Your Care, Your Rights, Your Voice

By Mairead Painter

Your Care - You Rights - Your Voice will focus on care choices, the rights you have related to those choices and how to use your voice to get the person-centered care you deserve.

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The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.

Your Care, Your Rights, Your Voice episodes:

May 25, 2022 Person Centered Thinking with Camille Russell, Kansas Long Term Care Ombudsman
All long term care residents deserve and have the right to control over their lives. Camille Russell, the Kansas Long Term Care Ombudsman joins this episode to discuss person centered thinking and how it supports individuals' quality of life. The conversation explains several ways to utilize person centered care in all long term communities.
Camille Russell is a lifelong advocate for fellow Kansans. Previously a regional ombudsmen, she now serves as the Kansas State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. She served under two Kansas attorneys general as director of the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Unit. A relentless supporter for person-centered care, she is a credentialed person-centered thinking trainer with The Learning Community for Person Centered Practices and an ambassador for Charting the LifeCourse. Contact information: https://ombudsman.ks.gov/contact-the-office/contact-our-office
Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Center for Medicare Advocacy
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care
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May 11, 2022 SHORT: Mental Health Awareness
In this episode Host Mairead Painter talks honestly about mental wellness, especially for those in long term care communities. She unpacks how individuals with mental health issues can address their situations, how and where to receive support, and how to decrease the stigmas attached to mental health. Mairead also talks about individuals in long term care who were at the epicenter of the pandemic and the effects of their trauma. She offers an educational series about trauma informed care and how to better understand this vulnerable population.
Link: Trauma Informed Care During COVID-19: Healing Through Relationships

Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Center for Medicare Advocacy
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care
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April 27, 2022SHORT: The State of Staffing in Long Term Care Communities
Host Mairead Painter discusses several issues surrounding staffing challenges in long term care communities from the perspective of her role as Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and on a Federal level. Not only does she answer pertinent questions, but also offers hope for making positive changes for staff members to ensure quality of care.
Information you will learn includes;
Challenges seen before and after the pandemic.

Staff ratio requirements for individualized needs and continuity of care.

Creating career ladders by offering continuing education for direct care workers.

Appropriate and standardized training.

Engaging the young to a career path in long term care in order to increase the workforce for a growing population.
Mairead encourages listeners to send ideas, suggestions and comments through her podcast Facebook page @YourCareYourRightsYourVoicePodcast

Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Center for Medicare Advocacy
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care
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April 13, 2022 SHORT: Essential Support Persons: Guidelines for the Long Term Care Community
Connecticut recently passed Public Act 21-71 An Act Concerning Essential Support Persons And A State-Wide Visitation Policy For Residents Of Long-term Care Facilities which outlines resident’s need for health, safety, and well-being along with including primary and secondary essential support persons.
In this short episode, Host Mairead Painter explains several vital points about residents' rights and how their voices and families helped this bill get passed. Looking to the future, there are hopes a similar bill will be passed on a Federal level.
Complete Policies and Procedures can be read at the link.
Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Center for Medicare Advocacy
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care
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March 30, 2022Long Term Care Legislative Update Part 3
Return guest Cinnamon St. John from the Center for Medicare Advocacy joins this episode to continue the discussion on Legislative Updates. We talk through points presented in the White House Fact Sheet: Protecting Seniors by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes released by the Biden Administration. The reforms presented are overdue in the long term care industry and we have high hopes these non-partisan reforms will take place.
What you will hear about:
Improved staffing standards

Accountability and transparency

Private equity ownership

Career pathways established for staff

Emergency preparedness
We also consider resident and family involvement in care choices and how to amplify their voices to restore the public perception of the long term care community. Also, a special appearance by sometime co-host Finn!!
Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
White House Fact Sheet: Protecting Seniors by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes
Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Center for Medicare Advocacy
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care
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March 16, 2022 Long Term Care Legislative Updates Part 2
In the second episode of Long Term Care Legislative Updates I am joined by return guest Cinnamon St. John from the Center for Medicare Advocacy to discuss the details of proposed legislation in Connecticut and on the Federal level.
We focus this episode on staffing challenges; wage disparities, pool agencies, consistency of quality care, turnover, and staff burnout. We are hoping to create transparency related to nursing home operations and each component of care. We discuss which issues have been ongoing and those who have appeared during the pandemic.
Possible solutions we talk about are adding value to staff positions, appropriate pay, and adding back programs that allow employees to move up the career ladder.
Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Follow on Twitter: @maireadpainter
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Follow on Facebook: @YourCareYourRightsYourVoicePodcast
Resources:
Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Center for Medicare Advocacy
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care
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March 02, 2022 Long Term Care Legislative Update: Part 1
Although the Connecticut legislature is entertaining several bills related to long term care, the importance of this information is on a national level. Host Mairead Painter discusses several areas of concern and key bills, the process of how to testify remotely, how to access and track the bills, and how to share your stories for a personal impact.
It's imperative for legislators to hear from all who are concerned about quality in the long term care community.
Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
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February 09, 2022Resident Rights and the Impact of the Pandemic
Toby Edelman and Cinnamon St. John from the Center for Medicare Advocacy return as guests in this episode to discuss the rights of residents in the long term care community. We take an in depth look at immediate concerns and issues that have come to light during the pandemic and ask, "where do we go from here?" Actions and solutions are addressed that we hope can make positive changes beneficial to everyone.
What you will hear about:
The impact of restricting visitation during lockdown

How families are critical to quality care, before, during and after COVID

The epidemic of loneliness during isolation

The adverse affect of restraints, both physical and chemical

Concerns about moving forward, or going backward with regulations

The need for grass roots leaders to speak up even louder

Three important elements for quality care; Love, Familiarity, and Time
Host Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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January 26, 2022 Year in Review of the Long Term Care Community
Guests, Toby Edelman and Cinnamon St. John from the Center for Medicare Advocacy join the conversation about 2021, what went wrong, what went right, and what needs to be done for the future of the long term care community. We discuss COVID, the importance of vaccines and boosters, and the data supporting it. Also, we talk about staffing and the immediate need for essential caregivers to be a part of resident's care. Looking forward we see there is work to be done to solve other issues to ensure quality care.

Host Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
https://portal.ct.gov/LTCOP?fbclid=IwAR0X2q0Lqaz-X7lvHu_uXNBMerLeGLpa7YFtk8mlIpQLD1BsccVjAYTYehs
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January 12, 2022 Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care
Lori Smetanka is the Executive Director of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, the leading national nonprofit advocacy organization representing consumers receiving long-term care and services in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home and community based settings. As Executive Director, Lori oversees and contributes to the organization’s policy, advocacy, and program activities; leads the organization’s fundraising efforts; establishes strategic partnerships with organizations and federal agencies working on issues related to the provision of long-term services and supports; and establishes the strategic direction of the organization.
From 2004 – 2016 she served as the Director of the National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center, providing technical assistance, training, and support to the 53 State and more than 570 local long-term care ombudsman programs across the country. Prior to that role, Lori served as Law and Policy Specialist at the Consumer Voice, where she provided policy analysis, consultation, education, technical assistance, and training on long-term care issues. She received a B.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law.
National Consumer Voice (theconsumervoice.org)
Contact information:
Lori O. Smetanka, J.D., Executive Director, Consumer Voice
[email protected]
Host Mairead Painter is the Long Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Connecticut and a leader who is building strong community ties in the challenging area of long term care. She brings her expertise to address issues and solutions to Your Care-Your Rights-Your Voice podcast.
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Resources:
https://portal.ct.gov/LTCOP?fbclid=IwAR0X2q0Lqaz-X7lvHu_uXNBMerLeGLpa7YFtk8mlIpQLD1BsccVjAYTYehs
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