Effective June 22, 2022, the Division of Quality Assurance Southern Regional Office (SRO) is relocating to the Department of Health Services Central Office at 1 W Wilson Street, Room 455, Madison, Wisconsin, 53704. This move affects the Bureau of Assisted Living (BAL) and the Bureau of Nursing Home Resident Care (BNHRC).
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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services recently provided an update about the Infection Prevention and Infrastructure Matching Grant. According to DHS, they received over 1,000 applications from nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other types of LTCFs with more than $13 million requested in reimbursement. These requests exceeded the approximately $4.8 million granted to DHS by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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How many times have you just met someone, and you already forgot their name? What if you were able to remember not only their name, but their eye color and their story? Learn how these skills are connected to leadership through the virtual presentation, “Executive Presence,” with Dr. Claire Muselman on June 29 at 9:30 a.m. CST.
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DMS clarified that providers should take action to come into HCBS compliance, but providers do not have to be fully compliant by the original June 15, 2022 date.
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Last week, U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced the Travel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act. This legislation, which AHCA/NCAL endorses, requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study and report to Congress on the business practices and the effects of hiring agencies across the health care industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Care Classic benefits the George F. MacKenzie scholarship fund, supporting those pursuing a career in long term care, and those advancing their career path and education practicum within long term care.
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The AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo is heading to Nashville, October 9-12.
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DHS recently announced that they have expanded their supply of antigen tests to include
OnGo rapid antigen tests. Please note that future orders placed for rapid antigen tests may be fulfilled with OnGo. You will be notified via email when your antigen order is filled with OnGo tests. Distribution is anticipated to start within the next week.
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Bipartisan legislation was recently introduced to expand veterans’ access to assisted living services. The Expanding Veterans’ Options for Long Term Care Act would create a pilot program for eligible veterans to receive assisted living care paid for by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than they are with new solutions. Just like a football coach makes strategic “half time adjustments” in a game, leaders navigating through change know how to change the direction of an organization overnight. They know, that destination cannot be changed overnight, direction can be shifted overnight. Is it time to make a half time adjustment in your software program, in confronting that co-worker, ending the behind the scenes games at work that’s driving the good employees to leave? Leaders navigating through change realize that sound emotional intelligence skills are now, more important than ever in tackling the difficult people related problems.
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