Essential Training At Your Finger Tips

Equip your field and intake staff with the advantageous skills and techniques of motivational interviewing. Utilize these tried and true skills to increase productivity and patient compliance to nutrition and exercise routines, and accurately complete OASIS and other patient assessments. Your agency’s outcome scores will be enhanced. Home care agencies are on the hunt to find competitive advantages – this skill in your toolkit is a hidden jewel in our industry. Do not miss this opportunity to elicit your patient’s motivation more effectively through your communications and actions. Course instructor - Diana Cullum-Dugan <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Read More

40 years ago, psychiatrist Erik Erikson described each patient as “a universe of one.” This concept is no less prevalent today, and in fact has taken center stage. Our world is changing and within it, the perception of managing your own healthcare is changing as well. The fact is, the information before we even get ill will contribute to a healthcare system that is more self-aware and more efficient. In this session, we will explore the emerging landscape of patient engagement. We will delve into the data gathered and ACO drivers -- all developed in efforts to support the Triple Aim: population health, experience of care and how we can lower costs of care. Course Instructor - Scott Herrmann Read More

This session will consist of a review and comparison of the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for home health and hospice, with an emphasis on the most frequently cited CoPs as published by CMS. Participants will hear practical and useful approaches for adapting and renewing efforts to maintain compliance. Course Instructor - Gwen Franzgrote Read More

Equip your field and intake staff with the advantageous skills and techniques of motivational interviewing. Utilize these tried and true skills to increase productivity and patient compliance to nutrition and exercise routines, and accurately complete OASIS and other patient assessments. Your agency’s outcome scores will be enhanced. Home care agencies are on the hunt to find competitive advantages – this skill in your toolkit is a hidden jewel in our industry. Do not miss this opportunity to elicit your patient’s motivation more effectively through your communications and actions. Course instructor - Diana Cullum-Dugan <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Read More

For many decades this devastating condition was underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed as depression. The patients received incorrect medications with no results. Recent developments in the Pharmaceutical Industry revolutionized the treatment of Pseudobulbar Affect. Now is the time to recognize this condition Course Instructor - Dr. Alexander Smirnoff Read More

Medicare reform actions continue to define our industry, and CMS and MedPAC plans for home health identify where the benefit might be headed. How can we address regulatory updates, audit scrutiny, proposed co-payments, post-acute bundling model and more therapy payment changes? More importantly, how can we make sense of all of this? This presentation outlines the rationale behind CMS and MedPAC proposals, identifies care modifications required for survival and recounts the reasons why home health will remain a vital component of the care continuum. Course Instructor - Arnie Cisneros Read More