As reported previously, with the end of the PHE, certain data elements will be removed from the NHSN reporting requirement. The CDC is hosting a series of webinars on the changes to the COVID-19 Module Surveillance changes starting June 1st. The next DPH Monthly Stakeholder call is scheduled for Wednesday, June 14th at 11:00 AM EST.
MassHealth has announced that it intends to issue COVID-19 Preparedness payments on June 6th to eligible nursing facilities. Register Now: The CNA to LPN Pipeline: Steps to Growing Your Own Nurses Webinar.
The Marcum Healthcare Symposium, Navigating Change in Senior Living, brings together industry leaders and providers from the healthcare community with the goal to bring awareness to the challenges within the senior living arena.
To address our historic nursing shortage, it is critically necessary that facilities invest in strategies to grow your own workforce, including upskilling CNAs to become LPNs.
Adam Ernst, Executive Director of the Leonard Florence Center for Living, has been selected as one of 38 long term care professionals from across the country to participate in the nineteenth annual "Future Leaders of Long Term Care (LTC) in America" program hosted by the American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL).
CMS has reissued transmittal instructions for Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to perform a 5-claim probe and educate medical review on every SNF in their jurisdiction.
The call summary, recording and transcript of the April 25, CMS National Stakeholder Call with the CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and her leadership team is available.
CMS has released updates to several survey resource documents, including the Entrance Conference form and the Infection Prevention, Control, and Immunization Critical Element (CE) pathway.