While finding a job in any industry can be difficult, careers in senior living, caregiving, and healthcare can be especially competitive and hard to come by. We’re here to help reduce healthcare shortages in Colorado by providing helpful assisted living workforce resources and tools to assist in the job search process.
At LeadingAge Colorado, we firmly believe that advocating for our members is one of the best ways to ensure that Colorado seniors not only receive the best care possible, but to have access to housing and service options that best align with their needs. We make it a priority to provide LeadingAge Colorado members with all the information, resources, and connections necessary to properly adapt to the evolving landscape of senior services and care. Assisted living advocacy is our bread and butter, it’s our mission to help.
Just like in other public health fields, it’s imperative to keep your assisted living administrator licensing current and updated. It’s a fundamental part of ensuring that the public receives proper care!
Plus, keeping your senior care licensing up-to-date will make sure that that you are well informed of the most current business operations, laws and regulations, ethical practices, and more, which helps residents receive the highest level of care possible.
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LeadingAge Colorado provides the only online 40-hour assisted living administrator training course in Colorado. We offer this virtual service to administrators and leaders who wish to stay current with licensing requirements while also adhering to COVID-19 stay-at-home and safe-at-home orders. As many individuals are introduced to LeadingAge Colorado for the first time at our 2022 Annual Conference and Exhibition, we invite those in the Colorado Assisted Living Association and beyond to learn more about this flexible, simple coursework! Colorado Assisted Living State RequirementsAccording to the revised Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s (CDPHE) licensing regulations governing assisted living residences, LeadingAge's 40-hour virtual course is required for assisted living administrators. However, assisted living administrators are not the only individuals who can benefit from this course. CDPHE recommends the curriculum for owners, administrator designees, CEO’s, COO’s, resident services directors, nurses, social wokers, and marketing/admissions staff. |
If you haven’t done so already, please take time to visit our New Career Center - a premier resource to connect career opportunities with aging services talent. The Career Center is designed to provide you with a better overall recruitment experience through a modern design and an intuitive interface.
BOULDER, CO: Frasier, a not-for-profit Life Plan community in Boulder shared the same difficult journey that so many other life plan communities experienced by having to quickly respond to a virus that was proving to be deadly for older adults throughout the world. And like other communities offering a continuum of care, including a 54-bed nursing care center, restrictions on visitations and other activities began in early March 2020 - almost a year ago.
Frasier was amid a plethora of “rolling” move-ins into The Prairies, which was their brand-new independent living building comprised of 98 large one and two-bedroom apartments. At the time the pandemic struck, The Prairies was nearly 100% pre-sold, with move-ins beginning in January 2020, and scheduled through the rest of the year. So, what is uncommon?
COVID-19: Updates and Resources from May 20
NextStep has released their National COVID-Ready Caregiver Certification that uses clinically-backed, expert-developed online learning to help develop safety skills during the Coronavirus pandemic. LeadingAge Members are elgible for significant savings using the coupon code LEADINGAGE5 at check-out to access the program for just $5.
Ziegler hosted a webinar on the Paycheck Protection Program for all senior living clients (Powerpoint slide presentation attached). A playback of the presentation is available at this web link.
Please see below of a list of curated COVID-19 state and national resources.
To ensure members get the most current information we are now emailing COVID-19 related information directly to members via the COVID-19 Weekly Update. To be added to the distribution list, please contact Sarah McVeigh.
LeadingAge Colorado's strength is our relationship with our sponsors that believe in LeadingAge Colorado's mission and vision. These companies offer a wide range of products and services – in addition to a wealth of useful information and expertise – for LeadingAge Colorado members.
To make access easier for members to important COVID-19 information and policy changes, LeadingAge Colorado has put together this document listing all operational memos issued by HCPF. The memos are organized by provider with the latest at the top. (April 20)
COVID-19 has brought specific treatment questions into focus. Even if advance care planning has been completed by your patients/residents in the past, now is a good time to revisit the conversation to address the current pandemic. This guide and the following resources/tip sheets have been designed to help your patients/residents, their families, and all of us consider specific medical treatments, values and decisions in relation to COVID-19.
Argentum and the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) have announced a new resource, Senior Living FastMatch, to help workers who have been displaced due to the fallout from COVID-19 find a new employment opportunity in senior living. More than a traditional job board, however, the Senior Living FastMatch resource, hosted at the Senior Living Works website, uses artificial intelligence to evaluate the best fit for candidates and identifies the top jobs for them in their geographic region. The recruitment tool is powered by Arena, a leading software company that applies big data and predictive analytics to help companies make more successful hiring decisions. In addition, OnShift, a human capital management software company for the senior living industry and Argentum’s partner for workforce development, created an expanded resource toolkit to help senior living organizations recruit and hire employees during this emergency. Read more.
Don’t miss the expert panel session on Operational Strategies for Success Under PDPM coming in August in our Moving Mountains Series! SNF experts in MDS coding, software, reimbursement, accounting, compliance and legal issues will share tips and strategies to conquer the PDPM implementation process and thrive under the new payment model.
Now is the time to make employee retention a priority and get all your leaders on the same page! Join us July 31st for another powerful program with our workforce retention partners from Crescendo Strategies with a combination workshop of big-picture thinking about today's employment landscape along with immediately actionable strategies for reducing employee turnover across your organization. We'll dive deeper into why staff REALLY leave (beyond pay and schedules), learn ways to communicate with team members more effectively, and discuss how to maximize the time we have with each and every new hire to improve retention and reduce issues of continuity of care from so much staffing churn!
The best and brightest industry professionals are out there. Access this targeted and qualified pool of talent by advertising your jobs on the LeadingAge Colorado’s new Career Center.
Visit today and sign in at jobs.leadingagecolorado.org.
Reminder: Members are encouraged to check the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment’s (CDPHE) new ALR resource page designed to help keep ALRs informed about the implementation of the new licensure regulations. The page contains continuously updated information on important dates, training, FAQs and the Assisted Living Advisory Committee (ALAC).
