July 20-22, 2015: MALA’s ALF Resident Assessment Training
Location: Best Western Capital Inn, Jefferson City, MO
Anyone who wants training on issues relating to the elderly, aging, certain people with mental illness, and community-based assessments can attend this training.
Please see the brochure and registration information on the Missouri Assisted Living Association’s website.
August 23-26, 2015: “The Changing Faces of Long Term Care”
Location: Branson Convention Center, Branson, MO
Each day is scheduled to offer a range of education sessions to meet the needs of the entire staff, from Certified Nurse Assistants to owners. The 2015 convention offers the opportunity for attendees to earn 18.5 continuing education hours.
For more information including the schedule, seminar descriptions, and registration, please visit the Missouri Health Care Association’s website here.
Beginning June 22, 2015, all EDL access password resets will be completed by the Missouri ITSD department, not the EDL unit. Please call 573-751-6388 or 800-347-0887 for all future password resets. At the time that you ask for an EDL password reset, your identification will be compared with that of the authorized EDL user’s identification. If you are using the authorization of another individual in your organization, that access privilege will be revoked. Please call 573-522-1119 if you have any questions.
Notice: The Section for Long-Term Care Regulation office in Poplar Bluff has relocated. Their new address is 2153 North Westwood, Poplar Bluff, MO, 63901. Location is the only change; phone numbers will remain the same.
July 23, 2015: “Light ‘em Up or Let ‘em Go!”
Presenter: Christopher Ridenhour, Director of Employee Engagement and Hospitality Training
Transforming organizational cultures requires each of us to become role models for the behaviors and attitudes we expect from others. This session will be useful for anyone who recognizes they haven’t fully reached their full potential as a role model and champion for change; needs research-based tools for inspiring and motivating colleagues to higher levels of performance and cooperation; and seeks a clear road to establishing a positive and lasting leadership legacy.
Please visit www.pioneernetwork.net/Events/HotTopics for more information and to register for this webinar.
September 22, 2015: DON/Charge Nurse/CNA
September 23, 2015: DON
Location: Orlando’s Event & Conference Center, St. Louis, MO
Missouri League for Nursing invites Directors of Nursing, Charge Nurses, and Certified Nursing Assistants to attend an educational event catered to YOUR needs! This conference will be energetic and hands-on all while being in a learning environment. Useful information will be available to take back and implement in your home along with the confidence, knowledge, direction, and motivation needed to help enhance your role of caring for the elderly.
Please see the brochure here or visit Missouri League for Nursing’s website here for more details and registration information.
July 31, 2015: Teepa Snow
Location: Holiday Inn Executive Center, Columbia, MO
After watching her role-play and hands on training, you will leave with techniques and an understanding of your dementia residents that you did not have before. Return to your community with a new outlook and with resources that you can implement immediately to see results. This seminar is hosted by Martin Bros Distributing Company, Inc. and the Missouri Health Care Association and has been approved for six (6) Patient Care hours.
Please see the brochure along with discount information on the MC5 website here or you Teepa Snow’s event page for the Columbia seminar located here.
July 1, 2015: Improving Nursing Home Quality through Communication, TeamSTEPPS and Family/Resident Engagement
Presenters: TMF Quality Innovation Network Quality Improvement Organization Staff: Sandy Dailey, BS, Program Coordinator; Debi Majo, BSN, RN, Quality Improvement Consultant; and Melody Malone, PT, CPHQ, MHA, Quality Improvement Consultant
Attend this webinar, hosted by the TMF Quality Innovation Network, to learn more about the importance of communication, TeamSTEPPS strategies, and how to engage your residents and family members in their care.
Please visit the TMF website here for more information. You may also directly register for this webinar here.
Nationally-known speakers partner with Advancing Excellence to bring you subjects aligned with the 9 AE Campaign goals. This series will be a great team-based training! Sit with your staff and learn together how to make the latest topics work for you. Choose 1 or all 10! Webinars start July 1, 2015!
Please see the brochure here or visit the Advancing Excellence in Long-Term Care Collaborative website here for more information and to register.
August 2-5, 2015: Navigating the Winds of Change
Location: Hyatt Regency O’Hare, Rosemont/Chicago, Illinois
This year will be the 15th annual meeting put on by Pioneer Network and can be enjoyed by all – elders, families and other consumers, providers, owners, nurses, CNAs and direct care staff, physicians, social workers, activity staff, food service staff, maintenance staff, advocates, researchers, academicians and others interested in improving the lives of elders. There are nearly 90 sessions offering the opportunity to learn about and discuss ways to change thinking, practice, policy and research. This conference is a place where people are learning, smiling, connecting and changing.
Please visit the Pioneer Network’s Conference web page here for more information and registration details.
Selfie Tip #8: Please Pass the Hot Sauce
Food preferences along with the way meals favored (and sometimes flavored) depend on the individual. Dining should be about more than nutrition.
Please see the flyer here for more information.
June 23, 2015: 2:00 p.m. CT
Dr. Al Power is the author of Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Well-Being. In this webinar, Dr. Power will look at the experience of dementia through the seven domains of well-being — identity, connectedness, security, autonomy, meaning, growth, and joy — and explore how each is challenged, both by brain changes and by our attitudes and care systems, and how we can use transformational approaches to restore each domain even for people with advanced cognitive change.
Dr. Power will also talk about why many “nonpharmacological interventions” and alternative therapies don’t really work any better than pills. Participants in the webinar will learn to view dementia in a new light and will challenge many of the approaches that have been taken for granted.
To register for this FREE webinar, please visit here. You may also visit the Dementia Alliance International’s event page located here.
In 2011, I visited Lincoln Community Care Center (LCCC), a 66-resident skilled nursing and 14-resident assisted living home located in Lincoln. Recently, Administrator Donna Bowers invited me back to share the changes that have taken place since. I visited again in March 2015. One of the first things I noticed was… to read more and view photos, click here: Lincoln Community Care Center Update
In April 2014, University of Missouri Nursing Home Leadership Coach Dave Walker and I led a staff, resident, and family team in completing the Artifacts of Culture Change assessment at Parc Provence. Parc is a 140-resident skilled nursing home that specializes… to read more and view photos, click here: Parc Provence.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new recommendations for the pneumococcal vaccine in adults over the age of 65. The CDC recommends that providers now use two pneumococcal vaccines for adults aged ≥65. These vaccinations are 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13) and 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPSV23). The CDC recommendations are located at www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pneumo/default.htm.
CMS has updated the Medicare coverage requirements to align with this recommendation. These Medicare coverage requirements were implemented on February 2, 2015 as posted in the MLN Matters document: MM9051.
Please visit www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNMattersArticles/Downloads/MM9051.pdf to see that specific MLN Matters document.
CMS has instructed providers to continue to code item O0300 as instructed in the current RAI User’s Manual.
June 23, 2015: Speaking from Experience: The Wisdom of Elders
Presenter: Anna Ortigara, Organizational Change Consultant with PHI and Lynda Crandall, Executive Director with the Pioneer Network
The voices of people living in long-term care settings have been frequently missing from formal discussions and change efforts. Their voices help us to not only learn the extent to which person-centered practices are in place and experienced by residents, but also how important various actions and practices and environments are to them. During this webinar, participants will think about and identify methods or systems for acting on the desires of residents; identify questions that may facilitate deeper conversation and learning with residents; and reconsider the importance and depth of information collected about residents relative to meaningful living.
Please visit www.pioneernetwork.net/Events/HotTopics for more information and to register for this webinar.
September 1-3, 2015: “Be the Voice”
Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel, St. Louis, MO
LeadingAge Missouri is gearing up for a new and exciting conference this year. LeadingAge Missouri is able to offer this annual conference in large part because of the support from exhibitors, and sponsors and advertisers. LeadingAge Missouri also understands how valuable vendors are to the success of the Annual Conference. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to view the latest products, services and technologies across the variety of aging services. This annual meeting offers the supporters a chance to reconnect with current customers and opportunities to make new contacts.
Please visit LeadingAge Missouri’s 2015 Annual Conference web page here for a list of presenters, registration details, and sponsorship and advertising information.
June 19-30, 2015: Kansas City, MO
July 1-2, 2015: Springfield, MO
July 13-14, 2015: Cape Girardeau, MO
July 15-16, 2015: St. Louis, MO
July 20-21, 2015: St. Louis, MO
July 22-23, 2015: Columbia, MO
August 5-6, 2015: Blue Springs, MO
This workshop, provided by Missouri Health Care Association, LeadingAge Missouri, and Missouri League for Nursing, is for long-term care staff, including MDS coordinators, medical records personnel, therapists, home health nurses and others who currently assign and/or use ICD-9 codes. Participants will get an understanding of what ICD-10 CM is and how to appropriately assign codes in ICD-10 CM.
Please see the brochure attached or visit Missouri League for Nursing’s website here for more details and registration information.
June 4, 2015: Adams Mark Hotel Conference Center, Kansas City, MO
LeadingAge Missouri will hold a Regional Meeting in Kansas City focusing on Root Cause Analysis: Fertilizer for a Safe and Just Culture along with updates from the Section for Long-Term Care Regulation, the Division of Senior and Disability Services, and LeadingAge Missouri’s Legislative update. Following the meeting and a networking reception, a shuttle will take attendees over to Kauffmann Stadium to see the Kansas City Royals take on the Cleveland Indians.
For more information and registration details, visit LeadingAge Missouri’s KC Regional Meeting web page here.
June 2, 2015: Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, St. Louis, MO
LeadingAge Missouri will hold a Regional Meeting in St. Louis focusing on High Reliability: The Key to Quality and Value along with updates from the Section for Long-Term Care Regulation, the Division of Senior and Disability Services, and LeadingAge Missouri’s Legislative update. Following the meeting and a networking reception, attendees will head over to Busch Stadium to see the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Milwaukee Brewers.
For more information and registration details, visit LeadingAge Missouri’s STL Regional Meeting web page here.
For the past 10 years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the States have used two standard survey processes that assess the quality of care and quality of life for nursing home residents. The memo has a review of both the traditional survey and QIS processes. CMS is continuing to make improvements to QIS to address the challenges, concerns and feedback we have received to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of survey process.
The memo and attachment are both attached or you may visit www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Policy-and-Memos-to-States-and-Regions-Items/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-15-40.html?DLPage=4&DLEntries=10&DLSort=3&DLSortDir=descending.
The Section for Long-Term Care Regulation has published New Generations – Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2015. A complimentary color copy will be circulated via regular mail to each licensed home in Missouri. This issue is now accessible on our website. Please visit health.mo.gov/seniors/nursinghomes/providerinfo.php to view this publication along with a collection of previous newsletters.
Selfie Tip #7: “Don’t Call Me Honey!”
Have you listened to yourself and the words you use? Not only the words, but also the way you say them may be condescending to people. Using person-centered language is one of the essentials in changing our culture.
Please see the flyer here for more information.
Effective October 1, 2014, providers that disagree with actions imposed on their facility must file a hearing request electronically using the DAB’s E-Filing System (DAB E-File). For assistance in submitting a request through the DAB E-File System, filers may call the Civil Remedies Division main telephone line at 202-565-9462. For technical issues regarding the DAB E-File System, filers may contact E-File System Support at OSDABImmediateOffice@hhs.gov.
The memo and two attachments are attached (Memo, DAB e-file instructions, and Appeal Rights) or visit www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Policy-and-Memos-to-States-and-Regions-Items/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-15-36.html?DLPage=4&DLEntries=10&DLSort=3&DLSortDir=descending.
CMS has issued a new S&C memo regarding their new proposed rule to implement requirements regarding the submission of staffing data based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data. Specifically, long-term care facilities would be required to submit to CMS direct care staffing information including: the category of work for each individual that performs direct care (including, but not limited to, whether the individual is a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, licensed vocational nurse, certified nursing assistant, therapist, or other type of medical personnel specified by CMS); resident and census data; and information on staff turnover and tenure. Long-term care facilities would also be required to specify whether the individual is an employee of the facility, or engaged by the facility under contract or through an agency. Staffing data would be submitted to CMS no less frequently than quarterly.
The proposed rule “FY 2016 SNF PPS for Staffing Data Collection in Long-Term Care Facilities” was published on April 20, 2015. The document can be found at www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-04-20/pdf/2015-08944.pdf.
The public has until 5 p.m. on June 19, 2015 to comment on the proposed regulatory document.
Contact: Questions regarding this memorandum should be addressed to NHStaffing@cms.hhs.gov.
Please see the complete memo attached or visit www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Policy-and-Memos-to-States-and-Regions-Items/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-15-37.html?DLPage=4&DLEntries=10&DLSort=3&DLSortDir=descending.