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Upcoming Continuing Education Opportunities for BELTSS Licensees
The following education providers are offering Continuing Education events during the months of August and September for Assisted Living Directors who may need additional CE clock hours to meet the minimum requirements. Licensed Assisted Living Directors who were licensed prior to November 1, 2021, are required to have 15 CE Clock hours. To learn more about these education events or to register, please follow the links provided below.
What We Know and Forecasts for the Future–MN Assisted Living
The Minnesota Assisted Living rules and statutes that took place in August 2021 have delivered many communities with unexpected twists and turns of challenging regulatory and legal outcomes. This session is designed to both look at the trends and learnings in the past year with a focus on tactics to create a more positive future. Targets will be to manage those impacts to improve to a higher level of care, service delivery, and quality, thereby forecasting and creating a stronger care setting.
Speakers:
Robert F. Rode, Esq., Attorney/Partner,
Voigt, Rode & Boxeth, LLC
Mary Nell Zellner, LNHA, LSW, President/CEO, Zellner Senior Health Consulting, LLC
Clinical and Legal Lessons Learned in the First Year of Assisted Living Licensure
This two-hour live webinar will address some of the issues providers have been grappling with since the implementation of the assisted living licensure law. There will be a focus on clinical issues and the impact other aspects of the law have on clinical operations. For example, how do the physical plant and emergency preparedness requirements influence a provider’s approach to providing care? This webinar will also address how to balance situations in which a provider’s approach to resident safety may conflict with the licensure law. There will be ample opportunity for live questions and answers.
EduCare offers 12 Continuing Education Credits that are approved by BELTSS. Available online and on-demand, it is an easy way increase your knowledge and competency at the convenience of your desk and device. Courses include subjects such as dementia, culinary, emergency preparedness, infection control, and more. For more information about registration and price, contact EduCare at: (952) 288 – 3800 or complete a simple form online: https://www.mirabellemanagement.com/contact/
Registration is now open for LeadingAge Minnesota’s Assisted Living Conference, which will be held Aug. 17-18 in Brooklyn Center at the Earle Brown Heritage Center. Its educational sessions include such topics as:
compliance with Minnesota’s assisted living regulations and survey results
facilitating transitions of residents
marketing and census recovery
emergency preparedness
staffing and workforce
The conference also features vendor displays, expert faculty and networking opportunities with other AL professionals. Conference education has been approved for a maximum of 10 clock hours for Minnesota licensed assisted living directors and licensed nursing home administrators.
Find registration and details here. https://www.leadingagemn.org/education-events/midsummer-senior-living-conference/
The University of Minnesota hosts a Geriatrics ECHO that occurs the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month from 12:30 - 1:00. The target audience includes senior care leaders and their clinical and care teams. The topics relate to timely issues that are impacting nursing homes and assisted living communities. Each session offers 1 CE for LNHA and LALD. The sessions are free and can be accessed by completing an online form at https://echocollaborative.org/.
