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

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

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

Does your agency provide the flu vaccine or are you depending on outside practitioners to administer the vaccine to your patients? Take control of the flu vaccine OASIS item by developing your own vaccine program. Whether it be for individual patients, or a mass flu shot clinic, this session will give you all the tools needed to develop and manage your own vaccination program. Protocols to obtain the vaccine, managing a flu shot clinic, and billing the vaccine will be presented. Course Instructor - Christina Crumbley RN, MSN, HCS-D, HCS-O, Greystone Health Network  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 focus of recent health care reform efforts for CMS providers is the shift from “volume to value,” including home health agencies that deliver care to homebound clients. A review of the latest program updates reveals a consistent effort to address and improve the value quotient of home care services; rebasing, value-based purchasing (VBP), Pre-Claim Review, and Alternative Payment Models (APM). In addition, other proposed refinements, such as episodic bundling for ACOs, reflect a value-based expectation from home health providers. HHSM presents the development of a value-based home health episode in this progressive presentation. By employing a chronologic, step-by-step review of the value construction of a contemporary home care program, attendees can identify opportunities to evolve their care programs in value terms. From intake to admissions, OASIS to point of care, care delivery to in-episode management, patient satisfaction to quality discharges; all aspects of the Home Health episode are addressed in terms of compliance with the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Home Health Chapter 7. The panel of presenters will outline how they ensure the value development of home health programs, including the production of care targets and program delivery paths that lead to greater than 4.0 Star Ratings along with desired patient satisfaction scores. Case Studies and Interactive demos will be employed; don’t miss this important opportunity to gain insight into value care production. Instructors: Arnie Cisneros, Kimberly McCormick, Astrid Roeder and Melissa County of Home Health Strategic Management​   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