Wishing You Happy Holidays
We find ourselves one week away from Christmas, and two weeks away from 2025! This past year has been a beautiful whirlwind of events for LATN and I know 2025 will bring even more! We’ve had a lot of successful ‘firsts this year and we look forward to even more success with ‘seconds’ next year.
This is our final week of accepting applications for our Executive Director position and we hope to have a new Executive Director to announce soon, as well as some exciting plans for 2025!
In the meantime, join us in reviewing some fun association events below, and we wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!!
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Gwyn E. Earl
Executive Director
LeadingAge Tennessee
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LATN Hosts Walk-On Song Public Exhibit in Nashville. LeadingAge TN, in conjunction with the LeadingAge National, featured a Community Art Display in downtown Nashville during LeadingAge's Annual Meeting. The display in the Marty Dickens Terrace at Music City Center, was viewed by thousands of attendees and was simply beautiful! We again want to thank the residents and staff members of LeadingAge TN member communities throughout the state that shared their song and why they chose it in our Walk-On Song experiential gallery exhibit. And a big shout out to our fabulous photographer Heidi Wagner! Follow the name links to see more of their stories!
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LATN Launches our Leadership Academy. Congratulations again to our first graduating class of the LeadingAge Tennessee Leadership Academy. They all did an outstanding job presenting their Action Learning Projects during our annual meeting in Nashville!
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Graduates:
Ashlie Burnett, The Heritage at Brentwood
Katelyn Morales, Blakeford Senior Life
Tim Buist, HutsonWood
Tanner Foust, The Waters of Gallatin
Katlyn Green, Johnson McGinnis Elder Care
Teresa Smith, Christian Tower and Manor
Timothy Howell, Senior Citizen Home Assistance Services
Courtney Robinson, Abe’s Garden Community
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Coaches:
Herschel Murner, Wyndridge Nursing and Rehab
Van Cluck, Purposeful Aging Solutions
Lynn Fossen, Advanced Health Institute
Facilitator:
DeAnn Akins, Octofly Dreams
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Rewatch: Abe's Garden Community Wins LeadingAge's Songwriter Project Competition. LATN would like to take one more moment to congratulate LeadingAge Tennessee Member Abe's Garden Community whose original song, "I Am Who I Am" was selected as the winner of the Songwriter Project at this year's LeadingAge's Annual Meeting + EXPO. For those who weren't able to watch live in Nashville, or for those who want to rewatch the performance, click the video below! Also, "I Am Who I Am" is available for royalty-free use by LeadingAge Members! Congratulations again to Abe's Garden Community!
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TDH/LTCF State Update Call | December 11, 2024
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HUD Finalizes 30-Day Eviction Notification Rule. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has published a new rule requiring housing providers to provide written notification to tenants facing eviction for non-payment of rent 30 days in advance of filing a formal judicial eviction procedure. The requirements apply to both Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and owners of HUD-assisted Multifamily Housing properties, including project-based Section 8, Section 202 PRACs and SPRACs. The final rule finalizes a proposed process initiated by HUD in late 2023 to make permanent certain pandemic-era eviction notification requirements, which LeadingAge supported. In response to comments submitted to HUD throughout the proposal process, HUD made slight adjustments; the final rule will not have a significant impact on LeadingAge members, since a very similar eviction notification requirement is already in place for HUD’s project-based rental assistance programs. LeadingAge welcomes the alignment of notification requirements across HUD rental assistance programs as an important step in improving housing stability and due process for households. The rule is effective January 13, 2025.
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CMS Launches Nursing Home Staffing Campaign. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the highly anticipated Nursing Home Staffing Campaign with two new webpages on December 16. The program, which will be implemented in phases, is aimed at increasing the number of nurses in nursing homes and state survey agencies to ultimately improve nursing home quality of care. At this time, the campaign focuses on making nurse aide training programs more easily accessible and highlighting the many career opportunities that exist within nursing homes. In the future, the program will also include financial incentives for registered nurses working in nursing homes. Check out more info about the campaign here and explore nursing home careers here.
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LeadingAge Questions CMS on Transparency Reporting. LeadingAge sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on December 12 questioning CMS’s plan related to the newly implemented ownership, manager, and related parties reporting. As providers work to comply with off-cycle revalidation, the new reporting requirements are resulting in hefty data submissions. LeadingAge is pressing CMS to know more about how CMS intends to ensure this heavy administrative burden is meaningful.
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KFF Releases a Quick Guide Compendium of Potential Trump Administrative Policy Reforms. KFF outlined a number of possible targets for Administrative health policy reforms with the incoming Trump Administration. These include changes to possible rules that have been recently finalized like the Medicaid Access Rule, The Nursing Home Staffing Mandate, and the Streamlining Eligibility and Enrollment Rule. LeadingAge is supportive of elimination of the staffing rule, and portions of the Medicaid Access rule, though is cautiously supportive of the other components and rules finalized in the Medicaid policy space this year. The guide doesn’t assess any future impacts, but rather provides a brief annotation of possible changes. Review the guide here.
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LeadingAge National Policy Pulse (Member Update Call).
Please join LeadingAge’s members-only briefing and analysis call, National Policy Pulse, with our experts every Monday at 2:30 PM CT. Members will now get updates from LeadingAge experts on policy, workforce, and more on Mondays on the Pulse.
Please note: there will be no Policy Pulse calls on Monday, December 23 or December 30th. Calls will resume on Monday, January 6, 2025! We'll see you in the New Year!
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Weekly Recaps & Updates. LeadingAge brings you the latest updates and recaps from the recent week. Find yours below:
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Mark Your Calendars! Makes plans to join alongside your fellow LeadingAge Tennessee Members in 2025!
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Special Thanks to our Platinum and Gold Partners
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Our Business Partners have all the tools you need! Email [email protected] and she will be happy to connect with you with the right people who offer real solutions to your needs!
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Contact Info:
Gwyn E. Earl
Executive Director
[email protected]
P.O. Box 14638
Knoxville, TN 37914
865.748.4932
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