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Dementia & On-Demand Training

“I got so much out of participating in IHCA/INCAL’s Director of Nurses workshop. I’m sure everyone there felt the same way. I have a whole new outlook on so many things! I am very appreciative of the team for putting together this informative workshop.”

Meghan Coryn O’Donnell
Director Long-Term Care
Enmotion

Survey Readiness

BE SURVEY READY! Avoid Common Citations with these courses:

Other Important Resources

On-Demand Trainings

Mastering Recruitment and RetentionThis 7-part webinar series transforms the way you approach workforce recruitment and retention. Don’t just recruit employees; you can attract dedicated, passionate individuals while becoming a magnet for long-term care’s best and brightest talents. Don’t just retain employees; cultivate a culture so vibrant that staff stay dedicated for the long haul, becoming their most passionate advocates.
The Stability ZoneThis new on-demand course will focus on stress for leaders and will include coping mechanisms, avoidance techniques and handouts to support the learning. More Success, Less Stress! Learn how empowered leaders flip the script on stress. For good!!
The Impactful LeaderA step-by-step program designed to give you all the tools you need to become a confident, inspiring leader that others want to follow, it has over five hours of the best training material available, broken down into bite-size videos.
Fully StaffedFully Staffed is Drive‘s online program for healthcare and senior living leaders who are ready to end their staffing crisis. Each month will feature new live and recorded content that leaders can use to impact their recruitment and retention efforts. The content in Fully Staffed is values-based and culture-driven, which is the secret to getting more of the right candidates for an organization and keeping the great ones they already have.
VGM Education/CE SolutionsVGM Education/CE Solutions has been offering customized education services for more than 20 years and offers more than 300 online courses all written by subject matter experts whose sole focus is senior care. Their online courses are designed to meet the needs of health care staff in skilled nursing, assisted living, home health and hospice environments.
Advance Care PlanningThe advance care planning (ACP) criteria for the Value-Based Purchasing program affects reimbursement to nursing facilities providing Medicaid services. Meeting the criteria will impact the Nursing Facility Total Quality Score for Medicaid rates effective July 1, 2022. A total of 5 points will be awarded to nursing facility providers that have one or two employees complete the Level I ACP training program.
Pressure Injury Prevention and Management in Long Term Care
Abuse and Neglect Prevention in Long Term Care
Emergency and Disaster Management in Long Term Care
Project FirstlineUniversity of Indianapolis Center for Aging & Community along with Indiana Department of Health is bringing the CDC’s FREE infection prevention & control education to frontline workers in Indiana. Access Course HERE

Dementia Care Trainings

CARES Online Dementia Trainings

CARES® trains staff in the evidence-based CARES dementia 5-step method, a person-centered approach to dementia care, so that they know how to identify individual triggers, mitigate causes of behaviors, and intervene with non-pharmacological approaches that support each resident’s quality of life. CARES has been proven to reduce the use of antipsychotics.

Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia Care Seminar / Certified Dementia Practitioner Training

The Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care seminar which is the REQUIRED course for those who are qualified to apply for the Designation of Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners (NCCDP) and the International Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners (ICCDP).

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NCCDP in partnership with AlzBetter offers an on-demand Dementia CEU Series built specifically for nursing professionals

VGM / CE Solutions

VGM/CE Solutions offers an on-demand 8 hour dementia care training series.

Barbara Speedling’s Education Station

The Education Station offers video presentations of all of the mandatory inservice referenced in F941-F947, along with lesson plans, competency evaluations, power point presentation, certificate of completion, and additional policy and resource materials. Additional videos on topics related to trauma-informed care, behavioral health, dementia care, and therapeutic activity will be added as the year progresses. All materials will be refreshed at the start of each new year and a new password assigned. The attached the introduction flyer explains the subscription service. *These webinars are not CE approved but meet CMS requirements for staff orientation and required annual education. This service is currently available to members at a reduced annual subscription rate.

Institute for Excellence in Memory Care

The Institute for Excellence in Memory Care offers CE approved webinars, as well as, in-person dementia care certification courses. The Institute also offers a Certified Memory Care Professional (CMCP) course throughout the year.

Positive Approach to Care / Teepa Snow

This knowledge and skill will change your life! Positive Approach® enhances life and relationships of those living with brain change by fostering an inclusive global community. Positive Approach® to Care (PAC) provides a wide variety of services to enhance awareness and increase dementia care skills, including PAC Speakers, Trainers, Teepa Talks, and Certifications.

essentiALZ® — Alzheimer’s Association Training and Certification

essentiALZ training and certification, developed with evidence from the Dementia Care Practice Recommendations, educates professional care providers on current evidence-based, person-centered practices to care for individuals living with dementia.

The Eden Alternative

The Eden Alternative is a resource program that offers online learning, in-person learning and consultation. Two courses geared towards healthcare professionals include Living Well with Dementia and Dementia Beyond Drugs.

Dementia Capable Care Trainings

CPI Dementia Capable Care Training, 2nd Edition is an evidence-based dementia and behavior training program designed for health care workers.

IHCA/INCAL LIBRARY

Welcome to IHCA/INCAL’s online library housing our on-demand trainings and resources.

We look forward to building our library and offering you all the tools you need with just one click!

Our Education Partners

We’re proud to collaborate with Indiana’s leading education consultants to bring a wide spectrum of education programs to foster career development for the long term care professionals of our state.

Success Development, Inc.

Success Development, Inc. (SDi) and it’s Founder, Vivian Wright-Defrees, has been an integral education partner since 2000. SDi is one of the oldest individual/group/employee/organizational development firms in the mid-west. With over 20 years experience and using Success Development’s distinctive areas of expertise, they help others build success through coaching, consulting, resource identification, speaking, training, support and advanced technologies. SDi provides the HFA & RCA courses, NAB and Indiana Jurisprudence exam prep courses, Social Service Designee courses and the Preceptor courses.

Proactive Medical Review

Proactive Medical Review has been an education partner of IHCA/INCAL since 2016. Its talented team offers the support solutions that allow your staff to focus on care. Proactive offers solutions that allow providers to focus on care post-acute care providers are facing many challenges–an ever changing regulatory environment, expanded government auditing, and a growing list of publicly reported quality measures.

VGM Education/CE Solutions

VGM Education/CE Solutions has been offering customized education services for more than 20 years and offers more than 300 courses all written by subject matter experts whose sole focus is senior care. Their online courses are designed to meet the needs of health care staff in skilled nursing, assisted living, home health and hospice environments. In addition, their robust e-learning system provides numerous reporting tools for the HR professional that allow for the tracking of course progress, course completions, and the assessment of individual learning.

QSource/Atom Alliance

The atom Alliance Nursing Home Collaborative is a five-year, five-state initiative to ignite powerful and sustainable change in healthcare quality. Through atom Alliance, AQAF in Alabama, IQH in Mississippi and Qsource in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee are carrying out an exciting strategic plan, with programs in place to convene, teach and inform healthcare providers, engage and empower patients, and inspire, share knowledge and spread best practices with communities across the entire healthcare continuum.

ahcancalED

ahcancalED is an AHCA/NCAL member benefit created for educational use. AHCA/NCAL will occasionally offer some critical educational offerings to non-members as a benefit for the profession. Through ahcancalED, there are educational training (CE approved & non-CE approved), webinars, videos, journal articles, and interviews with experts. Each has unique features.

Drive

Drive, Outcomes Through Culture, has been an IHCA/INCAL education partner since 2018. Drive is a long term care consulting company that focuses on creating a better culture, developing better leaders and inspiring and engaging employees. With Drive, you can confidently improve productivity, profitability, turnover, customer loyalty and even occupancy!

HealthCap (in partnership with AHCA/NCAL)

HealthCap’s Resource and Education Center offers a wide array of free educational resources and tools to help long term care professionals deliver quality care and reduce risk. AHCA/NCAL has embraced HealthCap® for more than a decade as a premier provider of liability insurance that is solely dedicated to serving senior care communities.

Indiana Medicaid

Indiana’s Case Mix reimbursement system is complex and frequently changing. We track and provide guidance on a range of matters from new policies, cost report changes, audits and quality programs. We also engage in policy development and expansion on Medicaid Long Term Services and Supports and Medicaid Waiver and Home and Community Based Services.