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The Dec. 6 Quality Conference is next week and today is the last day to pre-register. Over 115 professionals are already registered to attend this full day event designed to help organizations improve the quality of care and services they provide, and ultimately the lives of older adults. Find complete details and register here.

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is hosting its annual summit on Dec. 13 and this year’s theme is Forward Progress for Aging Well in Minnesota. Registration for this full-day event is now open. 

Elderly Waiver providers are encouraged to participate in a Dec. 11 webinar to learn about the EW Residential Services tool. Schedule and topics include:  

What factors are contributing to drug diversion within Minnesota nursing homes and home care/assisted living organizations? What strategies should you put in place to prevent diversion from occurring within your organization? Join us on Nov. 27 from 11 a.m. – Noon for our Drug Diversion Prevention Webinar.  

The Dec. 6 Quality Conference will feature sessions on how to understand the impact of data on your organization’s reimbursement, viability and market strength, as well as how to collect and analyze the right data to inform organizational improvement and marketplace positioning.   

The Dec. 6 Quality Conference will feature a full day of sessions devoted to help organizations improve quality. Learn how to instill a culture of safety in your organization that helps prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation of the people you serve.  

Drug diversion has accounted for 15 percent of substantiated Vulnerable Adult Act (VAA) cases in Minnesota nursing homes and home care/assisted living organizations this year. A webinar on Nov. 27 from 11 a.m. to Noon will discuss factors that are contributing to these cases and strategies to prevent diversion from happening in your organization. 

A free training on Nov. 8 will cover tools and resources that Home and Community-Based Services providers use for end-of-life care and hospice, palliative care and serious illness, POLST, Advance Care Directives and Veteran’s benefits. 

The Dec. 6 Quality Conference features a full day of sessions devoted to helping organizations improve quality. Performance Excellence Network’s Brian Lassiter will lead a session on creating a culture of excellence throughout your organization from the board room to the front lines of care.   

EduCare has been the exclusive on-demand training partner of LeadingAge Minnesota for several years, providing online and DVD programs for all segments in the full continuum of older adult services. There are recent important upgrades and new features to the programs, making this an opportune time to evaluate using it for staff training. 

The Dec. 6 Quality Conference will feature a general session about how to design physical environments for aging persons. Learn evidence-based design and research findings that can help inform design decisions. 

A recent webinar on a series of upgrades to AgingServicesJobs.Org is now available. View the webinar to learn more. 

Two new webinars have been added to LeadingAge Minnesota’s on-demand training library as part of a core knowledge series of topics that are essential and fundamental for senior housing managers to know to operate legally. 

John Westphal, Chief Advisor at Outcome Engenuity LLC will open the Dec. 6 Quality Conference with a keynote presentation, Applying Principles of Highly Reliable Organizations to Aging Services. 

Grief and Hope in Life’s Intersections: Multiple Responses to Dying and Grieving People is a full day workshop offered by the Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care on Friday, Nov. 16. 

Attend the Quality Conference this December and learn how to apply the concepts and principles of Highly Reliable Organizations from other high consequence industries to our work in aging services. 

A senior housing state of the market, development, design and construction trends, and capital market strategies and solutions are three of the featured topics at the 12^th Annual Senior Housing Summit on Oct. 25. The summit will also examine future trends impacting the senior housing industry in what is sure to be an informative, provocative discussion. 

There have been several upgrades to AgingServicesJobs.Org. View this webinar to learn more. 

The webinar on the newest upgrades to AgingServicesJobs.Org takes place this Friday at 10 a.m. Sign up today! 

A new webinar will feature the latest upgrades to AgingServicesJobs.Org, many of which are based on the excellence feedback from LeadingAge Minnesota members. Sign up today