"Pushing Through the Paper": How Charting Impacts Regulatory / Civil Liability Outcomes
Joan Redden, RN-BC/Director Clinical Risk Management - Providence Grp & Affiliates
William Wilson, Partner/Attorney - Wilson Getty LLP
There are charting practices — good and bad — that have an impact on regulatory and civil liability exposure. Examples will be shared from actual cases and identify care areas and issues that that lead to deficiencies and claims. Suggestions will be offered for best practices to limit exposure in the charting arena.
Building a Positive Work Environment: It Begins with Staff
Judy Salisbury, Founder/President - LPNequip.org
We all have the responsibility and the power to influence our environment for good, but sometimes that can be a challenge. This fun, interactive workshop will show you how to build memories, not misery in our unique workplace. You will learn how to leave your baggage and bad day at the front door - and how you can help others to do the same.
Clinical Track
How to Complete a Post-Outbreak Facility Assessment
Patti Owens, LVN/NHA, Director of Regulatory Affairs - CAHF
Find out about what facilities learned during COVID-19 and how to identify and implement actions from areas facilities identified from the facilities post assessment. You will learn ways for your IDT to track your COVID-19 actions, identify lessons learned from COVID-19, and implement actions to prepare for other pandemic outbreaks.
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Dementia Care Best Practice: Non-Drug Approaches to Care
Keith Savell, CEO - Mariposa Training
This session will provide you with the knowledge and abilities necessary to identify dementia/delirium based behavioral triggers (antecedents) and the skills necessary to prevent these behaviors with non-pharmacological interventions.
Harnessing Comprehensive Specialized RN Training to Meet Your Quality Mission
Heidi Keeler PhD, RN - University of Nebraska Medical Center
Explore the process behind the creation of a training program designed to elevate nursing practice to specialty levels. Specialty gerontological nursing competencies will be reviewed and correlated to current CMS regulations and survey success. You will walk away with tools to help you initiate a quality portfolio for your nurses.
Legal Track
Arbitration in the SNF World: A Civil Liability and Regulatory Update
Mark Reagan, JD/Managing Partner – Hooper, Lundy & Bookman
William Wilson, Partner/Attorney - Wilson Getty LLP
This presentation will give you a better understanding of the benefits and costs of binding arbitration in skilled nursing facilities, best practices for the use of arbitration agreements and the CMS Survey guidance for the use of arbitration agreements. Attendees will learn about recent CMS Survey guidance for the use of arbitration agreements
Legal Track
Employment Litigation Update
Jahmal Davis, Attorney - Hanson Bridgett
Learn risk mitigation strategies to help companies prevent costly litigation. Attendees will be updated on employment litigation trends for skilled nursing facilities and other healthcare companies and learn about necessary updates to HR policies and practices.
Legal Track
Fraud & Abuse
Scott Kiepen, Attorney - Hooper, Lundy & Bookman
Mark Johnson, Attorney - Hooper, Lundy & Bookman
This class will cover the state of fraud and abuse issues for SNFs, including false claims cases and investigations. Attendees will learn about the recent federal and state cases and investigations, and compliance strategies to mitigate risk for providers will be covered.
Legal Track
Labor Law 101: Emerging Laws and Trends
Keahn Morris, JD/Attorney - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Health facilities face many new developments in California labor and employment laws this year that will significantly affect the way they run their day-to-day business operations. Analysis and insights will be provided on these new developments, including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic, and offer practical advice and helpful tools to ensure compliance and protect your company from liability in the workplace.
Legal Track
Possible Reclassification of Certain Job Descriptions Due to AB 5
Keahn Morris, JD/Attorney - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Amy Blumberg, MPA, Director of Legislative Affairs - CAHF
AB 5 targets the misclassification of workers and severely restricts the use of independent contractors in California, which has serious implications for skilled-nursing facilities and intermediate-care facilities for people with intellectual disabilities. Obtain insight into reclassifying certain job positions to minimize legal risk.
Legislative Process and Member Advocacy 101
Amy Blumberg, MPA, Director of Legislative Affairs – CAHF
Conor Sweeney, Grassroots Coordinator – CAHF
As the skilled nursing profession changes, so do mandatory rules and regulations. This session will explore the life cycle of legislation, the budget process and identify the key decision-makers in the Capitol. Attendees will gain insight into how they can act and advocate on behalf of the long-term care profession throughout the legislative process.
New Code Cycle Updates - OSHPD and the 2019 CBC
Jason Belden, Disaster Preparedness Program Manager - CAHF
2019 brought the newest version of the California Building Code. Learn changes to the energy code and how to focus on providing emergency power during PSPS events. Learn new rules about the 2019 version of the CA Building Code. Discuss strategies around emergency power during planned outages and areas of focus for OSHPD inspections.
Managed Care Track
Getting Into The Club
Justin Border, OTR/L - Titan Healthcare Solutions LLC
Managed Care Organizations are generally looking to narrow their skilled nursing facility networks, not expand them. Best practices for transitioning from being just another vendor to being a true partner will be reviewed as well what Managed Care Organizations expect from contracted facilities.
Managed Care Track
Medi-Cal Managed Care: Using the MCO Grievance Process to Stamp Out Bad MCO Behavior
Chad Bogar, Managing Partner - sb2.inc
The grievance process has become the most effective way to correct bad MCO behavior with states imposing significant sanctions when MCOs fail to adequately address resident complaints. This discussion will help you identify the relationship between CMS, state agencies, and MCOs - and take the proper steps to correct bad MCO behavior.
Medical Provider Conference - Update 2020
AMDA's UTI Consensus Statement / McGreer's vs Loeb Criteria
Dr. Kavita Trivedi, Principal/MD - Trivedi Consults LLC
Dr. Nimalie Stone, Medical Epidemiologist for Long-term Care - CDC
You will walk away from this presentation with a better understanding of how to properly diagnose, treat and prevent urinary tract infections in post-acute and long-term care settings. This session will summarize the recently released guidelines on the topic.
Medical Provider Conference - Update 2020
Post-Acute/SNF Billing & PDPM
Dr. Michelle Eslami, MD, FACP, CMD | Chief Medical Officer - Rockport Heatlhcare Services
Dr. Kerry Weiner, MD/Chief Clinical Strategy Officer - CareConnectMD
Explore the various payment models that exist in the nursing home industry. Learn how the recent changes to the Medicare FFS payment system and the growth of managed care have impacted nursing homes. This session will also share a well-informed prediction on the future of nursing home reimbursement.
Medical Provider Conference - Update 2020
Developing Tools to Prevent Hospital Admissions
Scott Stringer, MD/Medical Director, Board Certified in Emergency Medicine - ACC Care Center
Unnecessary hospitalization can cause financial, physical and mental havoc among patients and their families. Learn management intervention to move nursing homes forward in the endeavor of preventing these hospitalizations and explore the current causes of hospital readmissions and identify the weaknesses in nursing home care and address them individually.
Medical Provider Conference - Update 2020
Enhancing Care Transitions-Bridging the Gap
Kathy Griffin, Compliance Officer BSN, MSN, JD, Esq. RN, CHC - Redlands Comm Hospital
Identify how the potential impact of new regulations for acute hospital for discharge may impact SNF admissions. Learn strategies to promote resident care and discuss elements physicians should consider when ordering home health services.
The New Normal: Employment and Regulatory Implications in the Age of COVID-19
Jahmal Davis, Partner - Hanson Bridgett
Jillian Somers Donovan, Partner - Hanson Bridgett
Several employment topics surfaced as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. This discussion will focus on the key issues as well as how regulations and agency guidance impacts on those areas. Managing employee safety concerns, time off and return to work obligations, screening and testing obligations, documentation concerns, and anticipated litigation trends following the pandemic will be covered.
PDPM Trends: What We Have Learned
Terry Sheets, OTR, MHA, RAC-CT/CCO - Meritage Healthcare
Jennifer Breen, Assistant Director of Reimbursement - CAHF
Key components such as the Nursing RUG, NTA, Speech Language comorbidities and Section GG play critical roles in a facility’s rate of reimbursement. Learn the key components of the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) and trends that are being seen throughout the state and the nation. Best practices to prepare facilities for future audits will be outlined
Successful Discharge to Community
Keith Savell, CEO - Mariposa Training
Michael Splain, ACSW, LCSW – Social Services Consultant
Prior to discharging residents from a facility to the community, administrators need to make sure residents are well prepared and safe. This discussion will cover basic discharge regulations regarding proper form preparation, positive reinforcement, 30-day notices and fair hearings.
Survey Says! California's Top 3: Learn How to Educate to Eliminate
Carmen O'Connell, CDM, CFPP, Dietary Services Project Manager - CAHF
Make sure dietary F-Tags aren’t simmering in your kitchen! This discussion will teach you how to avoid the top three F-Tags, how scope and severity affects your surveys, and provide tools to educate your dietary staff – courtesy of CAHF’s Dietary Service Project.
The Business Case for Quality Awards
DeAnn Walters, Director of Clinical Affairs and Quality Improvement – CAHF
Lori Cooper, COO - Healthmark Services Inc.
The Baldrige framework for performance excellence has business implications that pay dividends. The national Quality Awards program not only has positive clinical outcomes, but also market share and financial metric benefits. This presentation will review the process that lifts the entire organization to success.
MDRO Prevention Strategies in LTC
Dr. Nimalie Stone, Medical Epidemiologist for Long-term Care - CDC
Dr. David Gifford, MD, MPH - American Health Care Association
Learn how to apply infection prevention best practices specific to long term care and skilled nursing facilities to prevent and treat infections for residents, including screening and antibiotic stewardship.