Advocacy on CDC Reporting Requirement
It has been less than 72 hours since nursing home CDC reporting requirements were released. LeadingAge national met with CDC and CMS officials on behalf...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 5-19-2020
FEDERAL UPDATES
CMS Issues Reopening Guidelines for Nursing Homes. CMS has issued a 10-page memo outlining Nursing Home Reopening Guidelines. The plan assigns to states...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 4-24-2020
KANSAS UPDATES
KDHE - Handling Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Long-term care facilities (LTCF) and Other Residential Facilities.There 2,777 cases of COVID-19 in Kansas today. These...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 4-14-2020
LEADINGAGE KANSAS UPDATES
Our Weekly Aging Update will go out tomorrow in place of the Wednesday Daily Update. It will include all you expect from...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 5-29-2020
LEADINGAGE KANSAS UPDATES
Did you miss today’s COVID-19 Weekly Call? We featured special guest Rodney Whittington on his recent COVID-cluster experience, current reopening thinking in...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 6-8-2020
LEADINGAGE KANSAS UPDATES
LeadingAge Kansas In the News: Did Kansas try to coerce nursing homes into admitting coronavirus patients?Our own, Debra Zehr was quoted in...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 6-4-2020
LEADINGAGE KANSAS UPDATES
Action Alert – Contact the GovernorGovernor Kelly's Chief of Staff publicly confirmed to a senate committee this morning that the Governor will...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 4-27-2020
KANSAS UPDATES
Good News! Kansas just recieved a N95 Decontamination System - Save Your Used N95 Masks to Send In – It’s Free. On Sunday, the...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 9-14-2020
TESTING
County Positivity RatesCDC Director Robert R. Redfield outlined the formula for county positivity rates. He stated that the CDC takes the total number of...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 4-28-2020
KANSAS UPDATES
Here is a list of COVID-19 lab and testing resources. Our thanks to Congressman Marshall’s team for compiling and sharing this.There are 3,491...
Nursing Home Infection Control Distribution – Allowable Costs
Contributor: Kailey Riskowski CPA from Bland and Associates, the reimbursement consulting contractor for LeadingAge Kansas.
On August 27, 2020, $2.5 billion of the Health and...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 2-10-2021
VACCINE NEWS
Kansas COVID-19 Vaccination Overview
248,977 People Vaccinated 331,022 Total Doses Reported as Administered - First Dose: 248,977 - Second Dose: 82,045552,775 Total Doses Distributed - State Distributed:...