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Register today for the NCHCFA Annual Convention and Expo, February 15-18, 2015 at the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Seasons/Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC. Don’t miss the opportunity to earn up to 14.5 hours of educational credit for North Carolina Nursing Home Administrators, as well as up to 13.5 hours of Nursing CE credit! The advanced registration deadline has been extended to Friday, February 6th. To obtain an additional brochure visit the Member Center of the Association’s Web site at http://www.NursingHomesNC.com.

Reminder, call the Sheraton at (800) 242-6556 to make your room reservation. Identify that you are with “NC Health Care Facilities Association 2015 Convention” to receive the group discounted rate.

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The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would like to thank our 2015 Gold Convention Hosts for supporting the upcoming Annual Convention & Expo – NCHCFA Diamond Jubilee Celebration. Be sure to visit them on Tuesday, February 17th during Expo 2015 – Voyage Through the Decades.

Blue Ridge Pharmacy – Booths 500 & 502
Healthcare Services Group – Booths 427 & 429
Legacy Consultant Pharmacy – Booth 516
Medipack Pharmacy – Booth 233
Neil Medical – Booths 301, 303, 400 & 402
NH Medical Services – Booths 229 &231
Poyner Spruill, LLP – Booth 302
PruittHealth – Booths 323, 325, 327, 329, 422, 424, 426 & 428
Southern Pharmacy Services – Booths 409 & 411

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The Education and Programs committee needs your help! We hope you will join us and participate in celebrating the Association’s 60th Anniversary during the NCHCFA Diamond Jubilee. Please submit photographs, articles, interesting facts, important dates, individual corporate and/or facility historical details, and any additional information that reflects back on the last 60 years in long term care. The more photographs the better! A special presentation is being developed to show during the Diamond Jubilee Celebration in Greensboro, NC. In addition, this information will be used for many years to come as a permanent historical record of NCHCFA and the story of our membership.

The committee’s goal is to have at least one historically significant detail from all NCHCFA members! Don’t miss this special opportunity to commemorate our founding leaders and extraordinary members from the past, present, and future. Please submit items by Friday, February 6th. Information can be sent to:

NCHCFA
Attn: Allison Boyette
5109 Bur Oak Circle
Raleigh, NC 27612
allisonb@nchcfa.org

We thank all members that have submitted information, but 100% MEMBERSHIP PARTICIPATION is needed. Members of the Education and Programs Committee will be reaching out to members that have not submitted information in the coming weeks. If you have any questions please call (919) 782-3827 or e-mail allisonb@nchcfa.org.

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Registration is now open for several instructor-led training courses for providers that will be held in February 2015. Following are details on the institutional related courses, the dates and times they are being offered, and instructions for how to register:

Thursday, February 5 – 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Prior Approval – Institutional
This course will cover submitting Prior Approval (PA) Requests for Institutional providers to help ensure compliance with Medicaid clinical coverage policy and medical necessity. It will also cover Prior Approval Inquiry to check on the status of the PA Request. This course will be taught at the CSC facility in Raleigh. The course includes hands-on training and will be limited to 45 participants.

Thursday, February 5 – 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Submitting an Institutional Claim
This course will focus on how to submit Institutional (UB-04) Claims via the NCTracks Provider Portal. At the end of training, providers will be able to enter Institutional claims, save a Draft claim, use the Claims Draft Search tool, submit a claim, and view the results of a claim submission. This course will be taught at the CSC facility in Raleigh. The course includes hands-on training and will be limited to 45 participants.

Providers can register for these courses in SkillPort, the NCTracks Learning Management System. Logon to the secure NCTracks Provider Portal and click Provider Training to access SkillPort. Open the folder labeled Provider Computer-Based Training (CBT) and Instructor Led Training (ILT). The courses can be found in the sub-folders labeled ILT: On-Site or ILTs: Remote via WebEx, depending on the format of the course. Refer to the Provider Training page of the public Provider Portal for specific instructions on how to use SkillPort. The Provider Training page also includes a quick reference regarding Java, which is required for the use of SkillPort.

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Chair Kevin Cox and the NCHCFA Board of Directors cordially invite you to NCHCFA’s Diamond Jubilee for a very special evening. Join us in celebrating the Association’s 60th Anniversary commemorating our founding members and extraordinary leaders from the past, present and future! There will be food, entertainment, and great recollections from the past six decades. The band Soul Fish is back by popular demand and will play all the greatest tunes from your favorite decade.

NCHCFA is issuing you a ticket back in time! Start the evening back in 1955 for a little nostalgia. Pink skirts and gray suits were the fashion craze, the first McDonald’s opened, and rock and roll music was growing in popularity! Grab a burger and fries and play some Elvis on the jukebox. Be sure to stop and bowl like superstar Don Carter while you enjoy a cold beverage. Then jive talk on over to the 1970’s and get ready to chill in your favorite polyester suit. Drive like Richard Petty on the racetrack and enjoy all the sights and sounds of the seventies. You will be sure to see some familiar faces of NCHCFA’s past as you moonwalk over to 80’s Avenue. Visit the arcade for a game of Space Invaders, Pac Man and over 60 games from the “Big Hair” decade. Be sure to stop in the photo booth before you dance the night away.

Remember to wear your finest attire from your favorite decade! Great prizes will be awarded for the best dressed male and female. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served. You will not want to miss this special evening.

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To obtain a copy of the minutes from the Business Meeting held on Sunday, February 23, 2014 at the Sheraton Four Seasons/Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC, please click here.

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The American Health Care Association’s upcoming Independent Owner Leadership Conference is scheduled for March 11-13, 2015, at the Westin Beach Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This year’s theme is How To Survive Medicaid Managed Care as an Independent Owner.

Attendees will take part in a range of education sessions including:

• The Future of Health Care Policy
• Managed Care Market Place
• Medicaid Managed Long Term Care Services and Supports (MLTSS) Contracting
• Positioning for Success in an MLTSS Environment
• Quality and Payment: The Growing Overlap
• Transformation: Cost-effectively Retrofit Aging Buildings for Person-centered Care
• Seven Deadly Sins That Are Sabotaging Your Social Media Efforts

For additional information, including how to register, click here.

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Recruitment continues through March 31, 2015 for the upcoming Southern Partners Action Collaborative for Excellence facilitated by Alliant Quality. Goals will include:

• Continued use of QAPI tools and resources
• Continued reduction of Off-Label Use of Antipsychotics
• Improvement in Mobility for Long-Stay Residents
• Improvement of Composite Score to 6 or better.

To learn more about the CMS National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative, click here.

To learn more about the SPACE Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative – Southern Partners Action Collaborative for Excellence Benefits, Expectations, and Commitments, click here.

NCHCFA still needs to recruit:

• at least 3 more homes for January.
• at least 4 more One-Star homes by 3/31/15.
• at least a total of 37 more homes by 3/31/15 (including the One-Star homes).

NCHCFA’s request of you at this time is to assist us in meeting this deliverable for 3/31/15. I know that many members have submitted their participation agreement and we ask those facilities to please share with corporate level executives, consultants and sister facilities and encourage them submit the completed participation agreement via e-mail or fax.

If you are ready to register, click here for the Participation Agreement and fax or e-mail back to Nancy Fendler as indicated. For more details, e-mail Nancy at nancy.fendler@alliantquality.org.

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Alliant Quality (GMCF) is excited to provide all of recruited homes with an update on the Southern Partners Action Collaborative for Excellence (SPACE) that will Kick-Off officially in April of this year. Alliant Quality (GMCF) will have a booth at the NCHCFA Annual Convention & Expo in February and will be providing each participating facility with a packet of data specific to that nursing home.

The packet will contain data related to the following:

• Readmissions
• Pressure Ulcers
• Restraints
• Falls
• Antipsychotics
• ADLs
• Composite Score

Please plan to have at least one of your staff members who will be involved in the collaborative come by and meet our Quality Advisors! We will review upcoming collaborative information during the Regulatory Update on Sunday, February 15 from 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm, as well.

Alliant Quality (GMCF) looks forward to seeing all of you at the NCHCFA Annual Convention & Expo.

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AHCA President, Mark Parkinson, will be briefing the membership on Tuesday, February 3rd at 2:30pm via WebEx on Five Star, the President’s action, what CMS is likely to do, and how it will impact members’ star ratings. Below are instructions on how to join the WebEx:

JOIN WEBEX MEETING
https://ahcancal.webex.com/ahcancal/j.php?MTID=m91acd7a6290ae927403fcec8016452b5
Meeting number: 730 159 730
Meeting password: ahca

*If you will be be near a computer, you have the option to join by phone:

JOIN BY PHONE
Toll free: 800-811-8824
Participant Passcode: 519615

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Learn what it takes to effect real culture change within residential care settings while reducing the administration of psychotropic drugs in the symptomatic treatment of dementia. Dr. G. Allen Power, board-certified internist, geriatrician, nursing home practitioner, and Eden Alternative™ Educator, challenges all care providers working with individuals with dementia to undertake a true operational change. You will learn how to embrace more humanistic, enlightened practices that address the most common challenges in caring for people who live with dementia. Overcome communication challenges, minimize anxiety and depression, root out the causes of wandering, and gain insights into paranoia and delusions so that you can learn to treat individuals with dementia as the human beings that they are rather than letting their dementia define them.

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

Product # 8249
AHCA Members (on-line price) $32.95

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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. To order brochures for your facility, e-mail your request to Jan Williams at janw@nchcfa.org.

• 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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Art is Ageless And Inclusive – A rehabilitation facility creates a special art program.

http://www.providermagazine.com/archives/2014_Archives/Pages/1214/Art-is-Ageless-And-Inclusive.aspx

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The first issue of Update was published on May 31, 1977.

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