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CALTCM Humanitarian Award

For Exceptional Leadership and Outstanding Humanitarian Contributions in Long Term Care

Susan Yeranyan, RN
Susan Yeranyan is a Registered Nurse who has over 25 years of experience in the field of Nursing. She began her career in Armenia, as a Biochemist with a degree from Yerevan State University and upon migrating to the United States, she pursued her passion for healthcare by starting a career in Ararat Nursing Facility (ANF) as a CNA. During her 28 years of employment at Ararat Nursing Facility, Susan has climbed the career ladder, became the Director of Clinical Services in 2007, and achieved the American Dream. Susan is a Certified Dementia Practitioner. She was ANF’s Employee of the Year in 1996 and was recognized by International Nurses Association for her excellence in nursing and received CAHF’s Nurse of the Year in 2019. Under her leadership and active participation, Ararat Nursing Facility has consistently remained a 5-star facility, received the Bronze AHCA/NCAL Quality Award in 2017, and received the Silver AHCA/NCAL Quality Award in 2018.
 
Susan is a true nurse, at heart and in practice. She loves touching and changing people’s lives, being hands on, as well as leading and educating the next generation of nurses. She has led the nursing department of Ararat Nursing Facility through the Covid pandemic, remaining hands on in the Covid unit, leading by example, providing care, and maintaining a solid team of nurses that stayed on board during the most challenging times.
 
Since the availability of the Covid vaccine, Susan has personally administered over 1,000 first and second vaccine doses to our residents, staff, and community. She has also completed several interviews with media sources such as USA Today, Fox 11 news, and US Armenia to increase community awareness and acceptance of vaccines. 
 
CALTCM Research Award

For Exceptional Leadership and Outstanding Contributions to Research and Education to Long Term Care

Debra Saliba, MD, MPH, AGSF
Dr. Saliba is a Professor of Medicine at UCLA where she directs the UCLA/Jewish Home Borun Center for Gerontological Research. Dr. Saliba also serves as Associate Director for Education in the Los Angeles VA HSR&D Center of Innovation where she directs the Los Angeles VA National Clinician Scholars Program and the VA Advanced Fellowship in Health Services Research. She is also a senior natural scientist at RAND. Dr. Saliba currently serves as co-chair of the Geriatrics and Extended Care Council for the VA National Work Group to modernize VA’s electronic health record.
 
An author of over 160 research and educational publications, Dr. Saliba has created tools and knowledge that can be applied to improving quality of care and quality of life for vulnerable older adults and adults with long-term care needs across the care continuum. Her research, funded by CMS, VA HSR&D, AHRQ, NIH, ASPE, California DHHS and several foundations, has addressed a range of clinical, quality and public health topics including inappropriate re-hospitalizations, nursing home staffing, disaster planning and response, patient safety, quality of care metrics for vulnerable adults, home and community based LTSS, and the development of models to predict functional decline and death. A major theme of this work, including development of the VES-13 Survey and her leadership of the national revision of the Minimum Data Set for Nursing Homes (MDS 3.0), has been giving voice to older adults & persons with disabilities in assessments of their health and healthcare.
 
Dr. Saliba is a past President and Board Chair of the American Geriatrics Society and her research has been recognized by VA HSR&D, the American Geriatrics Society, and the Journal of American Medical Directors Association. In addition to her recent selection to the National Academy of Science Committee on Nursing Home Quality, Dr. Saliba serves on the CMS Nursing Home 5-Star Technical Advisory Panel, the National Quality Forum (NQF) Committee on Person and Family Centered Care and the NQF committee on Post- acute and Long-term care. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and The Gerontologist and as Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
 
CALTCM Lifetime Achievement Award

Celebrating a Career of Superlative Leadership, Outstanding Achievements, and Visionary Contributions to Long Term Care

Dan Osterweil, MD, FACP, Msc Ed., CMD
Vice President and Medical Director of SCAN Health Plan, and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Osterweil completed a geriatrics fellowship at UCLA. He is the Emeritus-editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), which he founded. He is a member of the editorial board of Caring for the Ages. Dr. Osterweil co-authored two editions of Medical Care in the Nursing Home, is the co-editor of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, and has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His areas of expertise include cognitive and functional assessment, management of dementia, continuous quality improvement in the nursing home. 
 
Dr. Osterweil is Director of CALTCM’s Leadership and Management in Geriatrics (LMG) course and is Associate Director of the Multi-Campus Program in Geriatrics and Gerontology at UCLA (MPGMG). Dr. Osterweil served as geriatric consultant to SCAN for many years prior to joining SCAN full time. Among his many duties at SCAN, Dr. Osterweil leads SCAN’s senior-focused HealthCHEC - Comprehensive Health Evaluation Centers operations.
 
 
2021 CALTCM Leadership Award

The CALTCM Leadership Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made outstanding contributions in the areas of education, practice, administration or policy in long term care. This leadership is characterized by results of increased visibility of critical issues, creation of solutions to significant problems, and positive impacts on the overall quality of care in post acute and long term care.


In Recognition of Exemplary Leadership and Dedication in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care

CALTCM is proud to present the 2021 CALTCM Leadership Award to: 

Noah Marco, MD

Noachim (Noah) Steve Marco, M.D. serves as the chief medical officer for the Los Angeles Jewish Home and the Brandman Health Plan. He is also the executive director of the Brandman Research Institute and the medical director of our IPA, LAJH Medical Associates. Prior to joining the Home, Dr. Marco was the vice president of medical affairs at Northridge Hospital Medical Center (NHMC). At NHMC, he led numerous improvement efforts, served on a wide range of hospital, system-wide and community committees. Before NHMC, Dr. Marco was president of the medical staff of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills, California and chair of the Bioethics Committee. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, he was in private practice and was Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine at the USC School of Medicine.

With more than 30 years of experience as a physician, Dr. Marco is also a prolific writer, and a sought-after speaker. He has presented numerous lectures, and led workshops on a broad range of medical issues and topics that include elder care, clinician patient communication, and physician training. His podcast Who Cares? The future of home care is currently on I-tunes.

Dr. Marco’s expertise on caring for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic has been published by numerous print news agencies. In addition, he appeared on several news broadcasts, and has spoken on numerous healthcare webinars. He participated in several Delphi panels that led to published articles and letters to regulators. He currently serves on the Clinical Advisory Group of LeadingAge. The Clinical Advisory Group assists LeadingAge develop policy positions on issues that impact care for seniors and provider operations, and helps LeadingAge staff with their communication to federal agencies.  

The mayor of Los Angeles acknowledged Dr. Marco’s efforts to set the standards for COVID-19 testing in nursing facilities at a widely covered press conference.

He holds a Bachelor of Sciences Degree from UCLA, and his medical degree is from U.C. Davis. His Internal Medicine residency was at Children’s Hospital of San Francisco (now called California Pacific Hospital).  

 
CALTCM Wave Wellness Corner

Dear CALTCM Colleagues,

Welcome to the kickoff of the WAVE Wellness Corner! This new feature is a product of the CALTCM Wellness Committee and has been a year in the making, so we’re excited to share the first edition with you.

A little background … The Wellness Committee was formally approved by the CALTCM Board in early February 2020. Recognizing the increasing challenges in geriatric care and burnout among long term care physicians, clinicians and teams (even before Covid-19), we felt it was time for a proactive effort to support our members. Little did we dream that a pandemic would ravage our nation and impact our patients, staff, colleagues, families and ourselves to the extent that it did. 

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