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The Protecting Married Seniors from Impoverishment Act would extend soon-to-expire federal spousal impoverishment protections for spouses of people receiving Medicaid home and community-based services. LeadingAge National strongly supports the Protecting Married Seniors from Impoverishment Act.

The US HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently released an ONC Data Brief titled Electronic Health Record Adoption and Interoperability among U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities in 2017. Here are a few...

The KC Metro Community Disaster Resiliency Network (CDRN) will conduct a tabletop exercise for community-based, faith-based, and health care organizations from 9-noon on Monday, December 17th. The purpose of this exercise is to discuss plans,...

Question:  If a nursing home has a "salon" that only serves residents, and services are performed by a licensed stylist they contract with -- does the "salon" have to be licensed by the Kansas...

The latest edition of the PEAK 2.0 Newsletter is here and focuses on customer service vs person-centered care, leadership and future changes to communications. Read it now.

The Fire Marshal’s office has been getting a few questions regarding Turkey Fryers as the holidays come closer. With that in mind, they sent that question to our CMS regional office and this is...

The draft HCBS Background Check policy has been posted at the following location under Draft Policies. If you would like to provide feedback, you may do so according to the direction on the website by 11/26/18.

In July 2018, CMS finalized a new case-mix classification model, the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), that, effective beginning October 1, 2019, will be used under the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System...

Congressman Roger Marshall recently stepped forward as one the first co-sponsors of HB 6986. This bill that makes important changes to the long-standing federal law that requires a 2-year ban on CNA training for nursing homes...

On October 24th, CMS announced the inaugural release of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) quality data on Nursing Home (NH) Compare. Nursing Home Compare will now include SNF QRP quality...

Many members have been concerned about the interpretation of who is qualified to do fire door inspections in the nursing home. The Kansas Fire Marshal was insisting that maintenance personnel go through an expensive...

LeadingAge Kansas and its members have been instrumental in assisting LeadingAge in the introduction of new legislation to change the CNA training lock-out law. Under current law, nursing homes that are assessed penalties above a...