DOH has posted to HCS the final Personal Care and Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program rates effective 01/01/2013-12/31/2013, along with a Dear Administrator Letter (DAL).

The Dear Administrator Letter (DAL) highlights the revisions that replaces the February 2012 version, and includes all the changes to the Guide provided through three DALs.

Private Not-Profits (PNPs) that provide rehabilitation, long term and custodial care services now have until Aug. 1, 2013 to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) to apply for FEMA funding coordinated through the NYS Office of Emergency Management's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).

Nursing home, hospital and home care agency staff are invited to participate in this one-day education and networking Gold STAMP conference featuring the experiences of the Gold STAMP collaboratives, lessons learned, and resources and strategies used to achieve improvement in pressure ulcer policies and practices.

Results from the July 18 Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC) Establishment and Project Review Committee in Rochester.

The Office of Health Emergency Preparedness (OHEP) is offering online, interactive trainings through Aug. 2, 2013 on eFINDS, the new patient/resident tracking system that will be used by health care facilities during this hurricane season in the greater NYC metro area.