Summer KING Member Zoom Calls
Dates & Topics (all calls are at 1:00 PM)
June 13th – The Goal of Conservative Care in Workers Compensation & KING Safety Designation Program July 11th – The Top 10 Safety Program Updates August 8th –...
Medicaid Application Count Updates from KDHE
The Eligibility staff with KDHE met with associations last Friday to provide updates on aged applications and other issues surrounding the eligibility process. As of May 17, 2024, there are 296 long-term care applications...
Register Now for the Resident Care Workshop
Attn Administrators: Earn 7 hours of resident care continuing education and take away valuable information regarding person center dementia care, resident choices, resident activities and much more. This day of training will be located...
NHSN Updates and Training
NHSN will be updating the Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 module and COVID-19 Vaccination module. While weekly reporting to these modules will continue to be required through December 2024, the data elements are being streamlined...
KDADS Quarterly Stakeholder News
Last week, staff joined a KDADs Stakeholder call to receive updates regarding nursing home data, policy changes, and Medicaid redeterminations. Below are a few highlights discussed on the call.
Licensure Update for Q1 included one...
Pursing a Degree or Other Credentials? Apply for a LeadingAge Kansas Foundation Scholarship
Applications are now being sought for the LeadingAge Kansas Foundation Scholarship Program. The application process involves several essay questions and requires 2 letters of support. One of the letters must be from your Executive...
Opportunity To Be Part of Age-Friendly Kansas Initiative
As the demographics of our population continue to shift, public health should elevate healthy aging as a core public health function. Age-Friendly Kansas is a new statewide initiative designed to unite aging and public...
Assisted Living Networking Call – Thursday, June 1st
Please join the Assisted Living Networking Call next Thursday, June 1st at 11:00 AM to discuss what LeadingAge Kansas offers to Assisted Livings and the Assisted Living Summit for 2017 regarding the date, location,...
Upcoming Multi-Disciplinary Infection Prevention Trainings
This summer, LeadingAge Iowa is hosting 2 Infection Prevention trainings with a focus on strategies and practices for Food Services and Environmental Services. LeadingAge Kansas is very excited to partner with LeadingAge Iowa on...
Weekly Recaps
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
Affordable Housing Weekly Update Home Health Weekly Update Hospice Weekly Update Nursing Home Weekly UpdateMedicaid HCBS and PACE Weekly Update
One More Roundtable – Join Virtually on May 30
Were you unable to join us in person for our regional roundtables this month? Don’t worry! We have scheduled a virtual roundtable for May 30 from 10:00 – 11:30 AM. Join our staff to...
More Good News on Occupancy from NIC
Another recent data-set release from the National Investment Center offers more good news on occupancy for majority-IL and majority AL providers. Occupancy continues to steadily improve in both settings, with an across-sector improvement to...