Join the Long Term Care Data Cooperative! The cooperative is a national effort to improve the care of post-acute and long term care residents, and to monitor the impact of treatment innovations and policy initiatives on this population.

• It is free to join and can help providers to leverage business insights like never before.
• Now available for assisted living providers, hear more about what the Long Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative has to offer.

Watch this video featuring NCAL Executive Director LaShuan Bethea as she describes the benefits assisted living communities can experience by participating in the LTC Data Cooperative.

Why join? The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the data gap in long-term care. To address this need, the National Institute on Aging funded the LTC Data Cooperative, a collaboration among providers and stakeholders in academia, government, and the private sector. The LTC Data Cooperative assembles resident data from the major long term care electronic medical record (EMR) vendors.

These data serve four key purposes:

1. healthcare operations/population health analytics
2. public health surveillance
3. observational, comparative effectiveness research
4. clinical research studies

How To Join

1. Email the Cooperative to receive program information, and DocuSign link for all legal agreements.
2. Once all agreements have been completed, AHCA/NCAL will confirm registration via email within 72 hours.
3. AHCA/NCAL will contact your vendor on your behalf to begin the data transfer process.