Going to Indy? October 21st is the Deadline to Sign Up for State Night...
LeadingAge Kansas will join with our Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota compadres to host the annual State Night Out during the LeadingAge National Conference in Indianapolis. The event will be held on Sunday, October 30th, 6:00 –...
EWA Webinar: Key Member Reports on Workforce and Caregiving
On October 11th, LeadingAge participated in an Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) webinar titled, “Key Member Reports on Workforce and Caregiving.” The panelists at the session highlighted important reports on workforce data, shortages, career ladders,...
CARF 2022 Financial Trends and Ratios for CCRCs Released
Ziegler and Baker Tilly offered an informative webinar on the results of the just-released, 30th anniversary edition of CARF’s annual Financial Trends report. Of all the unique attributes of organizations that make benchmarking challenging, contract type variety was...
Linn Community Nursing Home Survey News
Congratulations to Janell Wohler and the entire team at Linn Community Nursing Home on their 2-deficiency survey!
Life Story Work in Older Adults May Improve Dementia Care
Annals of Long-Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging. 2016;24(8):36.
LSW is a social intervention that, when used in older adults, involves helping them record aspects of their past and present lives along with future hopes. These chronicles...
October 14th Weekly Recaps
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Sunflower Hosting Regional Provider Workshops
Sunflower Health Plan is continuing their regional provider workshops to provide training for billing personnel. The next trainings are in Salina on November 14th and in Emporia on December 12th.
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LEED – A Resource for Energy Efficient Building
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is changing the way we think about how buildings and communities are planned, constructed, maintained and operated. LEED is the most widely used third-party verification for...
CMS Releases Hospice VBID Monitoring Guidelines for CY2023
CMS released the Value-Based Insurance Design Model Hospice Benefit Component Calendar Year 2023 Monitoring Guidelines which cover how CMS plans to monitor and evaluate next year’s Hospice Benefit Component of the Value Based Insurance Design demonstration....
3 Strategies for Nonprofit Senior Living to Stay Competitive
In the latest Senior Housing News Report, the group outlines 3 strategies that were discussed at a recent Ziegler Conference that nonprofit senior living communities should consider to stay competitive. They include:
It’s time...
CARE/PASSAR Office Hours with KDADS Staff
The CARE and PASSAR process continue to cause slowdowns and headaches for Medicaid and other payer sources when individuals are admitted to LTC. Join the new KDADS CARE team for a monthly office hours session...
Social Security: Cost-of-Living Adjustments
On October 13th, the Social Security Administration announced an 8.7% increase in payments for 2023. A new report from the Congressional Research Services looks at Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustments here.