12/4/09 Job Listings
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LifeSpan Welcomes MORE New Members!
The association extends a warm welcome to our new members joining as of December: Eden Homes: Apple Grove, Greyswood, Ipswich, Liberty, Stoneham and Eden Kosher Home (under construction)!
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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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QIS Surveys Delayed for Remaining Maryland Regions
OHCQ informed LifeSpan this week that the agency will delay the QIS training for the remaining survey teams, which include Eastern Shore and Montgomery County teams, until September of 2010.
In addition, CMS has informed OHCQ that an upgrade to the software is to occur next year, which will hopefully solve software glitches we survey teams have been experiencing. The agency expects to complete the training of these two teams who serve the Eastern Shore and Montgomery County after this upgrade software upgrade has occurred.
Team four recently just completed the training & is now conducting QIS.
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Got CEUs?
Check out Beacon's new online education for busy senior care professionals. Our online education is affordable, convenient and accessible to even the busiest person, and will allow you to keep up with licensure and educational requirements. CEUs are available for Nursing Home Administrators, nurses, certified nurse assistants, and others.
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2009 CCRC Benchmark Report Is In!
A total of 10 LifeSpan member CCRCs participated in a free-to-members web based benchmarking program this year. LifeSpan offered this new data reporting tool to members for the 1st time in 2009, and it allows CCRCs (and now other types of organizations) to input their data and in return receive state-specific and national data reports that contain important facility and operational metrics. Ziegler and AV Powell will to continue to offer this free tool through LifeSpan in 2010. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Lisa Fichman at LifeSpan at 410-381-1176 x 223, or lfichman@lifespan-network.org.
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Nursing Facilities Escape Latest Round of Budget Cuts
At a recent Maryland Board of Public Works meeting, the Governor presented approximately $360 million in additional budget cuts to close out the FY2010 fiscal year. Total budget reductions for FY2010 have now totaled over $1 billion. Nursing facilities DID NOT incur any additional cuts.
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State Encouraging Nursing Facilities to Adopt Electonic Record Systems
Maryland's Health Care Commission's Center for Information Technology is promoting the adoption of health information technology, particularly the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) in nursing homes. They recently created a product portfolio of some of the software vendors that cater to nursing homes that were willing to provide discounted pricing to Maryland nursing homes.
These are national vendors. While MHCC is not endorsing any particular vendor, they contacted about 30 vendors and the 9 listed are willing to provide interested facilities information and offer discounted pricing.
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