Council Close-Up is a weekly nursing home quality of life newsletter featuring detailed descriptions of the state of Illinois’ outstanding quality of life programs, as well as comprehensive essays on a variety of resident care issues. The Council Close-Up provides a forum for nursing home professionals to share successful programming approaches, learn the latest information about healthcare research and practice, and better comply with OBRA expectations.

This site allows the user to search all past issues of the Council Close-Up.
There are two ways to search these articles.

• First, if you wish to search all Council Close-Up articles by key word, please take advantage of the handy search engine below to the right. Type in the key word and click the Search button.
• Second, if you know the specific issue you are looking for, or you just wish to browse an index of past issues, please take advantage of the Close-Up Title Index below on the left. Close-Up title indexes are listed by year. Choose a year and click the Search button. To view the entire title index for all years, click the Search button only.