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February 3, 2022

UW System Renews Student Health Care Worker Initiative for 2022!

The UW System has renewed its very successful Student Health Care Worker initiative through February 28, 2022. During the winter of 2020 -2021, over 2000 students worked in Wisconsin’s health care facilities. Nursing facilities, assisted living centers and residences for folks living with disabilities, as well as other clinical and health care settings, are eligible to employ the students.
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Participate in the 2022 State of Seniors Housing Report

​All senior living providers are asked to help support The State of Seniors Housing report as it conducts its annual research on the profession. The State of Seniors Housing is a collaborative research project supported by NCAL, along with the American Seniors Housing Association, National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, Argentum, and LeadingAge.
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HRSA Continues Phase 4 Funding Release

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released an additional $2 billion in Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Phase 4 General Distribution payments to more than 7,600 providers across the country this week. These payments are in addition to the nearly $9 billion in funding that was already released in December 2021.
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Registration for Spring Conference Now Open! Register TODAY to be Entered to Win $500!

Registration for WHCA/WiCAL's Annual Spring Conference & Expo is now open! Spring Conference will be a fun, engaging, and in-person experience for attendees with opportunities to network with long-term care professionals held at the Hyatt Regency & KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin from April 6-8, 2022. Register before Friday, February 18 to be entered into a $500 CASH prize drawing. Winner will be announced during the Expo on Thursday, April 7.
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Upcoming Nursing Home Quarterly Regional Office/Provider Forums

The Division of Quality Assurance (DQA), Bureau of Nursing Home Resident Care (BNHRC) has announced the dates of the upcoming Nursing Home Quarterly Regional Office Provider Forums. BNHRC representatives will answer your questions and provide updates on citing statistics, COVID-19, and other areas of interest to nursing home providers.
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Upcoming WiCAL Learning Session! ISP: Tool for Success

Writing an ISP is more than regulatory paper compliance. Join us for a WiCAL Learning Session to learn tips on how to develop your Individualized Service Plan to be useful AND functional while giving your staff clear directions, supporting quality care, and promoting quality for life for your residents.
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Upcoming WHCA/WiCAL Seminar Series Webinar! Perfect Partners: How to Train Your Nurses to Collaborate with Remote Physicians to Deliver Optimal Care

Access to a physician via telemedicine can empower skilled nursing facility nurses to treat more residents in place, avoiding a stressful return to the emergency department. But connecting with a physician on video can be uncomfortable, and most nurses have never received telemedicine training. What conditions warrant a telemedicine visit? What is the best way to prepare for a telemedicine assessment? What types of conditions can be treated with the support of a telemedicine physician? And, most importantly, how can you train your frontline nurses to embrace telemedicine to deliver better care for residents when a doctor is not in the building? Get your questions answered and find out how you can support frontline nurses to partner with remote physicians to deliver optimal care.
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EMResource Tracking System: Reporting Strongly Recommended for Providers

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is strongly encouraging nursing homes to report the number of skilled nursing facility (SNF) beds available in their location each day to EMResource as part of a bed tracking system. With the daily reports from nursing homes, DHS hopes the “SNF bed tracker” will provide a real time picture of bed availability across the state, which hospitals can use as they work to identify potential post-acute care placements for their patients.
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