Week of January 10th

Kick off the new year with Belinda Vierthaler and advancing your career. About this course: This 6-week course combines online learning with Zoom sessions and includes all the requirements from the state-approved operator's course for assisted...

New year comes with new changes for LeadingAge Kansas members. Sara Sutterby promoted to DON at Lakeview Village (ssutterby@lakeviewvillage.org) Samantha Pakkebier is the New DON at Logan Manor Community Health Services (spakkebier@loganmanor.com) Larry Blochlinger will serve as...

Don’t miss out on 2% off your dues by renewing your membership by January 15th. After January 15th you will be paying full price. If you have questions or need another copy of your invoice,...

Strategic planning, strategic thinking, board engagement, and awareness of economic and financial trends are a necessity for an organization to go from surviving to thriving.  Join us for the Governance Series where we'll dig...

Governor Kelly and Lieutenant Governor Toland invited LeadingAge Kansas and other health and human services associations to a closed-door meeting on Medicaid Expansion last week. The Governor’s office is seeking individual businesses to sign...

Registration is now open for our upcoming Aging Services Day on February 1st. This year, Aging Services Day has come together through a collaboration with LeadingAge Kansas, Kansas Health Care Association/Kansas Center for Assisted...

A few provider members have shared issues with faxing Medicaid applications to KDHE, receiving a confirmation page, only to be told by KDHE the fax was never received through their server. KDHE Leadership has...

With colder weather and winter storms, it’s important to keep your sprinkler systems in mind. Utilize this “quick tips” document from the Fire Marshal’s office to do so. 

On January 3rd, Katie Sloan and Ruth Katz met with HHS Secretary Becerra and a small group of his senior advisors, along with Mark Parkinson and David Gifford of the American Health Care Association....

LeadingAge sent a letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure on January 4th urging the agency to engage with LeadingAge and other stakeholders on survey reform. This should be an “all hands” effort with those...

The coalition of post-acute care associations and the Center for Medicare Advocacy met January 3rd with roughly 15 CMS leaders and staff who work in the Center for Medicare and oversee the Medicare Advantage...

The CDC has made changes to vaccination reporting for health care personnel (HCP) in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). Beginning with reporting week January 1 – 7, 2024, NHSN users will note that...