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Register today to attend the NCHCFA Annual Convention and Expo February 26 – March 1, 2017 at the Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Seasons/Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC! Do not miss the opportunity to earn up to 17.0 hours of educational credit for North Carolina Nursing Home Administrators, as well as up to 16.0 hours of Nursing CE credit! The advanced registration deadline has been extended until Friday, February 17th. NCHCFA hopes to exceed its Annual Convention & Expo attendance record! To register or obtain an additional brochure visit the Member Center of the Association’s Web site at http://www.NursingHomesNC.com.

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The latest newsletter for post-acute care providers from KEPRO, the Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organization (BFCC-QIO) for North Carolina, is now available. Click here to access this latest issue.

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NCHCFA is very fortunate to have Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dementia Care & Training Specialist, Positive Approach, LLC & Counseling Associate, Duke University School of Nursing, join us in Greensboro. Ms. Snow is a world-renowned dementia expert and is highly sought out for her trainings. She is so popular you must book her several years in advance!

Teepa will present Dementia 360: Seeing It from All Directions on Tuesday, February 28th at 8:00 am for Package One attendees. In addition, she will also present Improving Our Hands on Skills for Giving Care When Someone is Living with Dementia for Package Two attendees (Activity Director, Nurse, Nurse Aide, and Social Worker Day) on Tuesday, February 28th at 10:30 am. Register you and your staff today for these extremely valuable seminars!

Teepa Snow is one of the world’s leading advocates and educators for anyone living with dementia. Teepa’s philosophy is reflective of her education, work experience, medical research, and first hand caregiving experiences. Her advocacy efforts led her to the development of the GEMS® dementia classification model and the Positive Approach® to Care training strategies. An Occupational Therapist by trade, she graduated from Duke University and has an MS degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Teepa has over 35 years of clinical experience in the field of geriatrics and dementia care, as well as having provided care to family members with dementing illnesses. Currently, she has an independent practice as well as clinical appointments with Duke University’s School of Nursing & UNC-CH School of Medicine. She provides interactive and creative educational and practical hands-on training sessions to organizations and providers throughout the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. She has impacted hundreds of organizations worldwide with her education, now sold in over 30 countries. Teepa’s personal mission is to help others better understand how it feels to be living with dementia. She utilizes her gifts of role-play to demonstrate behavioral states and stages of dementia. This results in greater understanding for her audiences.

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The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would like to thank our 2017 Gold Convention Hosts for supporting the upcoming Annual Convention & Expo. Be sure to visit them on Tuesday, February 28th during EXPO 2017 – Mardi Gras – Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler:

Blue Ridge Pharmacy at booths 425 & 524
Healthcare Services Group at booths 527 & 529
Medipack Pharmacy at booths 315 & 414
Neil Medical at booths 301, 303, 400 & 402
NH Med Services at booths 415 & 514
Poyner Spruill LLP at booth 302
PruittHealth at booths 317, 319, 321, 323, 325, 416, 418, 420, 422 & 424
QMX Mobile Health at booth 328
Southern Pharmacy at booths 501 & 503

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The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would like to thank our 2017 Silver Convention Hosts for supporting the upcoming Annual Convention & Expo. Be sure to visit them on Tuesday, February 28th during EXPO 2017 – Mardi Gras – Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler:

American Medical Technologies – Booth 410
Broad River Rehab – Booth 628
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP – Booth 609

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This book offers CNAs the support of trained and experienced mentors to guide their way as they develop into quality health care professionals. Implementing this program can help you reduce your facility’s CNA turnover rate, save money and build a more competent staff. You’ll have happier residents and a higher quality facility as a result!

To order, visit http://www.AHCApublications.org or call (800) 321-0343. Fax orders may also be placed at (800) 869-5605.

Product #6706
AHCA MEMBERS $59.95

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This DVD, 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, 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 accompany each video and may be reproduced. To order, e-mail your request to Donna Snyder at donnas@nchcfa.org. The price is $35.00 (tax and shipping included).

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As Japan Ages, Menus Adapt to Finding the Gourmet in Purées

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/world/asia/japan-yokohama-aging-population-food.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FElderly

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The largest of the Mardi Gras supply houses in New Orleans sells an estimated one billion pairs of beads for a Mardi Gras season.

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