Network and Advocate with NACHFa

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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. 

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 get RNs to staff their facilities now, it is a regulation that is unattainable.

-  Allow Skilled Nursing Facilities access to the same pharmacy pricing as Federally Qualified Health Centers.

-  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 who report should be treated differently than the roughly 84%*  who fail to report. (* August 1, 2019  report from Center's for Medicare Advocacy)

Past successful advocacy efforts include:

-Certified Public Expenditure for County Medical Care Facilities

-Hill-Burton 

 Join our group of like minded and caring professionals to become a part of a network with hundreds of years of experience.

We meet twice annual during the NACo conferences, and meet via phone call from time to time.  Feel free to join us.