Important Updates:
The KDADS website has a new look but the same information you rely on. This is the NEW official KDADS website.
The KDADS website has a new look but the same information you rely on. This is the NEW official KDADS website.
The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) is committed to ensuring high-quality services for Kansas nursing home residents. For nearly 20 years, KDADS has been recognizing nursing homes for successfully implementing person-centered care, commonly known as Promoting Excellent Alternatives in Kansas, or PEAK. From the beginning of PEAK, KDADS pursued two primary goals:
Beginning in 2012, PEAK expanded from a recognition program to a pay-for-performance Medicaid program in an effort to speed up the rate of adoption of person-centered care practices in Kansas nursing homes. The program had an overwhelming response, with 125 homes enrolling in PEAK 2.0 the first year. It was then that KDADS arranged a partnership with the Kansas State University (KSU) Center on Aging to administer the program.
KDADS continues to manage payment of incentives earned, but the KSU Center on Aging handles program administration including application, education and evaluation. Please visit the KSU Center on Aging website to learn more about the program.
For further information on the program contact: Trescia Power or the PEAK Team at coapeak@ksu.edu.
Please Note: There is a new address for contacting KSU PEAK: coapeak@ksu.edu
Information on sessions and the registration can be found here: https://kaceks.org/event-5860689
As a suggestion, facilities could have “Appreciation Stations” set up in several living areas with blank forms and instructions.
Resident Art Submissions
To highlight October being Resident’s Rights Month with “The Power of Voice” as this year’s theme, residents can submit poetry, art, music, songs, photography, etc.
Please request residents submit art that expresses the theme "The Power of Voice."With permission, please either submit or bring the physical projects to the conference to display at the Resident's Rights display table.
Please submit appreciation cards, pictures, and art by Friday, Oct. 4th to: coapeak@ksu.edu
We are looking forward to celebrating amazing team members and the talent of our spectacular residents.
~Peak Project Team~
The Advisory Team shall council KDADS leadership in championing person-centered care and provide guidance regarding specific PEAK-related issues while providing suggestions to promote a continually improving program.
The PEAK Advisory Board for SFY24-25 has been seated and we have many fresh, wise voices joining us this year. The summer months will be spent on planning the 2024 Person Centered Care Conference to be held on October 9, 2024. The rest of the year will focus on goal setting and subcommittees will be formed to make recommendations and work on implementation.
KDADS' PEAK 2.0 Program recognizes 15 Kansas Adult Care Homes for excellence in providing person-centered care 10.17.23