Essential Training At Your Finger Tips

As a home healthcare worker your goal to effectively influence wound treatment plans and to optimize patient outcomes by being knowledgeable about wound etiology and current evidence-based best practices for their management. This course is designed to teach you about basic management of wounds. Read more

New Year, New Goals, and New Regulations as Always! How do I create a culture of professionalism for staff that I rarely see in my office? How do I measure professionalism and quality for my home health aides? How can I ensure quality care from a workforce that often has high turnover ? These are often questions that home health and private duty leaders ask and sometimes struggle with finding an answer. In this webinar, we will listen to a seasoned Home Health HR Professional give solutions to creating a values-based culture of professionalism and developing metrics to measure values as a quality leading to increase revenue and employee retention.Course Instructor - Ashley Briones, PHR, MBA, SHRM-CP Read more

With health care regulations evolving to adapt to the explosion of mobile devices (BYOD) being used in the workplace, HIPAA compliance is critical for all health care organizations who are facing security breaches and hefty fines. This session will explore how electronic messaging can be an effective way to communicate in the home care industry while still being HIPAA compliant and secure. 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

Welcome to Continua Learning: Recognizing Skin Changes for Home Health Aides! This course is built to satisfy the Recognizing Skin Changes for Home Health Aides requirement for home care. Read more

Welcome to Continua Learning: Communication Skills for Home Health Aides! This course is built to satisfy the Communication Skills for Home Health Aides requirement for home care. Read more

"Expanded Roles for Home Health Aides? It works in other states.  As a matter of fact, in some areas of the country, home health aides have taken on greater responsibility for years now.  With the demand for nurses at an all-time high, and only expected to grow, is now the time for Florida to consider allowing home health aides to take on more duties?   Join HCAF as we welcome Rachel Hammon, RN, BSN, Executive Director of the Texas Association for Home Care and Hospice to discuss Texas’ expansion of allowable duties for home health aides as well as what additional services can be delegated by RNs in Texas.  Rachel will share details, good and bad, about how expanding these duties has affected Texas’ home care industry.  Attendees will have ample time to ask questions and provide thoughts on this topic.   Additionally, HCAF Executive Director Bobby Lolley and Director of Government Affairs and Communications Kyle Simon will present the state of the industry in light of ongoing changes, as well as state industry updates, including legislative and regulatory developments. "Course Instructor - Rachel Hammon, RN, BSN & Bobby Lolley, RN & Kyle Simon Read more