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Health and Human Services Conference Committee Members Begin Meeting This Week
By Heidi Holste
This week the House and Senate named members of their Health and Human Services Conference Committee. This year, they have invited the governor to be more active and present in the negotiation process read more...
From the Desk of Gail Sheridan
By Gail Sheridan, Board Chair
I encourage you—if you are new to long-term care or just feel it’s time to reinvest—to take part in the many ways in which you can connect with our community, whether by traditional means or new read more...
Conference Committee Chairs Hann and Abeler Will Join Public Policy Panel Discussion at Spring Leadership Conference
By Cyndi Spencer
We just received confirmation that the co-chairs of the Conference Committee on Health and Human Services Finance will participate on our Public Policy Landscape panel next week. Are you registered read more...
Legislative/On the Hill
Already Signing Bills
By Toby Pearson
This past week the governor acted on two proposals. The first was a community paramedics bill creating certification for emergency medical technicians-community paramedics. The second included tax read more...
State Capitol Happenings for the Week of April 11, 2011
By Heidi Holste
While conference committees are meeting, the policy committees are also still hearing bills. The Vulnerable Adults Justice Project bill was heard and passed in both the House Civil Law Committee and the read more...
2011 Bill Introductions
By Heidi Holste
Each week during the 2011 legislative session, we post a list of Bill Introductions in the Advocacy Section of the Association's website. Please contact Toby Pearson or Heidi Holste any time if you have read more...
State News
DHS Receipt of Case Mix Classification File from MDH Delayed
By Todd Bergstrom
MDH sent DHS incomplete case mix classification update files on Tuesday, March 29 and on April 5, 2011. This problem has been corrected, but it's possible that there may be some payment delays or read more...
DHS Releases Questions and Official Responses About PACE RFP in Advance of April 18 Responders’ Conference
By Phil Manz
DHS has posted the “List of Questions and Official Responses” regarding the PACE Request for Proposal on the MN PACE website. This document lists all questions submitted through April 11, 2011 read more...
Nursing Facility Diversity Mini-Grant Program Proposal Deadline Extended to APRIL 29
Submitted by Audrey Riddle
Nursing facilities that wish to develop programs/projects related to diversity and/or cultural competency in staffing and/or resident care within their respective facility should obtain a request for proposal read more...
HRSA Primary Care Workforce Grant Idea/Project
By Patti Cullen, CAE
We invite you to submit ideas that will help Minnesota increase its primary care workforce. Our visionary thinking, strategy development, and direction for Minnesota’s primary care workforce will read more...
Administrative Uniformity Committee’s LTC Tag Close to Formalizing Best Practice
By Todd Bergstrom
On April 11, 2011, the committee met and continued its work to standardize the data set of patient items that are necessary to send to an LTC facility for placement decisions and patient care after read more...
DHS Launches Website for Managed Care Health Contracting Information
By Phil Manz
DHS has launched a web page entitled Managed Care Reporting. It has five areas with different information collected by DHS and MDH. They include financial information and data, contracts, read more...
National News
Update on Ryan Budget Plan for Medicare/Medicaid
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The Congressional Budget Office found that under Ryan’s design for Medicare, “most elderly people would pay more for their health care than they would pay under the current Medicare system.” read more...
Invite Us!
By Lisa Foss Olson
Including Care Providers of Minnesota staff in your celebrations gives us the chance to see you in action; and provides you a chance to see your photo in the Association's newsletter, Action, or read more...
Health Care Reform
Minnesota One of Fifteen States to Develop New Ways to Coordinate Care for Dual Eligibles
By Patti Cullen, CAE
Under the State Demonstrations to Integrate Care for Dual Eligible Individuals, selected states will be awarded up to $1 million to design strategies for implementing person-centered models that read more...
HHS Announces New Partnership for Patients Initiative
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The Partnership for Patients is a new national partnership that will help save 60,000 lives by stopping millions of preventable injuries and complications in patient care over the next three years read more...
AHCA/NCAL News
AHCA/NCAL Convention and Expo: Education Sessions Start on Sunday, September 18
By Doug Beardsley
This year’s AHCA/NCAL 62nd Annual Convention and Expo offers attendees more exciting opportunities to maximize their CEU count by attending the MEGA session on Sunday, September 18 read more...
Housing, Home and Community-Based Services
Care Providers of Minnesota Provides Comments on “Final” MDH Home Care Regulatory Proposal
By Doug Beardsley
The memo included eight broad areas the group indicated needed to be modified in the draft. In addition, we provided MDH with the 90-page “final draft” with our joint suggestions for improvement read more...
Quality Resources
2011 AHCA/NCAL National Quality Awards
By Doug Beardsley
A total of 1,119 applications were received; 702 bronze, 376 silver and 41 gold. It is particularly exciting to see the increase in silver and gold applications, up from 271 silver and 26 gold in 2010 read more...
Tick, Tick, Tick
By Lisa Foss Olson
Why not use a few of those 56,160 minutes to check out Care Providers of Minnesota's 2011 Awards Program? Read through them and pick out who from your facility deserves the Rising Star Award read more...
Foundation
Foundation Is Leading the Way in Scholarships: Meet Anna DeCorsey
By Cheryl Smith
The Foundation awarded 25 scholarships in 2010, and Anna DeCorsey from Providence Place in Minneapolis is just one of the talented, committed caregivers awarded a 2010 scholarship. Here is her story read more...
Education
Free Webinar on the Role of Informal Care Supports
By Doug Beardsley
This is a chance for practitioners, researchers, instructors and students to gain a basic understanding of a topic by viewing an online module on the subject, then joining a webinar that is read more...
LTC Trend Tracker Announces April Training
By Doug Beardsley
Please join the free AHCA Webinar designed to maximize LTC Trend Tracker information. This free webinar will explain the different uses for reports, how to best utilize the graph features and read more...
Grant Information
Opportunity for Grant to Provide Technical Assistance to Multi-Housing Establishments Seeking to Go “Smoke Free”
By Phil Manz
If your multi-housing organization is willing to share what you learned going “smoke free,” then the Minnesota Department of Health has a request for proposal that you should consider completing read more...
Member Resources
Bed Entrapment Measurement Rental Kit
By Todd Bergstrom
The rental kits consist of all the approved tools and test methods to self-test the bed systems in your facility. The kit may be kept at a facility for a period of ten calendar days, per rental period. By properly using read more...
Associate Member News
Nor-Son Earns National Excellence in Construction Award for Senior Care Community
By Cyndi Spencer
Congratulations to Care Providers of Minnesota Business Member Nor-Son, Inc., who received the award for their work on St. Gabriel’s Community, a Benedictine Health System “household” model read more...
FYI Corner
Long-Term Care Message Goes Between the Lines
By Lisa Foss Olson
Getting the message of funding for older adult services across to the public, decision makers, and the media takes many forms. The most recent venue is the cable show, Between the Lines read more...
Registration Is Now Available for Free Communities for a Lifetime Session
By Patti Cullen, CAE
This interactive session will cover core principles of Communities for a Lifetime and recent trends in civic engagement, and then provide 12 practical strategies developed by MAVA to help read more...
Christine Mueller Named to the School of Nursing Endowed Long-Term Care Professorship
By Doug Beardsley
Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, FAAN, is committed to promoting long-term care as a career for nursing students as well as to strengthening geriatric nursing and long-term care in nursing curricula read more...
Registration Open for June 1 Summer Institute on Palliative Care
By Patti Cullen, CAE
This year's Institute, Understanding Palliative Care Across Settings, will provide an opportunity for health professionals, clinicians, administrators, educators, faculty and students to learn from read more...
Nominations Sought for Shelley Joseph-Kordell Awards
By Cheryl Smith
To honor those who have demonstrated a record of service to older people, Hennepin County established two awards. One recognizes individuals or agencies who have consistently shown read more...
Education & Events Calendar
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Apr. 19 |
Housing and Community Based Services Cabinet Meeting |
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Apr. 19 |
Leading4Life Meeting |
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Apr. 20 |
Spring Leadership Conference |
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Apr. 21 |
Board of Directors Meeting |
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May 3 |
Rally at the Capitol |
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May 3 |
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May 5 |
Successful Infection Control Strategies for Assisted Living & Home Care Settings |
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May 8-14 |
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May 24-25 |
Housing Managers' Educational Series, Part I |
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Jun 28-29 |
Housing Managers' Educational Series, Part II |
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July 19 |
Foundation Golf Tournament |
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Aug. 24-25 |
Assisted Living & Senior Housing Summit |
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Sep. 11-17 |
National Assisted Living Week |
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Sep. 19-21 |
AHCA/NCAL 62nd Annual Convention |
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Nov. 14-16 |
Care Providers of Minnesota Convention & Expo |
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