Artifacts of Culture Change

An Organizational Readiness and Assessment Tool


Welcome to Artifacts On Line

Gather staff, residents, family caregivers, board members, and community leaders to check out culture change in your home. It's easy, you can complete the whole survey in one sitting or any part you want to. Save the information, come back at a convenient time and do another section or two. Need a copy? Print out a report. It's that useful.

Want to know how others are doing? Check out the trends in homes across the country. Look at homes like yours: Under 50 residents, 50 to 100 residents, more than 100 residents, in big cities, small towns, urban or rural, profit, not-for-profit, or government ownership, Medicare-Medicaid certified and a combination of characteristics of homes just like yours.

You are in the driver's seat. Drive slowly, fast, or break the speed limit. Reap the benefits of knowing what you have accomplished and get help to clarify ways to make the culture change journey as rewarding as possible. Come back any time to update the information. We recommend quarterly "tune-ups". It's your choice.

Register, it's free and information about your home is never identified. Rather, all of the identifying characteristics of your home are coded so you may compare with homes just like yours. Of course, for you, and you only, you can closely monitor what's changed in your home from time to time.
 
As you will see there are lots of suggestions, tips, and instructions to make the ACC as useful for you as you want it to be. Have problems? Check out the online options to make it easy. Still have problems? Contact us. We want your ideas to make the ACC a tool you can use.

Pioneer Network is host to the web-based version of the Artifacts of Culture Change. It is our hope to provide a user-friendly, informative version of this tool to assist in each provider's culture change implementation and ongoing sustainability efforts.



Made Possible with Support from The Commonwealth Fund



Additional Resources

 The Development of the Artifacts of Culture Change Tool - This is the full report written for CMS who funded the project explaining rationale for the tool, how the tool was developed including the point scale selected, and a large Source Information table which gives backup for each item such as where that practice can be located around the country and any research found supporting items.

 The Artifacts of Culture Change Privacy Policy

The Artifacts of Culture Change was developed for public use by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Edu-Catering, LLP. For more information on the development of the tool contact Karen Schoeneman or Carmen Bowman. Pioneer Network does not claim any rights to the Artifacts of Culture Change. Alterations to content are made with the consent of the developers.