KANSAS UPDATES
- KDHE Daily Update – There are 900 Cases of COVID-19 being reported in KS today.
FEDERAL UPDATES
LEADINGAGE UPDATES
- Hot Topic: How to Manage Dependent Care in Independent Living.
- Hot Topic: Crisis Workforce Management.
- Hot Topic: How Are Members Managing Residents Who Leave and Return to Campus?
- Hot Topic: How to Modify Service Delivery?
- Hot Topic: Do We Continue New Moves into Our Community?
- LeadingAge Urges IRS to Protect Housing Credit Residents and Providers.
- USDA Rural Development Updates FAQs.
- LeadingAge Need to Know: Coronavirus(4/7/20).
- Coronavirus Daily Member Update Recording(4/6/20).
- Email COVID-19 Questions to: covid19@leadingage.org.
- Member Ideas and Inspiration – LeadingAge members face new challenges every day as a result of coronavirus. We’re gathering examples of the innovative solutions they’re deploying to better serve older people and support their staff.
No Live LeadingAge National Update on Thursday and Sunday
In the midst of a sacred week for many of us, LeadingAge national will pause our live online updates on both Thursday, April 9, and Sunday, April 12, in recognition of Passover and Easter. The team at national we will be working for you through the religious holidays this week, but will take these two days to allow members a chance to observe in their communities and with their loved ones.
You can still expect email updates each weekday morning, and live online updates Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. As always, you can subscribe to “LeadingAge Need to Know” via communications preferences in your MyLeadingAge account to receive email updates. Register here for the daily live online updates.
RESOURCES
- Get Coronavirus Training and Certification for CNAs and Caregivers. Access code: PROTECT2020.
- The Center for Practical Bioethics is curating articles, model policy, and other guidance on their special Pandemic Ethics Resources page.
Isolation Units and Alternate Care Sites:
- Airborne Infectious Disease Management: Methods for Temporary Negative Pressure Isolation.
- One provider shares how they created temporary negative pressure rooms.
- CDC on Alternate Care Sites and Isolation Sites: Infection Prevention and Control Considerations for Isolation Sites and Alternate Care Sites.
SURVEY REQUEST FROM KS ASSOCIATIONS
LTC Provider Questionnaire on COVID-19 Surge Capacity
Deadline for completion: As soon as possible or by Friday, April 10
LeadingAge Kansas, Kansas Health Care Association and KACE strongly urge your organization (one person per organization) to complete this LTC Providers’ COVID-19 Surge Capacity Survey so that we have a picture of how providers across Kansas are preparing, and so we can bring information to the statewide emergency response conversation. Please contact debra@leadingagekansas.org if questions. (Note: if you receive this survey from more than one association, please just complete it once.)
UPCOMING LKS EDUCATION ON COVID-19
- Don’t forget to join us next Friday at 10 AM for our weekly update webinar where we will have Charlotte Pineda from Congressman Marshall’s office providing a presentation on COVID-19 funding options. Register now.
- April 9, 2020 | 1-1:30 PM | Webinar: OSHA – Respiratory Protection Plan.
- April 14, 2020 1-2 PM | Webinar: Suicide and Self-Harm in the Elder Resident.
- April 23, 2020 1-2 PM | Webinar: Learning From Coronavirus.
- April 29, 2020 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Webinar: QSEN and COVID .
