Essential Training At Your Finger Tips

Through the years the Health Care Industry has seen expansion of multiple payment models, payment reform, and changes related to rules and regulations.  All revolve around a common subject – “the patient”.  This presentation will discuss wound care resolutions  within the home care scope of practice including best practices, assessment tools, and product efficacy that will embrace optimizing patient outcomes in a cost-effective manner.       Course Authors: Sue Kennedy, RN, BS, CWOCN, FACCWS, COS-C and Debbie Ritter, RN, BSN, CWOCN, FACCWS PT credits awarded for course completions are approved for 1 year and expire at the end of the calendar year unless otherwise stated. For a complete list of courses offering PT credits for this year, click here. Read More

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is aggressively targeting home care agencies with wage and hour compliance audits. This informative and interactive session will teach you how to prepare for and successfully defend a DOL audit. From how to deal with the investigator, preparing documents, and through a checklist of the DOL's hot button topics, this seminar will allow you to not only survive but thrive in your audit. Bring your wage and hour questions and get answers and tactics to prevail if the DOL comes calling. Course Authors: Bob King, Esq. Read More

This program will be an in-depth look at agencies' client service agreements. These agreements allow an agency to get paid and help protect the agency from liability. They are used in every transaction and are the foundation of an agency's business. This presentation will provide a comprehensive list of provisions to include in the agreements -- including sample language for attendees to use -- as well as problem areas to avoid. The program is very interactive and leaves ample time for audience questions. Course Instructor - Bob King, Esq. Read More

It is critical for agencies to understand the importance of each of these conditions, and the preparation time that will be required in order to be compliant by January 13, 2018! This session will review each of these conditions and give agencies information on how to comply, from policies and procedures, to staff training, EMR or paper document revisions, and qualification changes. Patient Rights will review all of the timepoints needed for each of the areas, such as providing verbal and written notice of rights to patients and patients' representatives. They will also review what written notices should be provided to patients, and the involvement of the patient and patient representative throughout the home care admission. QAPI will review the standards, and give strategies, tips and examples of how to develop and implement your program for compliance and to help your agency achieve great quality and patient outcomes. Infection control condition is sparse, but Sharon will provide you with information on how to develop your policies, complete an infection surveillance form, and perform staff and patient teaching. Finally, Personnel will review the new qualification requirements for administrators and clinical managers. This is a critical session you don’t want to miss as you prepare for our new CoPs! Course Instructor - Sharon M Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D PT credits awarded for course completions are approved for 1 year and expire at the end of the calendar year unless otherwise stated. For a complete list of courses offering PT credits for this year, click here. Read More

The implementation of the new CoPs will prove to be an enormous time and cost burden to your agency. With the CMS push-back to January of 2018, time is clearly on your side. But you cannot afford to wait. Training your agency and getting policies and procedures into place NOW will prove invaluable in preparing for the January implementation date. While care planning and care coordination requirements are at the core of the new CoPs, the entire organization will need re-working. Arlene Maxim and Stefanie Woodrow will guide you through some of the most concerning elements of these new conditions, with focused attention to: · Organization and Administration · Care Planning and Care Coordination · Home Care Aide Requirements Creating an assessment and a plan of care that is unique to the individual patient with limited orders and specific goals will be new territory for agencies. Arlene and Stefanie will provide strategies for communicating with and gathering information from providers in other settings. Course Instructor - Arlene Maxim RN & Stefanie Woodrow​ PT credits awarded for course completions are approved for 1 year and expire at the end of the calendar year unless otherwise stated. For a complete list of courses offering PT credits for this year, click here. Read More

This session will provide an update of recent accounting pronouncements that impact the financial statements of home care agencies. Course Authors: Charity Hathorne, Gregg Hathorne Read More