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E-News Update

Your Link to Long Term Care News in Massachusetts

April 29, 2021

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2021 Spring Conference

Mass Senior Care’s 2021 Virtual Spring Conference

Please join us for Mass Senior Care Association’s 2021 virtual Spring Conference on Thursday, May 6, 2021. As we begin to slowly emerge from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical that we begin to take steps to move forward. Our dynamic conference speakers, Steven Littlehale, MS, CGNS-BC, Chief Innovation Officer at Zimmet Healthcare Service Group and Martha Hayward, founding member of the Conversation Project and Lead Faculty for Patient Centered Care with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) will offer their respective perspectives on how the CMS Five Star System and our approaches to End of Life Conversations have been impacted by COVID-19 and will offer strategies we can implement to help our staff and our organizations adjust to the new operating environment.

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Take Action Now: Ask Your State Senator to Support Nursing Facility Care in FY2022

Join Mass Senior Care in advocating for quality nursing facility care in the state FY2022 budget. The budget is now being considered by the Massachusetts Senate. Please ask your State Senator to make nursing facility funding a priority in the state budget!

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Check Out the Spring Education Calendar!  New Programs Just Added!

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2021 National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW)

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Massachusetts Senior Care Association is excited to participate in the upcoming observance of National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW), which will be held May 9-15, 2021. This year's theme, "Together Through the Seasons," will honor the collaborative commitment of skilled nursing care facilities and their staff in providing compassionate care to their residents during this unprecedented time.

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Annual Accounting for Personal Needs Allowance (PNA)

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MassHealth requires that nursing facilities and chronic disease and rehabilitation inpatient hospitals account for the balances of personal needs allowance (PNA) account funds. MassHealth has issued its annual LTC Bulletin for the accounting of balances of personal needs allowances (PNA) for residents in LTC facilities.

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In This Issue

  • Mass Senior Care’s 2021 Virtual Spring Conference
  • Take Action Now: Ask Your State Senator to Support Nursing Facility Care in FY2022
  • Check Out the Spring Education Calendar!  New Programs Just Added!
  • 2021 National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW)
  • Annual Accounting for Personal Needs Allowance (PNA)

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