1/25/09 Job Listings
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Welcome New Members
LifeSpan extends a warm welcome to our new members!
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2010 Seminars at Beacon!
Plan your 2010 Beacon education training now with:
* Webinar Leadership Series w/ Leta Beam
* RN Case Mgr and Delegating Nurse/Assisted Living Training
* New 3 Day Mgt Course Series Joint with Penn State U: Supervisory Development & Improving Health Care by Building a Successful Staff Retention Culture
* Assisted Living Manager Training - 80 & 20 hour series
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Members Elect 9 to LifeSpan/MANPHA Boards
Association members voted electronically earlier this month and voted Joe Podson (B'nai B'rith Homecrest House), George Child (Adventist Senior Living Services) Adam Kane (Erickson Retirement Communities), Suzanne Owens (Country Meadows) and Tammy Witkowski to second terms. Members also added Meriann Ritacco (Vantage House), Paula O'Neill (Maryland Masonic Homes), Mike Conord (Sunrise Annapolis) and Beverly Stickles (Cedar Lane Apartments) to the board serving their 1st terms.
Congratulations new board members!
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Md Budget Level-Funds Medicaid Programs - Proposal to Double Provider Tax
The Governor released his FY 2011 budget this week. LifeSpan is still examining the details of the proposals. What we know so far:
- nursing, waiver programs, adult day are level-funded;
- the Governor has introduced a bill to increase the quality assessment (provider tax) from a two-percent cap to a four-percent cap, which will affect whether a nursing facility is actually level-funded. Under this proposal, a portion of the revenues generated from the increase ($17 million) would go to the General Fund and the remainder would be cycled through the program. ( LifeSpan is currently running data models to better understand the impact on the industry. We will send out additional information to our members after the data models are completed); and
- The budget contains a $3.5 million reduction for a nursing home incentive program.
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LifeSpan Legislative Day is February 11th in Annapolis!
Mark your calendars now and make plans to join your peers and have the most fun you can while lobbying your legislators in Annapolis. LifeSpan and HFAM will collaborate again for this important opportunity to educate and inform our legislative leaders of the important issues senior care professionals are confronting this year.
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LifeSpan Helps to Organize Assisted Living Nurses Association Chapter
Following the implementation of the new Assisted Living Regulations in December of 2008, LifeSpan has recognized that many nurses working in assisted living programs need more support to be effective in their enhanced role. A number of organizing meetings with AL nurses have been held at LifeSpan, culminating recently in a decision to develop a MD ALNA affiliate.
Why form a Maryland ALNA Chapter? We believe that through this new chapter we can:
- Improve support
- Raise visibility
- Provide Peer to Peer Networking
- Offer specialized education
- Allow AL Nurses to play a greater role in the future direction of assisted living.
For more information, contact Joan Hyman, LifeSpan's Director of Membership Services 410-381-1176, or jhyman@lifespan-network.org.
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