AL SNF | The 2026 WHCA Annual Convention, held last week in Seattle, was a wonderful opportunity for more than 530 professionals from Washington's long-term care community to gather for engaging education and networking opportunities.
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AL SNF | WHCA is hosting Residential Care Services (RCS) Summer Forums for Assisted Living Facility and Skilled Nursing Facility members on June 24. This forum will highlight emergency response from a facility perspective.
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SNF | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released
Admin Info Memo 26-06-NH, which details how they will oversee Long-Term Care Health, Emergency Preparedness (EP), and Life Safety Code (LSC) surveys.
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SNF | The AHCA Regulatory Team has developed several resources to help facilities successfully demonstrate Past Noncompliance, when a deficiency was identified and corrected before survey began.
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SNF | The DOH is looking to fill two vacancies on the Board of Nursing Home Administrators - one to be filled by a nursing home administrator and one by a health professional or a health care educator who is familiar with long-term care.
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SNF | Check out CMS’s new Quality in Focus
interactive video series, a series of short videos that aim to reduce the deficiencies most commonly cited during the CMS survey process.
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SNF |
Safe Steps Forward is a new toolkit to support providers in strengthening their fall prevention programs with information designed to help interdisciplinary teams with a quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) approach.
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SNF | CMS is reinforcing the federal government’s broader push toward electronic payments by encouraging providers to submit Civil Money Penalty (CMP) payments electronically. Providers can access the payment portal
here.
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SNF | Thanks to WHCA voicing significant concerns about poor wording last year, RCS has revised and updated the 24/7 RN staffing exception process and released an updated
"Dear Provider Letter".
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AL | DSHS has updated the
memory care certification application, which clarifies the need for an exemption due to a facility’s enforcement actions. If you have questions, please email
Vicki McNealley.
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Our third annual WHCA-PAC Bowl-a-Rama was a smashing success. We raised roughly $56,500 in support of our PAC work. It was truly an evening to...
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