Message from KDADS to Kansas Nursing Facilities
Attention Kansas Nursing Facilities:
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) is thrilled to announce a new, more convenient option to make Quality Care Assessment (QCA, or Bed Tax) payments. Electronic payments are now...
LeadingAge National Government News: December 11, 2024
Action Alert on Medicaid Advocacy 2025
LeadingAge has written an action alert on the need to protect Medicaid from cuts and programmatic changes that would limit access to Medicaid coverage and services. Congress is actively...
Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition, Phase II
The John A. Hartford Foundation has awarded the Moving Forward Coalition $1.69 million in funding to continue work on improving nursing home residents' quality of life. The new three-year award begins on July 1st,...
CMS Increases iQIES Security, Deactivating Inactive Users
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin implementing an inactive user policy for iQIES this in May 2024. iQIES hosts individual agency and facility data for home health, hospice and skilled...
LeadingAge Comments on Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization
On March 21, LeadingAge responded to a request from Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy (R-LA), along with other senators, for feedback on...
KING Regional Rounds Scheduled
KING Members are invited to attend a Regional Round scheduled in a location near you. This year, the KING Service Team is hosting rounds on March 20th at Evergreen Community in Olathe; April 2nd...
Weekly Recaps: December 13, 2023
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
Nursing Home Weekly Update. Here is your weekly Nursing Home Update.
Workforce Weekly Update. Here is your weekly Workforce Policy...
Medicaid Access Rule Could be Expected in April 2024
CMS is aiming to finish reviewing all comments that were received on the Medicaid Access Rule by Spring according to the Office of Management and Budget. If all goes according to plan (not by...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update for 4-25-2022
STATE NEWS
Join Our Call With Senator Roger Marshall on Medicare Cuts and COVID-19 IssuesFollowing up on CMS’ announcements on phasing out Section 1135 waivers under the COVID-19 public health emergency and the FY2023 PPS...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 7-26-2021
STATE NEWS
Positive Media Opportunity: KDHE/KDADS Seek Direct Care Staff Willing to Tell Why they Got Vaccinated as a Healthcare WorkerWe received a request from KDADS Secretary Howard this morning seeking direct care workers who...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 1-4-2021
VACCINE NEWS
Weekly KDHE WebinarKDHE holds a webinar update every Thursday at 10 AM to update local partners on COVID-19 trends, etc. This includes aging services providers among others. The December 31, 2020 update contained...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 12-29-2020
VACCINATION NEWS
Register for KDHE Webinar Tuesday January 5, 2021 at 9:30 AMThe agency will provide this webinar to adult care home (NF, AL, RHC, HP), CCRC/LPC and PACE providers to cover elements of vaccine...