Essential Training At Your Finger Tips

Join HCAF’s Private Duty Director, Kristen Wheeler on the first Friday of each month for an informal and informative chat covering hot topics affecting the private duty industry.  This month's topic: Creating Holiday Meal Memories for Happier and Healthier Clients Do you often hear complaints about your caregivers’ cooking skills? This webinar will focus on turning those complaints into opportunities to strengthen the bond between the client and caregiver.  As we head into the holiday season, it can be a time of joy and great memories.  For many of our clients, the holidays are a time of loneliness and even depression. Meals are a wonderful opportunity to create meaningful experiences and help elders get nutrition that vital for their health and well-being.  Learn some simple strategies for honoring an elder’s food culture and traditions, using favorite meals to prompt pleasant memories from years past and allowing elders to enjoy favorites even in the case of chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease.Course Author: Chef Beth Scholer, CC, CDM, CFPP Read More

Join Michael Giudicissi of Power Shot Training for an enlightening journey into your own behavior and the behavior of your staff. The best, most successful agencies find the right people and keep them for the long term. The key to successfully engaging your staff in your mission is understanding their behavior and how you can most effectively communicate with them, lead them, and motivate them. This session will give you deep insight into human behavior and how you can become the motivational leader your team needs. Everybody leads somebody, so let’s start leading them toward more patients served and more success! 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

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