• New QuickCast on The Changing Medicare Hospice Landscape. In this 17-minute QuickCast, Katy Barnett provides an overview of key regulations, payments, and quality measures for 2025. 
  • New QuickCast on The Changing Medicare Home Health Landscape. In this 17-minute QuickCast, Katy Barnett provides an overview of key regulations, payments, and quality measures for 2025. 
  • New QuickCast on Improving Hospice CAHPS Survey Return Rates. In this 13-minute QuickCast, Allie Bolen, BSN, RN shares strategies to achieve higher response rates and enhance the representativeness of your agency’s survey data. 

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Kylee Childs, MSW, is the Director of Government Affairs.Since joining the association in 2023, she continues to be a fierce and resourceful advocate for aging services in Kansas. Her professional focus has always been service to others through advocacy. Kylee has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a bachelor's degree in criminology with a minor in Conflict Analysis and Trauma studies from Kansas State University, and a certificate in Grant Proposal Writing from Fort Hays State University. With a professional background in law enforcement and child welfare, and a successful 2023 legislative practicum with the Children's Alliance of Kansas, she brings rich professional experience to her role as Director of Government Affairs, and a front-line perspective on the needs of health and human services providers in our state. When not working, she's spending time with her two daughters. You can reach Kylee directly at 785.670.8051.