Network and Advocate with NACHFa
Networking Opportunities
As an affiliate of the National Association of Counties, we are a small part of a powerful group of elected and appointed county officials. We meet other County owned Skilled Nursing Facility Administrators to discuss and share issues and possible resolutions. Join us to have your voice heard and influence policy decisions.
Advocacy and Representation
Examples of what our current advocacy platform includes:
- Aligning end-of-life rules with hospitals to allow a dignified passing at the facility.
- Permanent end to the mandatory RN requirements. When hospitals cannot staff their facilities with RNs now, this is a regulatory requirement that is unattainable.
- Allow Skilled Nursing Facilities access to the same pharmacy pricing as Federally Qualified Health Centers.
- Ending unnecessary legacy COVID requirements and reporting, treating COVID like other common viruses.
- Enhanced Barrier Precaution revaluation in the context of resident choice, dignity and quality of life
- Align abuse citations more in line with regulatorily established QAPI quality best practices, and Just Culture principles. The process should work more to increase transparency and improve quality. The current regulatory process has proven to be a failure (those facilities that report should be treated differently from the roughly 84%* who fail to report. (* August 1, 2019 report from Center for Medicare Advocacy)
Past successful advocacy efforts include:
-Certified Public Expenditure for County Medical Care Facilities
-Hill-Burton
-Mandatory 24-hour RN staffing level temporary pullback
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Join our group of like minded and caring professionals to become a part of a network with hundreds of years of experience.
Events
We meet twice a year, in person at the NACo Annual and NACo Legislative Conferences. We also meet via Zoom in between these face-to-face meetings. and meet via phone call from time to time. Feel free to join us. Contact our Executive Director for locations, dates, and times, or follow our Facebook page to get alerts.
Our next meeting will be held at 5 pm on Saturday, July 18, 2026, at the
New Orleans Convention Center, New Orleans, MO.
Get more information about the National Association of Counties (NACo) at www.NACo.org