PMMA Websites Win Creativity Awards
WICHITA, Kan. – PMMA’s (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America’s) newly redesigned community websites won two platinum awards for business to consumer websites and website design from the Hermes Creative Awards competition. The 2020 Art is...
Help Us to Help You – Survey to Win a Gift Card of Your...
We are partnering with Erin Bonitto to offer a webinar in June discussing dementia communication and COVID, but we need your help to finalize the content.
Complete this survey by May 13th and you will be...
Safety Matters Newsletter Available
The Spring 2019 Edition of the Safety Matters Newsletter on preventing scalds & burns in dietary operations is now available.
View the Safety Matters Archives.
CMS Nursing Home Employee Satisfaction Survey and Staff Competency Assessment Tools Available for Free
The CMS Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (CMPRP) is a three-year effort focused on:
Improve dementia care
Reduce adverse events
Improve staffing quality, such as reducing turnover, improving staff retention and enhancing general staff performance.
Toward this...
The SBA Office of Advocacy Wants to Hear From You About Burdensome Regulations
The federal Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy is gathering information from small businesses about burdensome federal regulations. They invite you to share your experience with burdensome federal regulations HERE. The information you provide is used by SBA...
CMS Quality Measure Shuffle: What’s in Store for April 2019
The new MDS 3.0 Quality Measures User’s Manual Version 12.0, effective Jan. 1, 2019, has been posted to the CMS website. It contains many updates, including changes to the specifications for these quality measures:
Long and...
Know Your Data…
Quality Metrics is a member benefit and can be accessed HERE. The Five-Star Analysis Report is a member benefit and members are provided with a quarterly email link to the report in January, April, July and October.
Associate Member Summit Care Celebrates Black History Month
In February, at Oklahoma Methodist Manor in Tulsa, OK Summit Care staff honored Black history month by giving elders the opportunity to paint traditional African masks! Therapy can be involved in any activity and...
Manor of the Plains Earns Zero-Deficiency Rating
Manor of the Plains earned a zero-deficiency survey from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services following its annual inspection in early February.
“We are very proud of our staff’s achievement,” said Michael Rajewski,...
PMMA Announces New Director of Centralized Recruitment
It is our pleasure to announce Will Smith has been hired as Director of Centralized Recruitment for Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America. Will’s first day was February 18.
Will comes to PMMA with more than 15...
LeadingAge Publishes Policy Update
Check out the latest on what LeadingAge National is doing for you in Washington regarding policy. Highlights include Federal budget for fiscal 2020, Nursing home regulation, Medicare Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM), Medicare 2019 payment...
LeadingAge Weighs in on Teens Operating Patient Lifts
The Department of Labor recently issued a proposed rule that would remove the current restrictions on the operation of patient lifts by nursing home employees under age 18. LeadingAge National filed comments in support of this...