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The National Alzheimer's and Dementia Resource Center is hosting a Technical Assistance (TA) webinar on the Veteran's Administration Mobilw Adult Day Health Care Program.

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) is hosting a Special Open Door Forum (SODF) to allow patients, families, caregivers, patient advocacy groups, disabled groups, low-income health patients, other consumers and interested parties to ask questions on The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act(commonly called the IMPACT Act) and standardizing the assessment of patients across post-acute care settings of Skilled nursing facilities, Home Health Agencies, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities, and Long Te

The Alzheimer's Association and the National Center on Elder Abuse are hosting a webinar on vulnerability, cognitive impairment, and undue influence. The webinar will provide insights into this emerging public health problem and include discussion of a new uniform definition of "elder abuse" to bring consistency to public health surveillance efforts. Opportunities to protect people with cognitive impairment from abuse will also be raised. Dr. Bonnie J.

The Mathematica Center on Health Care Effectiveness is sponsoring a policy forum and live webinar on accelerating the use of evidence in health care practice, policy, and decision making. The speaker will describe the PCORI Dissemination and Implementation Framework and Toolkit and reflect on challenges in accelerating the use of evidence in practice, policy, and decision making.

Health Managment Associates is hosting a webinar about what healthcare organizations need to know to comply with strengthened HIPAA regulations. Revised HIPPA rules have created important new responsibilities and instituted new penalties related to “business associates” who handle personal health information or personal health records for covered entities. During this webinar, HMA experts Heidi Robbins Brown and Margarita Pereyda, MD will outline the new regulations, provide a framework for protecting patient data, and present a set of best practices your organization and business as

The National Alliance for Caregiving, Mental Health America, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness are hosting a webinar about a new research study, On Pins & Needles: Caregivers of Adults with Mental Illness, on caregivers of adults with mental illness. The webinar will discuss the 8.4 million Americans caring for a loved one with schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, or other moderate-to-serious mental health conditions. 

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An increasing number of states are using managed care approaches to deliver Medicaid dental services. In this webinar, state policymakers from Kentucky, Arizona, and Pennsylvania—three states that administer Medicaid benefits through managed care contracts that include both medical and dental services—will share their insights about strategies to ensure that managed care contractors and their subcontractors maintain an adequate network of dental providers, provide outreach and care coordination to members, and promote quality improvement.

Allsup is hosting a webinar designed to help individuals living with chronic pain. The first in the 2016 series of Web events created to empower individuals living with chronic illness and disabilities, “True Help Claiming Power Over Pain” will help individuals strengthen their personal power resources to improve quality of life, increase function and reduce the sense of suffering.

More than three-quarters of Medicaid recipients report experiences of trauma and violence during their childhoods. These experiences may include verbal, physical or sexual abuse; living in poverty or violent surroundings, including war zones; or living with family members who struggle with substance abuse, mental illness or extreme disability. Research demonstrates that there is a direct correlation between traumatic experiences and the 10 most common causes of death in the United States. The U.S.