2024 Institute & Expo
Feb 7-8, 2024, RiverCentre
Join us for the LeadingAge Minnesota's 2024 Institute & Expo in St. Paul on Feb. 7-8.
We revamped this year’s Institute to offer two days packed with education, networking opportunities, and the largest aging services expo in the state. We value your time, which is why we have condensed our events to two days instead of three while still providing you with the same valuable knowledge and information you need to serve older adults.
Session Schedule
Wednesday, Feb. 7 - Concurrent Sessions 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
• Learn about exceptions to patient privacy when sharing information with law enforcement.
• Understand the difference between mandatory reports to law enforcement versus permissible reporting.
• Develop key questions to ask before sharing protected health information.
• Understand the difference between mandatory reports to law enforcement versus permissible reporting.
• Develop key questions to ask before sharing protected health information.
• Understand how building an inclusive workplace impacts recruitment success.
• Explore the significant influence of diversity on employee retention and understand the key factors that contribute to a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Identify actionable strategies and best practices to cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace environment that attracts and retains top talent.
• Explore the significant influence of diversity on employee retention and understand the key factors that contribute to a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Identify actionable strategies and best practices to cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace environment that attracts and retains top talent.
• Understand the differences between plant-forward and plant-based menu planning.
• Learn ways to infuse plant proteins within classic animal protein centered recipes.
• Discuss the benefits of plant-forward menus for the planet and our residents.
• Learn ways to infuse plant proteins within classic animal protein centered recipes.
• Discuss the benefits of plant-forward menus for the planet and our residents.
• Recognize the physical environment and fire safety requirements included in Minnesota’s assisted living licensure law.
• Differentiate the survey requirements between assisted living facilities and assisted living facilities with dementia care.
• Associate the survey findings for converted facilities with the possible physical environment citations and identify how to avoid immediate correction citations and fines.
• Differentiate the survey requirements between assisted living facilities and assisted living facilities with dementia care.
• Associate the survey findings for converted facilities with the possible physical environment citations and identify how to avoid immediate correction citations and fines.
• Understand the inspection process, types, and priorities for Minnesota OSHA in the healthcare sector
• Identify inspection trends including the most frequently cited standards and best practices to avoid citations and penalties.
• Discuss the significance and requirements for AWAIR and the new nursing home ergonomics program requirements.
• Identify inspection trends including the most frequently cited standards and best practices to avoid citations and penalties.
• Discuss the significance and requirements for AWAIR and the new nursing home ergonomics program requirements.
• Understand the steps in the care center licensure renewal process.
• Review requirements for skilled nursing bed layaway.
• Discuss the current process for and the forthcoming rule changes impacting care center changes of ownership.
• Review requirements for skilled nursing bed layaway.
• Discuss the current process for and the forthcoming rule changes impacting care center changes of ownership.
• Describe the 2024 rate setting process for care centers and impact of minimum data set (MDS) changes.
• Review implementation of nursing home funding from the 2023 legislative session.
• Discuss the auditing process and issues that come up regularly in the setting of care center payment rates.
• Review implementation of nursing home funding from the 2023 legislative session.
• Discuss the auditing process and issues that come up regularly in the setting of care center payment rates.
• Describe core elements of a Culture of Safety.
• Define safety practices and processes for a daily focus on a Culture of Safety for nursing practice.
• Illustrate quality measures for evaluation of a Culture of Safety.
• Define safety practices and processes for a daily focus on a Culture of Safety for nursing practice.
• Illustrate quality measures for evaluation of a Culture of Safety.
Wednesday, Feb. 7 - Opening Keynote and Awards 9:45 - 11:30 a.m.
How do you create a workplace that invites great talent and maximizes resident and client experience? By creating a culture that empowers staff to create more FUN. Keynote presenter Paul Long has developed a concept called Fundamism that helps improve employee engagement, reduces attrition, and inspires growth across nearly every performance metric.
In this energetic and engaging keynote, Paul sparks your team’s creativity by partnering together in finding ways to create more FUN at work. Learn the benefits to your staff, residents, and clients by creating meaningful interactions, listening with intent, and embracing awkward moments.
• Identify core behaviors that will create a purpose driven life at home and in the office.
• Know how to gain a better understanding of others’ perspective and drive meaningful interactions.
• Discover how to have more F.U.N. in the workplace and in life.
• Identify next steps in creating a F.U.N. implementation strategy in your organization.
In this energetic and engaging keynote, Paul sparks your team’s creativity by partnering together in finding ways to create more FUN at work. Learn the benefits to your staff, residents, and clients by creating meaningful interactions, listening with intent, and embracing awkward moments.
• Identify core behaviors that will create a purpose driven life at home and in the office.
• Know how to gain a better understanding of others’ perspective and drive meaningful interactions.
• Discover how to have more F.U.N. in the workplace and in life.
• Identify next steps in creating a F.U.N. implementation strategy in your organization.
Wednesday, Feb. 7 - Concurrent Sessions 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
• Understand lessons learned from the 2023 Minimum Data Set (MDS) changes.
• Identify the impact of the changes on resident data, reimbursement, and quality outcomes.
• Describe three leadership strategies for performance improvement related to the MDS process.
• Identify the impact of the changes on resident data, reimbursement, and quality outcomes.
• Describe three leadership strategies for performance improvement related to the MDS process.
• Introduce new digital strategies to market your community.
• Elevate social and web messaging for brand awareness and leads.
• Troubleshoot and fill the technical gaps in digital campaigns to better analyze results, test, and gain return on investment.
• Elevate social and web messaging for brand awareness and leads.
• Troubleshoot and fill the technical gaps in digital campaigns to better analyze results, test, and gain return on investment.
• Identify the Life Safety Code requirements included in Minnesota’s assisted living licensure law.
• Differentiate the Life Safety Code survey requirements between assisted living facilities and assisted living facilities with dementia care.
• Extrapolate the possible physical environment citations and fines that may occur during a Life Safety Code survey.
• Differentiate the Life Safety Code survey requirements between assisted living facilities and assisted living facilities with dementia care.
• Extrapolate the possible physical environment citations and fines that may occur during a Life Safety Code survey.
• Understand reporting and use requirements for Provider Relief Fund distributions.
• Determine whether your organization is subject to Single Audit requirements.
• Respond appropriately to a Final Repayment Notice and how to return funds.
• Determine whether your organization is subject to Single Audit requirements.
• Respond appropriately to a Final Repayment Notice and how to return funds.
• Understand current labor market challenges and types of automation technology that exist to address labor shortages.
• Identify technology options available for food service operations, from robotic delivery to automated self-serve kiosks.
• Examine changing trends among consumers who are becoming more willing to engage with technology when ordering food or seeking services.
• Identify technology options available for food service operations, from robotic delivery to automated self-serve kiosks.
• Examine changing trends among consumers who are becoming more willing to engage with technology when ordering food or seeking services.
• Describe assisted living survey trends from the MDH Health Regulation Division.
• Understand trends in home care surveys.
• Learn where to find helpful assisted living and home care provider resources to achieve compliance with licensing laws and rules and avoid citations.
• Understand trends in home care surveys.
• Learn where to find helpful assisted living and home care provider resources to achieve compliance with licensing laws and rules and avoid citations.
• Understand the Minnesota Food Code and resources available to maintain compliance, including Adult Day Centers that provide food.
• Review the types of kitchen surveys, what to expect during survey, and how to prepare.
• Discuss recent assisted living licensure survey trends related to food code and how to avoid getting cited.
• Review the types of kitchen surveys, what to expect during survey, and how to prepare.
• Discuss recent assisted living licensure survey trends related to food code and how to avoid getting cited.
• Understand components of the quality improvement process through data, root cause analysis, prioritizing initiatives, and action plans that are simple, efficient, and effective.
• Identify components of a well written action plan and how they enhance outcomes and quality improvement efforts.
• Engage your leadership teams in quality improvement through case examples that improved resident outcomes.
• Identify components of a well written action plan and how they enhance outcomes and quality improvement efforts.
• Engage your leadership teams in quality improvement through case examples that improved resident outcomes.
• Identify the top 10 K-tags being cited in life safety surveys to help you remain in compliance.
• Learn about current activities and initiatives within the State Fire Marshal’s inspection team.
• Explore other timely topics related to the Life Safety Code.
• Learn about current activities and initiatives within the State Fire Marshal’s inspection team.
• Explore other timely topics related to the Life Safety Code.
• Understand the factors that create wellness.
• Identify key interventions and adaptations that tap into these wellness factors.
• Review the Minnesota Positive Supports rule, including who can develop a plan.
• Identify key interventions and adaptations that tap into these wellness factors.
• Review the Minnesota Positive Supports rule, including who can develop a plan.
• Identify factors to include in a market feasibility study, including community need for services, competitors, and referral sources.
• Describe financial considerations including adequate payment, access to start-up capital, and operating costs.
• Discuss operational considerations for site center selection, center development, and effective management of a PACE program.
• Describe financial considerations including adequate payment, access to start-up capital, and operating costs.
• Discuss operational considerations for site center selection, center development, and effective management of a PACE program.
Wednesday, Feb. 7 - Concurrent Sessions 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
• Understand the status of the statewide resident and family surveys in year one.
• Review additional measures that might be included in report card scores and the timeline for launch.
• Discuss goals of the report card and future plans after launch.
• Review additional measures that might be included in report card scores and the timeline for launch.
• Discuss goals of the report card and future plans after launch.
• Identify the "six flavors" of psychological assessment.
• Understand how to quickly understand the flavor, strengths, and weaknesses of clients/residents.
• Discuss how to use assessment information to reduce complaints, improve clinical outcomes, and customer service.
• Understand how to quickly understand the flavor, strengths, and weaknesses of clients/residents.
• Discuss how to use assessment information to reduce complaints, improve clinical outcomes, and customer service.
• Highlight the key sector trends important to finance professionals in the not-for-profit senior living and care sector.
• Discuss the current capital markets and lending environment.
• Outline guidance for providers looking to access capital in 2024.
• Discuss the current capital markets and lending environment.
• Outline guidance for providers looking to access capital in 2024.
• Understand how to identify customer’s culinary preferences.
• Elevate the overall dining experience to meet customer’s expectations.
• Enhance collaboration in the culinary department to meet your sales and marketing goals.
• Elevate the overall dining experience to meet customer’s expectations.
• Enhance collaboration in the culinary department to meet your sales and marketing goals.
• Understand the assisted living physical environment regulatory process when submitting for an ALFDC license.
• Analyze a former care center’s physical environment to understand possible 2018 NFPA Life Safety Code and 2018 FGI barriers that would prevent obtaining a new license.
• Review design and construction lessons learned though a case study discussion.
• Analyze a former care center’s physical environment to understand possible 2018 NFPA Life Safety Code and 2018 FGI barriers that would prevent obtaining a new license.
• Review design and construction lessons learned though a case study discussion.
• Prepare for the review process including understanding the requirements for providing adult day services.
• Understand what licensors will be looking for when onsite, including a review of recent citations trends and recommendations for compliance.
• Discuss actions adult day services providers should take after the review process.
• Understand what licensors will be looking for when onsite, including a review of recent citations trends and recommendations for compliance.
• Discuss actions adult day services providers should take after the review process.
• Identify updates to the 2022 Food Code that apply to care centers.
• Understand the CMS survey process and analyze sample deficiency reports.
• Share best practices for maintaining a high standard of food safety in care centers.
• Understand the CMS survey process and analyze sample deficiency reports.
• Share best practices for maintaining a high standard of food safety in care centers.
• Understand the fundamentals of customer-focused and person-centered improvement.
• Identify ways to enhance the quality of service for individuals you support.
• Apply user-friendly tools and concepts that address the root causes for improvement opportunities.
• Identify ways to enhance the quality of service for individuals you support.
• Apply user-friendly tools and concepts that address the root causes for improvement opportunities.
• Understand what a professional employer organization (PEO) is and what services it provides.
• Identify how to assess your HR needs and the questions to ask when considering your options.
• Discuss the benefits and challenges of outsourcing some or all of your HR function.
• Identify how to assess your HR needs and the questions to ask when considering your options.
• Discuss the benefits and challenges of outsourcing some or all of your HR function.
• List three ways to improve skills and assessments in your organization.
• State the components of a comprehensive nursing assessment.
• Prepare to promptly identify “Red Flags” and avoid “Band-Aid” treatments.
• State the components of a comprehensive nursing assessment.
• Prepare to promptly identify “Red Flags” and avoid “Band-Aid” treatments.
• Identify factors to include in a market feasibility study, including community need for services, competitors, and referral sources.
• Describe financial considerations including adequate payment, access to start-up capital, and operating costs.
• Discuss operational considerations for site center selection, center development, and effective management of a PACE program.
• Describe financial considerations including adequate payment, access to start-up capital, and operating costs.
• Discuss operational considerations for site center selection, center development, and effective management of a PACE program.
Wednesday, Feb. 7 - Concurrent Sessions 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
• Facilitate discussions on sustainability projects with potential financial and environmental benefits.
• Develop a plan for identifying and tracking food waste in your building.
• Identify opportunities for improved sustainability efforts within your organization.
• Develop a plan for identifying and tracking food waste in your building.
• Identify opportunities for improved sustainability efforts within your organization.
• Describe the potential inherent power imbalance in a professional-client/resident relationship.
• Define professional responsibilities in maintaining boundaries.
• Outline tips to avoid the stress of over-involvement with clients/residents and families.
• Define professional responsibilities in maintaining boundaries.
• Outline tips to avoid the stress of over-involvement with clients/residents and families.
• Learn about your local regional healthcare coordinator and their role with your emergency preparedness responses.
• Identify the core elements of emergency preparedness plans.
• Understand the policies, procedures, and communication plans necessary to develop an effective and actionable emergency preparedness plan.
• Identify the core elements of emergency preparedness plans.
• Understand the policies, procedures, and communication plans necessary to develop an effective and actionable emergency preparedness plan.
• Understand which fire safety requirements apply to senior housing, assisted living facilities, and adult day services.
• Learn specific requirements for fire alarm systems, locking arrangements, and other building features.
• Clarify the roles of the Minnesota State Fire Marshal and local fire code officials in interpreting and applying applicable codes.
• Learn specific requirements for fire alarm systems, locking arrangements, and other building features.
• Clarify the roles of the Minnesota State Fire Marshal and local fire code officials in interpreting and applying applicable codes.
• Identify types of reports received and how they compare to previous year’s reports.
• Understand issues and themes that may inform how to prevent issues in your setting.
• Review how the OHFC Rapid Response team responds to maltreatment reports.
• Understand issues and themes that may inform how to prevent issues in your setting.
• Review how the OHFC Rapid Response team responds to maltreatment reports.
• Recognize situations in which residents might need supports for decision making and planning.
• Identify planning tools available to residents and their caregivers to meet resident needs today and in the future.
• Compare and contrast Supported Decision Making, Durable Power of Attorney, and other support arrangements.
• Identify planning tools available to residents and their caregivers to meet resident needs today and in the future.
• Compare and contrast Supported Decision Making, Durable Power of Attorney, and other support arrangements.
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• Define the responsibilities of each job category to support Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) efforts.
• Describe how to train and engage health care workers in their roles in QAPI.
• Identify tools and resources to use for QAPI training and performance reviews.
• Describe how to train and engage health care workers in their roles in QAPI.
• Identify tools and resources to use for QAPI training and performance reviews.
• Learn about common Immediate Jeopardy findings.
• Compare and contrast Immediate Jeopardy Removal Plans, plans of correction, and directed plans of correction.
• Identify effective strategies for writing plans of correction.
• Compare and contrast Immediate Jeopardy Removal Plans, plans of correction, and directed plans of correction.
• Identify effective strategies for writing plans of correction.
• Learn about the poor health and quality of life outcomes associated with existential distress in older adults.
• Identify how to help older adults foster meaning and purpose when facing loss, loneliness, life transitions, and other sources of existential distress.
• Discuss how collaboration with spiritual care professionals can support older adults to foster hope and resiliency, improve coping, and enhance quality of life outcomes.
• Identify how to help older adults foster meaning and purpose when facing loss, loneliness, life transitions, and other sources of existential distress.
• Discuss how collaboration with spiritual care professionals can support older adults to foster hope and resiliency, improve coping, and enhance quality of life outcomes.
• Identify factors to include in a market feasibility study, including community need for services, competitors, and referral sources.
• Describe financial considerations including adequate payment, access to start-up capital, and operating costs.
• Discuss operational considerations for site center selection, center development, and effective management of a PACE program.
• Describe financial considerations including adequate payment, access to start-up capital, and operating costs.
• Discuss operational considerations for site center selection, center development, and effective management of a PACE program.
Thursday, Feb. 8 - Concurrent Sessions 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
• Identify the benefits of sharing life stories for residents, families, and care teams.
• Examine free or inexpensive ways to collect residents’ stories, as well as fee-based products.
• Discuss effective ways to share stories to increase resident, family, and care team engagement.
• Examine free or inexpensive ways to collect residents’ stories, as well as fee-based products.
• Discuss effective ways to share stories to increase resident, family, and care team engagement.
• Understand the rights of people with disabilities who have service animals under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Compare and contrast the differences between service and emotional support animals under the law, and in what circumstances you may encounter each in a senior living setting.
• Discuss the importance of building good processes and policies to successfully work with residents who have a service or emotional support animal.
• Compare and contrast the differences between service and emotional support animals under the law, and in what circumstances you may encounter each in a senior living setting.
• Discuss the importance of building good processes and policies to successfully work with residents who have a service or emotional support animal.
• Reflect on your level of comfort with expressions of a desire for death and how this affects the care you provide.
• Grow in awareness of how to differentiate between peace- and distress-based responses to conversations about death.
• Explore responses to expressions of desired death based on their context.
• Grow in awareness of how to differentiate between peace- and distress-based responses to conversations about death.
• Explore responses to expressions of desired death based on their context.
• Define a fall based on CMS guidelines and examine concepts of fall prevention versus fall management.
• Discuss interdisciplinary team roles in fall prevention and analyze early indicators of fall risk in older adult populations.
• Examine fall prevention program components with proven success to integrate into senior care communities.
• Discuss interdisciplinary team roles in fall prevention and analyze early indicators of fall risk in older adult populations.
• Examine fall prevention program components with proven success to integrate into senior care communities.
• Identify recent changes in state law and discuss legal implications for facilities receiving federal funding and best practices in navigating them.
• Describe medical uses and side effects of cannabis, and evidence for cannabis in common conditions affecting older adults.
• Create a game plan to navigate challenges if some in your workforce use recreational cannabis.
• Describe medical uses and side effects of cannabis, and evidence for cannabis in common conditions affecting older adults.
• Create a game plan to navigate challenges if some in your workforce use recreational cannabis.
506 - Public Policy Update: How 2024 Legislative Session will Impact Services
Feb 8, 8:30am - 9:30am
• Identify emerging public policies that will likely be considered in the 2024 Legislative Session.
• Explain potential policy and regulatory issues to be addressed through the work of various state agencies.
• Understand the status of payment reforms, workforce solutions, and other legislative priorities being advanced this session.
• Explain potential policy and regulatory issues to be addressed through the work of various state agencies.
• Understand the status of payment reforms, workforce solutions, and other legislative priorities being advanced this session.
• Understand the experience of nursing home administrators during the early and later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Identify four themes that influenced administrators stress levels during the pandemic.
• Discuss recommendations on resiliency and stress training implementation for administrators.
• Identify four themes that influenced administrators stress levels during the pandemic.
• Discuss recommendations on resiliency and stress training implementation for administrators.
• Understand current labor force trends and projections of future in-demand healthcare jobs.
• Learn about job seeker trends, untapped labor pools, and how the labor market can inform responsive employer planning.
• Identify new opportunities for hiring based on labor market forecasting and connecting with overlooked talent through CareerForce initiatives.
• Learn about job seeker trends, untapped labor pools, and how the labor market can inform responsive employer planning.
• Identify new opportunities for hiring based on labor market forecasting and connecting with overlooked talent through CareerForce initiatives.
Thursday, Feb. 8 - Concurrent Sessions 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
• Describe effective nursing leadership traits.
• Discuss essentials for achieving leadership effectiveness.
• Identify where you are in your personal nursing leadership journey.
• Discuss essentials for achieving leadership effectiveness.
• Identify where you are in your personal nursing leadership journey.
• Understand the concept of dual task exercise and its importance in promoting both mental and physical health.
• Perform dual-task exercise in a fun and interactive activity.
• Adapt current programming to integrate dual-task exercise without additional staff resources.
• Perform dual-task exercise in a fun and interactive activity.
• Adapt current programming to integrate dual-task exercise without additional staff resources.
• Discuss occupancy and case mix impacts to senior living organizations.
• Understand rate trends and what the impact may be with changes in reimbursement policy.
• Project possible outcomes as a result of compression on occupancy, rents, and workforce.
• Understand rate trends and what the impact may be with changes in reimbursement policy.
• Project possible outcomes as a result of compression on occupancy, rents, and workforce.
• Identify and discuss the top five ethical dilemmas in end-of-life care, including their legal dimensions.
• Describe how ethical principles can be used in creating care action plans.
• Explore methods to mitigate ethical conflicts.
• Describe how ethical principles can be used in creating care action plans.
• Explore methods to mitigate ethical conflicts.
• Describe Minnesota's age-friendly ecosystem initiative.
• Engage in age-friendly initiatives across the state.
• Articulate the role of senior care in age-friendly planning.
• Engage in age-friendly initiatives across the state.
• Articulate the role of senior care in age-friendly planning.
• Identify the different types of notices assisted living providers must issue.
• Understand when to issue various required notices, to whom, and what to include.
• Discuss the risks of improper or untimely notices and learn best practices for avoiding them.
• Understand when to issue various required notices, to whom, and what to include.
• Discuss the risks of improper or untimely notices and learn best practices for avoiding them.
• Understand the value and requirements of good resident and family communication.
• Describe how to develop an effective Resident and Family Council.
• Identify best practices for facilitating support groups.
• Describe how to develop an effective Resident and Family Council.
• Identify best practices for facilitating support groups.
• Understand the thought process leaders used in deciding to create employee housing on their campus.
• Identify the design and code implications of changing the occupancy type of existing spaces.
• Discuss additional factors to investigate when considering housing employees on your campus including HR, security, and legal.
• Identify the design and code implications of changing the occupancy type of existing spaces.
• Discuss additional factors to investigate when considering housing employees on your campus including HR, security, and legal.
Thursday, Feb. 8 - General Session and Awards 12:30 - 2:15 p.m.
Working in senior care is vibrant and heart-fulfilling, it’s also difficult and underappreciated. It calls on your wild side, requiring you to think differently and expansively, to work together cohesively, and to care for yourself and your team in the process.
Join professional speaker and dog mushing guide Chris Heeter for hilarious stories from her dog sled team, their quirky personalities, and their innate ability to work together as a team. She draws remarkable parallels to our work today offering tools, principles, and motivation to help you stay rooted in your calling to serve aging adults.
• Be more of who you are to make your team more successful and responsive.
• Get to YES together while understanding and appreciating differences.
• Hone your communication skills to truly support each other and gel as a team.
• Learn the art of doghouse moments to be present and do your best work.
Join professional speaker and dog mushing guide Chris Heeter for hilarious stories from her dog sled team, their quirky personalities, and their innate ability to work together as a team. She draws remarkable parallels to our work today offering tools, principles, and motivation to help you stay rooted in your calling to serve aging adults.
• Be more of who you are to make your team more successful and responsive.
• Get to YES together while understanding and appreciating differences.
• Hone your communication skills to truly support each other and gel as a team.
• Learn the art of doghouse moments to be present and do your best work.
Thursday, Feb. 8 - Concurrent Sessions 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
• Identify benefits of pharmacogenetic testing including reducing adverse drug events and interactions and decreasing costs.
• Understand the limitations of pharmacogenetic testing.
• Discuss case studies of testing implementation and best practices.
• Understand the limitations of pharmacogenetic testing.
• Discuss case studies of testing implementation and best practices.
• Describe the challenges of meeting the leisure needs and interests of the older adult population.
• Identify activity programming considerations across the continuum of care, including resources and ideas for programs.
• Evaluate current activity assessment for effective evaluation of activity programming needs.
• Identify activity programming considerations across the continuum of care, including resources and ideas for programs.
• Evaluate current activity assessment for effective evaluation of activity programming needs.
• Identify five reasons people living with dementia and their families might not participate in end-of-life care discussions and decisions.
• Discuss evidence-based information on the signs and symptoms of shifting from living with to dying from dementia.
• Compose and implement discussion beginnings using the REMAP framework (reframe, expect emotion, map, align with goal, and propose plan).
• Discuss evidence-based information on the signs and symptoms of shifting from living with to dying from dementia.
• Compose and implement discussion beginnings using the REMAP framework (reframe, expect emotion, map, align with goal, and propose plan).
• Identify areas of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) that may indicate the resident is experiencing pain beyond the pain interview section.
• Interpret MDS coding and identify source documentation that may indicate resident pain.
• Document pain as a limiting factor in the resident's comprehensive person-centered care plan based on the MDS process.
• Interpret MDS coding and identify source documentation that may indicate resident pain.
• Document pain as a limiting factor in the resident's comprehensive person-centered care plan based on the MDS process.
• Learn when to appeal and which type of appeal(s) (IDR/IIDR/CMS-DAB) is best for your alleged deficiency(s).
• Understand your appeal rights, choices, and processes.
• Identify resources and develop appeal strategies through engaging case scenario discussions.
• Understand your appeal rights, choices, and processes.
• Identify resources and develop appeal strategies through engaging case scenario discussions.
• Understand immediate and ongoing steps to take after an immediate jeopardy is called at your facility.
• Identify legal, public relations, and possible Board inquiry issues that may result and how to address them.
• Analyze the deficiency and next steps if you decide to pursue an appeal.
• Identify legal, public relations, and possible Board inquiry issues that may result and how to address them.
• Analyze the deficiency and next steps if you decide to pursue an appeal.
• Understand how recent changes to landlord-tenant law impact senior housing and assisted living.
• Identify best practices for implementing the 2023 changes to landlord-tenant law.
• Discuss how to proceed when different laws overlap or conflict with each other.
• Identify best practices for implementing the 2023 changes to landlord-tenant law.
• Discuss how to proceed when different laws overlap or conflict with each other.
708 - Supporting Diverse Communities for Positive Resident and Staff Outcomes
Feb 8, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
• Identify ways that supporting diversity improves resident and staff experience.
• Determine best practices for effectively working with the diversity in your workforce to maximize retention and engagement.
• Discuss strategies for supporting diverse residents and creating strong resident-staff connections.
• Determine best practices for effectively working with the diversity in your workforce to maximize retention and engagement.
• Discuss strategies for supporting diverse residents and creating strong resident-staff connections.
Thursday, Feb. 8 - Concurrent Sessions 3:45 - 4:45 p.m.
• Identify indicators that a patient has had a change of condition.
• Understand the timeline for completing the additional assessment for each setting.
• Discuss interdisciplinary team involvement and responsibilities for reviewing changes in condition.
• Understand the timeline for completing the additional assessment for each setting.
• Discuss interdisciplinary team involvement and responsibilities for reviewing changes in condition.
• List inadequate indications for use of psychotropic medications.
• Identify three need driven behaviors, how to recognize them, and meet the resident’s needs for better outcomes.
• Discuss proper documentation of psychotropic medications when indicated and person-centered follow up.
• Identify three need driven behaviors, how to recognize them, and meet the resident’s needs for better outcomes.
• Discuss proper documentation of psychotropic medications when indicated and person-centered follow up.
• Understand the difference between religion and spirituality and how rituals are vital to both.
• Recognize the value of using rituals in serving aging adults and team members.
• Increase comfort in developing creative rituals to meet the needs of care-seekers.
• Recognize the value of using rituals in serving aging adults and team members.
• Increase comfort in developing creative rituals to meet the needs of care-seekers.
• Identify restrictions and requirements for initiating an involuntary discharge from a skilled nursing facility.
• Explore strategies for ensuring compliance and avoiding common pitfalls.
• Discuss disputes between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities regarding resident readmission and identify best practices for navigating these situations.
• Explore strategies for ensuring compliance and avoiding common pitfalls.
• Discuss disputes between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities regarding resident readmission and identify best practices for navigating these situations.
• Describe key factors long-term care recipients have identified as being important to their quality of life.
• Identify programmatic recommendations to enhance resident well-being within residential living communities.
• Discuss how various policies and people influence care recipients’ well-being across critical quality of life domains.
• Identify programmatic recommendations to enhance resident well-being within residential living communities.
• Discuss how various policies and people influence care recipients’ well-being across critical quality of life domains.
• Understand the latest information related to licensure requirements, renewals, and deadlines.
• Learn how to prepare for and address survey issues or complaint investigations with the licensing board using real-life case studies.
• Get answers to your questions related to LALD and other licenses from BELTSS staff.
• Learn how to prepare for and address survey issues or complaint investigations with the licensing board using real-life case studies.
• Get answers to your questions related to LALD and other licenses from BELTSS staff.
• Understand how recent changes to Minnesota’s employment laws impact employers and the employer-employee relationship.
• Identify best practices for implementing the 2023 changes to Minnesota’s employment laws.
• Discuss how to proceed when employer and employee rights seem to be at odds.
• Identify best practices for implementing the 2023 changes to Minnesota’s employment laws.
• Discuss how to proceed when employer and employee rights seem to be at odds.
808 - Bridging the Gap: Effective Strategies for Frontline Team Communication
Feb 8, 3:45pm - 4:45pm
• Understand the importance of effective communication between leadership and frontline teams.
• Identify common communication barriers and challenges that exist between leaders and frontline staff.
• Acquire practical strategies and techniques to bridge the communication gap, build trust, and strengthen relationships with frontline teams.
• Identify common communication barriers and challenges that exist between leaders and frontline staff.
• Acquire practical strategies and techniques to bridge the communication gap, build trust, and strengthen relationships with frontline teams.