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September 19, 2014

CAHCF - General Membership Meeting

CMS Hand In Hand Toolkit

CAHCF - Best Practices

Educational Conference & Trade Show

The New England Alliance - Fall Conference

CT MED DIR - Supper Program

Partners Pharmacy - Fall Conference

AHCA/NCAL Preferred Products and Services Program

Thought For The Week

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CAHCF - General Membership Meeting

You were there, weren't you?

At our General Membership Meeting we were pleased to introduce you to five (5) new

Business Affiliate Members: Bridging Documentation; M&T Bank; Medicaid4You;

Quill Corporation; and ReadyNurse. Service descriptions and contact information for

these (and for all of our Business Affiliate Members) is available from the Business

Affiliate Member page of our website at www.cahcf.org/businessmember.htm.

MORE (just joined) to be introduced at our next General Membership Meeting in

December!

Business Affiliate Members support this Association. Please make time to speak with

them when they call and read their informational product announcements in our monthly

Member mailings.

In addition to our Business Affiliate Members, we are also 157 Facility Members strong

representing over 67% of all nursing facilities in the State of Connecticut!

We were most pleased to have Molly Rees Gavin, President of Connecticut

Community Care Inc and Florence Johnson, RN, MSN, MHA of Qualidigm address

our group. Both were outstanding!

Paul Liistro, CAHCF President gave us updates on Medicaid application delays and

AHCA matters.

Heather Berchem, Esq of Murtha Cullina LLP; Vincent Ruocco, CPA of O'Connor

Davies LLP and Maureen McCarthy of Celtic Consulting gave us needed and timely

information and insight on legal, financial and Medicare matters.

Richard Brown, CAHCF Director of Member Services reminded everyone of our

upcoming Educational Conference & Trade Show, Wednesday, November 12th.

Everyone's help is needed to encourage not-yet-participating vendors of goods and

services to contact Rick and signup ASAP. We also need your assistance in sending

Attendees from your facility to the event. Rick loves a crowd!

It was a very, very full two hours of critical information, and if you were there, you got it

all. If you weren't..., well... For presentations that were accompanied by MS

PowerPoint slides, Rick will have those posted to the Members ONLY page of our

website at www.cahcf.org/memonly/memonly.htm under the General Membership

Meeting heading by Monday morning at the latest for your review. It's not the same as

being there, but it should be helpful.

This meeting was generously sponsored by our friends at Optum CarePlus CT. Thank

you!

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CMS Hand In Hand Toolkit

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Marcum, LLP

Preferred Therapy Solutions

Quill Corporation

Information on the "CMS Hand In Hand: A Training Series for Nursing Home Toolkit"

referenced in yesterday's Legal Report may be obtained directly from www.cms-

handinhandtoolkit.info/Index.aspx.

While you're not required to use this resource, it's available, and you paid for it (your tax

dollars at work).

Thank you, Heather and Dena.

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CAHCF - Best Practices

Best Practices, The Series! If you're not signed up for these yet, YOU DEFINITELY

SHOULD BE! This is the information you NEED to have to do the best job possible and

stay out of trouble with regulators and others. Heather informs us that HIPAA Security

is our newest and scariest threat. Are you ready?

Dates, Times, Locations, Program Announcements and Registration Information are

now posted to the Event/Seminar Info page of our website at

www.cahcf.org/eventseminarinfo.htm.

09/23 Best Practices: Survey and Certification I

10/14 Best Practices: Survey and Certification II

11/06 Best Practices: Risk Management Hot Topics

11/19 Best Practices: Admissions and Business Office Issues

12/16 Best Practices: HIPAA Security

You need to have someone at each one of these, so doesn't it make sense to sign up

for the Series Package (Members $ 350.00; not-yet-Members $ 400.00) and save

money (save $ 50.00 over the combined individual offerings)? Of course it does!

Individual seminar offerings are Member $ 75.00/person first attendee; Member $

50.00/person second and subsequent attendee from the SAME FACILITY; $

90.00/person not-yet-a-Member.

All seminars will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in

Cromwell, CT and are three (3) contact hours.

Yes, Virginia..., when you sign up for the Series Package, you can have different

people attend different presentations. Substitutions ARE allowed.

Up to 15 CEUs will be awarded to Nursing Home Administrators for their attendance.



ProCareLTC Long Term Care Pharmacy Services

Omnicare Pharmacy of CT

O'Connor Davies

Save the dates and sign up ASAP!!!

Questions? Please contact Adriana Manning at the Association at 860-290-9424;

[email protected].

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Educational Conference & Trade Show

A little less than two months to go until our Educational Conference & Trade Show on

Wednesday, November 12th, and Exhibitor Registrations are REALLY starting to pick

up. A listing of who is already committed to coming is posted to our website at

www.cahcf.org/ec&ts_exhibitor.htm. Don't see YOUR NAME? The first 74

Exhibitors registered and paid in full will be in the Ballroom with Rick. Let's get

cracking!

Questions? Please contact Rick at 860-290-9424; [email protected].

We'll see YOU at The Show!

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The New England Alliance - Fall Conference

The New England Alliance is pleased to announce their Fall Conference to be held

September 24th - 26th at the Portland Regency Hotel & Spa, Portland, ME.

Up to 9.0 CEUs (all Programs have been submitted for NAB approval) will be offered to

Nursing Home Administrators for their attendance at various presentations.

A Program Announcement and Registration Information is currently posted to the

Event/Seminar Info page of our website at www.cahcf.org/eventseminarinfo.htm.

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CT MED DIR - Supper Program

The Connecticut Medical Directors' Association is

pleased to announce a Supper Program for Wednesday, October 1st at the

Masonicare Health Center in Wallingford, CT. The Presentation is entitled, "New

Oral Anticoagulants for Thromboembolic Prophylaxis" with Dr Kluger, Hartford Hospital



PharMerica

Heritage Healthcare Services

AllStar Therapy

Cardiology as the presenter. Registration and cocktails at 6:00 PM; Buffett Dinner

at 6:30 PM; and Presentation and Discussion from 7:00 - 8:30 PM.

A Program Announcement and Registration Information is currently posted to the Event/Seminar Info page of our website at www.cahcf.org/eventseminarinfo.htm.

For additional information please contact Nurka Carrero at LeadingAge Connecticut

at 203-678-4477; [email protected].

Cost is $ 30.00/person.

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Partners Pharmacy - Fall Conference

Partners Pharmacy (a Business Affiliate Member of CAHCF) will be holding their Fall

Conference - Patient and Caregiver: Let's Take A Look At Mental Health on Friday,

October 17th from 9:00 AM to 3:45 PM at the Water's Edge Resort and Spa in

Westbrook, CT.

A Program Announcement and Registration Information is currently posted to the

Event/Seminar Info page of our website at www.cahcf.org/eventseminarinfo.htm.

5.0 CEUs are offered to Nursing Home Administrators for their attendance at the entire

event.

Don't miss it!

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AHCA/NCAL Preferred Products and Services Program

In an environment of ever-diminishing resources, make sure that you explore ALL of the

possibilities offered through the AHCA/NCAL Preferred Products and Services Program.

Make sure to visit www.ahcabenefits.com for information on employee health

insurance!

Additional information is available from the AHCA/NCAL website at

www.ahcancal.org/about_ahca/ahca_membership/Pages/PreferredProducts.aspx.

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Thought For The Week

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are

putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

MARK TWAIN

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CAHCF Dir Member Services

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