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November 21, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving!

CAHCF - Alerts

CT DPH - Blast Fax 14-16

CAHCF - Best Practices

CT ACHCA - Annual Holiday Luncheon

Educational Conference & Trade Show

Congratulations!

AHCA/NCAL Preferred Products and Services Program

Thought For The Week

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Heritage Healthcare Services

Happy Thanksgiving!

from the Staff at CAHCF

Matt, Adriana and Rick

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CAHCF - Alerts

We sent you an Alert on Tuesday regarding SECOND

TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - New Collaborative PIlot Effort to Help Resolve Pending

LTC Medicaid Cases. It's posted at this time on the Newswire/Alert page of our website

at www.cahcf.org/memonly/newswire.htm.

The date is FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st at 2:00 PM. The call in number is 800-326-

0013; passcode is 9164502#.

LTSS Application Processing HUB Supervisor List (08/2014) and the LTSS Intake

Department Case Escalation Tool (referred to in the Alert as "the spreadsheet") are

available from the Surveys page of our website at www.cahcf.org/surveys.htm.

If you missed the first opportunity to learn about this, here's your chance. Members who

are participating in the Pilot Effort are telling us, "IT WORKS!!!"

We sent you an Alert on Wednesday regarding a Legal Memo from Murtha Cullina LLP

entitled, "Expansion of the MDS Focused Survey." The Memo is posted to the Legal

page of our website at www.cahcf.org/memonly/legal.htm.

Alerts are important! It's always a good idea to periodically check the Newswire/Alert

page of our website at www.cahcf.org/memonly/newswire.htm to check for any you

may have missed. Make sure to share Alerts with appropriate personnel within your

organization.

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O'Connor Davies

Quill Corporation

Marcum, LLP

CT DPH - Blast Fax 14-16

On this past Monday you all should have received

Blast Fax 14-16 from the State of CT Department of Public Health entitled, "Applicant

Background Check Management System (ABCMS)." It's coming in 2015, and you need

to start getting prepared for it now!

We have posted Blast Fax 14-16 AND a copy of the Connecticut General Statutes,

section 19a-491c to the State CT Department of Public Health Communications

Initiative page of our website at

www.cahcf.org/memonly/ctdphcommunicationsinitiative.htm for your review.

We've been talking about this for some time now, and we most always discuss developments at CAHCF Board Meetings and CAHCF General Membership Meetings.

Did we mention that we have a CAHCF General Membership Meeting scheduled for

Thursday, December 11th? You will be there, won't you?

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CAHCF - Best Practices

One more left!, and Heather and Dena tell us that it's critical information you need

to have. Make sure that someone from your facility is there to hear it!

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

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

www.cahcf.org/event.htm.

12/16 Best Practices: HIPAA Security

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.

Substitutions ARE allowed.

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

Save the dates and sign up ASAP!!!



Omnicare Pharmacy of CT

SMS - housekeeping / janitorial services

ProCareLTC Long Term Care Pharmacy Services

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

[email protected].

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CT ACHCA - Annual Holiday Luncheon

The Connecticut Chapter of the American College

of Health Care Administrators is pleased to announce their Annual Holiday Luncheon

to be held Friday, December 5th at the Inn at Middletown in Middletown, CT. The

event will run from 11:00 AM (Registration opens at 10:30 AM) until 3:00 PM with a

Chapter Meeting at 11:00 AM; Luncheon at 12:00 Noon; Jonathan Pelto, Keynote

Speaker at 1:00 PM; and, of course, the Chapter's infamous Collegiality Hour beginning

at 2:00 PM. The event concludes at 3:00 PM.

A Program Announcement and Registration Information is posted to the

Calendar/Event/Seminar page of our website at www.cahcf.org/event.htm. Please try

to get back to Rick by November 28th so that we'll have an accurate food count.

Two (2) CEUs are offered to Nursing Home Administrators for their attendance at the

Annual Holiday Luncheon.

FREE valet parking; two (2) FREE beverage coupons per Attendee.

Chapter Members and guests registering with a Chapter Member are $ 50.00/person;

not-yet-Members are $ 100.00/person. Attend with a Chapter Member!

Questions? Contact Richard Brown at 860-290-9424; [email protected].

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Educational Conference & Trade Show

Just getting in at the last minute, the following Exhibitor was not able to be listed in our

Program Guide:

O2 Safe Solutions

66 Leonardo Drive

North Haven, CT 06473

203-239-1002

The good folks at O2 Safe Solutions are Business Affiliate Members of CAHCF and

additional information is available about them from

www.cahcf.org/businessmember.htm. ALL of our Advertisers, Exhibitors and

Sponsors supported us at The Show..., please support them!

Rick has pictures up from The Show on the Ed Conf & Trade Show page of our website

at www.cahcf.org/ec&ts.htm. Check 'em out!

One of our Exhibitors, Aaron Becker with Lancaster Pollard, wanted to have a "selfie"

taken of himself and Rick. How could we say, "No." We couldn't!



AllStar Therapy

Preferred Therapy Solutions

PharMerica

We hope to see all of YOU next year at The Show!!! Tentative date is Wednesday,

November 18, 2015!

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to Scott Ziskin, President of Paradigm Healthcare Development, LLC

and CAHCF Board Member on the birth of a girl, Rilee Jordon Ziskin, on 11/13/2014.

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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

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as

frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.

EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN

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