What’s New
New Member
- LeadingAge DC Welcomes new member – Forest Hills of DC
- Forest Hills of DC, formerly known as the Methodist Home provides assisted living, long-term care, and short-term rehabilitation services on Connecticut Avenue. Forest Hills also includes Forest Side, a dedicated Alzheimer’s and dementia care assisted living residence located on Military Road.
Congratulations
- The Armed Forces Retirement Home – Washington, a LeadingAge DC member, for achieving accreditation by The Joint Commission in Ambulatory and Nursing Care.
DC Update
- D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced new committee assignments for the Council session that will start in January. In addition he announced the creation of a new committee to focus on housing. Read more
- The Washington Posts reported on Monday, December 15,2015 that Brenda Donald will become Muriel Bowser’s deputy mayor for health and human services, replacing Beatriz “B.B.” Otero.
- Age Friendly DC
- On December 10, 2014, Mayor Vincent C. Gray released the Age-Friendly DC Strategic Plan 2014 – 2017, The plan identifies 77 strategies and names more than 70 partner agencies and organizations in- and outside government
National Update
Adult Day Center Medicaid Regulation Requirements Released
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final 2 components of the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) toolkit to assist states in complying with the home and community-based non-residential settings regulation requirements, which pertain to the eligibility for adult day centers to be in compliance to be a Medicaid waiver service:
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Upcoming Events
Assisted Living Update – February, specific time and date will be shared as soon as possible.
- Sharon Mebane, Program Manager, Intermediate Care Facilities, Health Regulations and Licensing Administration
- Steve Maag, Director of Residential Communities, LeadingAge will share updates regarding nationwide trends in assisted living.
- Members and Non-members welcome
- NAB CEs are pending approval
MDS 3.0/RUGS IV Webinar Series Kick Off – January 8, 2015
- January-May 2015, in keeping with the success of their previous highly-rated distance learning education offerings, LeadingAge state affiliates and Plante Moran have teamed to offer a series of affordable, up-to-date distance learning educational sessions about the process of completing the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0, and the impact of its accuracy. Read More
2015 PEAK Leadership Summit – March 16 – 18, 2015
- Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
- LeadingAge DC Member Reception is being planned with more information to be shared in the January newsletter
Dementia in Affordable Housing: Awareness, Action, and Assistance – April, 27, 2015
- LeadingAge, 2519 Connecticut Avenue, NW
- 9 am – 12pm
- Agenda and registration information to follow in January newsletter
New “Train the Trainer” Program Announced
- The Leadership Educator Program will roll out beginning in May. The 3-month program is intended to build a pool of skilled leadership educators within the LeadingAge membership. Two week-long retreats and two virtual meetings will be held from May – August 2015. Website
Governing for Strategic Success
- A new governance program led by renowned governance speaker and author Jamie Orlikoff will roll out this summer. The retreat will prepare boards for strategic planning discussions to help move forward in the rapidly changing aging services environment. Three two-day retreats will be offered in June, July and August in Denver, Philadelphia and Chicago. These retreats are for board chairs, chairs-elect and CEOs as well as full boards and leadership teams. Members can get more information and register on the LeadingAge Website.
Stay Tuned For…
- Peer Networking Sessions
- Februrary Governance Symposium, February 11, at Broadmead, Cockeysville, MD
Member Opportunities and Resources
CDC Long-Term Care Toolkit
LeadingAge has been collaborating directly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in developing resources and disseminating information to members on influenza immunization and the best approaches in combatting the flu virus.
This flu season, for the 1st time, the CDC National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) has developed a toolkit specifically targeted to supporting staff vaccination programs in long-term care.
The toolkit includes resources for increasing influenza vaccination among healthcare personnel in long-term care settings; suggestions for implementing flu vaccine programs at the workplace; and data on flu vaccines and why it’s important that employees receive them.
The CDC’s long-term care toolkit is free-of-charge and is now live at: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/toolkit/long-term-care/.
NPR Covers Use of Antipsychotic Drugs in Nursing Homes
Recent press reports have presented a bleak picture of inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs to control behavior among nursing home residents with dementia. These articles have painted all nursing homes with a broad brush. LeadingAge has tools available, including Insights and Advancing Excellence, to help you tell your own story on this issue. Nursing Home Quality Metrics is a also a useful tool, reminder it is a program that allows you to compare your MDS quality metrics with others in your geographic market, state, and nationally. Once you have created your comparison groups, you can run a new analysis as needed by clicking on the Analysis Manager tab. You can also trend your performance in use of Anti-Psychotics or other quality measures by clicking on QM Time Series.
Insights/Quality Metrics Update
There are many new training dates for the Quality Metrics tool and other QM resources that can be found here. Both introductory and intermediate training are now being offered. Please encourage members to take a look at the Insights tools – hand out the brochures at your meetings. Extra copies of these can be requested from
LeadingAge Quality Metrics is a set of interactive data tools that assists nursing homes in analyzing how they measure up to their peers, demonstrate value, and improve performance. Leveraging Nursing Home Compare data, Quality Metrics allows nursing homes to compare themselves against nearby or comparably sized nursing homes. It also offers a tool to help predict Five-Star status and provide guidance on where to focus to increase their rating. Read More
Thank You
Thank you to all of the members that have provided tours of their communities.
- Ingleside at Rock Creek, St. Mary’s Court, Forest Hills, North Capital at Plymouth, Samuel J. Simmons NCBA Estate, Sarah’s Circle, Knollwood, Armed Forces Retirement Home, IONA, and Stoddard Baptist Nursing Home
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