AAHSA's 2009 Annual Report - 8

2009 accomplishments (cont.)
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AAHSA increased the value of membership through timely communications on issues of importance and by providing technical assistance to advance our members’ interests in Congress, the administration, the media and the marketplace. We worked with the media to produce an unprecedented number of stories that appeared in more than 230 media outlets, including the New york times, the Wall Street Journal and National Public radio. AAHSA also established the AAHSA Savings and Solutions Center that thousands of members are using to provide technical assistance and education for members in procuring goods and services. the center’s goal is generating savings and promoting efficiency for members. in addition, AAHSA has been responsive to member needs through:
Technical Assistance

• Developed a training program for family caregivers of residents of affordable senior housing properties to enhance their caregiving knowledge and skills and strengthen the property-family partnership. • Published an interactive version of the Center for Aging Services technologies’ State of technology report and a paper on the adoption of electronic information systems in U.S. nursing homes.
Expanded Opportunities for Member Engagement and Information Sharing

• Prepared a resource entitled, “in the Place they Call Home: expanding Consumer Choice through Home and CommunityBased Services” to help members develop of home and community-based services. • initiated and expanded AAHSA’s social media presence through Facebook, twitter and Linkedin to facilitate member connections and disseminate AAHSA messages to a broad audience. Already, more than 1,000 members, consumers and business partners are part of AAHSA’s social media groups and over 600 individuals follow AAHSA’s various twitter feeds. • Achieved over 1.75 million page views for AAHSA’s Web site, aahsa.org.

• expanded the availability of member listservs to 20, serving additional member types and increasing member networking to over 4,300 members, consumers and business partners. • Prepared and disseminated monthly e-newsletters, providing updates and member-specific information on nursing home regulations, housing, technology, home and communitybased services research findings, CCrCs and assisted living.

ADVOCAte
AAHSA made great strides this year on the policy and advocacy front. We enhanced our profile on Capitol Hill by spearheading the inclusion of a vital expansion of access to longterm services and supports for the elderly and adults with disabilities in national health care reform legislation. Known as the CLASS plan, this provision is designed to provide a necessary benefit to consumers and control medicaid spending for the government within a fiscally responsible national insurance framework. in addition, we advanced the interests of our members and those they serve in a number of other ways:

• Helped thousands of members with regulatory issues, program development and procurement of goods and services to achieve cost savings.

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