Background: Like most states, Kansas has struggled to have enough well-trained nurses and nurse aides to staff our long-term care communities and due to a shortage of nursing faculty, Kansas lacks the capacity to educate enough new nurses to meet the demand for care. While we have effective, evidence-based geriatric models of care, we have a know-do gap in which less than 10 percent of older adults are reached who benefit from these models. A new statewide practice-education partnership between long-term care professionals and nurse educators seeks to advance 4Ms care, bridge the know-do gap…