Busy Doing Nothing?  How to Foster Purpose and Meaning for Seniors in LTC

• Webinar –November 9, 2016 webinar 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. CT.
• Presenter: Kathleen Weissberg, Select Rehabilitation

Are your residents busy doing nothing?  Are they actively engaged?  Research evidence indicates today’s seniors prefer continued engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities and occupations.  Those who are occupationally active show positive therapeutic benefits, demonstrate fewer negative behaviors, need less help with self-care tasks, report positive mood, and describe greater quality of life.

Please find registration and more information here.

MALA ALF Resident Assessment Trainings

• November 7-9, 2016 MALA 2016 ALF Resident Assessment Trainings
• Location: Best Western Capital Inn, Jefferson City

Please find registration and more information here.

Coordination of Care Seminar

• November 10, 2016:  West Plains

Join MHCA for this session that will cover the beginning-to-end journey between Hospice and Nursing Facilities. Learn how to know when it’s time for hospice, how hospice can benefit the facility, the resident, and the family. There will be panel discussion on Care Planning and End of Life Decisions, as well as providing grief counseling for family and facility employees.

For more information, including registration, please see the MHCA event page here.

Communication More Than Words: Using Body Language to Communicate Workshop

• November 1, 2016:  Poplar Bluff
• November 10, 2016:  Cape Girardeau
• November 15, 2016:  St. Louis

Participants will learn how body language affects every-day interaction with staff, families, and residents. Participants will gain knowledge and hands-on experience with interpreting nonverbal signs of pain, stress, deception, and the concept of micro expression through clinically best practices.

Please see the Workshop brochure and more information including registration here.

Readmissions/Medication Safety/Behavior Health Webinar

• October 20, 2016:  The Care Transitions for Medication Safety in the Community
• Presenter:  Lauren E. Glaze, PharmD

In this free webinar, Lauren E. Glaze, PharmD, will define transitional care and its affect on health care outcomes and expenditures by:

• Identifying medication-related strategies to decrease hospital readmissions
• Describing the development of a transitions of care (TOC) service
• Reviewing examples of pharmacist-led interventions to enhance TOC in rural communities

For more information including registration, please see the event page here.

MHCA Webinars

• October 11, 2016:  Six New Quality Measures and 5-STAR
• October 25, 2016:  Reducing Readmissions Through an APN Model
• November 8, 2016:  The Endangered Heel

For more information including registration, please see the Missouri Health Care Association Webinars page here.

MANHA’s Activity Director Training Program

• October 10-14, 2016:  Jefferson City

This course is designed to:

• teach the long-term care activity director how
• to stimulate physical and psychosocial abilities in residents and how to promote selfworth and usefulness in the resident;
• explain the activity director’s role within the long-term care team; and
• enhance the activity director’s career through the sharing of ideas and programs.

Please see the brochure for more information including registration on MANHA’s website here.

MHCA Workshops

• October 3-6:  Social Service Designee Workshop
• October 11-12, 2016:  AHCA/NCAL Silver Quality Award Seminar
• October 24-25, 2016:  Federal Review Course for Nursing Home Administrators Exam
• November 1-2, 2016:  CNA/Nurse Leadership Conference
• November 14-17, 2016:  Activity Director Workshop

For more information on these, please see the MHCA’s Workshops page here.

MLN’s Oktoberfest, Nursing Home Administrator Conference

October 12-14, 2016:  Nursing Home Administrator Conference

Location:  Hilton Branson Convention Center, Branson

It is time to discover new experiences at the NHA Oktoberfest Conference in beautiful Branson!  The purpose of the activity is to enable the learner to acquire/ increase knowledge and skills to better care for the elderly.  Expert speakers will get you recharged while providing the latest information on hot topics in long-term care.

Please find registration and more information here.

MLN Geriatric Emergencies Workshop

• September 21, 2016:  Kirksville Area Technical Center, Kirksville
• September 22, 2016:  Tiger Place, Columbia
• October 5, 2016:  Cape Girardeau Career & Technology Center, Cape Girardeau
• October 6, 2016:  Cardinal Ritter Sr. Services on the Cardinal Carberry Campus, St. Louis

MLN brings you this workshop to educate health care professionals to effectively treat older residents in emergency situations. The objectives for this workshop include: 1. Discuss the aging process and the changes that occur over time. 2. Demonstrate multiple assessment tools. 3. Describe communication techniques for the elderly. 4. Discuss medical/legal issues and do not resuscitate (DNR).

Please see the Workshop brochure and more information including registration here.

ACO’s and Bundles:  Making Your Facility a Preferred Provider

September 20, 2016:  Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, St. Joseph

September 21, 2016:  Stoney Creek Conference Center, Independence

September 29, 2016:  Embassy Suites, St. Charles

Please see the brochure for more information including registration on MANHA’s website here.

MALA ALF Resident Assessment Trainings

November 7-9, 2016 MALA 2016 ALF Resident Assessment Trainings

Location: Best Western Capital Inn, Jefferson City

Please find registration and more information here

Busy Doing Nothing? How to Foster Purpose and Meaning for Seniors in LTC

Webinar –November 9, 2016 webinar 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. CT. 

Presenter: Kathleen Weissberg, Select Rehabilitation

Are your residents busy doing nothing?  Are they actively engaged?  Research evidence indicates today’s seniors prefer continued engagement in meaningful and purposeful activities and occupations.  Those who are occupationally active show positive therapeutic benefits, demonstrate fewer negative behaviors, need less help with self-care tasks, report positive mood, and describe greater quality of life.

Please find registration and more information here.

MALA Level I Medication Aide / Insulin Administration Train the Trainer Workshop

November 2, 2016 MALA Level I Medication Aide / Insulin Administration Train the Trainer Workshop

Location: Hyde Park Conference Center, Jefferson City

Please find registration and more information here

Where Did the Stars Go? An Overview of the Five-Star Quality Rating System

Webinar–October 12, 2016, 10-11:15 a.m.

Presenter: Suzy Harvey, BKD National Health Care

This webinar will review the three components of the Five-Star rating system, how they are calculated and proactive ways to improve your facility’s Five-Star Rating. Please find registration and more information here.

MALA Fall Conference

October 9-11, 2016 

Location: Camden on the Lake Hotel, Lake Ozark, MO

Please find registration and more information here

47^th Annual Conference

September 12-14, 2016:  47^th Annual Conference

Location: Chase Park Plaza Hotel

Come join us at the historic Chase Park Plaza Hotel for our 47th annual conference.  Our educational offerings cover topics of interest to all levels of staff.   Our location brings the amenities of St. Louis within easy reach, including Downtown St. Louis, the Clayton business district, the Metro link rail system and Lambert International Airport.  Earn a maximum of 15 CE hours, 11 of them PC.

Please find registration and more information here

Webinar  – Obtaining Quality Care for Residents with Dementia

September 13, 2016: Webinar 1:00 p.m.-2 p.m.

Presenter:   Jonathan Evans, MD

This webinar presents successful person-centered strategies that lead to quality care for residents with dementia.

Webinar  – Piecing Together Quality Long-Term Care

October 11, 2016: Webinar 1:00 p.m.-2 p.m.

Presenter:   Robyn Grant, MSW               

This webinar will walk you through the different pieces you, or your client, need to consider to obtain quality long-term services and supports.

More information and registration is available here

Empira researcher Sue Ann Guildermann coming to Missouri to share research findings that link long-term care residents’ falls with sleep interruptions and discuss interventions proven to reduce falls and improve residents’ quality of life

Three half-day seminars will be held at the following locations:

• November 29, 2016 – St. Charles
• November 30, 2016 – Osage Beach
• December 1, 2016 – Blue Springs

CEUs will be available for long-term care administrators, social workers, and activity professionals.

Funding for this project provided by MOLANE, Missouri Health Care Association, MC5, and Health Systems, Inc.

Pleas see the flyer attached for more information including registration.

Getting Residents Out of Wheeled Chairs

September 16, 2016, Webinar 1pm CDT

Presenters: Carmen Bowman and Diana Waugh, BSN, RN, CDP

We all know that wheels were put on chairs for transportation. That certainly makes sense and provides people with any limitation on their ability to get from point A to point B. How is it then that individuals who reside in many communities dedicated to caring, spend the vast majority of their time awake sitting in a wheeled chair? Something has gone awry with the application of a very specialized piece of equipment.   Wheeled chairs were never meant as seating devices.   We can also state all of the negative effects of having people sitting in a wheeled chair… but there are still way too many people doing just that.  We will look at the underlying change in belief that must occur to move to a new culture where wheeled chairs become simply a mode of transportation, and are unoccupied most of the time.

More information and registration is available here