Resources for Quality

Kansas’s emergency preparedness system is anchored in part by six regional Healthcare Coalitions, which assist communities to ensure sustainability and recovery of health care services during a crisis or emergency.  The KDHE website has a...

Make plans to observe Severe Weather Awareness Week in Kansas March 6th through March 10th.  NOAA has developed a packet of information that provides statistics and suggestions to raise awareness about severe weather readiness.

Cybersecurity Resources from https://www.cisa.gov/ (Share with your IT staff and/or consultants)Shields Up webpage that provides actionable information on urgent steps to harden systems given the heightened threat environment.  A new catalog of free cybersecurity services Preparing for and Mitigating Foreign...

The guide is divided into four sections: Resident Satisfaction, Social Cohesion, Resident Power, and Civic Engagement. Access the guide here.

June Check-Up, a publication of the Kansas Healthcare Coalition Partnership.  Includes schedule of summer HCC regional meetings.

Lodi Program Brings Kids And Seniors Together Older workers shouldn't be cast aside: Column Welcome To The Oral Health Website EngAge-EngAGE is a nonprofit that takes a whole-person approach to community and creative,...

CMS is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 to provide information on the Confidential Feedback Reports for the SNF Quality Reporting Program. SNF’s will receive these reports in their CASPER folders in...

  CAST (LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technology) has released a Cybersecurity White Paper and a Benchmarking Questionnaire to help members understand what cybersecurity threats are, how to mitigate risks, and how to respond if attacked. The Benchmarking Questionnaire will help...

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Read about the 3 P’s of Reducing Elopement Risk (Prevention, Preparation, Performance).

The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) has updated its Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Selection Tool with 5 new telehealth products/vendors and 2 new case studies that show how telehealth: Reduced...

LeadingAge National’s Center for Aging Services Technologies has updated its Functional Assessment and Activity Monitoring Technology Selection Tool, which addresses a wide array of activity monitoring systems, including wearable consumer technologies. The updated version includes...