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Dementia Care Connect Community  

The Dementia Care Connect Community is for subject matter experts (SMEs) in long term care. SMEs may include people who have advanced education in dementia care. This community will strive to share helpful resources and tools, identify best practices and lessons learned in dementia care, and share innovative ideas in dementia care.
To request to join, please click the “Request to Join” button and provide the following information:
• Name
• Email
• Organization Name
• Organization State
• Job role

**Important***
After you click Request to Join, we recommend you select Real Time at the drop-down menu to select your email notification frequency for community discussions. This will ensure you receive timely notifications from the community discussions. You can adjust this frequency at any time by selecting My Profile, My Account, Community Notifications.

Please also note that if you have just now created your account, the request to join button should display within approximately one hour.  You may need to refresh your screen at that time. There is a sync that runs at the top of the hour which will display the request to join button for new users. 

Any questions, please email DC@ahca.org

LTC National Infection Prevention Forum  

The Long Term Care National Infection Prevention Forum is a forum to share lessons learned, resources, and get questions answered. It provides a mechanism to rapidly disseminate updates and resources about infection in LTC, as they become available from CDC, CMS, or OSHA. The goal of this forum is to foster collaboration and sharing experiences between IPs and other infection control champions in LTC.

To request to join, please click the Request to Join* button and provide the following: information:
Name
Email
Organization name
Organization State
Job Role
Passcode (if applicable)

**Important***
After you click Request to Join, we recommend you select Real Time at the drop-down menu to select your email notification frequency for community discussions. This will ensure you receive timely notifications from the community discussions. You can adjust this frequency at any time by selecting My Profile, My Account, Community Notifications.

Please also note that if you have just now created your account, the request to join button should display within approximately one hour.  You may need to refresh your screen at that time. There is a sync that runs at the top of the hour which will display the request to join button for new users. 

For questions, please email LTC-NIPFhelp@ahca.org

NAL Nurses in Assisted Living

The Nurses in Assisted Living (NAL) Community is a forum for AHCA/NCAL Members to share lessons learned, resources, and get questions answered related to nursing in assisted living. It provides a mechanism to rapidly disseminate updates and resources about Nursing in Assisted Living. The goal of this forum is to foster collaboration by sharing experiences between nurses (RNs, LPNSs, and LVNs) in the assisted living space.

To request to join, please click the Request to Join* button to the right, and provide the following information:

Name

Email

Organization/Company Name 

Organization/Company State

Job Role

Years served as a nurse in assisted living 

**Important***
After you click Request to Join, we recommend you select Real Time at the drop-down menu to select your email notification frequency for community discussions. This will ensure you receive timely notifications from the community discussions. You can adjust this frequency at any time by selecting My Profile, My Account, Community Notifications.

Please also note that if you have just now created your account, the request to join button should display within approximately one hour.  You may need to refresh your screen at that time. There is a sync that runs at the top of the hour which will display the request to join button for new users. 

For questions, please email ptruscott@ncal.org, cwilson@ahca.org or NAL@ahca.org