Call For Nominations: 2025 LeadingAge Leadership Award
Strong leadership is the cornerstone of successful aging services organizations. It’s a critical factor in ensuring that an organization achieves its mission, attracts and retains great staff, and can adapt and thrive into the...
Get Ready for the 2025 Spring Conference and Tradeshow
This is the event where connections are made, sales happen, and solutions are discovered. As always, we’re bringing together exhibitors and senior care professionals to help your business and meet the people who need...
2025 KING Member Zoom Calls Scheduled
There are two remaining KING Member Zoom calls:
February 11 – Needlesticks and Post Needlestick Procedures
March 11 – KING Orientation and Workers’ Compensation 101
KING Members can register for all calls at no charge.
Kansas Advocacy Updates: January 15, 2025
New QCA Payment Process Change at KDADS
Last Friday, the following email was sent to the first grouping, about 100 nursing facilities, through KOTA: Effective State Fiscal Year 2025 Q2, for the Due Date of 01/30/2025,...
LeadingAge National Government News: January 15, 2025
CMS Unveils Financial Incentives of Nursing Home Staffing Campaign
On January 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to offer financial incentives for registered nurses (RNs)...
Last Chance to Register for Full Collaborative Webinar Series: Registration Remains Open for Individual...
This year, we’re kicking off our professional development calendar with the first of our 12-part Healthcare in Aging Services Webinar Series in partnership with LeadingAge Oregon. The first session, titled “Loneliness and Social Isolation...
Early Bird Registration Open For 2025 Spring Conference & Expo
The countdown to our Spring Conference is on! With less than 100 days until April 22, we’re ready for you to start registering and booking your hotel! We’re back in Wichita this year at...
De-Frost Your Advocacy Skills and Join Us at Aging Services Day 2025
After a wildly successful Aging Services Day at the Capitol in 2024, we are collaborating again with KHCA and KACE to organize our 2025 Aging Services Day on February 18, 2025. Registration is now...
Show Support for Colleagues Affected by the LA Wildfires
As fires continue to ravage Southern California, more than 750 residents have evacuated LeadingAge member communities, while at least 13 member staff have lost their homes. LeadingAge California has issued a Mutual Aid Alert...
COVID-19/Novel Coronavirus Update 2-17-2021
VACCINE NEWS
Kansas COVID-19 Vaccination Overview
303,677 People Vaccinated Ages 65 and older make up 46.6% of those vaccinated out of the 303,677 people418,653 Total Doses Reported as Administered - First Dose: 303,677 - Second Dose: 114,976581,975 Total...
PEAK 2.0 Open Enrollment for New Enrollees
Open enrollment for the PEAK 2.0 program is now open. This program coincides with the state fiscal year calendar, July to June. The enrollment period is open from January 5th to April 30th of...
Employee Satisfaction Research Begins This Week – It’s Not Too Late to Participate
As part of our ongoing effort to define and solve our workforce crisis in long-term care, LeadingAge Kansas will be conducting an aggregated survey of member nurses and aides working in nursing homes, long-term...