Tuesday learning sessions

TUESDAY | 8:30–9:45 AM

401 | SHAKE UP YOUR STAFF MEETING Play, learn, and walk away with interactive ways to train your staff on the assisted living with dementia care licensing requirements. No one will fall asleep at your all staff meetings again! Amy House, Executive Director of Reflections (Dementia Care), Silvercrest Properties Target Audience: Assisted Living Facility

402 | REVITALIZE YOUR RESTORATIVE NURSING PROGRAM A well-planned restorative nursing program is essential! Providing a good assessment process, identification of person-centered goals, and consistent implementation is essential in providing a program to avoid resident decline and promote quality of care. Join us for this fast-paced, information-packed session that will provide userfriendly strategies for success! Colleen Toebe, RN-MSN, RAC-MT, Nurse Consultant, Pathway Health Target Audience: Skilled Nursing/Nursing Facility & Assisted Living Facility

403 | LABOR LAW UPDATES & RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LTC PROVIDERS This session will provide a practical update and specific recommendations regarding actions employers must take in view of quickly and significantly changing labor laws and regulations which affect long-term care facilities. Topics will include critical labor law developments, issues, and strategies. Michael McNally, Partner, Fox Rothschild, LLP Robert Castle, Partner, Fox Rothschild, LLP Target Audience: All Audiences

404 | SCARED OF WOUNDS? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MITIGATE RISK! We will be discussing common operational fears when admitting wounds to a community. We will be reviewing the common wound types and key components of a successful wound program, as well as the ongoing education of staff to mitigate investigations and survey deficiencies around wound care. Come learn about best practices with risk mitigation, assessments, and prevention. Chris Blomquist, BSN, RN, Director of Skilled Nursing & Registered Nurse Consultant, Advanced Health Institute (AHI) Alanna Valadez, MBA, MSN, RN, APRN, PHN, CWOCN, Director TruHeal Wound Care, Advanced Health Institute (AHI) Target Audience: All Audiences

405 | MDH ENGINEERING ISSUES IN NURSING FACILITIES We’ll discuss issues related to physical plant in nursing facilities. This includes plan review and inspection from MDH engineers. Benjamin Zwart, PE, Public Health Engineer, Minnesota Department of Health Target Audience: Skilled Nursing/Nursing Facility

406 | ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES COLLECTION STRATEGIES & TIPS Attorneys Rebecca Coffin and Grant Gunderson will provide tips from day one at admission to help ensure you get paid. They will review strategies for pending MA applications, steps you can take to resolve unpaid accounts with residents and responsible parties, and legal actions that may be necessary to collect; including settlement agreements, probate actions, and lawsuits including your options for conciliation court success.

Rebecca Coffin, Esq, Partner, Voigt, Rodè, Boxeth & Coffin, LLC Grant Gunderson, Associate Attorney, Voigt, Rodè, Boxeth & Coffin, LLC Target Audience: All Audiences

TUESDAY | 1:15–2:30 PM

501 | EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES & RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LTC PROVIDERS This session will provide an update on federal, state, and local employment law developments and government agency initiatives affecting long-term care facilities. The session will also provide best practices and recommendations for avoiding employee disputes and legal claims. Jenny Fuller, Associate Attorney, Fox Rothschild, LLP Elizabeth Patton, Partner, Fox Rothschild, LLP Target Audience: All Audiences

502 | ALF COMPETENCY TESTING & TRAINING Critical to all quality and care delivery is the core training provided. This session is designed to provide great new hire onboarding, strategies for module training, and key competency training to help provide the type of resident care you’d want for your own parent! Mary Nell Zellner, LNHA, LSW, President/CEO, Zellner Senior Health Consulting, LLC Irmadene Hanson, RN, Nurse Consultant, Zellner Senior Health Consulting, LLC Heather Meixner, RN, MSN, Nurse Consultant, Zellner Senior Health Consulting, LLC Target Audience: All Audiences

503 | A PROVIDER’S GUIDE TO RISK MANAGEMENT A resident falls. An employee walks off the job. MDH shows up on a complaint investigation. The local paper wants a quote on a resident issue. What do you do? Risks come in a variety of shapes and sizes. This session will identify the different types of risk encountered by providers and will offer tips on how best to address them. The legal, public relations, and economic consequences of managing risk poorly will be discussed, as will the roles played by good and bad communications in risk management. Michelle Klegon, Attorney, Klegon Law Office, Ltd. Target Audience: All Audiences

504 | PERSONALITY DISORDERS IN OLDER ADULTS Dr. Brose will address the prevalence of personality disorders in older adults and define the characteristics and symptoms. He will illustrate how personality disorders manifest in behaviors so you can better recognize and respond to them. Discover behavioral health strategies to use with residents who have a personality disorder so you and your team can know best practices for care. Format will include humor, lecture, case examples, and discussion. Dr. John Brose, PhD, LP, LMFT, LADC, Owner, Clinical Director, Associated Clinic of Psychology Target Audience: Skiled Nursing/Nursing Facility & Assisted Living Facility

505 | LONG COVID IN OLDER ADULTS COVID-19 has become part of the landscape of life and healthcare, including geriatrics. As more people survive infection with COVID, we will see more people experiencing prolonged health problems that are new or persistent after having COVID: a condition—or a collection of conditions—known as “long COVID,” or post-acute sequelae of COVID (PASC). How do we distinguish what is long COVID vs. problems due to other geriatric health issues? What can we do to help seniors in our care who experience it? Can anything be done to prevent it? In this session, we will explore what is known about long COVID in older adults, what remains to be learned, and how this knowledge can be applied in post-acute, long-term care, and AL facilities. Dr. Sandy Turbes, MD, Physician & Lead COVID-19 Clinician, Genevive Target Audience: All Audiences

506 | WORKING WITH INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS & STAFFING AGENCIES Attorneys Rebecca Coffin and Ryan Usher will discuss strategies to avoid common mistakes employers make when working with independent contractors and staffing agencies. From employee classification to COVID-19 vaccine documentation, Ms. Coffin and Mr. Usher will cover the benefits and risks of working with nonemployees. In particular, Ms. Coffin and Mr. Usher will educate providers on identifying and avoiding obstacles arising from and relating to the ongoing staffing crisis.

Ryan Usher, Attorney, Voigt, Rodè, Boxeth & Coffin, LLC Rebecca Coffin, Esq, Attorney/Partner, Voigt, Rodè, Boxeth & Coffin, LLC Target Audience: All Audiences

TUESDAY | 3:00–4:15 PM

601 | HOW TO HIRE, MANAGE & TERMINATE EMPLOYEES EFFECTIVELY Hiring and retaining quality staff has never been tougher. The hiring, performance management, and termination process all pose various risks. This session will focus on the hiring tools available to employers and the pros and cons of using them. It will also address effective ways to counsel and discipline staff so they become better employees, rather than disgruntled ones. Finally, the speaker will offer tips on identifying and minimizing employer risk when disciplining or terminating an employee. Michelle Klegon, Attorney, Klegon Law Office, Ltd. Target Audience: All Audiences

602 | OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW DON This dynamic session will provide concrete strategies for the new DON and will cover organizational management, people management, quality of care, and regulatory compliance. This program will also provide insight to key resources the DON will want to keep at their fingertips! You will leave with user-friendly tips of the trade! Colleen Toebe, RN-MSN, RAC-MT, Nurse Consultant, Pathway Health Target Audience: Skilled Nursing/Nursing Facility & Assisted Living Facility & Home Care Providers

603 | MOCK SURVEY—TIPS OF THE TRADE Hot of the press—quick ideas for the busy clinical and operation leaders to know their vulnerabilities and do something about it. Tried and true ideas to focus on the key areas, hot topics for compliance, and quality improvement so that YOU are ahead of the curve. Who knows your senior care setting best? YOU, after you attend this session. Ready yourself to be the best you can be! Mary Nell Zellner, LNHA, LSW, President/CEO, Zellner Senior Health Consulting, LLC Irmadene Hanson, RN, Nurse Consultant, Zellner Senior Health Consulting, LLC Target Audience: All Audiences 604 | BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROTOCOLS FOR DEMENTIA CARE Dr. John Brose has spent over 42 years assisting long-term care staff in developing protocols and strategies for residents with challenging behaviors. He will offer ethical, concrete, practical, and proactive strategies to help manage challenging dementia related behaviors. These protocols and strategies will be tailored for environmental milieu management and individual care planning. Format will include humor, lecture, case examples, and discussion. Dr. John Brose, PhD, LP, LMFT, LADC, Owner, Clinical Director, Associated Clinic of Psychology Target Audience: Skilled Nursing/Nursing Facility & Assisted Living Facility

605 | ALF & ALFDC PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT SURVEY FINDINGS MDH will review the most issued physical environment tags during survey at assisted living facilities in Minnesota. The presentation will take a deep-dive into what MN Statutes 144G.45 & 144G.81 say, why a certain tag was issued, and how the facility can avoid further citations at future surveys. Michael Mireau, HRD Engineering Services–AL, Minnesota Department of Health Target Audience: Assisted Living Facility

606 | CONNECTING THE DOTS FROM SERVICE MODEL TO PROFITABILITY This session will explore the variables that influence the operational success of the senior living community service model through case study analysis and group discussion. Hear from a CFO how connecting the dots from service model to profitability worked to achieve financial and operational objectives. Participants will leave with a plan to challenge the development of their own service model to ensure it is working to achieve their goals. Todd Willett, Chief Financial Officer, Ebenezer Senior Living Mark Anderson, LALD, Chief Client Officer, Eldermark Software Target Audience: Assisted Living Facility

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Did you know that all convention learning session presenters are VOLUNTEERS?

They donate time, energy, and resources to create a wide variety of education to convention attendees— without any compensation.

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