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The Maltreatment Management Workshop, Dec. 9–10 in St. Paul, gives clinical and organizational leaders an opportunity to strengthen the practices they rely on when a potential maltreatment situation occurs.

LeadingAge Minnesota’s Independent Living workshop, Tackling the Tough Stuff: Operating Independent Senior Housing Today, is coming up next Thursday, Oct. 8, at Applewood Pointe of Eagan.

Sholom, a nonprofit senior care organization serving the Twin Cities, announced a planned transition in its financial leadership.

The 2026 LeadingAge Annual Meeting is coming to Philadelphia, October 25–28, bringing together thousands of aging services professionals from across the country for four days of learning, connection and inspiration.

Still deciding whether to join us for an October District Meeting? We’ll make it easy. Here are 10 reasons to spend a day with LeadingAge Minnesota members in your region.

We are seeking proven AI technology solutions with applications for long-term care providers across operations, clinical care, workforce, quality, and decision-making. Each virtual demo date will focus on a specific area of use, giving long-term care providers an opportunity to see technologies in action.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Tyco Fire Products are urging building owners and operators to immediately check for previously recalled Central Sprinkler fire sprinkler heads that may still be installed in residential facilities and other buildings.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) is placing renewed focus on a provider enrollment backlog that continues to affect new applications, enrollment changes and provider affiliations across Minnesota Health Care Programs.

Providers regularly see where reimbursement rates align with the realities of delivering services, and where they do not. DHS is now seeking providers willing to bring that firsthand experience to its ongoing evaluation of rates for several Aging and Adult Services Division services.

There’s still time to recognize the remarkable people and programs making a difference in aging services across Minnesota. We know our members are incredibly busy, so in a rare move, the nomination deadline for the 2027 Stars Among Us Awards has been extended through Monday, Oct. 5.

LeadingAge Minnesota has completed the third of four webinars in our Emergency Preparedness Training Series for assisted living providers and nursing homes. If you were unable to attend the September 29 session, the webinar recording and presentation slides are now available.

Minnesota Management and Budget’s (MMB) Long Range Planning team has been tasked with developing a statewide plan to advance healthy aging. MMB wants to hear from people and organizations working to advance healthy aging and who are supporting older adults and caregivers.

If you missed Nursing Home Quality Measures and Programs for Quality Leaders when it was offered live in August the complete three-part webinar series is now available for purchase as on-demand learning.

LeadingAge Minnesota is pleased to welcome Julie Kesterke to our staff as our new Online Learning Specialist.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance on staff who are exposed to or infected with common viral respiratory illnesses, this includes SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and RSV.

As we’ve shared over the past several months, LeadingAge Minnesota is undergoing a comprehensive website redevelopment project to provide an enhanced digital experience for our members. We’re excited to announce that our brand-new website will launch on Monday, Oct. 19. 

Fresh off the energy of Annual Meeting, LeadingAge Minnesota and a delegation of members traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with federal policymakers to advance employment-based immigration reforms—a key workforce strategy to care for a growing population of older Minnesotans.

The MDS is too important to learn by trial and error. Foundations for New MDS Professionals, November 12–13, gives new MDS coordinators and clinical team members two focused days to build the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need for accurate, compliant MDS practice.

When a resident’s condition changes, a provider needs to be called or a task needs to be delegated, nurses need practical skills they can put to work immediately. This fall, LeadingAge Minnesota’s Nurse Lunch & Learn webinar series focuses on three everyday situations where clear assessment and communication can make a difference.

LeadingAge Minnesota is excited to welcome Thanh Nguyen as our new Workforce Programs Coordinator, a newly created role that reflects our continued investment in one of the most significant challenges facing our members: workforce. 

HUD has eliminated its longstanding requirement for emergency call-for-aid systems at certain elderly multifamily housing properties, including covered Section 202 senior housing properties.

The AI-Enabled Admissions and Referral Decision Support Playbook is the tenth in a series of technology solution playbooks designed to help aging services providers identify and evaluate technology solutions that can address workforce challenges.

As we’ve shared over the past several months, LeadingAge Minnesota is undergoing a comprehensive website redevelopment project to provide an enhanced digital experience for our members. We’re excited to announce that our brand-new website will launch on Monday, Oct. 19.

We are seeking proven AI technology solutions with applications for long-term care providers across operations, clinical care, workforce, quality, and decision-making. Each virtual demo date will focus on a specific area of use, giving long-term care providers an opportunity to see technologies in action.

Operating independent senior housing comes with challenges all its own. That’s why Tackling the Tough Stuff: Operating Independent Senior Housing Today, coming Thursday, Oct. 8, at Applewood Pointe of Eagan, is focused entirely on the issues facing independent living communities.

While still grieving the three victims of a July shooting at Davern Park Apartments in St. Paul, the property management industry was confronted with another deadly shooting at Shoreline Plaza apartments in Minneapolis. LeadingAge Minnesota extends our sympathy to all those affected by these tragedies, including residents, staff, families and the law enforcement officers who responded.

Survey preparation is often treated as a countdown, but the most valuable work happens between surveys. That is when organizations can address vulnerabilities thoughtfully, examine their systems without the pressure of an impending visit, and turn lessons from across the field into lasting improvements.

Since the federal approval of the nursing home rate changes for 2026, DHS has been moving rapidly to implement those rates. The rates are loaded into the billing system, so August services are being paid at the higher rate. DHS is also automatically reprocessing claims back to Jan. 1, 2026 and that process should be complete this month.

One consequence of the federal approval of nursing home rates for 2026 and 2027 is that the minimum wage rule adopted by the Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board goes into effect today, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026.

Build confidence and strengthen your MDS knowledge with LeadingAge Minnesota’s Foundations for New MDS Professionals, a two-day intensive workshop taking place November 12–13 in St. Paul.