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Celebrate National Public Health Week!

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A message from the Department of Health and Senior Services

Celebrate National Public Health Week, April 1 – 7.  Missouri’s theme is “Public Health:  A Wise Investment:  Save Lives, Save Money”.

Investing in prevention and public health can make an enormous difference.  And it starts with each of us taking the simple preventive steps that lead to better health.

For each day of National Public Health Week, the American Public Health Association has developed a theme.  Those themes are listed below, along with things you can do to develop better health habits in your home, workplace and community.  Click on the links for more details and ways you can make each theme work for you.  A poster and an ecard promoting public health can be found at http://health.mo.gov/ecard/index.php. 

Monday, April 1: Ensuring a Safe, Healthy Home for Your Family: Health and safety begin at home.  Make prevention a fun family tradition.

Tuesday, April 2: Providing a Safe Environment for Children at School: Schools are the perfect setting for improving child health.  Plus, children’s health is a rallying point few can ignore. 

Wednesday, April 3: Creating a Healthy Workplace: Wellness and safety in the workplace are good for health and for business.  Let’s make prevention work for us. 

Thursday, April 4: Protecting You While You’re on the Move: Safety on the go is often in our own hands, but it’s also tied to community design.  Together, we can turn our streets into roads to better health. 

Friday, April 5: Empowering a Healthy Community: Support public health efforts that create healthy opportunities for all.  Good health is a community affair. 

Please share this message with your staff, partners and others as we celebrate National Public Health Week.

2012 Annual Long-Term Care Provider Meetings

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Sponsored by the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services, Section for Long-Term Care Regulation (SLCR).

Topics Include:

    SLCR Updates / Rule Changes  Regulatory Update Provider Meetings 2012

    CPR and Elopement Issues  CPR and Elopement Provider Meetings 2012

    2012 Life Safety Code  Life Safety Code Update Provider Meetings 2012

    New Dining Practice Standards New Dining Practice Standards Provider Meetings 2012

    Update from the Missouri Coalition Celebrating Care Continuum Change (MC5)

Please view the flyer and agenda here:   2012 ANNUAL PROVIDER MEETINGS

Groundbreaking Ceremony at Golden Age Living Center – Stover

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In January 2012, I attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the Golden Age Living Center in Stover.  Golden Age Living Center is a 60-resident not-for profit Medicare/Medicaid certified skilled nursing home operated by Morgan County Nursing Home District #1.  They are in the process of building an addition to their existing home. 

The new addition, which is slated to be completed by July 4th, significantly moves Golden Age forward on their culture change journey.  The addition will include 12 new private rooms, complete with private bathrooms and showers.  Since they won’t be increasing their license capacity, they will also be converting existing semi-private rooms to private.  They are going from two private and 29 double rooms to 21 private and nine double.  To read more and view photos, click here:  Golden Age Living Center