September 18, 2024 

General Session | Governance 101: Getting the Fundamentals Right | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Todd Linden, FACHE, President, Linden Consulting and CEO Emeritus, Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell, Iowa

The highest performing long term care facilities in America are governed by the highest performing boards. It all starts with getting the basics done right. In this session, Todd will help boards get off on the right track with mastering the fundamentals. From the duties of care, obedience, and loyalty to understanding what it means to be a fiduciary, we will explore all the basics. We will also explore tips and best practices for creating successful meetings. From agenda development to decision making, executive sessions to mission moments, and effective committees to meeting evaluation, attendees will leave with great ideas to improve board meetings.

• Effective Board Governance: The highest performing long term care facilities are governed by effective boards, emphasizing the importance of mastering the basics in governance.
• Fundamental Understanding: Key fundamentals include understanding the duties of care, obedience, and loyalty, as well as the role of a fiduciary.
• Best Practices for Meetings: The session covers best practices for successful meetings, including agenda development, decision making, executive sessions, mission moments, and committee effectiveness.

General Session | Governance 201: Cultivating Strong Board-Stakeholder Relationships | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Todd Linden, FACHE, President, Linden Consulting and CEO Emeritus, Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell, Iowa

Fostering strong relationships with key organizational stakeholders is paramount to the success and sustainability of any long term care, skilled care, hospice or home care facility in the dynamic and ever-evolving governance landscape. Achieving this goal is easier said than done. This session will explain the critical importance of building and nurturing connections with various key stakeholders, including administration, employees, and the community. Our discussion will revolve around the effective management of stakeholder relationships while respecting the organization's administrative structure. Finally, we will explore best practices and examples of successful relationship strategies, while inspiring participants to adopt a collaborative and proactive approach to governance that drives achievement.

Learning Goals:

• Importance of Stakeholder Relationships: Strong relationships with key stakeholders including administrations, employees, and the community, are crucial for the success and sustainability of long term care facilities in a dynamic governance landscape.
• Effective Management: Managing stakeholder relationships effectively while respecting the long term care facilities administrative structure.
• Best Practices and Collaboration: Best practices and examples of successful strategies, encouraging a collaborative and proactive approach to governance that drives achievement. 

General Session | Tackling Trends: A Deep-Dive Into Senior Living Trends and Where They Are Taking Us | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Matt Mule, Ziegler

This presentation will highlight Ziegler’s senior living research findings in areas such as consumer demand, growth trends through partnerships and affiliations, home and community-based services, campus repositioning and development, and the pressured workforce environment. A brief discussion of the current state of the senior living capital markets, senior living financing trends, ongoing changes in the banking climate and credit markets will round out this information-packed session.

Learning Goals:

• Explore key senior living-specific trend data from the past year and predictions for what lies ahead.
• Discuss the implications for changes taking place in the not-for-profit senior living sector.
• Understand the current lending environment and senior living capital markets. 

General Session | Show Me the Money! Exploring the Potential of Grants | 1.5 CE

Presenters: Jona Freel, Grace Team Services; Stephanie Gfeller, LeadingAge Kansas; Rebecca Miller, Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services

With big ideas and tight budgets, many are looking for ways to supplement funding. In this session, a fellow provider, a grant program manager, and a grant writer/grant project manager will help you think about the "what" and "how" of grants. Topics to be explored include:

• Potential grant uses,
• Funder ideas,
• Proposal writing tips and tricks,
• and other grant considerations.

This session will also provide you with take-home tools and resources to help your team explore the potential of grants. 

Learning Goals:

• Explain the benefits and considerations of grants.
• Identify resources for finding relevant grant funders.
• Understand the CMP grant program and the project uses it can support.

Closing Keynote | Becoming Human: Rediscovering Our Humanity as Helpers Once Again | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Annie Thomas-Landrum, Managing Me Enterprises

• Explore the key underlying motivations that tend to drive healthcare professionals and the sustainability and stability of the workforces built on them.
• Examine our own expectations of ourselves and the expectations others have of us, for operating in a superhuman way in order to be healthcare professionals.
• Understand the basic premise of Relational Leadership Theory and hot it relates to an organism model of systems and systems change.
• Gain practical ideas for re-engaging our teams in authentic and meaningful ways that promote holistically healthy work environments.
• Explore ways to personally renew our passion for the roles we play as healthcare professionals.

Continuing Education:

This educational event has been approved for up to 6.5 continuing education hours in the core of Administration for Licensed Adult Care Home Administrators, Adult Care Home Operators and Dietitians by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. Health Occupations and Credentialing approved provider number (LTS A0009).

LeadingAge Kansas is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering is approved for 5.5 contact hours applicable for APRN, RN or LPN relicensure. Kansas State Board of Nursing provider number: LT0102-1116.

*Continuing education hours are subject to change.
*Dates and Times are subject to change.