Last Friday, LeadingAge CEO Katie Sloan, along with a small group of health and long-term care organization CEOs, participated in a listening session with CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. Among the issues Katie raised with the Administrator and the group were nursing home regulation and enforcement concerns, the need for the remaining Provider Relief Funds to be released from HHS, Medicare Advantage’s impact and challenges for Post-Acute care providers, hospice program integrity audits, and the need for CMMI work on housing plus services, integrated acute, Post-Acute and long-term care, and technology and LTC. Katie also asked the Administrator to take steps to ramp up CMS and HHS’s efforts to do everything possible to address the workforce issues that all health and LTC providers are currently experiencing.  The meeting was very positive. Administrator Brooks-LaSure said she would like to meet with the group regularly. Email Katie Sloan ksloan@leadingage.org If you have input for her on items to bring up at her next meeting with the CMS Administrator. Please cc Rachel at rachel@leadingagekansas.org

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Rachel Monger, JD, LACHA is President/CEO. Rachel joined LeadingAge Kansas in 2011 as the Director of Government Affairs and has been a powerful voice for our membership ever since. Rachel is a Kansas licensed attorney and adult care home administrator. She received her bachelor’s degree from Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, MA, and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas School of Law. Over the years, Rachel has served in many volunteer roles in her community and in the state of Kansas to support senior needs, aging services education, and community mental health services. She is also a member of the Board of Governors for the Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund. As an award-winning trial lawyer, turned award-winning senior care advocate, she has spent nearly two decades passionately supporting quality of care and quality of life for Kansas seniors. When not at work, Rachel loves reading, crafting, volunteering with her church, and spending time with her partner Steven. You can reach Rachel directly at 785.670.8046.