No Cost Medicaid Reimbursement Transition to PDPM Webinar Next Week
Medicaid reimbursement will be transitioning to PDPM July 1, 2024. Join us on Monday, November 6th at 2:00 PM for this no-cost, 90-minute webinar. The session will cover reimbursement plans, scenarios, and timelines for...
Caregiver Advocacy Groups Launch Joint Initiative to Support Professional and Family Caregivers
PHI and the National Alliance for Caregiving, at NAC’s inaugural CaregiverNation Summit on October 25th, launched a multi-year initiative, Together in Care, to strengthen the relationship between direct care workers and family caregivers. Funded...
Healthcare Workers Continue to Face a Mental Health Crisis
An October 24th CDC Early Release Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), “Vital Signs: Health Worker – Perceived Working Conditions and Symptoms of Poor Mental Health – Quality of Worklife Survey, United States, 2018-2022,”...
GROWTH in the Nursing Workforce – A Promising Proposal from Capitol Hill
On October 26th, Representatives Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) introduced new bipartisan legislation to support community college nursing programs. The Grants for Resources in Occupational Workforce Training for Healthcare (GROWTH) Act expands...
KING Annual Seminar
Registration is now open for the KING Annual Seminar on November 17th at the Larksfield Place Auditorium in Wichita. Dr. John Estivo will present a session on “Prevailing Factor and Returning the Injured Worker...
LeadingAge Kansas EBI Annual Membership Meeting
Please join your EBI peers at the LeadingAge Kansas Employee Benefits, Inc. Annual Membership Meeting in Newton at the Meridian Center on November 9th. Check-in begins at 9:30 AM with opening remarks beginning at...
Join Us This Friday for our Weekly Webinars
Join us each Friday at 10:00 AM CT for the Weekly Webcast Update. If you have not registered to view the weekly webinar, you can do so here. For archives of past Weekly Webcast Updates,...
Weekly Recaps
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...
Nursing Home Care Compare Refresh
The monthly Care Compare refresh took place on October 25th. The October refresh is also a quarterly refresh, and this quarter is the first time that Flu Vaccination Coverage Among Healthcare Personnel is being...
October 2023 Home Health Care Compare Refresh Now Available
The October 2023 refresh for the Home Health Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. For this refresh, Home Health (HH) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) will be based on the...
CMS Releases 2023 Hospice Quality Reporting Program Information Gathering Report
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2023 Hospice Information Gathering Report from Abt Associates which supports further hospice quality development efforts by reviewing available resources each year. This is the...
Respiratory Virus Season Resources from CDC
CDC has shared updated resources for flu, COVID, and RSV. All resources can be found here. Of particular interest for members, CDC has toolkits specific to healthcare settings, long-term care settings, older adults, and...