Mouth Care Without a Battle
Mouth Care Without a Battle is an evidence-based approach to person-centered daily mouth care for persons with cognitive and physical impairment. Developed by the research group that brought you Bathing without a Battle, Mouth Care...
Provide Input on Statewide Web-Based Disaster Resource for LTC
EMResource is a web-based program designed to equip health care and emergency response organizations with practical, convenient views of area and regional disaster-related resources. The Kansas Statewide Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Coalition is seeking volunteers...
Another Advocate Emerges…. Are You Reaching Out, Too?
Kudos to Orie Ensz, Administrator at Good Samaritan Society-Parsons, for being an advocacy champion for LeadingAge Kansas members and the people you all serve! Orie has had a couple of good conversations with state...
LeadingAge Kansas Launches Advocacy at Federal Level on Survey Madness
LeadingAge Kansas is on an all-out advocacy campaign with our Members of Congress and the Trump Administration Transition Team to alert them to:
CMS’s recent escalation of nursing home survey and enforcement actions and...
Save the Dates for Upcoming Education Opportunities
As 2016 comes to an end we all know a very busy 2017 is ahead of us. While you’re planning your schedules, please mark these education events on your calendar:
Spring Conference & Expo - April...
Happenings at Homestead Health Center
The staff at Homestead Health Center participated in Operation Holiday Sedgwick County by having departments donate non-perishable food items which were used to build displays. The displays were then put to a vote by...
Tallgrass Creek Residents are Computer Savvy
How many people in the United States actually use a computer? About a whopping 250 million Americans click away daily according to the Internet and Broad Band Usage report found (where else?) on the...
CFAR Newsletter Available
Read the Latest Newsletter From the LeadingAge National Center for Applied Research
Message from Robyn: Why Mouth Care is a Workforce Issue
LeadingAge Center for Applied Research: 2016 Annual Report
CFAR Project Will Recommend...
KansasWorks Provides Recruiting Tools for Employers Across the State
KANSASWORKS is a web-based job-matching and labor market information system. KANSASWORKS provides job seekers, employers, and training providers with easy-to-use tools that support a wide range of activities. As a service of the public workforce...
GERTI Training: Staff Empowerment & Making a Home
Location: Brewster Place, Topeka, Kansas
Date: January 26, 2017
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (7 contact hours)
Fee: FREE for employees of Kansas skilled nursing homes. $99 for all other attendees.
*Sponsored by a grant from the Kansas Health Foundation*
Course...
Latest Medicaid Rates Released
KDADS released the latest Medicaid rate schedules on Friday, December 16th. This was sent out through the new Myers and Stauffer web portal. If you do not have access to this web portal call (785)...
Resident Fund Accounts
Has your team reviewed its policies in regard to resident fund accounts lately? LeadingAge Kansas has had several questions from a number of members recently in regard to this, so we thought we would review...