AHCA/NCAL released a free pre-recorded webinar about the basics of the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), assessing possible eligibility, and how to seek help, including AHCA/NCAL basic technical support.
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Trauma Informed Care (TIC) is an approach to care that requires specific staff competency and a system of care delivery that provides the necessary support to care for nursing facility and assisted living residents who may suffer from trauma.
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The surveyor vaccine requirement lasted less than six months. Nursing facility staff are still required to comply with CMS's vaccination mandate.
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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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The new WisCaregiver Careers public website is now live. Please visit the site at
WisCaregiver.com. Click on the links to acquaint yourself with the information, resources, tools, and functionality of the site. This is what members of the public -- including potential new CNAs -- will see when they visit this website.
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The WTA® (Wound Treatment Associate) educational program was developed by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN®) to meet the growing need for skilled wound care providers in all care settings and to enhance nurses’ ability to provide optimal care for patients with acute and chronic wounds, as members of a collaborative wound care team. The WOCN Society has been recognized with distinction by the ANCC as a provider of continuing education and is recognized by CMS as a resource for best practices related to wound management. Successful completion of this course provides 24 contact hours for continuing education and meets didactic requirements for WOCNCB certification as a WTA (WTA-C).
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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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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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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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Surveyors will continue to survey for compliance with the staff vaccination requirement for Medicare and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers during initial and recertification surveys. However, again, for complaint surveys, surveyors will now only review vaccine mandate compliance in response to complaints alleging non-compliance with this requirement.
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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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The AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo is heading to Nashville, October 9-12.
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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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Last Friday, the Division of Medicaid Services (DMS) within the Department of Health Services (DHS) held it’s first public
Methods of Implementation meeting for SFY23 via Zoom.
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AHCA’s online training program titled
Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Academy takes a holistic interdisciplinary approach toward SNF revenue management. RCM Academy helps develop concrete strategies to secure earned dollars and to “stay paid” when thinking about Managed Care payment recoveries. RCM Academy helps SNFs:
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The Division of Quality Assurance (DQA) is hosting its first Minimum Data Set (MDS) 101 - Session 1 educational training on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, from 1-2 p.m. The focus of this session is
Interpreting the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual. Read More
