News Archives

WALA News for August 30, 2005 [Details]

  1. Cris Ros-Dukler Leaving BQA
  2. WALA Fall Symposium Sept. 21-Oct. 5
  3. Health Alert - Contaminated Mouthwash
  4. CMS Medicare Part D Toolkit Now Available
  5. ABCs of Alzheimer's and Dementia Coming to Madison

WALA News for July 28, 2005 [Details]

  1. Doyle Vetoes Medicaid Increases, Makes Additional Cuts
  2. DHFS Secretary Nelson to Speak at BQA Focus 2005
  3. WALA Member Survey – We Need Your Feedback!

WALA News for July 20, 2005 [Details]

  1. State Supreme Court Strikes Down Liability Caps
  2. Insurance Survey Nearing Final Deadline
  3. WALA Membership Survey Coming Soon
  4. “Focus 2005” BQA Conference August 10 in Appleton
  5. Final Draft of HFS-83 Complete
  6. OSHA Holding Statewide Meetings on Workplace Injury
  7. Adult Family Home Reclassification Proposed
  8. ALFA Executive Portfolio Released
  9. ALFA Working With Feds
  10. WALA Autumn Classic Coming Up Fas

WALA News for April 21, 2005

  1. WI Long Term Care-Liability Insurance Coalition releases mission statement
  2. Wage and Hour information from the Department of Labor
  3. WALA's 1st Spring Regional: The Quest for Quality, May 3-11!
  4. Problem Behaviors Workshop for Those Caring for a Parent with Alzheimer's or a Related Dementia, May 24 in Middleton - REGISTER NOW!
  5. Cheesehead dinner at the ALFA Conference.
  6. Mark your calendars: RSA Wisconsin 36th Annual Conference, May 11-1

WALA News for April 13, 2005

  1. ACTION NEEDED! Call your legislators...
  2. Provider Organization Summit position paper on funding and staffing issues
  3. Draft bill regarding property tax exemption for non-profit facilities released
  4. Kathy Vieau, RFOS of Northeastern Region resigns
  5. Mark your calendars: BQA Conference Coming in August!

From 2004

WALA News for December 4, 2003

  1. BQA New Survey Process
  2. Administrators and Management Course
  3. Buying and Selling Seminar
  4. 2004 WALA Conference - Information and Early Deadlines
  5. Insurance Crisis
  6. Community Partnerships For Older Adults Grants

WALA News for Nov. 15, 2004

  1. HFS-83 Rewrite: WALA Presents Alternatives to Competency Testing
  2. Provider Organization Summit’s Evaluation of Competency Testing
  3. BQA Draft Memos: WALA Needs to Hear Your Comments!
  4. Renew your membership with WALA
  5. Assisted Living Salary and Benefits Survey

WALA News for Oct. 20, 2004

  1. Bring your dancing shoes! Celebrate WALA’s 10th Anniversary
  2. Advanced Management Certification
  3. HFS-83 Rewrite, Round 3
  4. Renew your membership with WALA
  5. BQA training event in August
  6. Assisted Living Salary & Benefits Survey

WALA News for Sept 9, 2004

  1. A new insurance option and Fall Symposium delivered to your door.
  2. Workforce survey
  3. No call list
  4. Advanced Management Certification
  5. Fall into golf
  6. Celebrate 10 years!
  7. Renew your connection with WALA
  8. BQA Memo: Hospice Nurse Pronouncement of Death
  9. All you can learn
  10. HFS-83 Rewrite, Round 2
  11. Celebrating National Assisted Living Week, September 12-18
  12. 16th Annual Colloquium on Aging
  13. Center for Excellence in Assisted Living (CEAL) conference
  14. ATTN: Milwaukee area providers

WALA News for June 1, 2004

  1. ALFA and WALA respond to recent press on assisted living
  2. Your chance to weigh in on the future of ALFA
  3. What does the Fair Labor Standards Act mean to me?
  4. TABOR opposed
  5. Mark your calendars! BQA training event in August
  6. WALA'S 5TH Annual Autumn Classic at Lac la Belle
  7. WALA is coming to you!

WALA News for May 14, 2004

  1. ALFA 2004 CONFERENCE WRAP-UP
  2. ACTION NEEDED: COMMENTS ON TWO DRAFT BQA MEMOS
  3. PROVIDER PROFILES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON BQA WEBSITE IN SEPTEMBER
  4. OTHER BQA MEMOS
  5. HFS-83 REWRITE PROCESS CONTINUES
  6. PROVIDER ORGANIZATION SUMMIT OF WISCONSIN TAKES ACTION

WALA News for April 21, 2004

  1. 2004 WALA Spring Conference Wrap Up
  2. 2005 Conference at Ho-Chunk Casino
  3. Last Minute Fishing Trip?
  4. Sales & Marketing Discount Ends April 27!
  5. Networking Night Approaches .... Have You RSVPd?
  6. To Fax Or Not To Fax
  7. ALFA Conference In Chicago
  8. DHFS Meets With Legislative Leaders Regarding Community Aids and Medicaid Waiver
  9. Senate Committee to Release Findings on Assisted Living Without Hearing
  10. Golf - September 20

WALA News for March 10, 2004

  1. WALA Spring Conference
  2. Deja FISH - What A FISH Incentive
  3. Legislative Update
  4. HFS-83 Rewrite Process Starts Again
  5. BQA Handout on Self Reporting vs. Complaint
  6. BQA Memo #04-009 on New Office of Caregiver Quality
  7. BQA Memo # 04-004 on Meds Administration by UAPs
  8. BQA Memo #04-007 on CBRF Training Exemptions for Nursing School Graduates and Student Nurses
  9. Columbus Park Legislation

WALA News for Feb. 26, 2004

  1. MEDICAID COMPROMISE
  2. WALA CONFERENCE ONLINE REGISTRATION
  3. FISH SEMINAR- DEJA FISH ALL OVER AGAIN
  4. SALES AND MARKETING INTENSIVE
  5. BQA's SUE SCHROEDER RESIGNS
  6. PHARMACY SOCIETY CONFERENCE
  7. ALFA CHICAGO CONFERENCE

WALA News for January 23, 2004

  1. WALA Conference On-line Registration
  2. Buying and Selling Seminar
  3. Insurance Survey
  4. BQA Memos
  5. Other Meds Issues
  6. Delayed Egress Survey
  7. COP Contracts
  8. BQA New Survey Process
  9. RCACs and Retaliation Poster
  10. RCAC Draft Rate Setting Model
  11. GAO Study on Assisted Living
  12. ALFA Chicago Conference