WALA News for May 27, 2010

1. Family Care Session: Series 3

Last Chance to attend a WALA Family Care Seminar!

This is the third and final set of sessions of the WALA Sponsored Family Care series that will be offered this year across the state. The sessions give providers an excellent opportunity to enhance communication and increase partnerships with local MCO's.  Register today for a moderated panel discussion forum between providers and MCO and state representatives. Session dates and details listed below:

 

Go to the WALA Store at http://www.ewala.org/ewalastore/index.cfm

 

2. Building Blocks of Training

This workshop is designed to provide you with dynamic tools for presenting effective instruction. If you are an experienced instructor, it will provide you with new ideas to expand your repertoire of instructional practices or if you are a new instructor, it will provide you with a road map for how to start thinking about teaching adults. This course meets the six hour teaching/training requirement as defined in the applications for 83.20.

 

Go to the WALA Store at www.ewala.org for more information on any of the events listed above or to register today!

3. Information from the AL Forum

BAL has posted on its AL Forum webpage at http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/rl_dsl/Providers/asstdLvgForum.htm under the May 11, 2010 forum; more information about IRIS, an alternative to Managed Care, and a slide show called "Steps to build a CBRF".

 

Also available is the draft memo regarding Smoking in Assisted Living Facilities at

http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/rl_dsl/Providers/draftDQAMemo.pdf.

If you have any comments you would like to share about this draft memo, please contact WALA at info@ewala.org or 608/288-0246.

4. New BAL Memos

Elopement Guidelines for Assisted Living Facilities

http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/rl_DSL/Publications/10-009.htm

 

This memo has been re-issued on May 20, 2010.

The purpose of this memo is to remind assisted living providers of the dangers that exist when persons with confusion or dementia wander away from assisted living facilities and to assist providers in the development of a preventative plan related to elopement.

Persons with confusion or dementia who elope from facilities are at great risk of harm. Residents may become lost; be exposed to extreme heat, cold, or other inclement weather; enter traffic, bodies of water, or wooded areas; and be vulnerable to many other hazards, such as uneven pavement which increases risk of falls. Bureau of Assisted Living (BAL) data for the calendar year 2009 indicates that there has been a 38% increase in the number of reported elopements from assisted living facilities since 2006.

 

5. WALA's Training Tibits (NEW!)

Each month WALA will give a tidbit of information from our trainings to our members via the blasts. Here is your first insider only WALA Training Tidbit! The information listed below is from WALA's CBRF & AFH Introductory Administrators Course.

 

Do you know what is required in each of your employee personnel files?

 

Employee, Administrator and Licensee Personnel File

Required contents for personnel files for CBRF (DHS 83)

 

Required contents for personnel files for AFH (DHS 88)

 

Personnel Record: Other Suggested Items

 

This is only a small portion of information presented during the HR session offered in the course. This course offers even more valuable information on the day to day operations as an administrator. For more information about this course please go to www.ewala.org.

 

PLEASE NOTE - this is NOT the course designed to help train new administrators to meet the 83.15 Department Approved Administrators qualifications. WALA will issue a discount voucher for those who take the intro course to attend the 60 hr department- approved course when it becomes available through WALA. 

 

6. DHS 83.20: What is working? What's Not?

 

WALA is interested in how the training requirements 83.20 are affecting you as a provider. Please contact the WALA office at info@ewala.org with your comments. We want to know how you, our members, are working with the changes.

 

We want to know:

 


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