2025 Institute & Expo
Feb 12-13, 2025, RiverCentre
Join us for the LeadingAge Minnesota's 2025 Institute & Expo in St. Paul on Feb. 12-13. March 4-6, Virtual.
Institute is two days packed with education, networking opportunities, and the largest aging services expo in the state. We invite you to join us to gain the knowledge and connections you need to serve older adults now, but to also think courageously about evolving for the future.
Help us spark a wave of optimism, champion innovation, and embrace bold solutions that serve and uplift our aging community.
Session Schedule
Tuesday, Feb. 11 - Pre-conference Intensives
Session A: The Evolving Role of Board Members in Navigating Industry Trends
Feb 11, 9:00am - 12:00pm
In the rapidly evolving senior care and living landscape, board members play an increasingly critical role in guiding their communities through shifting market challenges and opportunities. This year’s Governance Intensive will explore key industry trends that board members should watch closely, the ways in which the role of a board member has transformed, and the indicators of board success.
This interactive workshop is an opportunity for executive and board teams to learn together. Participants will gain insights into aligning their governance strategies with market shifts, ensuring that board contributions not only keep their communities thriving but also set them apart as leaders in the industry.
This interactive workshop is an opportunity for executive and board teams to learn together. Participants will gain insights into aligning their governance strategies with market shifts, ensuring that board contributions not only keep their communities thriving but also set them apart as leaders in the industry.
What would it look like if everyone in your organization thought of accountability as a healthy concept? We are living in the greatest era in history to be an employee with unlimited access to information and a flexible workplace. Many companies are finding that employee engagement and satisfaction are way up, but that accountability is down. In 2024, Good Leadership spearheaded a research project to study the state of accountability in organizations today, and how organizations across all sectors and sizes can build a culture of healthy accountability for better, faster, and easier results. With nearly 200 qualitative interviews, and over 4,000 survey responses from all 50 states, the data set is both robust and telling. In this interactive session, Good Leadership will help your organization experience the benefits of Healthy Accountability:
1. People take personal ownership for delivering quality work, on-time.
2. People embrace the support, input, and critique of their team members.
3. People champion a win together mindset.
• Understand the themes from the 2024 Healthy Accountability Research Study spearheaded by Good Leadership.
• Identify the action steps to move your organization toward a culture of healthy accountability.
• Explore organization implications, team implications, and individual implications of accountability.
• Create a pathway to healthy accountability action plan for your organization.
1. People take personal ownership for delivering quality work, on-time.
2. People embrace the support, input, and critique of their team members.
3. People champion a win together mindset.
• Understand the themes from the 2024 Healthy Accountability Research Study spearheaded by Good Leadership.
• Identify the action steps to move your organization toward a culture of healthy accountability.
• Explore organization implications, team implications, and individual implications of accountability.
• Create a pathway to healthy accountability action plan for your organization.
Did you know that approximately 25% of survey citations in Minnesota assisted living communities are related to emergency preparedness and physical environment? This interactive workshop provides essential information, resources, and tools to develop a deeper understanding of survey requirements in the areas of emergency preparedness, hazard vulnerability assessments, fire drills, evacuations, and life safety codes for assisted living organizations. Survey citation data will be leveraged to understand the key areas leading to these citations and focus on how to proactively address potential gaps in your current processes to effectively meet regulatory requirements and the needs of your residents and staff.
• Gain a deeper understanding of Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness regulatory requirements and common gaps in practice.
• Engage in case studies and exercises to apply knowledge to top survey citations.
• Discuss lessons learned from organizations who have experienced emergency situations at their site that can be incorporated into your emergency plans and approaches.
• Understand how to create a focus on continuous quality improvement in your teams.
• Gain a deeper understanding of Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness regulatory requirements and common gaps in practice.
• Engage in case studies and exercises to apply knowledge to top survey citations.
• Discuss lessons learned from organizations who have experienced emergency situations at their site that can be incorporated into your emergency plans and approaches.
• Understand how to create a focus on continuous quality improvement in your teams.
This comprehensive, multi-hour workshop delves into the legal and practical aspects of discharges, terminations, and transfers in Minnesota assisted living and nursing home settings. Participants will explore not only the statutory framework but also how to navigate complex situations, including handling resident resistance, family concerns, and ethical dilemmas. In addition to learning documentation best practices, attendees will gain insights on minimizing disputes and ensuring a smooth transition. Through expert-led discussions and real-life case studies, participants will leave equipped to manage these transitions with confidence and compassion.
• Identify the statutory requirements for discharging nursing home residents and terminating assisted living contracts under Minnesota law.
• Learn best practices for supporting residents throughout the discharge or termination process to ensure successful transitions.
• Discuss effective strategies for nursing and administrative staff in documenting and preparing for potential discharges, transfers, or terminations.
• Review key regulations governing terminations, transfers, and discharges in Minnesota assisted living communities.
• Identify the statutory requirements for discharging nursing home residents and terminating assisted living contracts under Minnesota law.
• Learn best practices for supporting residents throughout the discharge or termination process to ensure successful transitions.
• Discuss effective strategies for nursing and administrative staff in documenting and preparing for potential discharges, transfers, or terminations.
• Review key regulations governing terminations, transfers, and discharges in Minnesota assisted living communities.
Wednesday, Feb. 12 - Concurrent Sessions 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
• Learn the formula for departmental language: motivation + barriers = prioritization and explore goal-oriented communication.
• Facilitate effective communication in varying departmental languages. By practicing translating a message to different languages based on a shared goal.
• Identify the impact of stress on communication and listening andpractice grounding and breathwork to use in high-stress situations.
• Facilitate effective communication in varying departmental languages. By practicing translating a message to different languages based on a shared goal.
• Identify the impact of stress on communication and listening andpractice grounding and breathwork to use in high-stress situations.
• Understand underwriting parameters which affect a mutual fund investor's or bank lender's decision to invest in your project debt from new construction to refinancing.
• Learn best practices for ongoing disclosure provided to investors, including financial and operating report formats, as well as content for disclosure calls with bondholders.
• Navigate a negative credit event with bondholders by learning best practices for requesting waivers for covenant defaults, negotiating forbearance agreements and negative press.
• Learn best practices for ongoing disclosure provided to investors, including financial and operating report formats, as well as content for disclosure calls with bondholders.
• Navigate a negative credit event with bondholders by learning best practices for requesting waivers for covenant defaults, negotiating forbearance agreements and negative press.
• Understand the core capabilities and limitations of GenAI tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot.
• Identify at least three high-value use cases for applying GenAI in senior living sales and marketing.
• Create a sample marketing asset or sales script using GenAI through guided hands-on exercises.
• Identify at least three high-value use cases for applying GenAI in senior living sales and marketing.
• Create a sample marketing asset or sales script using GenAI through guided hands-on exercises.
104 - Cooking up a Dining Services Solution for the Younger Aging Population
Feb 12, 8:30am - 9:30am
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the nutritional preferences and expectations specific to the younger boomer demographic in long-term care settings.
• Learn practical strategies to tailor nutrition plans and menu options that meet the diverse needs and preferences of younger boomers.
• Acquire insights into innovative approaches and best practices for enhancing satisfaction, health outcomes, and quality of life through nutrition in long-term care communities.
• Learn practical strategies to tailor nutrition plans and menu options that meet the diverse needs and preferences of younger boomers.
• Acquire insights into innovative approaches and best practices for enhancing satisfaction, health outcomes, and quality of life through nutrition in long-term care communities.
• Identify key strategies for incorporating quality and performance improvement into daily practice.
• Understand how these strategies support your broader quality program approach and support you in meeting regulatory requirements.
• Discuss how to create a culture that prioritizes quality throughout everything you do and across your entire team.
• Understand how these strategies support your broader quality program approach and support you in meeting regulatory requirements.
• Discuss how to create a culture that prioritizes quality throughout everything you do and across your entire team.
• Describe the 2025 rate setting process for care centers and planning for the PDPM transition.
• Review implementation of nursing home funding from the 2023 legislative session, including the financially distressed facility loan program, critical access, and incentive grant cost reporting.
• Discuss the auditing process and issues that come up regularly in the setting of care center payment rates.
• Review implementation of nursing home funding from the 2023 legislative session, including the financially distressed facility loan program, critical access, and incentive grant cost reporting.
• Discuss the auditing process and issues that come up regularly in the setting of care center payment rates.
• Identify the most common engineering citations for AL and ALDC licensed communities.
• Discuss how to navigate door locks in assisted living and best practices for moving snow or using space heaters in colder months.
• Outline when engineering needs to review construction plans.
• Discuss how to navigate door locks in assisted living and best practices for moving snow or using space heaters in colder months.
• Outline when engineering needs to review construction plans.
• Identify the unique challenges and opportunities of fundraising in older adult services.
• Highlight the important role philanthropy can play in our future.
• Discuss best practices and strategies for fundraising specific to our field.
• Highlight the important role philanthropy can play in our future.
• Discuss best practices and strategies for fundraising specific to our field.
Wednesday, Feb. 12 - Opening Keynote and Awards 9:45 - 11:30 a.m.
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Wednesday, Feb. 12 - Concurrent Sessions 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
• Identify the top challenges facing sales and marketing staff in aging services including effectively engaging families and decision-makers.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to attract a growing resident population.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to attract a growing resident population.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Identify the top challenges facing nurse leaders in aging services including workforce and case complexity.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to provide quality resident care.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to provide quality resident care.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Identify the top challenges facing operations in aging services including regulatory compliance and evolving resident and staff needs.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to innovate.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to innovate.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Identify the top challenges facing long-term care finance departments and discuss how you are addressing them in your organization.
• Discuss what you expect to be the most positive aspect of your financial outlook for 2025 and what represents the biggest obstacle to a successful fiscal year.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that help your organization operate successfully.
• Discuss what you expect to be the most positive aspect of your financial outlook for 2025 and what represents the biggest obstacle to a successful fiscal year.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that help your organization operate successfully.
• Identify effective and targeted recruitment and retention strategies that are attracting and retaining high-quality staff in senior care settings.
• Share programs, policies, or new innovations that promote employee well-being, job satisfaction, and create a supportive workplace culture.
• Discuss strategies to maintain compliance with the latest HR regulatory requirements, including labor laws and health and safety regulations, to reduce risk.
• Share programs, policies, or new innovations that promote employee well-being, job satisfaction, and create a supportive workplace culture.
• Discuss strategies to maintain compliance with the latest HR regulatory requirements, including labor laws and health and safety regulations, to reduce risk.
• Identify the top challenges facing fundraising staff in aging services.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to attract resources.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to attract resources.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Identify the top challenges facing independent living settings in aging services.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Discuss strategies and solutions to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities.
• Share best practices, tools, and tips that could be applied in aging services settings.
• Understand how to assess and understand risk for a person while providing opportunities for choice.
• Explore the use of simple, but effective person-centered planning tools such as Risk Assessment, Important To/For, Decision-Making Profile and Agreement, and Learning Log.
• Identify situations when these person-centered tools are powerful and implement their use in everyday supports for persons receiving care.
• Explore the use of simple, but effective person-centered planning tools such as Risk Assessment, Important To/For, Decision-Making Profile and Agreement, and Learning Log.
• Identify situations when these person-centered tools are powerful and implement their use in everyday supports for persons receiving care.
• Define workplace violence and identify its physical and emotional impacts on both residents and employees.
• Recognize risk factors and triggers associated with workplace violence in senior care.
• Implement techniques in effective communication and de-escalation to manage potentially violent situations.
• Recognize risk factors and triggers associated with workplace violence in senior care.
• Implement techniques in effective communication and de-escalation to manage potentially violent situations.
• Understand, through deep dive analysis, the root causes of dietary-related adverse events that can lead to resident harm.
• Discuss solutions to help ensure that all residents are served a “safe plate.”
• Describe and apply practical approaches to implementing dietary safety solutions in your organization.
• Discuss solutions to help ensure that all residents are served a “safe plate.”
• Describe and apply practical approaches to implementing dietary safety solutions in your organization.
• Understand which fire safety requirements apply to senior housing, assisted living , and adult day services.
• Learn specific requirements for fire alarm systems, locking arrangements, and other building features.
• Clarify the roles of the Minnesota State Fire Marshal and local fire code officials in interpreting and applying applicable codes.
• Learn specific requirements for fire alarm systems, locking arrangements, and other building features.
• Clarify the roles of the Minnesota State Fire Marshal and local fire code officials in interpreting and applying applicable codes.
Wednesday, Feb. 12 - Concurrent Sessions 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
• Explore key legal issues around smoking in long-term care communities.
• Assess and manage residents who smoke, considering their health and safety as well as neighbors and staff in both smoking and non-smoking environments.
• Apply strategies for implementing smoking policies and resident care plans in accordance with both legal requirements and clinical best practices.
• Assess and manage residents who smoke, considering their health and safety as well as neighbors and staff in both smoking and non-smoking environments.
• Apply strategies for implementing smoking policies and resident care plans in accordance with both legal requirements and clinical best practices.
• Understand the Voice of Customer process and its significance in fostering resident-centered care and continuous improvement in senior living communities.
• Develop practical skills for gathering, organizing, and analyzing resident feedback.
• Turn feedback into actionable improvements and measure their effectiveness.
• Develop practical skills for gathering, organizing, and analyzing resident feedback.
• Turn feedback into actionable improvements and measure their effectiveness.
• Recognize referral opportunities where ACO participants can help healthcare centers maintain referrals.
• Focus on value-based care, emphasizing quality outcomes, including lower hospitalization rates, readmissions, and shorter length of stays.
• Define financial Incentives to understand how ACOs share in cost savings through better care coordination.
• Focus on value-based care, emphasizing quality outcomes, including lower hospitalization rates, readmissions, and shorter length of stays.
• Define financial Incentives to understand how ACOs share in cost savings through better care coordination.
• Understand the steps to take to create a state of preparedness.
• Review “lessons learned” from an actual active shooter case study in a senior care community that ended with catastrophic outcomes.
• Explain ""The Four Outs"" of the Active Shooter Safety Action Plan for senior care communities and how to choose the right steps to implement to maximize survivability.
• Review “lessons learned” from an actual active shooter case study in a senior care community that ended with catastrophic outcomes.
• Explain ""The Four Outs"" of the Active Shooter Safety Action Plan for senior care communities and how to choose the right steps to implement to maximize survivability.
• Understand the current realities driving providers to explore the role of the SNF in serving their community today and into the future.
• Identify the factors you should address when evaluating your current SNF and the role it plays in your organization’s current and future relevance.
• Discover real life solutions that are being implemented to address the challenges of operating a SNF while also addressing the needs of Baby Boomers in their community.
• Identify the factors you should address when evaluating your current SNF and the role it plays in your organization’s current and future relevance.
• Discover real life solutions that are being implemented to address the challenges of operating a SNF while also addressing the needs of Baby Boomers in their community.
• Learn how to cultivate a learning culture and understand the importance of continuous skill development in senior living culinary roles for enhancing dining experiences.
• Apply practical techniques for effective culinary training and daily operational integration in senior living communities for your dining team members.
• Implement strategies to create a supportive learning environment and knowledge sharing among peers along with recognition of team member achievements.
• Apply practical techniques for effective culinary training and daily operational integration in senior living communities for your dining team members.
• Implement strategies to create a supportive learning environment and knowledge sharing among peers along with recognition of team member achievements.
• Understand how Six-Sigma tools and strategies can be used to identify improvement opportunities and support quality improvement activities.
• Define Standard Work to create an environment that promotes the use of best practices that drive improvement.
• Practice applying a core Six-Sigma tool to address improvement opportunities in your organization.
• Define Standard Work to create an environment that promotes the use of best practices that drive improvement.
• Practice applying a core Six-Sigma tool to address improvement opportunities in your organization.
• Analyze rural and metro job seeker trends and labor force projections to understand their impact on the older adult services workforce, supporting strategic and responsive employer planning.
• Recognize Minnesota's statewide shortage of essential caregivers and assess the potential impacts of added workforce pressures.
• Explore new hiring opportunities by leveraging labor market forecasting, as well as workforce development initiatives from DEED and CareerForce.
• Recognize Minnesota's statewide shortage of essential caregivers and assess the potential impacts of added workforce pressures.
• Explore new hiring opportunities by leveraging labor market forecasting, as well as workforce development initiatives from DEED and CareerForce.
• Identify the top 10 K-tags being cited in life safety surveys to help you remain in compliance.
• Learn about current activities and initiatives within the State Fire Marshal’s inspection team.
• Explore other timely topics related to the Life Safety Code.
• Learn about current activities and initiatives within the State Fire Marshal’s inspection team.
• Explore other timely topics related to the Life Safety Code.
• Describe assisted living survey trends from the MDH Health Regulation Division.
• Understand trends in home care surveys.
• Identify helpful assisted living and home care provider resources to achieve compliance with licensing laws and rules and avoid citations.
• Understand trends in home care surveys.
• Identify helpful assisted living and home care provider resources to achieve compliance with licensing laws and rules and avoid citations.
• Identify key components of launching or revamping a planned giving program, including engaging critical stakeholders.
• Discuss how to identify potential donors, approach conversations, and transition one-time donors to planned giving contributors.
• Illustrate techniques to effectively engage board members in advocating for planned giving and clearly communicate choices to donors for informed decision-making.
• Discuss how to identify potential donors, approach conversations, and transition one-time donors to planned giving contributors.
• Illustrate techniques to effectively engage board members in advocating for planned giving and clearly communicate choices to donors for informed decision-making.
Wednesday, Feb. 12 - Concurrent Sessions 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
• Understand the different values each marketing channel has related to lead conversion.
• Calculate a growth plan to determine the number of move-ins, leads, and tours you will need to complete to reach occupancy goals.
• Identify sales zone activities, their impact on your sales pipeline, and how best to track lead management success through your CRM.
• Calculate a growth plan to determine the number of move-ins, leads, and tours you will need to complete to reach occupancy goals.
• Identify sales zone activities, their impact on your sales pipeline, and how best to track lead management success through your CRM.
• Understand the chemistry of stress and learn to reframe why all crucial conversations are not bad, so that you can step into them with confidence.
• Use the LEARN acronym as a roadmap for successfully navigating crucial conversations.
• Identify and/or create organizational tools and resources to use when discussing the issues brought forward in crucial conversations.
• Use the LEARN acronym as a roadmap for successfully navigating crucial conversations.
• Identify and/or create organizational tools and resources to use when discussing the issues brought forward in crucial conversations.
• Examine OIG and CMS guidelines for senior living and care compliance and ethics programs and understand their significance.
• Identify key methods for assessing and enhancing the effectiveness of compliance and ethics programs.
• Utilize existing organizational resources to practically meet federal guidelines and create a culture of compliance.
• Identify key methods for assessing and enhancing the effectiveness of compliance and ethics programs.
• Utilize existing organizational resources to practically meet federal guidelines and create a culture of compliance.
• Examine family case studies to determine issues that families face with a dementia loved one.
• Engage in discussion around ways that joy, compassion, and fun can be developed in family units and in community social interactions.
• Brainstorm trust building engagements and apply these ideas to their own communities.
• Engage in discussion around ways that joy, compassion, and fun can be developed in family units and in community social interactions.
• Brainstorm trust building engagements and apply these ideas to their own communities.
• Understand the impact of ageism on our health.
• Explain the strategies around reframing aging.
• Integrate common sense strategies to eliminate ageism.
• Explain the strategies around reframing aging.
• Integrate common sense strategies to eliminate ageism.
• Gain an understanding of PDPM’s deep impact on reimbursement strategies.
• Acquire key tools for optimizing financial performance.
• Develop insights into documentation and coding practices to support reimbursement and compliance.
• Acquire key tools for optimizing financial performance.
• Develop insights into documentation and coding practices to support reimbursement and compliance.
• Identify key factors contributing to mechanical lift falls based on research conducted as part of the LeadingAge Minnesota Foundation Mechanical Lift Fall Project.
• Understand how the design of equipment and processes impact staff behavior and contribute to resident safety.
• Discuss initial steps that can be taken to strengthen your approach to mechanical lift safety.
• Understand how the design of equipment and processes impact staff behavior and contribute to resident safety.
• Discuss initial steps that can be taken to strengthen your approach to mechanical lift safety.
• Understand the inspection process, types, and priorities for Minnesota OSHA in the healthcare sector.
• Identify inspection trends including the most frequently cited standards and best practices to avoid citations and penalties.
• Discuss the significance and requirements for ergonomics program requirements, including grant opportunities.
• Identify inspection trends including the most frequently cited standards and best practices to avoid citations and penalties.
• Discuss the significance and requirements for ergonomics program requirements, including grant opportunities.
• Understand the Minnesota Food Code and resources available to maintain compliance, including Adult Day Centers that provide food.
• Review the types of kitchen surveys, what to expect during survey, and how to prepare.
• Discuss recent assisted living licensure survey trends related to food code and how to avoid getting cited.
• Review the types of kitchen surveys, what to expect during survey, and how to prepare.
• Discuss recent assisted living licensure survey trends related to food code and how to avoid getting cited.
• Identify the revisions to CMS long-term care surveyor guidance.
• Examine the significant updates regarding admission agreement prohibitions, chemical restraints, and psychotropic medications, assessments, and professional standards of practice.
• Explore strategies for aligning care practices with the new CMS requirements to ensure compliance by February 24, 2025.
• Examine the significant updates regarding admission agreement prohibitions, chemical restraints, and psychotropic medications, assessments, and professional standards of practice.
• Explore strategies for aligning care practices with the new CMS requirements to ensure compliance by February 24, 2025.
• Understand how to develop your goals to start or expand an annual giving program.
• Review key elements of an annual giving program, including multi-channel approaches, giving days, and employee giving initiatives, to drive meaningful engagement, increased giving, and donor retention.
• Discuss planning, implementing, and evaluating annual giving strategies, including setting clear objectives, measuring outcomes, and using data to inform future initiatives.
• Review key elements of an annual giving program, including multi-channel approaches, giving days, and employee giving initiatives, to drive meaningful engagement, increased giving, and donor retention.
• Discuss planning, implementing, and evaluating annual giving strategies, including setting clear objectives, measuring outcomes, and using data to inform future initiatives.
Thursday, Feb. 13 - Concurrent Sessions 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
• Identify situations when terminating a resident’s contract might be necessary.
• Evaluate the impact of the termination process on providers, residents, and family members.
• Analyze real-world scenarios of contract terminations to identify both effective and ineffective approaches to improve outcomes.
• Evaluate the impact of the termination process on providers, residents, and family members.
• Analyze real-world scenarios of contract terminations to identify both effective and ineffective approaches to improve outcomes.
502 - Compassionate Care: Support for Residents with Substance Use Histories
Feb 13, 8:30am - 9:30am
• Recognize the unique needs of residents with substance use disorders.
• Implement person-centered strategies to care plan for residents with histories of substance use.
• Practice support systems related to caring for residents with substance use disorders.
• Implement person-centered strategies to care plan for residents with histories of substance use.
• Practice support systems related to caring for residents with substance use disorders.
• Understand the purpose and components of Section GG of the MDS, including the scoring system used in Section GG assessments.
• Gain insights into documentation guidelines for accurate recording of functional abilities.
• Understand the process of monitoring resident progress towards CMS expectations for improvement and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in care planning.
• Gain insights into documentation guidelines for accurate recording of functional abilities.
• Understand the process of monitoring resident progress towards CMS expectations for improvement and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in care planning.
• Analyze anonymized data to identify key HR challenges and opportunities in senior care.
• Discuss best practices for improving HR compliance, efficiency, and employee satisfaction.
• Explore innovative solutions for addressing workforce challenges in the senior care industry.
• Discuss best practices for improving HR compliance, efficiency, and employee satisfaction.
• Explore innovative solutions for addressing workforce challenges in the senior care industry.
• Create a game plan to navigate challenges if some of your workforce choose to use recreational cannabis.
• Understand employee investigations, employment actions, and discipline if an employee is working under the influence.
• Identify requirements for reasonable accommodations under the ADA for employees that may have a substance use disorder.
• Understand employee investigations, employment actions, and discipline if an employee is working under the influence.
• Identify requirements for reasonable accommodations under the ADA for employees that may have a substance use disorder.
• Understand the difference among various documents that can help inform who the medical decision-maker is.
• Discuss these tools in the context of honoring patient choices and complying with legal requirements.
• Explore ways to manage disputes when disagreements arise regarding the course of care.
• Discuss these tools in the context of honoring patient choices and complying with legal requirements.
• Explore ways to manage disputes when disagreements arise regarding the course of care.
• Gain insight into the top trends shaping senior living and care.
• Discover the strategies employed by successful providers to prepare for these imminent changes.
• Assess the potential impact of these transformations on your organization and market positioning.
• Discover the strategies employed by successful providers to prepare for these imminent changes.
• Assess the potential impact of these transformations on your organization and market positioning.
• Review rule revisions, updates, and changes to licensee responsibilities.
• Understand the latest information related to licensure requirements, renewals, and deadlines.
• Get answers to your questions related to LALD and other licenses from BELTSS staff.
• Understand the latest information related to licensure requirements, renewals, and deadlines.
• Get answers to your questions related to LALD and other licenses from BELTSS staff.
Thursday, Feb. 13 - Concurrent Sessions 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
• Articulate how falls impact senior care residents and staff, as well as operational performance.
• Describe elements of the built environment that play a role in fall prevention, detection, and protection.
• Explore how the built environment can be used to support providers and their fall management strategies.
• Describe elements of the built environment that play a role in fall prevention, detection, and protection.
• Explore how the built environment can be used to support providers and their fall management strategies.
• Understand the emotional and psychological impact of unresolved anger and its effects on well-being.
• Explore practical strategies for acknowledging pain, healing, and practicing forgiveness.
• Identify tools for personal growth and cultivating positive relationships through forgiveness.
• Explore practical strategies for acknowledging pain, healing, and practicing forgiveness.
• Identify tools for personal growth and cultivating positive relationships through forgiveness.
• Discuss the three most common mistakes communities make in planning for, purchasing, and deploying technology.
• Identify how technology increases your resident safety, well-being, and health outcomes.
• Discuss best practices for planning and using technology to alleviate pressure and inefficiency with staff and operations.
• Identify how technology increases your resident safety, well-being, and health outcomes.
• Discuss best practices for planning and using technology to alleviate pressure and inefficiency with staff and operations.
• Discuss the impact of the RAI process on the standards of participation.
• Review the MDS item changes that will affect the Quality Reporting Program.
• Review the impact of the final rule for fiscal year 2024.
• Review the MDS item changes that will affect the Quality Reporting Program.
• Review the impact of the final rule for fiscal year 2024.
• Gain a current understanding of published workforce research and related impacts specifically for long-term care providers.
• Develop tools to evaluate the essential components of an effective and accountable international recruitment program including how to evaluate disparate international models.
• Explore the potential applications of virtual care services in long-term care organizations.
• Develop tools to evaluate the essential components of an effective and accountable international recruitment program including how to evaluate disparate international models.
• Explore the potential applications of virtual care services in long-term care organizations.
• Define four key quality improvement steps that can be applied to any problem to be solved in your organization.
• Discuss strategies to engage all levels of your organization in continuous improvement.
• Participate in activities to effectively target areas for improvement in adult day settings to drive and sustain change.
• Discuss strategies to engage all levels of your organization in continuous improvement.
• Participate in activities to effectively target areas for improvement in adult day settings to drive and sustain change.
• Understand the vision of DHS and MDH in providing care to a growing population of older adults.
• Discuss agency initiatives impacting older adults.
• Review legislative session activities on issues impacting senior care.
• Discuss agency initiatives impacting older adults.
• Review legislative session activities on issues impacting senior care.
• Identify the key components and legal framework of the Minnesota Board of Nursing's scope of practice for nurses.
• Apply the scope of practice guidelines to make informed and ethical decisions in patient care scenarios, while maintaining compliance with state regulations.
• Recognize appropriate delegation practices and understand how to collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams within the boundaries of their nursing scope of practice.
• Apply the scope of practice guidelines to make informed and ethical decisions in patient care scenarios, while maintaining compliance with state regulations.
• Recognize appropriate delegation practices and understand how to collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams within the boundaries of their nursing scope of practice.
Thursday, Feb. 13 - General Session and Awards 12:30 - 2:15 p.m.
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Thursday, Feb. 13 - Concurrent Sessions 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
• Describe effective nursing leadership traits.
• Discuss essentials for achieving leadership effectiveness.
• Identify where you are in your personal nursing leadership journey.
• Discuss essentials for achieving leadership effectiveness.
• Identify where you are in your personal nursing leadership journey.
• Understand how shifting aging demographics creates new opportunities to leverage the advantages of an aging population.
• Consider a new perspective on aging and how we think about older workers, including the benefits of a multigenerational workforce.
• Review a comprehensive toolkit developed by a regional economic development agency to help employers develop a Returnships program to attract and retain diverse talent.
• Consider a new perspective on aging and how we think about older workers, including the benefits of a multigenerational workforce.
• Review a comprehensive toolkit developed by a regional economic development agency to help employers develop a Returnships program to attract and retain diverse talent.
• Identify how our olfactory system can drastically improve mental cognition.
• Demonstrate how olfactory enrichment activities can be adapted into sensory stimulation programs.
• Experience a memory activity to determine for yourself if aroma impacts your cognitive abilities.
• Demonstrate how olfactory enrichment activities can be adapted into sensory stimulation programs.
• Experience a memory activity to determine for yourself if aroma impacts your cognitive abilities.
• Understand the unique needs and challenges of each individual by developing skills in highly responsive questioning, reading body-language, and discerning oral cues.
• Learn to replace bias and personality differences with conscious actions and behaviors to provide high-quality care no matter how they might feel about the individual.
• Develop skills on how to interact effectively with coworkers whose culture, values, and style are different and encourage cooperation and collaboration.
• Learn to replace bias and personality differences with conscious actions and behaviors to provide high-quality care no matter how they might feel about the individual.
• Develop skills on how to interact effectively with coworkers whose culture, values, and style are different and encourage cooperation and collaboration.
• Understand potential applications of machine learning and predictive analytics and dispel common misconceptions about AI in the context of long-term care.
• Analyze real-world applications of AI in long-term care to enhance operational efficiency, resident care, and regulatory compliance, with case studies examples.
• Discuss strategies for managing risks in an AI-driven environment to protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with evolving regulatory standards.
• Analyze real-world applications of AI in long-term care to enhance operational efficiency, resident care, and regulatory compliance, with case studies examples.
• Discuss strategies for managing risks in an AI-driven environment to protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with evolving regulatory standards.
• Understand how the political landscape of the 2025 Legislature will shape policy priorities over the next two years.
• Identify emerging public policies that will likely be considered in the 2025 Legislative Session.
• Explain potential policy and regulatory issues to be addressed through the work of various state agencies.
• Identify emerging public policies that will likely be considered in the 2025 Legislative Session.
• Explain potential policy and regulatory issues to be addressed through the work of various state agencies.
• Analyze common infection prevention and control gaps identified through MDH-ICAR onsite assessments.
• Identify strategies and resources from MDH-ICAR to mitigate gaps in infection control and prioritize areas for improvement.
• Use Project Firstline resources effectively to educate frontline staff on core infection prevention and control practices.
• Identify strategies and resources from MDH-ICAR to mitigate gaps in infection control and prioritize areas for improvement.
• Use Project Firstline resources effectively to educate frontline staff on core infection prevention and control practices.
• Discover practical ideas and initiatives implemented by two member organizations who have received LeadingAge Minnesota’s Excellence in Practice Awards.
• Identify best practices for creating an internal float pool to reduce or eliminate external agency staffing as implemented by Benedictine.
• Discuss integrative therapies for use with the residents and staff to foster a more preventative and holistic approach to care and services as applied by Catholic Eldercare.
• Identify best practices for creating an internal float pool to reduce or eliminate external agency staffing as implemented by Benedictine.
• Discuss integrative therapies for use with the residents and staff to foster a more preventative and holistic approach to care and services as applied by Catholic Eldercare.
Thursday, Feb. 13 - Concurrent Sessions 3:45 - 4:45 p.m.
• Differentiate the goals and services provided for home care, palliative care, and hospice to clarify their unique roles and benefits for patients.
• Identify common patient needs and situations best suited for home care, palliative care, and hospice services, providing guidance for appropriate referrals and continuity of care.
• Discuss how teams can collaborate across these care types to enhance support for recipients and their families and caregivers.
• Identify common patient needs and situations best suited for home care, palliative care, and hospice services, providing guidance for appropriate referrals and continuity of care.
• Discuss how teams can collaborate across these care types to enhance support for recipients and their families and caregivers.
• Understand that most transactions require new community licenses and provider enrollment.
• Known when and where to submit required notices and applications.
• Plan the deal flow and closing to minimize disruptions to services and payment.
• Known when and where to submit required notices and applications.
• Plan the deal flow and closing to minimize disruptions to services and payment.
• Recognize typical attack vectors being used against healthcare organizations.
• Assess typical cyber findings and learn how to address the findings to resolution.
• Recognize, employ, and act on the most common safeguards to protect your organization against a cybersecurity breach.
• Assess typical cyber findings and learn how to address the findings to resolution.
• Recognize, employ, and act on the most common safeguards to protect your organization against a cybersecurity breach.
• Understand the value of creating a sense of belonging in the workplace.
• Explore practical examples of workplace challenges and learn new tools to keep workers engaged and improve workplace human relationships.
• Empower leaders with the necessary tools to engage in courageous conversations in the workplace.
• Explore practical examples of workplace challenges and learn new tools to keep workers engaged and improve workplace human relationships.
• Empower leaders with the necessary tools to engage in courageous conversations in the workplace.
• Identify common barriers to delegation and review related concepts that assist in making delegation more successful.
• Discuss levels of delegation with increasing demand and benefit.
• Identify the goal and positive outcomes of delegation and situations when delegation is unsupported.
• Discuss levels of delegation with increasing demand and benefit.
• Identify the goal and positive outcomes of delegation and situations when delegation is unsupported.
• Learn how QMs are triggered for antipsychotic, antianxiety, hypnotic medications, and behaviors and how these can impact the 5 Star rating.
• Explore how to conduct a Behavior and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) assessment and analysis to understand the resident and what they are trying to communicate.
• Acquire knowledge about creating a Life Story, evidence based non-drug interventions, and ways to help staff become sensitized to the resident's reality and challenges.
• Explore how to conduct a Behavior and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) assessment and analysis to understand the resident and what they are trying to communicate.
• Acquire knowledge about creating a Life Story, evidence based non-drug interventions, and ways to help staff become sensitized to the resident's reality and challenges.
• Understand what the law requires for care centers to comply with posting notices, employee training, and sharing of employee data.
• Review the range of enforcement actions permitted by the law.
• Discuss NHWSB regulations’ variance and waivers process under development and identify evaluation criteria for care centers who may consider this option.
• Review the range of enforcement actions permitted by the law.
• Discuss NHWSB regulations’ variance and waivers process under development and identify evaluation criteria for care centers who may consider this option.
• Outline the statewide resident and family survey process and timelines.
• Describe what measures are included in the Assisted Living Report Card and how the ratings are calculated.
• Discuss goals of the report card and the new quality ratings that will be added the report card in the future.
• Describe what measures are included in the Assisted Living Report Card and how the ratings are calculated.
• Discuss goals of the report card and the new quality ratings that will be added the report card in the future.