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What Does KVC Stand For?

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KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. In 2003, to bring our name in line with the scope of our work, Kaw Valley Center became simply KVC Behavioral Healthcare.

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Grow Your Own Home Health Aides To Capture New Business

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Demand for home healthcare continues to rise, and at the same time home health aide staffing remains an ongoing challenge for agency administrators. To ensure you can maximize your share of the home health market, consider developing your own pool of home health aides by training them from the ground up.

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National Patient Safety Goals Depend on Good Communication

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Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. The national patient safety goals listed by the Joint Commission include some of the biggest preventable risks to patient safety across healthcare systems.

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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Post-Acute Care Reskilling and Upskilling

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The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness. Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future.

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Dementia Care: Understanding What To Do and When

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They are trying to connect and engage with their caregivers. “We Understanding and managing situations in dementia care is essential for healthcare professionals in every care setting. Caring for people with the disease holds many possibilities for improving their experiences.

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Microlearning in Healthcare Training: Enhancing Skills and Empowering Professionals

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Front-line staff in post-acute care settings are constantly on the go — from room to room in a skilled nursing facility or from home to home, caring for people with various needs. More and more healthcare professionals are turning to microlearning as a way to balance it all.

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12 Days of Compliance Countdown

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Engage your employees A huge part of keeping your organization compliant is making sure your staff is doing the same: completing their annual mandatories, utilizing the most current practices, following policies and procedures, and so on. Fostering employee engagement can increase retention and help keep your organization in compliance.