating communities.