MCQC Mission

The mission of MCQC is to improve the quality of care and quality of life of residents in long-term care facilities and recipients of in-home care.

 Declaration:

Many have faced the situation when elderly relatives or friends are no longer able to remain independent. They need a place where someone will take care of them-a place where kind and caring people will help them with their needs and treat them with dignity and respect. They should have the right to quality of care.

No one should die from malnutrition, dehydration and bedsores from bad care or no care. Yet it happens in nursing homes across Missouri. The American Health Care Association states that malnutrition, dehydration and bedsores "are common conditions associated with the frail elderly, especially at the end of life: MCQC thinks that the elderly deserve better.

Nursing homes residents have the right to be treated with respect and dignity. They also have other rights, those listed on a copy of "Resident Rights" posted on the wall of a nursing home or described in papers given to families when a love one enters a nursing home facility.