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Register today for the NCHCFA Annual Convention and Expo, February 23-26, 2014 at the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Seasons/Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC. Reminder, the advanced registration deadline is this Friday, February 7th. Don’t miss the opportunity to earn up to 16 hours of educational credit for North Carolina Nursing Home Administrators, as well as up to 14 hours of Nursing CE credit! To obtain an additional brochure visit the Member Center of the Association’s Web site at http://www.NursingHomesNC.com.

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The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would like to thank the 2014 Corporate Sponsors for their generous support of the upcoming Annual Convention & Expo. Be sure to visit them on Tuesday, February 25th at the booths listed below:

Pruitt Health – Booths 325 & 327
UniHealth Home Health – Booth 428
United Hospice – Booth 430
United Medical – Booth 426
United Pharmacy – Booths 329 & 331
United Rehab – Booth 424

Be sure to register for the Chairman’s Evening Extravaganza, A Night in Olympic Village for a night of fun. Remember to dress as your favorite athlete from the past or present, or as a spectator from your favorite country. Cash prizes will be awarded for the best dressed male and female!

Don’t miss the opportunity to bring a Nursing Assistant or a Billing Office staff member for free! If a facility registers two staff members for Package Two, a Nursing Assistant or a Billing Office staff member may attend Package Two at NO CHARGE!

The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would also like to thank the 2014 Convention Hosts for their generous support of the upcoming Annual Convention & Expo. Be sure to visit them on Tuesday, February 25th at the booths listed below:

Blue Ridge Pharmacy – Booths 315 & 317

Healthcare Services Group, Inc. – Booths 429 & 431

Medipack Pharmacy – Booth 530

NH Med Services – Booth 528

Poyner Spruill LLP – Booth 302

Southern Pharmacy – Booths 501, 503 & 505

Does your facility have a question for NCTracks? On Tuesday, February 25th, NCTracks will have a help center open exclusively for 2014 Convention attendees. Eight representatives from NCTracks will be on-site to assist individuals with specific questions. This will be similar to other help centers that have been held across the state, except this will be solely for SNF providers attending the NCHCFA Annual Convention. Please bring a list of your NCTracks issues as well as any supporting documentation. Please bring a list of your NCTracks issues as well as any supporting documentation. The Help Center will be open on a first come, first serve basis, from 8:00 am-5:00 pm conveniently located near the EXPO Hall.

In addition, NCTracks will also provide a brief progress report of the Medicaid claims processing system as it continues to develop and improve since its implementation July 1, 2013 for Package One attendees during “Reimbursement Hot Topics” and for Package Two attendees during “Billing Office Staff Day – Navigating NCTracks.” “Navigating NCTracks” will be a very detailed and informative program for Billing Office Staff. If your Medicaid Billing Staff have any specific questions and/or concerns they would like addressed LIVE during “Navigating NCTracks,” please e-mail them to Sam Clark at samc@nchcfa.org and include “NCTracks Question” in the subject line.

Call the Sheraton at (800) 242-6556 to make your room reservation. Identify that you are with “NC Health Care Facilities Association 2014 Convention” to receive the group discounted rate.

If you have any questions or need additional details, please call the Association office at (919) 782-3827.

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Mark your calendar today for the North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association’s “ICD-10 CM Essentials For Long Term Care” seminar! This one-day program will have the following objectives:

• Learn structure, organization, and unique features of ICD-10.
• Understand basic coding guidelines.
• Demonstrate ability to look up and code basic diagnoses.
• Understand how coding relates to billing.
• Relate coding guidelines to all types of care.
• Know basic disease classification and how to use resource books.
• Be able to determine primary diagnosis.

This one-day course will be held March 19, 2014 at the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel in Greensboro, NC! Brochures and registration forms will be mailed next week!

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Election of officers and members of the Board of Directors will be conducted on Sunday afternoon, February 23rd, during NCHCFA’s Business Meeting. The business meeting will be held in conjunction with NCHCFA’s Annual Convention in Greensboro. All persons seeking an office or a position on the Board of Directors should have their name submitted to the Nominating Committee by Friday, February 7th. The nomination must be submitted in writing or e-mailed and include the candidate’s full name, the office being sought and the facility or company of employment. Please mail or e-mail the information to the attention of:

By Mail:
Nominating Committee
North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association
5109 Bur Oak Circle
Raleigh, NC 27612

By E-mail:
Karen Outland, NCHCFA, kareno@nchcfa.org

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Each month, the Division of Medical Assistance publishes the Medicaid Bulletin on-line. To view the current issue, containing articles on the latest news from NCTracks, and past issues, go to http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dmA/bulletin/index.htm.

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How can you measure the effectiveness of quality improvement efforts? Read this book and find out! Chapters cover preparing to collect data, data collection, understanding variation, run and control charts, control chart case studies, developing improvement strategies, and using patient surveys for CQI. An appendix shows five ways to calculate control limits.

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

Product #6912
AHCA MEMBERS $58.00

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NCHCFA is excited to offer this remake of our most popular educational tool, Mobility and Safe Movement of the Elderly, Improving Your Skills to Prevent Injuries and Reduce Falls, by Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L., FOTA, Dementia Care & Training Specialist. This DVD was developed in conjunction with Wake Allied Health Education Center, Durham Technical Community College and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Office of Information Systems. The content is formatted in separate segments in order to customize the delivery of content to your learning objective. Handouts developed by Teepa may be reproduced and accompany each video. To order, contact Jan Williams at janw@nchcfa.org.

The price is $35.00 (tax and shipping included).

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Quality Through The Ages – While battles over OBRA raged, the reforms would reshape the long term care marketplace.

http://www.providermagazine.com/archives/2014_Archives/Pages/0214/Quality-Through-The-Ages.aspx

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Since precipitation is generally measured in inches of liquid water and not in snowfall amounts, snow is usually converted into inches of water by dividing by 10. Thus, ten inches of snow is equivalent to one inch of rain. Light and loose snow takes more than 10 inches to make an inch of water but dense and slushy snow takes less.

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