In this issue:
• Operational hours over the holiday period
• Consultation – streamlined consumer assessment for aged care
• Check for valid ACAT approval
• 2017–18 Report on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997 now available
Home Care:
• Home care and the Australian Consumer Law
Residential Care:
• Specialist Dementia Care Program roll out
Read more:
In Case You Missed It – Below are links to recent articles on Aged Care and Healthcare that may be of interest:
Peaks welcome boost to residential aged care funding
Art therapy a stroke of creativity
MYEFO measures ‘unlikely to help’ embattled providers
New retirement code of conduct to promote resident safety, dignity and happiness
RLC and LASA officially launch voluntary Code of Conduct – to start 1 January 2020
The Maximum Permissible Interest Rate (MPIR) applicable to accommodation prices and to refund periods for refundable deposit balances and accommodation bond balances will decrease from 5.96% to 5.94% for the period of 1 January to 31 March 2019.
The Base Interest Rate remains unchanged at 3.75%.
Read more:
Refundable Deposit Balance and Accommodation Bond Balance Refund Interest Rates
Schedule of Fees and Charges for Residential and Home Care From 1 January 2019 (.pdf)
Schedule of Fees and Charges for Pre 1 July 2014 Residents from 1 January 2019 (.pdf)
LASA partnered with PwC Australia to deliver a webinar to effectively manage the Royal Commission process. What to expect, how to prepare for the year ahead, and how to manage it successfully.
Watch it here:
Please ensure that you nominate an additional My Aged Care Organisation Administrator to help manage your outlets. This is essential at this time of year when your usual Administrator may be on leave.
Instructions on how to set up an Administrator are in the My Aged Care Provider Portal User Guide Part One, on the department’s website.
Read more:
How to nominate additional My Aged Care Organisation Administrators
My Aged Care Provider Portal User Guide: Part One – Administrator Functions
The Liberal and Nationals Government will deliver more support for older Australians, with a half a billion dollar ($552.9 million) increase to aged care funding including the release of 10,000 high-level home care packages within weeks.
We understand that older Australians prefer to receive support and services in their own home and live independently for as long as possible.
The 10,000 new high-level home care packages deliver important services at home, such as complex clinical care from a range of providers, nursing and mobility care, nutrition, hydration and meal preparation and transport support.
The packages and will be available in early 2019 and will be spilt across 5,000 level three and 5,000 level four care packages, providing up to $50,000 per person in services each year.
The $287 million home care expansion is on top of the extra 20,000 packages funded in the past year, which combined will result in a record 40 per cent increase in the number of people receiving home care packages.
Read more:
Today, the Government announced a $287 million investment to release an additional 10,000 high level (level 3 and 4) home care packages in 2018-19.
This will result in an additional 5,000 level 3 and 5,000 level 4 packages in 2018-19 to support more senior Australians to receive their approved level of care sooner and remain living at home for longer.
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Everyone at Management Advantage would like to say thank you to one of our Client Managers, Roshni, who is retiring at the end of the year.
Roshni has been with us for almost 18 years and would have worked at various times with many of you. We wish her all the best for the future and thank her for all the great work she did in supporting our clients over the years and what she has contributed to our team. Goodbye Rosh!
2018 has been another big year for us.
We have attended several conferences in states all across Australia showcasing Manad Plus and why we believe it is the leading software application on the market.
We have welcomed several new clients who have implemented Manad Plus into their organisation. Several of these clients have also left existing products to realise the benefits and enhanced features Manad Plus offers.
We have welcomed some new staff members who have joined our team so we can continue to best support all our clients.
This year we have deployed another new version (v5.6) and updated our release frequency so we have already released a further 2 mini-updates to v5.6 with new features and enhancements. We also have a 3rd update about to be finalised before the end of the year.
These releases have incorporated several ‘all-new’ features as well as enhancements to existing features and many client suggestions/requests. There were over 100 pages of Release Notes this year demonstrating the ongoing development work we commit to always improving Manad Plus for our users.
Some of the highlights were:
• An all-new ‘Risk Register’ feature
• A ‘reply’ option was added to a message received via the Messageboard
• Template macros can be created for Progress Notes
• Add your own ‘Guides’ for staff to follow for each of the Monitoring/Charting items
• More powerful charting with Pivot Grids
• An all-new ‘App’ module for those licenced to use the Manad Plus Mobile App
• ‘Report an assault’ and ‘My Incidents’ added to the User module
• More use of colours to tag your Reference items
• Several new reports
• …plus more!
We have also released to our Help Centre new video tutorials on how to use features within Manad Plus. Videos are a great self-learning tool for staff to use and compliment the existing word and screenshot based help documents.
We always want to ensure you are getting everything out of our software and that you are using it to its full potential so please continue to make good use of our self-help tools and training team when needed.
Looking now to 2019…
• We will be building new features to assist with your requirements to meet the new Accreditation Standards
• We have plans for several exciting new features to keep Manad Plus ahead of the curve when it comes to features, analysis of data, reporting and ease-of-use.
• The Manad Plus Mobile App will see greater releases as we add more features to our current versions for Android & Apple
• Finalise the remaining version 4 users to update to version 5, as they are all entitled to the upgrade at no cost, and so they can get the benefits of this new version.
Thanks for all your support in 2018, have a great Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year.
Ben Sturzaker – General Manager
In Case You Missed It – Below are links to recent articles on Aged Care and Healthcare that may be of interest:
Consumer report shines light on residents’ experience
Inquiry recommends passing of aged care staffing bill
New aged care royal commissioner appointed
Advisory Report on the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Ratio Disclosure) Bill 2018 (.pdf)
Witnesses to appear at royal commission from February
Industry peak releases MYEFO wish list
On-site pharmacist a first for aged care
Surprise announcement comes on top of delays for the aged care royal commission
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