LEADINGAGE KANSAS UPDATES
Miss our Weekly Webinar Today?
Never fear, here is a recording. You can also download the PowerPoint. Make sure to register for next week. We have extended the webinars through August.
Regional Roundtables Coming Up in August
We would like to invite you to connect with your peers and discuss the latest happenings going on in Kansas. This will be heavily focused on COVID, however other items may be discussed. If you have something you would like to discuss with your regional peers, bring them to the conversation.
Virtual Roundtable for Everyone
Monday, August 24th
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Virtual Discussion Groups by Location
Tuesday, August 25th; 1:00 – 2:30 PM – South Central Kansas
Wednesday, August 26th; 1:00 – 2:30 PM – Southwest Kansas
Thursday, August 27th; 1:00 – 2:30 PM – Northwest Kansas
Friday, August 28th; 1:00 – 2:30 PM – North Central & Northeast Kansas
Learn more and Register today. Questions? Contact Hayley Spicer at hayley@leadingagekansas.org.
Upcoming COVID-Focused Education
Webinar: Sars-CoV-2: Treating in Place
August 6, 2020 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Join Dr. Ryan Sears to talk specifically about how to treat and react to COVID-19 in your resident population. Dr. Sears has been a practicing Geriatrician with Kansas City Medicine Partners for 3 years and has been the Regional Medical Director for the practice for the last 8 months. He has served on committees regarding testing, treating, prevention and palliation regarding Sars-CoV-2.
This Just In: The Deadline for Scholarship Applications Has Been Extended
New Deadline: August 7, 2020
The LeadingAge Kansas Foundation has extended the deadline for Scholarship Applications due to the pandemic. All employees of LeadingAge Kansas Members are eligible. Learn more and apply before the opportunity closes for another year.
STATE UPDATES
Answers from Joint Provider with Fire Marshal
The State Fire Marshal’s office has released answers to some questions posed during this week’s joint provider training. View the document.
Lt Governor Virtual Rural Listening Tour
The Lt. Governor will be hosting another (virtual this time) rural listening around the state starting August 6th. Last year was his first rural listening tour, which helped inform the activities and priorities of the state Office of Rural Prosperity. Unfortunately concerns of older rural Kansans and their formal care providers were underrepresented during last year’s tour, and in the resulting plan. SO we need our members to sign up and tune in and speak up about your role as an economic driver, your needs to be able to continue to serve your community and contribute to the overall well-being of your community! Here’s more information, including tour dates and times, and how to register.
FEDERAL UPDATES
Assisted Living Data Collection Portal Live: Deadline August 3
The deadline for the senior living associations to provide this data to the agency is next week on August 3, and the Data Collection Portal is now live! HHS requested our assistance in gathering specific information on licensed providers, including assisted living, memory care, and life plan communities/CCRCs. Relief funds for private-pay assisted living providers are under consideration. Read more here.
LEADINGAGE UPDATE
- LeadingAge Need to Know for 7-31-2020.
- Coronovirus Daily Member Update for 7-30-2020.
- View the latest info, news, and tools from LeadingAge.
PPE
- Value First has identified a number of reliable sources for PPE items. Most of them can be found on their resource site. These suppliers generally have products available with short lead times (under two weeks). Price is still high due to raw material cost, manufacturing location and demand.
RESOURCES
Here Are a Couple of Great Resources From our Friends at BKD:
- Provider Relief Funds: We have some guidance on provider relief fund reporting, but not nearly all that will be required. In a few weeks, HHS has committed to furnishing more information on reporting required. At this point, it looks like the reporting period for demonstrating lost revenue and COVID-related expenses, and whatever other information they require, will be for the period ending December 31, 2020, with reports due 45 days later. With that tight turnaround and variety of funding sources (state programs, paycheck protection program, Provider Relief Funds, to name a few) and with all sources focused on not double-dipping, it’s essential that providers are diligent and organized in tracking CARES Act stimulus, and how expenses are applied to those specific funds. Enter BKD TrackForward. TrackForward is an excel-based tool developed by BKD Health Care Group to organize that information. Here’s our page to review the TrackForward tool: BKDTrackForward
One other item of note – if your Provider Relief Fund receipts in aggregate are $750,000 or more, you may be required to have a Single Audit. We are still getting guidance on this, but a CFDA number has been assigned to this program. We think this will cause many providers who haven’t been required to have a Single Audit to have one. A primer on this is at the link that follows – we can connect you with resources to discuss the impact on your organization. Just let us know! Preparing for Single Audit.
- Paycheck Protection Program: Guidance is evolving on the Paycheck Protection Program forgiveness process, but BKD has developed a tool to assist our clients in computing the forgiveness amounts. Those calculations can be very involved and require significant selection of options and submission of a lot of detailed payroll information. BKD is able to scale our service from providing the template, to reviewing your calculations, to training. One service offering our clients are expressing a lot of interest in is performing and agreed-upon procedures related to those calculations, including an accountants’ report attesting to the procedures performed. Here’s a link to our calculator and other PPP resources: BKD Paycheck Protection Program Resources.
