1. Responses we have made to inquiries concerning compliance with the long-term care health and life safety code requirements in nursing homes that are changing their cultures and adopting new practices;

2. Summarizes questions and answers from a June, 2006 CMS Pic-Tel conference with leaders of the Green House Project (Attachment A); and

3. Provides information about an upcoming series of 4 CMS culture change satellite webcasts (Attachment B).

Hello all -

The Pioneer Network is going to have a 10th year celebration and educational conference August 1-3, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN, and we?d like your help!

I am writing to ask you to share you ideas about valuable topics for learning sessions, and/or specific people you would like to hear from at the conference. Our goal is to get as much input as possible from people about valuable session topics and/or dynamic speakers.

We will be posting an RFP in early January, but would like to include a list of suggested topics to make sure to plan the sessions that will be most valuable to our participants. We will also be accepting RFPs for topics not suggested ? we just want to start by hearing from wide variety of folks on what would help them.

So, please send your ideas, and suggestions directly to me (megan at actionpact dot com) or post them as a comment below. Please don?t hesitate to provide me with contact names or email addresses. Also, feel free to forward this message to those who you think would be willing to provide suggestions.

Thank you for your time and energy, I look forward to hearing from you!

Megan Hannan, Action Pact
Pioneer Network Education Team