UPDATE Weekly

This will be the last issue of UPDATE for this year. UPDATE will not be published on December 19th or 26th, but will resume its normal schedule on January 2nd, 2013. The staff of the North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association wishes you Happy Holidays!

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The Personal Care Services (PCS) QiRePort Provider Interface is a web-based information system to support PCS Independent Assessments. The interface helps collect, store, and communicate beneficiary information such as decision notices and independent assessments that are required to develop beneficiary plans of care. After the January 1, 2013 implementation of the new PCS program, additional Provider Interface functions will be introduced to support processes such as change of status assessment requests and facility discharge reporting.

Licensed facility provider registration for the PCS Provider Interface began on November 29, 2012. To register to use the Provider Interface, please complete the Provider Registration For Licensed Facility PCS Provider Use of QiRePort form and send to The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME) via fax at (877) 272-1942 or mail to CCME, ATTN: PCS Independent Assessment, 100 Regency Forest Drive, Suite 200, Cary, NC 27518-8598.

DMA anticipates that the Provider Interface will be available to registered users beginning on Monday, December 17, 2012. When the Provider Interface is available, registered users will receive an e-mail notification from support@QiRePort.net that includes the QiRePort Web site link and your log-in id and temporary password. To ensure that the registration e-mail is properly delivered to your account inbox, please add support@QiRePort.net to your e-mail account contacts list.

Registered licensed facility PCS providers will be able to log into QiRePort and view and download beneficiary assessments for beneficiaries assessed during the transition assessment period, including those authorized for services effective January 1, 2013, those denied transition effective January 1, 2013, and beneficiaries who appeal adverse decisions and are authorized for maintenance of service. To ensure that you are able to view and download copies of independent assessments of your facility’s residents prior to the January 1, 2013 PCS program implementation, please register immediately. Providers not registered to use the Provider Interface may request faxed copies of independent assessments beginning January 2, 2013. Please refer to the DMA Consolidated PCS Web page beginning January 2, 2013 for the independent assessment copy request form and instructions.

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The NCHCFA Annual Convention and Trade Show will be held February 10-13, 2013 at the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Seasons/Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC! NCHCFA is rolling out the red carpet for the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Cheryl Clapp-Coleman and the Board of Directors are issuing you the hottest ticket in town! As part of Package One and Three registrations, plan to attend a special evening in Hollywood. All the glitz and glamour of “Tinseltown” will be waiting for you. The band Soul Fish is back by popular demand and will play all the greatest tunes from your favorite decade.

Follow the Hollywood Walk of Fame and get ready for the VIP treatment! You will want to look “fabulously chic” as you start your evening on the red carpet. Joan Rivers (impersonator), the one and only “fashion police,” will be hosting this year’s event. Dress as your favorite movie character or celebrity from the past or present so you will make her A-list! And the Oscar goes to…You? Great prizes will be awarded for the best dressed male and female celebrities! Don’t forget to smile for the camera. The paparazzi will be waiting as you enter the Kodak Theater!

Inside will be a celebration of Oscar winners through the years. Lights, camera and a lot of action will be provided! Play a game of pool like Paul Newman in The Color of Money or become the ping pong Champion like Forrest Gump. You can cut loose on the NASCAR track because you will not be Driving Miss Daisy. Remember to wear your finest attire for your special evening on the red carpet! Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served. You will not want to miss this star-studded event!

To view the entire 2013 Annual Convention & Expo schedule at a glance, click here! Registration materials will be available Monday.

Reminder, call the Sheraton at (800) 242-6556 to make your room reservation. Identify that you are with “NC Health Care Facilities Association 2013 Convention” to receive the group discounted rate.

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The Updated List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) database file reflects all OIG exclusion and reinstatement actions up to, and including, those taken in November 2012. This new, “Updated LEIE” is a complete database file containing all exclusions currently in effect. Individuals and entities that have been reinstated to the Federal health care programs are not included in this file.

The new file is meant to REPLACE the “Updated LEIE” file made available for download last month. The new file is complete and need NOT be used in conjunction with the monthly exclusion and reinstatement supplements. Alternatively you may wish to download either the November Exclusions or Reinstatements databases only which are posted as the “Current Monthly Supplements” All the updated files are posted at http://www.oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/exclusions_list.asp.

The full LEIE database — complete with all the monthly updates — is included in the OIG “Online Searchable Database” which may be accessed at http://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov.

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This is a unique book that presents a host of tools for combating the depression that often accompanies the life changes associated with aging. It features 11 innovative interventions built around everyday activities such as gardening, exercising, reading, and reminiscing that are designed to appeal to every older person.

These interventions are so simple they don’t feel like therapy, yet they produce such positive effects as increased self-esteem, decreased loneliness, lowered blood pressure, and heightened mental acuity.

To order visit http://www.AHCApublications.org, or call (800) 321-0343.

Product #6890
AHCA MEMBERS $37.95

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Important information for residents and families, this brochure outlines what physical restraints are, when they should be used, rules and regulations concerning restraints, and making decisions about using them. Contact Jan Williams at janw@nchcfa.org to order brochures for your facility.

NCHCFA Member: $30.00 per 100 brochures plus tax and shipping

Non-Members: $60.00 per 100 brochures plus tax and shipping

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Alzheimer’s, the disease that creeps in and slowly erases what you know until, eventually, there’s no more to erase. How this happens is still a mystery, but this short animation by Po Chou Chi tries, I think, to make poetic sense of what goes on.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/12/12/166979837/a-metaphor-for-forgetting-that-you-might-remember?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20121212

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The first pawn shops emerged in ancient China more than 3,000 years ago.

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