Happy December

The Health Care Pathways Conference was great. I came away with some good ideas about how important Advisory Members are, Emily Lebo gave some great advice about writing grants and learned how Worcester Tech has learned to barter rent for teaching for their EMT program. I will be looking forward to the end of the year review.

I have some pictures to add to this blog but the camera is in the lab and I am home :) I will post them soon.

There was also a nice collection of vendors at this conference with some nice goodies.

It was great to see some familiar faces and some new ones as well.

I know it will be busy from now until Dec. vacation so, do not stress, everything will get done :) and I will be posting again after the holidays. Until then, Happy Holidays and don't eat too much!

Deb

FYI Health Care Pathways Conference

This is from the DOE website, Career & Technical Area

Announcing Health Care Pathways Conference

The MassAHEC Network at the UMass Medical School is sponsoring a Health Care Pathways Conference on Thursday, November 20th at the Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center in Shrewsbury. Conference and registration information is available at http://www.umassmed.edu/ahec

http://www.umassmed.edu/ahec

Position Opening At Blue Hills

There is a position for a Health Occupations Instructor at Blue Hills Tech. If you know anyone that is looking for a teaching position, please pass this info on.

National Healthcare Foundation Skills Assessment

Has anyone heard of this ? It is an assessment from the National Consortium on Health Science & Technology Education. It currently is offering pre and post tests on national foundation skills. The testing is online and is $12.00 per test. I am not endorsing this, just asking if anyone else has heard of it Here is the link of you want to check it out and get back to all of us.

www.okcareertech.org/testing/nchste.htm.

The Search Continues!

Hi All

I called Eileen Kennedy-Kelliher the other day, and by voice mail, confirmed that the information that we request is not in one place. So. That being the case, I looked it up the myself. You may want to visit this site. 105 CMR: 156.

http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dph/regs/105cmr156.pdf

This is just an electronic version of the information that DPH has sent to us in the past.

If anyone knows where else some valuable information is, just comment.

Paid Feeding Program

Here is the link to the circular letter in December of 2003about the Paid Feeding Program. The application as well as the MA guidelines are included in this letter

http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dph/quality/hcq_circular_letters/ltc_facilities_0312437.pdf

Requirements for Nurse Aide Testing

Hello all! I know we have all talked about finding a single source for our information about the regulations for a Nurse Aide Program. Well, the nearest I can tell is........ there really isn't one.

That being said, I did however, find some useful information that may help. Mass.Gov website. Look for Health & Human Services. Listed there, is a link to the Requirements for the Nurse Aide Registry. ( or just click on the link to the left of this blog :) )

This Page gives you an outline and the Federal law numbers. These numbers can be located through a search.

Have I confused you? Call me at work or wait until we have another meeting together