Your facility’s HCAM membership includes access to the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). AHCA/NCAL provides you with tools and resources, access, involvement in powerful advocacy, professional development, networking opportunities, and much more.
Requesting an AHCA/NCAL Username P3: Market Data that Matters LTC Trendtracker Affinity Programs Education National Quality Awards Essential Training Guide for Feeding Assistans
AHCA/NCAL New Member Profile Creation (SNF/AL)
Members can now easily create their own individual profiles and obtain login credentials by visiting members.ahcancal.org and clicking on “CREATE NEW ACCOUNT” at the top of the screen.
Please note that is important to add company information to your profile during registration. The member status of your company will determine individual member status, ensuring accurate access to relevant materials and benefits. Leaving company information blank will preclude access to any members-only content.
Long-term care vendors may join the Associate Business Member (ABM) Program, designed for those companies that share a genuine interest with AHCA/NCAL in furthering the quality of long-term care.
Essential Training Guide for Feeding Assistants!
Empowering caregivers to deliver safe, compassionate, and dignified mealtime assistance to residents in their care. Available at AHCAPublications.org
Train Your Staff & Volunteers to Become Feeding Assistants with this Newly Updated Manual. Price $29.99 ORDER NOW
This manual is designed to train feeding assistants in long term care and assisted living settings. It includes updated regulatory information, enhanced graphics, practical exercises, and chapter quizzes as well as proper feeding techniques, dementia care, nutrition, and emergency procedures. Training caregivers with this easy-to-read guide helps to ensure your residents’ safety, dignity, and overall well-being during meals. Learn more and place your order today.
P3: Market Data that Matters
P3© is a SNF-centered report, available exclusively to AHCA SNF members, that uses hospital and SNF claims to track patient flow and availability in the SNF’s market area. Your year-long subscription gives you a critical understanding of hospital referral data in key clinical categories relevant to PDPM. You’ll get quarterly reports with key information that will help you compete more successfully:
-Hospital Referral Data
-SNF Length of Stay and Referral Data
-Market PDPM Data
-Top Hospital PDPM Data
Long-Term Care Trend Tracker
LTC Trend Tracker™ is a web-based tool that enables long-term and post-acute care providers to access key information that can help their organization succeed. This is an exclusive benefit for HCAM members through their AHCA/NCAL membership. LTC Trend Tracker allows skilled nursing organizations, assisted living residences and personal care homes to benchmark personal metrics to those of their peers and examine ongoing quality improvement efforts. LTC Trend Tracker is members’ one-stop shop f0r timely information and valuable insights about their own performance as well as the entire profession’s.
Affinity Programs
AHCA/NCAL Provides Cost-Cutting Programs To Save YOU Money!
American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) members can now benefit from several member service programs designed to help cut costs on products and services that you use every day. Start saving money now with our exclusive member benefit discounts only available to AHCA and NCAL members!
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HealthCap is the leading professional and general liability insurance company dedicated to the senior care profession. HealthCap provides focused claims management services and specialized insurance products serving the spectrum of senior living communities.
HealthCap is the AHCA/NCAL preferred provider of liability insurance. AHCA/NCAL members receive:
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Gero Nurse Prep is an online training course designed to prepare RNs who care for elders to attain board certification in Gerontological Nursing (RN-BC) by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). This course equips RNs with a broad array of clinical knowledge, skills and competencies that are tested on the ANCC certification exam and essential for quality gerontological nursing practice and leadership of elder care teams. | |
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Incite is AHCA/NCAL’s Group Purchasing Organization partner that aims to strengthen the purchasing power of long-term care facilities. We believe this group purchasing program will provide you with the opportunity to receive competitive pricing for dining options, medical supplies and services, housekeeping supplies and more. It can also increase resident satisfaction by supplying high-quality products and offering resources to help you maximize the potential program benefits.
Free Assessment: Incite will provide a free analysis to determine the program’s potential impact and savings for your organization. Learn More |
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ReadyCNA is an online, story-based training program designed to prepare nurse assistants for the real-world demands of caregiving. The program makes it easy for schools, training providers, and healthcare partners to deliver engaging, compliant, and effective online CNA classes.
The 10-module course (with additional modules available to meet state-specific requirements) is currently approved for use in 37 states. Cinematic Health Education provides all AHCA/NCAL members with a significantly discounted student license rate of $450 per student (regularly $600). With ReadyCNA, organizations can offer fully compliant online CNA classes while saving time, reducing administrative burden, and improving learner outcomes. Additional benefits include:
In addition to ReadyCNA, Cinematic Health Education also offers ReadyCaregiver, a program designed to train direct care workers in an assisted living or community-based setting. ReadyCaregiver is also deeply discounted for all AHCA/NCAL members at $59 compared to the regular $99 price. |
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NCCAP’s Activity Director Certification (ADC) Course
The Complete Activity Director Certified (ADC) Course is self-paced and provides the educational foundation required for individuals seeking eligibility to apply for NCCAP’s ADC credential. This credential meets the professional standards of practice to lead, manage, and direct an activities and life enrichment department and evaluate its effectiveness. The ADC credential helps ensure compliance with F680 – the CMS requirements for nursing facility activity professional qualifications. ADC course registration includes the national ADC certification exam, a two-year recognition of the NCCAP ADC credential upon successfully completing the exam with a score of 70 percent or higher, and a two-year membership in the National Association of Activity Professionals. AHCA/NCAL members receive a $200 discount off the regular $999 price on NCCAP’s nationally recognized MEPAP ADC training and certification program when they use promo code AHCA at registration. The exclusive AHCA promo code is the only way to obtain the $200 discount. Email NCCAP at [email protected] or call 757-552-0653 with any questions about the ADC program or getting approved CEs for activity director continuing education. |
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NAAP’s National Assisted Living Enrichment Certification Course
The National Assisted Living Enrichment Certification Course is designed to equip life enrichment and activity professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in assisted living/residential care settings. This training and certification are ideal for assisted living staff entering the activities field or advancing their activities and senior care careers. This self-paced, online course offered by the National Association of Activity Professionals (NAAP) includes videos, readings, interactive tools and certification exam. The course delivers insight into the operational, ethical, and legal aspects of assisted living communities to help ensure that life enrichment and activities staff are well-prepared to enhance residents’ quality of life. AHCA/NCAL members receive an exclusive $100 discount off the regular $650 ALEC course and exam price by using promo code NCAL when registering which includes a one-year free membership in NAAP. The exclusive NCAL promo code is the only way to receive the $100 discount. |
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AHCA has partnered with Healthcare Academy to offer an online training program called Knowledge Check™ that features 2- to 7-minute short courses designed to streamline educational compliance for nursing facility staff and save training time and money.
Annual subscription rates vary depending on the number of full- and part-time staff a facility employs. Those annual rates are:
All AHCA members receive a 10% discount on the prices listed above. Non-members do not receive this discount. The short Knowledge Check abbreviated courses are ideal for experienced staff in meeting annual CMS training requirements. Staff must pass a quiz at the end of each abbreviated course to ensure competency. Each of the 20 Knowledge Check abbreviated courses comes with separate expanded courses that can be used for remedial training when staff fail the quizzes, for new staff onboarding, or for helping staff meet annual training requirements. The system tracks training by employee making annual training recordkeeping by topic and time easy for managers and employees. |
Education
AHCA/NCAL Events. To meet the professional development and networking needs of our large and broad-based membership, AHCA provides numerous outstanding events and opportunities throughout the year. Targeted meetings and conferences are available to address the specific requirements of different constituencies. Whether it’s online during a webinar or in-person at one of the regional conferences or AHCA/NCAL’s Annual Convention & Expo, AHCA strives to create great networking and learning opportunities throughout the year.
Learn more about specific education programs offered here.
National Quality Award Program
The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program provides a pathway for providers of long-term and post-acute care services to journey toward performance excellence. The program is based on the core values and criteria of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.
Member centers may apply for three progressive levels of awards: Bronze—Commitment to Quality, Silver—Achievement in Quality, or Gold—Excellence in Quality. Each level has its own distinct rigors and requirements for quality and performance excellence.
Applications are judged by trained Examiners who provide feedback on opportunities for improvement to support continuous learning.
Learn more about the program and sign up for a webinar series to learn how to succeed on your application here.
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