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The NC Health Care Facilities Association presents Act of Violence Response – How to Prepare For and Respond During and After an Act of Violence. Recent tragedies remind us that the risk is real: an act of violence can happen in any place at any time. Preparing for an act of violence in a long term care facility requires a multifaceted approach. Assessing the risk of violence requires a detailed analysis. The risk assessment will facilitate effective policies and plans for response, communication, and recovery. Training staff involves conveying response protocols as well as being attentive to the emotional stress associated with the training and helping staff understand practical methods to protect themselves. The assessment, plans, and training will all be minimized if the organization has no approach to addressing physical, emotional, and operational recovery. This workshop will walk participants through assessing the risk of an act of violence, examine best practices for training staff, and discuss development of comprehensive plans and policies to manage an act of violence in a long term care facility.

About the Speaker

Will Moorhead, J.D., MEP, is BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! He is President and Owner of All Clear Emergency Management Group and has served in the emergency management field both as a first responder and in State and local government capacities. Will has over 25 years of experience in the fire service and is a FEMA Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP). His previous positions as Legal Analyst for South Carolina Emergency Management Division and Director of Public Health Preparedness for South Carolina Division of Health and Environmental Control Region 2 provided many opportunities to see first-hand how legal issues impact emergency management. Will has worked in the consulting arena for 11 years where he has been able to share his expertise in emergency management. Will presented emergency prepardedness at our spring district meetings and received rave reviews!

This session will be offered in three locations:
July 18, 2018 – Pennybyrn at Maryfield, High Point, NC
July 19, 2018 – Bradley Creek Health Center at Carolina Bay, Wilmington, NC
July 24, 2018 – Aston Park Health Care Center, Asheville, NC

Click here to view and print the brochure with registration form. Click here to register online now!

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Register today for the seventh annual NCHCFA Summer Symposium, August 8-10, 2018 at the Embassy Suites Resort at Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach, SC for the most up to date information affecting long term care. You can register and pay on line at NCHCFA’s new Website! Visit http://www.nchcfa.org & click on the Calendar or the Seventh Annual Summer Symposium Registration Banner! Administrators and registered nurses will be able to earn up to 11.5 hours of continuing education.

Call the Embassy Suites Resort at (800) 876-0010 to reserve your overnight room. Use group code “HCF” to identify yourself as a NC Health Care Facilities Association Convention attendee! To make your reservation online, visit https://tinyurl.com/ncsummersymposium2018.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing notifications to facilities that were determined to be out of compliance with Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) requirements for CY 2017, which will affect their FY 2019 Annual Payment Update (APU). Non-compliance notifications were mailed by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and have been placed into facilities’ CASPER folders in QIES on July 9, 2018. Facilities that receive a letter of non-compliance may submit a request for reconsideration to CMS via e-mail no later than 11:59pm PST, August 7, 2018. If you receive a notice of non-compliance and would like to request a reconsideration, see the instructions in your notification letter and on the SNF Quality Reporting Reconsideration and Exception & Extension Webpage.

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NCHCFA has an additional benefit of membership, a one-hour Webinar on a timely and relevant topic to its members at no additional charge. There will be no CEUs offered for these Webinars.

The next Webinar is scheduled for July 19th, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. Webinar details are below:

Title: Roommate Changes and Resident Room Relocations (Under the Revised CMS Requirements of Participation (RoP)
Presenter: Ken Burgess and Iain Stauffer, Poyner Spruill, LLP

This Webinar will focus on CMS’s revised regulations governing notices required before, and limitations on, the relocation of residents within a SNF and roommate preferences- including when residents have the right to refuse a planned relocation from one room to another within a skilled nursing facility. Click here to register now!

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Beginning September 1, 2018, adult care home and nursing home Pre-Admission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR) submissions through Provider Link will no longer be accepted. PASRR submissions will only be accepted via NC Medicaid Uniform Screening Tool (NC MUST). Identify members of your staff who will be submitting PASRR information to the NC MUST application and arrange for them to acquire a North Carolina Identity Management Service NCID.

Once NCIDs are in place, contact DXC Technology at (855) 883-8018 to secure access to the NC MUST application.

Visit the NC Department of Information Technology NICD Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Web page for more information about NCID.

Visit the NC Must Website for more information about NC Must.

Those with questions regarding the PASRR program may contact the DMA Clinical Policy Long Term Services and Supports Section at (919) 855-4364.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) federal Requirements of Participation (RoP) contain many significant changes in the area of nursing home pharmacy services. There are many key highlights related to medications, pharmacy services, and medication regimen review. Back by popular demand, Todd King, Pharm. D., CGP, will continue the overview of pharmacy-related Phase 2 requirements and associated guidance required in 2017 and 2019. Attendees will learn how to manage the requirements and important pharmacy-related changes to Appendix PP. This presentation will be a sequel of the session offered in January during the 2018 Annual Convention & Expo! Don’t miss this informative program on Friday, August 10th during the seventh annual NCHCFA Summer Symposium. The three-day event will be August 8-10, 2018 at the Embassy Suites Resort at Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach, SC.

Todd King, Pharm.D., CGP, serves as Director of Clinical Services for Omnicare-A CVS Health Company and has worked in the long term care profession for 25 years. He is currently responsible for overseeing the clinical services for the Southeast and Northeast. This includes managing the consultant pharmacist and clinical managers for the regions, implementing clinical programs, managing facility formulary and providing education to customers and staff. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Campbell University School of Pharmacy in 1990 and completed a Residency in Geriatrics and long term care in Durham, NC. Todd is a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist. Todd is currently active in a variety of local and national organizations.

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On July 16 at 2:00 pm (eastern), AHCA staff experts will offer an overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) and highlight AHCA comment areas that are of most importance to members. AHCA also will provide an outlook for what may be contained in the final rule. The webinar will be recorded and archived and no CE credit is available.

Speakers: Mike Cheek, Senior Vice President, Reimbursement and Dan Ciolek, Associate Vice President, Therapy Services, AHCA.

Registration link: https://educate.ahcancal.org/p/180716.

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Each month, the Division of Medical Assistance (DMA) publishes the Medicaid Bulletin. The July 2018 issue includes articles on NC Tracks provider training, Re-credentialing, avoiding delays in the processing of provider enrollment applications and others. To access the current issue, as well as past issues, click here.

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The updated List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) database file, which reflects all OIG exclusions and reinstatement actions up to, and including, those taken in June 2018 has been posted. The updated files are posted on OIG’s Website at https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/exclusions_list.asp. Healthcare providers have an “affirmative duty” to check to ensure that excluded individuals are not working in their facilities or face significant fines.

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The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would like to thank our 2018 Summer Symposium Platinum Sponsors for supporting the upcoming seventh annual Summer Symposium in Myrtle Beach, SC. Stop by the NCHCFA Platinum Sponsor Showcase on August 8th, or set a time to “meet-up” during one of the networking opportunities scheduled throughout the Symposium with our following Platinum Sponsors: Carolina Complete Health, Medline, PruittHealth, QMX Mobile Health, Remedi SeniorCare, and TeamHealth. We appreciate your support!

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The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association would like to thank our 2018 Summer Symposium Corporate Sponsors for supporting the upcoming seventh annual Summer Symposium in Myrtle Beach, SC: Blue Ridge Pharmacy, Medipack Pharmacy, and Poyner Spruill LLP. We appreciate your support!

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The AHCA/NCAL Convention & Expo offers critical quality care solutions. Providing quality care is the bedrock of what you do. The dementia care, post-acute care, and quality improvement tracks will put you on course to provide compassionate person-centered care, achieve your quality initiative goals, and operationalize quality improvement to help you achieve and maintain positive gains in all metrics. These sessions will also help you maximize the use of your organization’s data to drive organizational improvement. Learn about the power of data, how best to use it, and what tools can help. The convention gives you four days of education, expert speakers, and unlimited opportunities to learn from each other. You are sure to take home immediately implementable strategies to solve even your toughest challenges and improve the quality of care you provide. It’s time to register and make plans to join your colleagues from around the country in beautiful San Diego for the most valuable long term and post-acute care gathering of the year.

Register today and don’t miss out on early bird registration savings!

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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, e-mail your request to Donna Snyder at donnas@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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How Aging Populations Can Use Technology to Combat Dementia

Provider Magazine Article

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Young armadillos are called armadiglets.

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