Week of March 6th

Our wonderful Board Member, Kris Erickson of Bethany Village in Lindsborg, was interviewed by the New York Times nursing home staffing challenges. You can read the article here.  Thank you, Kris, for being our voice...

The KING Annual Meeting will be held on April 11th at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan during the LeadingAge Kansas Spring Conference.  The luncheon meeting is scheduled to begin at noon.  KING members...

CDC has released new tools to guide effective investigations into group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections in long-term care communities. Targeted to public health departments and long-term care communities, including skilled nursing and rehabilitation communities,...

Social Work Ethics 3 CEUs - $49 (3 Administrative Hours) Resident Centered Care & Staff Empowerment 6 CEUs - $99 (2-Administrative, 4-Res Care Hours for Administrators) View their entire educational calendar.  

The Association is seeking applicants to serve as part of our high-functioning, effective and forward-thinking Board of Directors.  The Nominating Committee is charged with screening and selecting the slate of Candidates for election at the...

2023 Spring Conference Expo set up will be Wednesday, April 12th and the Expo is Thursday, April 13th at Hyatt Regency & Century II in Wichita.  Your LeadingAge Kansas team is working hard to make...

Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.  Affordable Housing Weekly Update.  Here is your weekly Affordable Housing Update.  Nursing Home Weekly Update.  Here is your weekly Nursing Home Update.  Workforce...

On March 1, HHS officially transmitted the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting rule (CMS-3442) to the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)....

To better understand the workforce challenges in provider member organizations across the continuum, LeadingAge has released a new quarterly Workforce Snap Poll. The survey will be useful in our advocacy with members of Congress...

Federal law requires an inpatient hospital stay for three consecutive days before Medicare will cover a patient’s care in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), a requirement that has become antiquated and onerous in the...

If you missed the KING Rounds in Newton on March 7th, don't worry! You still have a chance to attend the KING Rounds in Overland Park on March 9th. The KING rounds will discuss...

This 6.5 CE training day will include sessions on root cause analysis, plans of correction, residents with a schizophrenia diagnosis considering CMS audits, Q&A with KDADS and more.  Join your peers and surveyors for...