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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Onboarding Toolkit Principle 4: Career Pathways and Role Specific Challenges
Here are the specifics about Principle 4 in the Onboarding Toolkit found on our website. Watch the video and then utilize the tools to help implement...
March 4-8 is Kansas Severe Weather Awareness Week
Kansas experiences a wide variety of summertime severe weather, including: tornadoes, damaging winds, large hail, and flash flooding.
Residents are encouraged to use this week...
KanCare Application Tips
Based on experience and observation, Joshua Johnson, LeadingAge Kansas’s new Reimbursement Specialist, offers these tips for making sure everything is done on your end...
Reimbursement-Related questions?
Here are some of the things we have contracted with Joshua Johnson to assist with:
Troubleshoot for members on their individual reimbursement problems/questions.
Communicating...