April 10, 2024 | Day 1

Keynote | Managing When No One Wants to Work | 1.5 CE

Presenter: Ralph Peterson

The senior care industry is facing a major challenge: Employee Retention. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the turnover rate for direct care workers in senior care is 60%. The high turnover rate is costly for Senior Care Organizations. Research has shown that the number one underlying challenge for employee retention in senior care is culture. A toxic work environment, a lack of respect for employees and a lack of communication and teamwork are all cultural factors that can contribute to employee turnover. This keynote will provide attendees with the tools and strategies they need to turn the tide on employee retention in senior care. 

Learning Goals:

• Understand the importance of culture in employee retention.
• Identify the cultural factors that contribute to employee turnover. 
• Develop strategies for creating a positive and supportive culture.

Breakout | Mastering QAPI | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Erin McGinnis, Kansas Information Security Office

We take care to make sure our communities are physically safe, but how much energy do you put into ensuring that your community is safe in the cyber-world. In this session, explore the difference between Information Technology and Cybersecurity, common cyber threats, and prepare yourself to take the next steps to a secure cyber environment. 

Learning Goals:

• Understand what ways your community is vulnerable to cyber threats.
• Identify ways to prepare for a cyber attack.
• Understand Generative AI and how to use it securely.
• Be able to identify Operational Technology and the Internet of Things.

Breakout | Enhancing Restorative Delivery for Increased Clinical and Financial Opportunity with Wellness in Mind | 1.0 CE

Presenters: Stephen Brown, Aegis Therapies

Dive into the basics of restorative delivery and hone in on the clinical, financial and marketing opportunities that can be experienced by communities with specific strategies that focus on consistency and wellness initiatives. Attendees will gain insight on how to weave in wellness enhancements and multi-dimensional approaches during restorative delivery to maximize the benefits for patients and financial impact for the community. 

Learning Goals:

• Learn how to strategize management of restorative delivery to enhance engagement and participation among residents.
• Gain key take-aways that can help boost financial benefits for the community with a constant and well managed restorative process.
• Experience sample restorative wellness enhancement strategies that will decrease refusals and boost engagement between patients and staff.

Breakout | The Key Components of a Premier Workplace Culture | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Matthew Ferry, Parasol Alliance

A premier workplace culture is defined by several key components, including a strong sense of purpose, open communication, mutual trust and respect, opportunities for growth and development, and a supportive work-life balance. When these components are in place, employees feel valued, motivated, and empowered to do their best work. 

Learning Goals:

• Identify where to start in assessing your current employee engagement programs and planning for the future.
• Discover key employee engagement programs to implement from pre-hire through the employee lifecycle with budget considerations.
• Find out how to leverage technology to empower employee engagement and drive culture.

General Session | Updates from the Capitol City | 1.0 CE

Presenters: Kylee Childs, LeadingAge Kansas; KDADS

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General Session | The Burden of Leadership | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Ralph Peterson

Discover transformative leadership in senior care, balancing courage with compassion. Dive into challenges, foster care cultures, and navigate emotional burdens, equipping leaders for excellence. A must-attend for those passionate about elevating senior care standards and enhancing organizational harmony 

Learning Goals:

• Define leadership and its importance in senior care.
• Identify the challenges of leadership in senior care.
• Develop strategies for building a culture of care and compassion in your organization.
• Develop strategies for making difficult decisions and dealing with the emotional burden of leadership.

 April 11, 2024 | Day 2

General Session | How You Show Up Matters | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Vicki Landers

Healthcare professionals are faced with overwhelm, stress, and constant change. In this thought-provoking talk, Vicki inspires hope, that as individuals, you can impact patients, regardless of role, position, or title.  She shares powerful strategies that demonstrate how care is in your hands.  Learn an empowering framework you can implement right away to return the focus of your organization to providing care for people.

Learning Goals:

• Define how your role relates to and impacts patient care.
• Discuss how anabolic and catabolic energy influence all workplace interactions.
• How to identify your reactions and shift them in real-time.
  

Breakout | Financial Success: Top 10 Strategies | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Bob Dick, Bland & Associates

A nursing facility’s operations is in large part driven by its financial stewardship.  The fixed Medicaid and Medicare revenue streams along with private pay rate limitations makes the nursing facility’s ongoing operations contingent upon managing and controlling expenses.  We will present various strategies to assist a nursing facility with achieving and maintaining financial success. 

Learning Goals:

• Gain an understanding of how to review your financial information on a per patient day basis.
• Evaluate department expenses in total and on a line-by-line basis.
• Analyze cost of labor and determine necessary staffing.
• Review your expenses across the different business services lines such as assisted living, independent living, café, etc.

Breakout | Developing a Strategy for AI in Senior Living | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Michael Hughes, United Church Homes

AI has rapidly evolved in capabilities and application over the past year.  Through United Church Home's relationship with LinkAge Ventures - a team of staff were taken through a month long boot camp to better understand these capabilities and how they could be applied to various use cases in senior living.  Our team won an award during this experience for defining the 'best use case' and we will share these ideas with attendees to inspire and shape their own vision.  This includes a review of emerging tools in the space, and existing tools that can be used to build efficiency and add value (such as ChatGPT).

Learning Goals:

• Understand how AI is commonly described and categorized.
• Understand what AI is and what it is not in terms of function and benefit.
• Outline key use cases for applying AI tools within senior living operations (including service coordination).
• Describe how UCH is investigating these solutions.
• Describe how UCH guides its staff in using existing AI tools including creation of policy, education, and sharing of best practices between staff.

Breakout | Delivering Care with a Trauma Informed Lens | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Haely Ordoyne, Genesis Consulting

Trauma Informed Care is a buzz word in our industry. Do you know what it means? Do we know how to assess it? Can we deliver daily care to someone, while being conscious of it? Most importantly, do we know how it shapes everything we do for those we care for?

Learning Goals:

• Understand where our traumas come from.
• Understand how to assess for it prior to admission.
• Understand how these traumas can show up in daily life.
• Understand how to care for someone with a trauma informed approach.

 Breakout | Unleashing the Future of Senior Living: Exploring the CCRC Without Walls Business Model | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Steve Hopkins, Jordan River Living

In this immersive and enlightening session, we invite you to embark on a transformative journey into the world of the Continuing Care Retirement Community Without Walls (CCRC-WW) business model. As the landscape of senior living evolves rapidly, understanding this innovative approach is essential for industry professionals and organizations looking to thrive in the changing environment.

Learning Goals:

• Grasp the CCRC-WW Model and its value proposition.
• Learn marketing strategies for CCRC-WW communities.
• Explore industry evolution and adaptation regarding CCRC-WW.

Breakout | Dementia and Fall Risk Management: An Inter-professional, Value-Based Approach | 1.0 CE

Presenters: Jeanne Copeland & Molly Carboy, Powerback Rehab

Persons with dementia are two times more likely to fall than those without dementia (Kropelin, 2013). Dementia may also be exacerbated following a fall (Traumatic Brain Injury, 2013). There is a significant need and a growing demand for effective fall risk management for those with dementia, and this should involve inter-professional care.  Collaborative inter-professional care optimizes health services, strengthens health systems, and improves health outcomes and patient satisfaction (Gilbert, Yan, & Hoffman, 2010).  Practical techniques and applications will be examined to support this need.

Learning Goals:

• Define inter-professional practice and outline the roles and expectations of key team members inter-professional fall risk management for persons with dementia.
• Examine fall risk factors and how dementia impacts those factors.
• Apply inter-professional approaches to develop meaningful interventions for fall risk management through case examples.

 Breakout | Eliminating Dependence on Staffing Agencies: Member Perspectives | 1.0 CE

Presenters: Charlotte Rathke & Tayci Helm, Locust Grove Village

Use of agency staffing is costly, creates care challenges, and can hurt staff morale, but for many getting away from using it seems nearly impossible.  In this provider led session, staff from Locust Grove Village will share their methods for staffing agency elimination, their tips and tools, and the outcomes they have realized from their elimination efforts.  

Breakout (Lunch) | KING Luncheon | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Kevin McFarland

KING Members are invited to the Annual Membership Meeting lunch held in conjunction with the LeadingAge Kansas Spring Conference in Manhattan.  Attendees will be presented the annual financial & investment report and hear presentations from the KING Service Team.  In addition, the 2027 Board class will be elected.  KING Member representatives may attend at no cost.

Breakout (Lunch) | Distraction Discovery | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Vicki Landers

Do you go home from work every day feeling like you didn’t get anything done because the distractions overwhelm your ability to focus on meaningful activity? Have you ever sat in your office close to tears, frustrated and discouraged because all your time is spent managing “stuff” that doesn’t feel like it makes a difference to the patients? If this, is you, it’s time to develop your Distraction Diversion Muscles! You will learn what distracts you daily and how to manage it to improve your own productivity and performance all in under an hour! 

Learning Goals:

• Know your #1 distraction at work.
• Recognize when that distraction gets in the way of your leadership goals.  
• Have a realistic and personalized plan to manage that distraction TODAY so you can do your best work. (It will be simple I promise!)

General Session | Value Based Care Models | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Nicole Fallon, LeadingAge

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and its Innovation Center have set a 2030 goal to have all Medicare beneficiaries and many Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships. But what does this mean? This session will help explain what is meant by the goal and progress towards it. It will outline current accountable care models and discuss how all of this relates to other managed care and value-based care activities. Finally, providers will leave with some initial steps they can take to prepare for this future. 

Learning Goals:

• Understand key terms and models related to accountable care and what is driving efforts to move this direction.
• Understand the benefits and the risks of accountable care and roles providers can play in these models
• Identify steps aging services providers can take to prepare for an accountable care future.

Keynote | On The Road with Larry Hatteberg | 1.0 CE

Presenter: Larry Hatteberg

Join lifetime journalist and Kansas native, Larry Hatteberg, as he shares the stories of the incredibly individuals he has featured on his long-airing TV series, Hatteberg's People. Larry's perspective is that people are like teachers… and his role is to be their 'student' and listen and learn. Take a break and learn with him. 

Continuing Education:
This educational event has been approved for up to 14.0 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 12.0 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.