Join researchers and practitioners for a March 10 webinar exploring ways to strengthen nursing home leadership and quality assurance.
Nursing homes continue to face real challenges in building leadership capacity and sustaining meaningful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) work amid staffing shortages, leadership turnover, and competing demands.
These challenges will be fully explored during a webinar hosted by the Moving Forward Coalition and the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston on Tuesday, March 10, at 4 p.m. ET.
“Strengthening Nursing Home Leadership: Lessons from Moving Forward Michigan” is the first in a series of webinars the LTSS Center plans to host in 2026.
Register for the webinar today.
About the Webinar
The March 10 webinar will focus on the Moving Forward Michigan initiative, which was designed to test a practical, affordable approach to strengthening leadership skills and QAPI readiness in under-resourced nursing homes.
Over 18 months, four Michigan nursing homes participated in a program that combined short, online leadership education, hands-on coaching, and structured QAPI training tied directly to real performance improvement projects. Teams applied what they learned in real time, with coaches helping translate concepts into action and sustain momentum.
Panelists will:
- Share key lessons from the project’s mixed-methods evaluation, including what worked, what was challenging, and why coaching emerged as the critical success factor.
- Highlight the practical tools developed through the project, including an open-access QAPI Workbook and updated Nurse LEAD leadership modules. Developed by the LTSS Center in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Nurse LEAD equips nursing professionals with the skills and knowledge to be more effective coaches, leaders, and supervisors.
- Discuss how this model can be adapted and replicated in other settings.
About the Panelists
Five panelists will present the webinar:
- Nancy Swierz, program director of Moving Forward Michigan, brings more than 35 years of experience as a registered nurse, including work across a variety of long-term care settings. She has extensive leadership experience in aging and long-term services and supports.
- Alice Bonner, chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition and a senior advisor for aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, has been a nurse practitioner for more than 30 years.
- Molly Wylie is a research associate at the LTSS Center, where she leads and supports research projects across the LTSS continuum.
- Michelle Moccia is a national leader in geriatric emergency care, providing comprehensive geriatric assessments via telehealth and serving as an American College of Emergency Physicians’ Geriatric Emergency Department Application Specialist.
- Chrissy Horton is a nurse educator who served as the program champion for the Moving Forward Michigan project.
About the LTSS Center Webinar Series
The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston established its webinar series to highlight applied research projects in the LTSS field that bridge policy and practice. The series brings together academic researchers, program and policy experts, and other LTSS stakeholders to discuss research related to the LTSS Center’s key areas of work: workforce, affordable housing, nursing homes, financing, aging and health, family caregiving, and home-based care. Presenters at each webinar will discuss the practical implications of this research for provider organizations.
Register for the March 10 Webinar.