Archive for October, 2011

This is the required Department of Justice elderabuse training video for long term care providers and staff.

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This is the required Department of Justice elderabuse training video, part 1 for longterm care providers and staff.

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Eldercare Training Academy update service is now available. For RCFE administrators/licensees that purchase the service by the end of September will receive both 2011 updates as well as 2012 for $59.95. The current update published for August 2011 includes: ·     Pending Legislation ·     RCFE Chart – Violations Type A,B,C, ·     Chart Civil Penalties ·     SSI [...]

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Eldercare Training Academy update service is now available. For RCFE administrators/licensees that purchase the service by the end of September will receive both 2011 updates as well as 2012 for $59.95. The current update published for August 2011 includes: ·     Pending Legislation ·     RCFE Chart – Violations Type A,B,C, ·     Chart Civil Penalties ·     SSI [...]

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Residents receiving hospice care eventually can require “total care” which is a prohibited health condition.  Currently if a facility has a hospice care waiver and a resident is on hospice needs total care, the licensee has to apply for an exception for the total care prohibited condition.  Community Care Licensing will now allow facilities with [...]

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Residents from Clark Retirement Community in Grand Rapids, Michigan team up with Grand Valley State University Film & Video Production students, alumni, and professors to create this sassy video to the jazzy 1965 hit song ‘Feeling Good’ by Michael Bublé. It was all shot in one take! http://www.flixxy.com/clark-retirement-home-lipdub.htm

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Residents from Clark Retirement Community in Grand Rapids, Michigan team up with Grand Valley State University Film & Video Production students, alumni, and professors to create this sassy video to the jazzy 1965 hit song ‘Feeling Good’ by Michael Bublé. It was all shot in one take!

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The admissions process and agreement are at the foundation of your business.  It’s important to continually review and update your admissions agreement for both new regulatory changes and to make sure your agreement is easy to read.  Too often I see admissions agreements that are too long,  filled with confusing language rather than organized and written clearly and to the point.  [...]

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Technology is changing the way we do business.  An excellent example is Skype, a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chats over the Internet. Eldercare Training Academy now provides staffing training and consulting services to Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly through Skype.   This allows facilities to utliize video calling [...]

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All Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly and Adult Residential Facilites must maintain an emergency disaster plan that meets the requirements of H&S Code 1569.695 which includes but Is not limited to evacuation procedures, plan for the facility to be self-reliant for a period not less than 72 hours following an emergency or disaster, can communicate [...]

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