The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Provider Relief Fund (PRF)
Reporting Portal is open for providers who need to report the use of PRF funds in Reporting Period 2 (RP2).
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Join WHCA/WiCAL, its members, and partners from the long-term care community at the 60th Annual Spring Conference & Expo. WHCA/WiCAL is going back to the ever-popular Hyatt Regency Hotel & KI Convention Center, located in downtown Green Bay.
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Join WHCA/WiCAL Director of Development Jena Jackson and Prime Partner von Briesen & Roper, s.c. for a Facebook Live to discuss the new Legal Hotline, a new benefit exclusive to WHCA/WiCAL members.
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The
2022 Direct Care Workforce Survey is available for providers to complete. Responses are due Friday, March 18th. Providers should complete this survey based on all direct care workforce payments received since June 2021.
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On Thursday, March 17, the Wisconsin Nursing Home Administrator Examining Board held its first scheduled meeting of 2022.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week that it has revised two QSO memos, affecting COVID guidance for both visitation and testing policies.
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The recent enactment of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) includes provisions to extend beneficial telehealth waiver policies advocated by AHCA/NCAL.
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On March 15, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act. This includes $275 million to help the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services address the backlogs and delays with processing immigration visas.
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AHCA/NCAL’s online training titled
Functional Outcomes Improvement is designed for all staff who have a role in improving patient functional outcomes quality and services, including nurses, CNAs, therapists, activities staff, and recreational therapists. Patients and residents often arrive at long term care facilities with the goal of improving their mobility and independence levels.
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The federal government has launched two new initiatives, “Test to Treat” and “Long-Term Care Pharmacy Program,” to create an allocation of oral antiviral medications for utilization in vulnerable populations.
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A
review of scientific research by leading academic experts in the field found that community spread was the primary driver of COVID-19 outbreaks in long term care facilities. The review examined 36 different studies, and the final analysis was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The paper supports
prior findings that showed that the size and location of a facility were the strongest and most consistent predictors of COVID-19 outcomes, especially if the facility was located in an area with high COVID-19 rates.
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Join Director of Quality Advancement and Education Pat Boyer on March 21, 2022 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for a webinar to overview the PEAL/WCCEAL program. The webinar is open to all existing and new members of PEAL/WCCEAL.
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The federal public health emergency (PHE) related to the COVID-19 pandemic will likely continue into mid-July, according to DHS Assistant Administrator for Benefit and Service Delivery, Curtis Cunningham.
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AHCA/NCAL’s Congressional Briefing is back in 2022 and it’s time to
register! Mark your calendars for June 6-7 and join AHCA/NCAL at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill.
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Earlier this month,
LTC Trend Tracker released the new customizable SNF Resident Characteristics report, which replaces the previous CASPER Resident report. This enhanced report provides users with a detailed overview of the organization’s resident characteristics and allows users to customize which measures that would like to see displayed. Registered users can create multiple, different, customized SNF Resident Characteristics reports within this report, as well as build, save, and schedule their customized SNF Resident Characteristics reports directly in their LTC Trend Tracker profile.
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The American Health Care Association is pleased to announce that National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW) products and planning guide are now available at
nsncw.org.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has authorized the use of federal Civil Money Penalty (CMP) Reinvestment funds so federally certified nursing homes may purchase portable fans and portable room air cleaners with high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA, H-13 or -14) filters to increase or improve air quality.
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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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