4th Week

This week at FHCA we had the Distric Presidents come visit. We had them tour the Capital and our office. They also enjoyed many speakers. I took the Capital tour with them. I had never been inside the capital building. It is really amazing. The top Floor is all glass and you can see way past Tallahassee.

It wasn't all fun though. My boss is going to a meeting with the Senior Clinicians on Monday in Tampa and we had a lot of preparation to do. I researched all the parent companies and made an updated list of all the nursing homes involved in advancing excellence. I also got some more work done on the LANE.

3rd Week

I had another great week at FHCA. I work 3 days a week and I spent my first 2 days making phone calls. I called around 50 nursing homes to inform them that AHCA had requested we contact them to find out why they were not active on ESS. I gave them information about the program and told them how to fix their status. On my last day I attended a HR sensitivity training meeting. I also attended a lunch meeting with the two coordinators for the Florida State LANE. I am going to try to help them establish a LANE for Florida that will attract providers attention.

Getting the feel for things

I have to say i have been enjoying my internship even though it is nothing like I expected it to be. My first week was only a 2 day week because of a staff retreat. In this time I mostly just familiarized myself with the Association and what they did and tried to remember everybody's names. My experience started out with a staff meeting where i got to hear about what everyone was working on. FHCA is a fairly small organization having only around 15 staff members. Because of this we all meet together and let everyone know what is getting done, or what needs to get done.

This last week was my second week and in which I went to two meetings; one on Hospice and the other with the local Lobbyists. That is not all I did though, I am working on two projects now. The first is to contact our 78 member nursing homes that are not compliant with the new ESS system. I am going to call them and help them get it fixed so they don't get any fines. It is ,as of a few months, ago Florida law. The other project I am working on is a survey to assess quality in ALF. We are working with some other organizations with this but it seems pretty cool.