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.
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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.
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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
The My Aged Care Learning Environment for the My Aged Care Screening and Assessment Workforce is now available online.
The Learning Environment provides seamless access to up-to-date and new content in an interactive online experience. It will be offered to:
• Screening and Assessment workforce members who wish to undertake a new My Aged Care Statement of Attainment
• Aged Care Assessment Team delegates who wish to undertake delegate training
• Nominated Screening and Assessment workplace trainers approved by the Department of Health.
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Professor Kathy Eagar from the Australian Health Services Research Institute at the University of Wollongong presented at a stakeholder forum on 19 November 2018. Professor Eagar presented version 1 of a casemix classification system which the University suggests could underpin a model for residential aged care funding reform. The presentation also included an update on the Resource Utilisation and Classification Study (RUCS) project.
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Presentation on residential aged care funding reform and updates to the RUCS
Christmas period operational dates
All Department of Human Services (DHS) offices will be closed on:
• Tuesday 25 – Thursday 27 December 2018
• Tuesday 1 January 2019
Aged Care online channels will be available.
Advance payments for January 2019
DHS will issue January 2019 advance payments for residential care and home care services on 21 December 2018.
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The preliminary public hearing of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety will be held in Adelaide at 10am on Friday, 18 January 2019.
At the hearing the Commissioners will set out their vision for the operation of the Royal Commission, including the conduct of the hearings to follow. Senior Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission will make a brief opening statement. No applications for leave to appear will be entertained. No witnesses will be called.
The hearing will be held at the Roma Mitchell Commonwealth Law Court Building in Courtroom 11, on Level 3, at 3 Angas St, Adelaide. The hearing will be open to the public although seating will be limited.
The hearing will be streamed live through the Royal Commission’s website and a transcript will be available on this site after the hearing. Further information about the Commission is available on the website.
The Commission will be hearing evidence from witnesses from February. Details about those hearings will be announced in early 2019. Applications for leave to appear at those hearings can be made in accordance with practice guidelines, which will be published on the Commission’s website.
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Royal Commission preliminary hearing to be on 18 January 2019
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