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Former PCA, now Savii CEO, Kristen Duell will guide attendees to help reduce agency turnover, boost retention, and keep growing your home care agency.  Get Savyy on our retention strategy!  Course Author: Kristen Duell Read More

This webinar will review the Home Health Agency Final Interpretive Guidelines associated with the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs). Clear, concise explanations will be shared along with examples from a former surveyor and someone who performs mock surveys. Join Sharon M. Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D, as she shares what has been seen in actual agency surveys. Sharon will provide a clear direction to take now that the Final Interpretive Guidelines have been released. Gain a better understanding of them and what they mean to agencies during a survey. Learn what it means and what is involved to truly follow the new CoPs and Interpretive Guidelines. Course Author: Sharon M. Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D Read More

OASIS-D is starting Jan 1, 2019 with changes largely occurring due to the IMPACT ACT (Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014). The purpose of the IMPACT Act is to standardize patient assessment data collected for Post-Acute Care (PAC) providers; The PAC providers are: Long-Term Care Hospitals, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities, Skilled Nursing facilities and Home Health Agencies.  The reason for standardization of data is to develop improved quality measures, utilize the data to compare all four PAC providers for quality, and improve coordination of care and discharge planning between the PAC providers. Therefore, we see in our OASIS-D that several GG and J items are in place. These items, particularly the GG items have very detailed assessment items, particularly for the patient functional abilities and goals. Many of these items are not currently assessed in home health.  Therefore, it is more important than ever to ensure that your clinicians are taught, understand and are able to perform these detailed functional assessments on their patients. Do not wait until January to teach these skills, as the assessment strategies are going to have to be done thoroughly by the team of clinicians caring for the patient! Join us for an intro to OASIS-D, reviewing items deleted, the OASIS-D guidance manual and the new GG and J items! Course Author: Vicky Trevarthan, RN, BS, COS-C, MHA Candidate Read More

Clients, family members, and other referral sources are constantly looking for the most comprehensive portfolio of service options when choosing a private duty provider.  Safety along with convenience is critical for clients and the easier it is for them to receive physician ordered tests, the better! Portable imaging services performed in a client’s home offer a convenient, fast, and reliable solution. Take a brief walk through the history of portable x-ray services and learn about the technological advances which allow hospital-grade x-ray, ultrasound, and cardiac monitoring to be performed wherever a client calls home.  Examine the regulatory differences between portable imaging and fixed-site imaging providers, to ensure accurate and appropriate client care.  Set your agency apart from your competitors by considering the value a portable imaging partnership can bring to your clients and to your business. Read More

The Home Care Association of Florida (HCAF) invites you to join us for Home Care Connect, your fall gathering of local home care professionals taking place in 11 cities, plus two webinars! At the top of the meeting, guest speaker and Healthcare Provider Solutions CEO Melinda Gaboury, COS-C, will help you and your staff understand the alphabet soup of home health changes on the horizon, including: RCD – Medicare's Home Health Review Choice Demonstration for pre-claim or post-payment review of claims starting next year; PDGM – The Patient-Driven Groupings Model is widely viewed as the most dramatic overhaul of the Medicare payment system in nearly two decades, and set to go into effect in 2020; and, HHVBP – Next year is the second of the five-year Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model, with reimbursement tied to quality at a maximum adjustment of +/– 5%. In addition, HCAF Executive Director Bobby Lolley, RN, and Director of Government Affairs and Communications Kyle Simon will also provide federal and state legislative and regulatory updates. With all of the major changes coming sooner than later – not to mention new CoPs, transition to OASIS-D, and EVV implementation for Medicaid home care services – no home health care agency leader should miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and prepare to position your agency to succeed in this new era of home- and community-based services. Course Author: Melinda Gaboury, Bobby Lolley RN & Kyle SImon Read More

The Home Care Association of Florida (HCAF) invites you to join us for Home Care Connect, your fall gathering of local home care professionals taking place in 11 cities, plus two webinars! Connect with industry colleagues, hear the latest industry updates and predictions on where our industry will be heading in the next year. Obtain practical information and guidance on how you can position your agency to succeed in this new era of home- and community-based services. At the top of the presentation, guest speaker and legal expert, Grant Kindrick, Esq., of Bleakley, Bavol and Denman will examine Workers’ Compensation laws, including travel-related injuries, and provide detailed information about employers’ responsibilities.Plenty of time will be allowed for questions. Additionally, HCAF Executive Director Bobby Lolley, RN, and Director of Government Affairs and Communications Kyle Simon will provide federal and state legislative and regulatory updates.   Course Author: Grant Kindrick, Esq.,  Bobby Lolley, RN, & Kyle Simon Read More