PharmScript provides superior pharmacy services in support of long-term and post-acute care facilities. We improve the accuracy, timeliness, accessibility, and efficiency of pharmacy services, consistently providing exemplary client service.
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WHCA/WiCAL has published its 2022 Member Resource Guide, which provides members with an overview of the services that WHCA/WiCAL offers, and a road map to how you can get involved.
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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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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. Read More
In 2016, 2018, and 2020, WHCA/WiCAL, along with a coalition of LTC provider associations, joined together to gather data on direct care staffing vacancies in assisted living and nursing homes. As you know, the previous three reports proved to be extremely effective in our advocacy efforts over the last three biennial budgets and helped secure rate increases for SNFs and a continuation of the Direct Care Workforce Funding for assisted living facilities. Wisconsin’s LTC provider associations are now conducting the survey again in an effort to keep our workforce crisis front and center for state legislators.
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We are pleased to report that 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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The WHCA/WiCAL Seminar Series is a 10-part webinar program featuring hot-topic educational programming related to quality, regulatory, legal, reimbursement, staffing, and other key issues and...
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As a reminder, the deadline to submit all applications is by 7 p.m. CST next Thursday, January 27.
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The Wisconsin Medicaid reimbursement rate for home and community-based services (HCBS) will
go up by 5% effective January 1, 2022, through March 31, 2024. The increase comes from federal funding authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Family Care HCBS providers will benefit from these increased rates.
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WHCA/WiCAL will be holding a PEAL webinar on Thursday, January 27, 2022 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. on the WCCEAL Satisfaction Surveys.
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WHCA/WiCAL has heard from providers and other provider associations that many Family Care MCOs still have not communicated with providers about the
3.51% increase approved by DHS in the summer of 2021. The MCOs must send out contract addendums to providers they do business with which must in turn be signed and returned before the funds can be issued.
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