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Leading4Life Applications Now Being Accepted
By Cheryl Smith
Care Providers of Minnesota’s Foundation initiative, “Leadership Fellowship: Leading4Life” is planning for its fourth year, and we invite you to consider yourself — or a colleague — as a candidate for this exciting program read more...
September 23 DHS Webinar on Overview of 2011 Legislative Changes for Continuing Care
By Phil Manz
DHS will conduct a September 23 webinar summarizing continuing care (nursing homes, housing with services, home care, foster care and others) provisions in the 2011 special session health and human services legislation read more...
AHCA/NCAL President and CEO Governor Mark Parkinson to Open 2011 Convention & Exposition
By Cyndi Spencer
2011 Care Providers of Minnesota Convention attendees will be “enriched” by keynote sessions all three days. AHCA/NCAL President and Chief Executive Officer Governor Mark Parkinson will open this year’s Convention read more...
New Nursing Facility and Senior Housing Pay and Benefits Reports Available for Purchase
By Todd Bergstrom
The 2011 Minnesota Nursing Facility Compensation and Senior Housing Compensation Reports have been produced and are available for purchase. Respondents received their copy free of charge, those who did not read more...
State News
MDH Develops RUG-III / Case Mix Fact Sheets for Consumers
By Todd Bergstrom
The MDH Care Mix Review Program has developed new consumer information materials for nursing facilities to use in explaining the Minnesota Case Mix System. The new case mix fact sheets are designed around read more...
List of Questions and Official Responses for State Profile Tool RFP
By Patti Cullen, CAE
DHS is requesting proposals from responders to develop a quality chapter for the Minnesota State Profile Tool. Questions and answers on this have been posted on the DHS website, mostly tied to stakeholder involvement in read more...
Head of State Veterans Homes Resigns
By Patti Cullen, CAE
Gilbert Acevedo, deputy commissioner of veterans health care for the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, has announced his decision to make a move to the private sector, recently accepting a position in Minnesota read more...
National News
Cargill Announces Second Ground Turkey Recall
By Doug Beardsley
Cargill Inc. has announced a second recall of ground turkey products after a test showed salmonella in a sample from the same Arkansas plant tied to a recall issued in August. No illnesses have been tied to this second recall read more...
Health Care Reform
Work Underway for State Health Information Exchange
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The Association has reached out to the commissioner of commerce, as well as the health insurance exchange director, April Todd-Malmlov, about our specific concerns with the health information exchange read more...
CMS Holds Conference Call for Dual Eligible Grant States
By Patti Cullen, CAE
AHCA staff arranged for a conference call on September 7 for the 15 states with integrated care contracts for dual eligibles. Association staff were part of this call, and gained a much clearer perspective on read more...
Webinar on Project RED (Re-Engineered Discharge) Set for Noon – 1 p.m., September 29, 2011
By Patti Cullen, CAE
At the end of this session, the participant will be able to describe the components of re-engineered discharge, identify tools that facilitate the RED intervention, and learn from the experience of a read more...
Housing, Home and Community-Based Services
Confusion Reigns as DHS Seeks to Implement 10% Rate Reductions for CADI and DD Waiver Recipients in Congregate Living
By Phil Manz
Members are confused over the implementation of 10% rate reductions for CADI and DD waiver recipients in congregate living. A timeline, background, and key questions to be addressed are included read more...
DHS Conducts Webinar for Case Managers on Updates to EWCL Rate Setting Tool
By Phil Manz
DHS has updated the elderly waiver customized living rate setting tool four times since the end of August. DHS also is conducting two-hour webinars for case managers in September to review the changes read more...
Quality Initiatives
Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report
By Doug Beardsley
The nursing home survey is designed to assess nursing home staff opinions about resident safety issues, medical errors, and event reporting. The survey includes 42 items that measure 12 areas of read more...
2010-2011 Excellence in Action My InnerView Awards
By Doug Beardsley
The My InnerView Excellence in Action award recognizes those nursing homes that have overall customer or workforce satisfaction levels in the top 10% of My InnerView's customer database in 2010 read more...
Education
Confused About the CMS Changes Related to MDS Completion and SNF Medicare Billing?
By Doug Beardsley
Your Association and AHCA recently provided additional learning opportunities for skilled nursing facility providers to better understand the October 1, 2011 MDS 3.0 changes related to read more...
Transitions in Geriatrics Conference
By Doug Beardsley
The Minnesota Medical Directors Association, the American Medical Directors Association and the Minnesota Geriatrics Society are jointly sponsoring the fall Transitions in Geriatrics Conference Oct. 26–28 read more...
Free Webinar: Geriatric Care Management Services — What, Where, Why, When and How
By Cheryl Smith
The Minnesota Gerontological Society and the Minnesota Area Geriatric Education Center will hold a webinar Tuesday, September 27, 2011 that will explore the different types of care management, with a read more...
Association News
Fall Region Meeting Agenda — Something for Everyone!
By Doug Beardsley
Between October 11 and October 21 Doug Beardsley, vice president of member services, will be zig-zagging across the state bringing a variety of important topics to our various regions. Doug will discuss read more...
Future Long-Term Care Professional Joins the World
By Patti Cullen, CAE
Congratulations to the Association’s director of government affairs, Heidi Holste. On Saturday, September 10, Heidi, her husband Matt and two “big sisters” welcomed Julia Annmarie Holste into the world read more...
Spotlight on the Board of Directors
By Nancy McCoy
This week we are turning the focus to Shelly Wiggin. Shelly is the administrator at Minnesota Masonic Home Care Center in Bloomington and has been on the Board of Directors since March 2010 read more...
Member Resources
Providing Jobs Is on Everyone’s List
By Lisa Foss Olson
Getting people to work is on everyone’s list, and the number of current job openings on our website is growing. Members — and non-members — are posting job openings in our Job Center every day read more...
Want to Help Reframe the Image of Long-Term Care?
By Lisa Foss Olson
A focus group is being formed with the goal of reframing the image of long-term care. The time commitment is minimal (it could be as easy as responding to an email), but the impact could be powerful! read more...
Regulatory Resources
CMS Releases New Tube Feeding Guidance
By Doug Beardsley
On Thursday, September 7, 2011, CMS released S&C: 11-37-NH outlining new guidance regarding feeding tubes in nursing facilities. The guidance revises F-322 and deletes F-321 — its content is read more...
Nursing Facility Gardens — CMS Agrees You Grow Good Food
By Doug Beardsley
Nursing homes with gardens are compliant with the food procurement requirements at 42 CFR 483.35(i), sanitary conditions, F-371, as long as the facility has and follows policies and procedures for read more...
Clinical Matters
Less Flu Outbreaks for Nursing Homes with Vaccinated Workers
By Doug Beardsley
Their study, conducted in 75 New Mexico nursing homes, discovered that when 51% to 75% of direct care workers in a facility were vaccinated, the odds of a flu outbreak in that facility decreased by 87% read more...
MedWatch Updates 45 Product Labels
By Doug Beardsley
The MedWatch August 2011 safety labeling changes posting includes 45 products with safety labeling changes to the following sections: boxed warnings, contraindications, warnings, precautions read more...
FYI Corner
Judith Gartner Passes Away After Lengthy Illness
By Patti Cullen, CAE
Judith Gartner, longtime partner with Sam Orbovich in the law firm known as Orbovich & Gartner, died at home on September 10, 2011. For those who knew Judith as a colleague or as your lawyer read more...
Two More Nursing Facilities to Close
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The Cerenity Senior Care board of directors announced on September 12, 2011 that Cerenity Care Center on Dellwood Place, St. Paul, and Cerenity Care Center – Bethesda of South St. Paul will close on or read more...
Provider and Job Fairs Next Week at Cerenity
By Lisa Foss Olson
Cerenity Care Centers are holding job fairs next week. Provider and job fairs will be held at Cerenity Care Center on Dellwood Place and Cerenity Care Center – Bethesda of South St. Paul read more...
Education & Events Calendar
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Sep. 18–21 |
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Sep. 20 |
Leading4Life Meeting |
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Sep. 27–28 |
Managing Your Nursing Practice in Assisted Living & Senior Housing, Part I |
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Oct. 11 |
Region 2 (Northeast) Meeting |
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Oct. 12 |
Region 1 (Northwest) Meeting |
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Oct. 13 |
Region 3 (West-Central) Meeting |
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Oct. 14 |
Region 4 (East-Central) Meeting |
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Oct. 18 |
Region 6 (Metro) Meeting |
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Oct. 19 |
Region 8 (South-Central) Meeting |
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Oct. 20 |
Region 5 (South-West) Meeting |
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Oct. 21 |
Region 7 (South-East) Meeting |
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Oct. 27–28 |
Managing Your Nursing Practice in Assisted Living & Senior Housing, Part II |
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Nov. 14–16 |
Care Providers of Minnesota Convention & Expo |
For a full list of scheduled events and committee meetings, visit our online calendar.
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