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UPCOMING EVENTS & EDUCATION
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Weekly COVID-19 Discussion Calls
Tuesdays • 1 - 2 pm CT • Zoom Meeting
Join us tomorrow and every Tuesday for our weekly COVID-19 Discussion Calls. Past session recordings, PowerPoints, and additional materials are available here.
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- JOIN US TOMORROW -
Mastering the Long-Term Care Survey Process: Post-Survey Essentials
Feb 2 • 1 - 2 pm CT • Webinar
The second session of the Cultivating LTC Leaders Webinar Series will help you understand what to expect after surveyors exit your facility, including legal aspects of the statement of deficiency, enforcement remedies that may be imposed, how to write an effective plan of correction, and how to challenge and correct deficiencies through the IDR/IIDR and Administrative Law Hearing process. Leaders will advance skills in challenging and correcting deficiencies.
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Global Ageing Network COVID-19 Report
Feb 3 • 4 pm CT • Webinar
Join the Global Ageing Network on Wednesday, February 3 at 4 pm CT for an overview of the Global Ageing Network COVID-19 Report. The report, a summary of interviews with providers and others in a dozen countries who have shared their COVID experiences, offers lessons and observations for next steps and illustrates how providers care for and support older adults.
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C-Suite Virtual Roundtable
Feb 4 • 3 - 4 pm CT • Zoom Meeting
C-Suite Members of LeadingAge Texas are invited to join in on a Zoom call this Thursday and every-other Thursday to share what’s working, what isn’t, and ultimately to help each other in these astonishing circumstances
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Fall Prevention and Management
Feb 16 • 1 - 2 pm CT • Webinar
The second session of the Standards of Care Webinar Series will review regulatory requirements and best practices for identifying fall risk, determining and implementing fall management interventions, and conducting an in-depth root cause analysis when a fall occurs. Through lecture and case study analysis we will identify critical nursing assessment and documentation principles to apply in your daily practical operations to promote resident well-being and minimize potential risks.
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2021 Finance & Strategy Symposium
Feb 24 + 25 • 9 am - 12 pm CT • Virtual Event
Join LeadingAge Texas & Ziegler for this two-day symposium focused on strategic trends in the aging services sector. This symposium was built to provide industry insight to senior living community leadership (CEOs, CFOs, board members, etc.) about how to not only navigate current trends, but to offer strategies on how to thrive in the current economy and the state of the capital lending environment.
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The New HUD Section 202 Notice of Funding Availability
Feb 2 • 1 - 2 pm CT
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NF Provider COVID-19 Webinar with HHSC LTC Regulation & DSHS
Feb 3 • 2:30 - 4 pm CT
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February COVID-19 NF Provider Hot Spot Webinars
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LATEST UPDATES & RESOURCES
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Provider Relief Fund Updates:
Distribution of Provider Relief Funds: We continue to learn information about the PRF payments that providers received beginning last week. It appears both Phase 3 as well as Nursing Home Infection Control incentive payments for November began arriving in providers’ bank accounts as early as Monday, January 25th. Since the terms and conditions are different for these two types of distributions, it is important providers know what the funds they received were for. Providers may look in the payment description and if somewhere within the line of text it says “NH PMT HHS.GOV” then it is a nursing home incentive payment. If it says something like “HHS Stimulus” it is likely to be a Phase 3 payment.
Updated Provider Relief Fund FAQs: The new PRF FAQs were released and provide more detail about some of the new reporting provisions now that Targeted Distributions can be redistributed by a parent organization to its other subsidiaries. One notable change is the FAQs confirm that HHS has revised its approach on the Nursing Home Infection Control Incentive payments and will now only be issuing 4 monthly payments covering nursing home performance for September, October, November and December of 2020. The once promised aggregate payment will not happen impacting nursing homes that had data issues early on that prevented them from receiving earlier payments,
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HUD Announcements:
HUD COVID-19 Supplemental Issued This Week – HUD will begin issuing round 2 of COVID-19 Supplemental Payments for housing providers starting this week. While some payments may be delayed, the majority will be paid as early as Monday, February 1. We also recommend that housing providers continue to document extra expenses resulting from COVID-19 in case there is a third round of CSP payments.
Presentation on new HUD Section 202 NOFA – On Tuesday, February 2, 1 – 2 pm CT, Tom Davis, Director, HUD Office of Recapitalization, will join LeadingAge for a presentation on the new HUD Section 202 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA); there will be time for questions from participants as well. HUD announced the competition, or NOFA, for $150 million in new Section 202 funding on January 12. Applications are due May 26. HUD expects to make about 45 awards. Please join us to hear from HUD about the NOFA on February 2, 2021, at 1 PM CT. Register for the February 2 session here.
Housing Advisory Group – LeadingAge is continuing these regular Housing Advisory Group calls on Mondays at 11:30 am CT for affordable housing providers to hear the latest housing updates and discuss challenges and solutions with one another. If you haven’t signed up for the group and would like to join the calls, contact Juliana or Linda.
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PREP Act Declaration to Increase the Workforce of Authorized Vaccinators
HHS issued a fifth amendment to the Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) to add additional categories of qualified persons authorized to prescribe, dispense, and administer COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Note that this is not specific to the Pharmacy Partnership for LTC. Among other things, the amendment:
• Authorizes any healthcare provider who is licensed or certified in a state to prescribe, dispense, and/or administer COVID-19 vaccines in any other state or U.S. territory.
• Authorizes any physician, registered nurse, or practical nurse whose license or certification expired within the past five years to prescribe, dispense and/or administer COVID-19 vaccines in any state or U.S. territory so long as the license or certification was active and in good standing prior to the date it went inactive.
• Requires any healthcare professional described above to complete CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Training and, for healthcare providers who are not currently practicing or whose license or certification is expired, requires an on-site observation period by a currently practicing healthcare professional.
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Daily Snapshot on COVID-19 Outcomes by State, Region, CBSA, & County:
The White House COVID-19 Team is publishing a daily Community Profile Report (CPR) which is generated by the Data Strategy and Execution Workgroup in the Joint Coordination Cell.
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Act Now: Urge Congress to Pass Expanded COVID Relief
Raise your voice TODAY by asking your members of Congress to support a new COVID-19 relief bill that prioritizes older adults and those who care for them!
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Vaccine Educational & Communication Resources
LeadingAge is helping members with vaccine education, sharing important educational resources and hosting special LeadingAge webinars with pharmacy partners CVS and Walgreens. Visit the Vaccine Educational & Communication Resources page.
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COVID-19 TESTING, PPE, & RE-OPENING SOLUTIONS
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For more information on PPE and/or if you are in need of additional PPE items we have not yet provided, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Ann Castro, Director of Business Development, at (817) 680-5471 if you have any questions
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