Tell About Your Health Workforce Needs Through the Sentinel Network * Respond by: November 8th

The Washington Sentinel Network wants to hear about your healthcare recruiting hurdles, common skill gaps, and other workforce challenges. Since 2016, a state-led consortium has...
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LeadingAge Fights Red Hand Nursing Home Icon

The icon will make no distinction between abuse citations that result from intentional harm or injury to a resident and citations relating to mistakes made...
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Authorized Use of the Background Check System

ALTSA: ALF #2019-017 AUTHORIZED USE OF THE BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM (BCS) Dear Assisted Living Facility Administrator: In June of 2018, the Background Check Central Unit...
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Consumer Alerts and Updates Added to the Nursing Home Compare Website & the Five Star Quality Rating System

Consumer Alerts added to the Nursing Home Compare website and the Five Star Quality Rating System https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Downloads/QSO-20-01-NH.pdf   Updates to the Nursing Home Compare website...
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Newsweek Announces 2020 Best Nursing Homes of WA

There are more than 47 million Americans age 65 and older today—and 14 more will reach that age in the two minutes it takes you...
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LeadingAge WA Workforce Solutions Council * Letter to our Members

Dear LeadingAge Washington Members, The Workforce Solutions Council meeting was held on October 2nd. We are looking forward to a great year and building on...
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Important Updates and Action Alert - CMS News

CMS released 2 memos last week: the first detailed the consumer alert icon as we shared with you and which LeadingAge is actively addressing. Join...
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Pre-Admission Screening & Resident Review (PASRR) Webinars * Nov. 20 or 21st.

PRE-ADMISSION SCREENING & RESIDENT REVIEW (PASRR) WEBINAR(s)  MORE ALTSA: NH #2019-022 Dear Nursing Facility/Home Administrator: The Department invites you and any interested staff to participate...
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SNF Ghost Bed Online Survey - Respond by October 18th

LeadingAge and WHCA are working to identify the number of skilled nursing beds that are licensed but non- operational. This information is crucial so we...
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Updates to the PDPM Tools from LeadingAge

We are pleased to see the number of people who have been using the PDPM budgeting and planning tools that we announced a few weeks...
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