STATE NEWS
Update on Distribution of $15M ARPA Funds for Nursing Home Staffing
In today’s meeting with KDADS we learned that the process to get the $15M ARPA funds for nursing homes ($762 per licensed nursing home bed) for staffing-related needs is making progress. The State Office of Recovery has cleared the plan. Around September 1st, KDADS plans send each nursing home administrator a message that will include a beneficiary agreement and a document detailing acceptable uses. Administrators will have 2 weeks to sign and return the forms. If all goes as planned, the dollars may go out on October 1st. TWO IMPORTANT NOTES: The provider’s SAMS number must be entered on the beneficiary agreement. The Agency will send the application/agreement to the administrator’s email address as shown in KOTA. Make sure your KOTA information is up to date.
More Antigen Tests Coming
A second round of antigen tests will be sent out to providers this week, according to Dr. Joan Duwve, KDHE State Medical Officer.
Catching Up With COVID
Many of you attended the KDHE/KDADS webinar on COVID-19. View the video if you missed it or would like additional information that isn’t included in the summary. Lacey Hunter at KDADS also sent this follow up Ppt to answer some questions that were posed before and during the webinar.
LEADINGAGE KANSAS NEWS
Weekly Webinars – Join Us This Friday
Get the latest on COVID-19, CMS, the Legislature and more each Friday at 10 AM. This week Ceildh Evans from AlliantGroup will join us for a few minutes to discuss the IRS Employee Retention Credit. If you haven’t registered for future calls, you can do so here. If you would like to listen to updates you have missed, visit this page.
LEADINGAGE NATIONAL NEWS
LeadingAge Coronavirus Call Wednesday, August 17th, 2:30 PM CT
Ashley Kirzinger, Director of Survey Methodology at the Kaiser Family Foundation will return to the LeadingAge Update Call on Wednesday, August 17th. She will discuss new data KFF has collected on vaccines, the differential impact of the pandemic on different groups within the population and related equity issues, and talk about how analyses of the data can support aging services providers as they work to improve staff recruitment and retention. If you haven’t registered for LeadingAge Update Calls, you can do so here. You can also find previous call recordings here. Note that to access recordings of the calls you need a LeadingAge password. Any staff member of any LeadingAge member organization can set up a password to access previous calls and other “members only” content.
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