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Information Needed on Residents Receiving Emergency MA
By Patti Cullen, CAE
About 50 current nursing facility residents whose care is covered by the emergency medical assistance program will receive NO state funding on January 1, 2012, and there will be no availability of any government payment read more...
Planned Closure Rate Adjustment Applications for Nursing Facilities to Be Accepted Until October 31, 2011
By Todd Bergstrom
DHS recently announced that it will continue to accept applications for the planned closure rate adjustments program until October 31, 2011. According to federal requirements, DHS must announce a change to the Medicaid read more...
Hiring to Discharging: The Performance Management Webinar Series
By Cheryl Smith
We have collaborated with Wes Pruett, a highly experienced HR professional with experience in health care, to present three webinars for personnel interested in expanding their HR skill set. The first one will be read more...
October Region Meetings Offering CEUs!
By Jason Espersen
The October region meetings will be offering 2.5 clock hours (3.0 contact hours) of CEUs! Doug Beardsley, vice president of member services, will be discussing the following topics with members at the meetings read more...
HCIS Wants to HELP YOU with Your Insurance Needs
By Doug Beardsley
HCIS can help save organizations money without sacrificing valuable coverage, limits and service. In addition, HCIS offers an Internet-based long-term care facility information website providing an endless source of read more...
State News
Nursing Homes — What Does Mandatory Transitional Consultation Mean for You?
By Doug Beardsley
If you run a nursing facility, understanding how this new law could affect your ability to provide seamless and helpful discharge planning from your facility to a Minnesota HWS setting is important. You are required to read more...
MDH Announces New Nursing Home Regulatory Statewide Phone Calls
By Doug Beardsley
The purpose of the bulletin is to inform nursing facility providers that MDH will sponsor four statewide telephone conference calls on implementation of nursing home regulatory guidelines and updates. The first one is on read more...
Latest Survey and Compliance Data Posted on Association Website
By Todd Bergstrom
Care Providers of Minnesota posted a new report based on the analysis of the Minnesota Department of Health standard surveys (HCFA-2657L) data for the second quarter of 2011. The specific timeframe for the report is read more...
National News
Leadership Selected for AHCA/NCAL
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living elected their new slate of officers at their annual convention last week. Neil Pruitt, Jr. from Georgia was elected chair of AHCA, and Michael Shepard read more...
State Medicaid Directors Send Message to Supercommittee
By Patti Cullen, CAE
The National Association of Medicaid Directors urged the “supercommittee” on September 22, 2011 to relax the rules that govern how states make changes to their Medicaid programs. They said states shouldn't read more...
Health Care Reform
Detailed Grid on Health Care Reform LTC Provisions Available
By Patti Cullen, CAE
Staff from the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living have created a detailed health care reform implementation chart, and posted it to the “Health Care Reform Resource Center” on read more...
Updated Information Available on Hospital Readmission Avoidance Campaign
By Patti Cullen, CAE
In addition to in-person support, there are numerous tools and resources that have been developed and placed on the RARE website. There are resources and promising practices that have recently been added read more...
AHCA/NCAL News
AHCA and NCAL Recognize Outstanding Members
By Patti Cullen, CAE
More than 500 individuals, groups, and facilities were honored through a series of awards, all of which recognized extraordinary and selfless dedication to advancing quality care. The National Quality Awards were read more...
Housing, Home and Community-Based Services
Process and Timeline for Implementation of 10% Cuts in Rates to Low Needs Clients on the CADI Waiver
By Phil Manz
During the Friday, September 23 DHS webinar — Overview of 2011 Continuing Care Legislative Changes — the process and timeline for implementation of the low needs CADI rate cuts was outlined read more...
DHS Does Not Plan to Change Requirements That Limit BI or CADI Waiver Recipients to Four Per Setting
By Phil Manz
They did not plan to make any recommendations for legislation that would change requirements that limit the size of the setting where a participant on the BI or CADI waiver under age 55 may reside read more...
Free Webinars Regarding Smoke-Free Policies in Multi-Unit Settings
By Doug Beardsley
Whereas only a very small percentage of renters (around 2%) enjoy a smoke-free environment, nearly half of those renting apartments in Minnesota would prefer to live in smoke-free units. Live Smoke Free's goals are read more...
Billing and Payment
Noridian SNF Medicare Update
By Doug Beardsley
Noridian has recently released an excellent PowerPoint presentation covering a variety of important skilled nursing facility Medicare topics. The presentation covers the following SNF Medicare issues read more...
Foundation
Help the Foundation Reach its $10,000 Goal: Donate a Basket to the 2011 Silent Auction
By Cyndi Spencer
Please consider putting together a basket with your staff for the Foundation silent auction. You could put together a basket that reflects your particular city or region. Or a games basket. A night at the movies basket. read more...
Education
Two Free Webinars from AHCA
By Cheryl Smith
AHCA is excited to announce two free webinars that will present new research on how the green house model performs across several measures — care outcomes, resident satisfaction, staff satisfaction, read more...
Association News
Convention Special Events Emphasize Networking
By Cyndi Spencer
We’ve provided opportunities all three days of the Convention for you to connect with colleagues and friends. You will also find more than 90 education sessions, a full expo hall, plus the Association’s annual meeting read more...
Spotlight on the Board of Directors
By Nancy McCoy
Jennifer Kuhn is the administrator for Park Health Rehabilitation Center in St. Louis Park. She has over eighteen years of long-term care experience. I would venture to say it’s her family that keeps Jennifer focused! read more...
Now Hiring At ...
By Lisa Foss Olson
Whether you’re a cook, adult day program director, administrator, or nurse, you can find available positions on Care Providers of Minnesota’s Job Center. And with members able to post job openings 24 hours a day read more...
Associate Member News
Health Dimensions Group Adds Two New Staff Members
By Doug Beardsley
Health Dimensions Group, a Care Providers of Minnesota associate member, recently announced hiring two new members to their team: Amy Minich, project manager and Neal Peyser, senior vice president of read more...
Member Resources
Finding Out More with Social Media
By Lisa Foss Olson
All of these communication vehicles — twitter, Facebook, and the CEO blog — are easy ways you can interact with Care Providers of Minnesota members and staff. So if you haven’t gotten involved, there’s read more...
2011 Minnesota Nursing Facility Compensation Report
By Todd Bergstrom
This state-of-the-art compensation and benefits report contains salary information on 70 nursing facility staff positions. Each staff position’s salary data is broken down by facility size, geographic location, read more...
Clinical Matters
CMS Releases Updated RAI Manual V1.07
By Doug Beardsley
On September 20, 2011, CMS released yet another MDS 3.0 RAI manual update (V1.07). Files that have changed are Chapter 2, Chapter 6, and Chapter 3, Section O. Previous files should be replaced with these read more...
FYI Corner
Center on Aging Distinguished Lecture Series — Registration Due October 7
By Patti Cullen, CAE
Please join the University of Minnesota as they welcome Jos deBlok, who will present Lessons From the Netherlands: New Ways to Deliver Home Care, a lecture about the innovative new home care system read more...
Education & Events Calendar
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Oct. 11 |
Region 2 (Northeast) Meeting; 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in Duluth |
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Oct. 12 |
Region 1 (Northwest) Meeting; noon - 3 p.m. in Erskine |
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Oct. 13 |
Region 3 (West-Central) Meeting; 11:00 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Fergus Falls |
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Oct. 14 |
Region 4 (East-Central) Meeting; 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Saint Cloud |
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Oct. 18 |
Region 6 (Metro) Meeting; 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Bloomington |
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Oct. 19 |
Region 8 (South-Central) Meeting; 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. in Waseca |
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Oct. 19 |
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Oct. 20 |
Region 5 (South-West) Meeting; 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Edgerton |
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Oct. 21 |
Region 7 (South-East) Meeting; 9:00 a.m. - noon in Rochester |
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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 |
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Dec. 13 |
Keeping the Good Ones: Effective Retention Strategies Webinar |
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Jan. 12, 2012 |
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Managing Employee Performance Webinar |
For a full list of scheduled events and committee meetings, visit our online calendar.
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