Schedule at a Glance


Saturday, October 22
9:00am - 5:00pm Forum of State Associations Meeting
1:00pm - 6:00pm NAHC Home Care & Hospice Golf Tournament

Sunday, October 23
8:00am - 8:30am First Timers' Orientation
8:30am - 1:00pm CEO Leadership School & Lunch
8:30am - 4:45pm Volunteer Hospice Network 10th Annual Meeting
11:30am - 1:00pm

Educational Programs - 100 Series

101. Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations

102. It's Not Who - It's What Innovative Strategies for Improving Outcomes

104. Understanding Unions and the National Labor Relations Board

105. Using Telehealth to Improve Patient Outcomes Connecting our Elderly with Technology

106. De-Mystifying Financial Statements for Clinical Managers

107. Financial Analysis Boot Camp for Home Care Mergers and Acquisitions

108. The TREATment of Choice HUMOR

109. Using a Computerized Comfort Assessment to Address Pain and Suffering for Hospice and Home Care Patients

111. Assessing Your Agency from Head to Toe!

112. Expanding Home Care in the New "Ownership Society"

113. Management of Seizures in End-of-Life Care

114. Family Caregiver Managing Uncertainty During End-of-Life Care

115. The Data Is In! The Best Home Care Marketing Practices Revealed

116. Setting the Stage for Benchmarking Performance Management in Adult Day Services

1:15pm - 2:45pm

Educational Programs - 200 Series

202. The Road to Success Is Always Under Construction Using Process to Improve Clinical and Business Operations Outcomes

203. Effects of Front-Loaded Visits Re-design for Quality Outcomes and Improved Utilization

204. Regulatory Compliance A Constant State of Readiness

205. Electronic Discharge Planning - Using Web Based Applications to Increase Referrals

206. The Future of Hospital Based Home Care IS in a Free Standing Structure!

207. Measure Right, Manage Right

208. Challenges of Recruitment & Retention

210. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Oral Anticoagulation Therapy Monitoring in Home Care

211. Embracing Change Building a Culture of Accountability

212. Using Outcome Measures to Drive Operating Strategy

213. Using Integrative Therapies at the End-of-Life

214. A Pediatric Home Care Infection Control Surveillance Program Implementation to Outcomes

215. Cold Calling Doctors Making the Dreaded Drop-In Less Painful!

216. Data-Driven Wound Care Optimizing Care Practices in a Pay-for-Performance Environment

3:00pm - 5:00pm NAHC Annual Meeting Opening General Session
5:00pm - 8:00pm NAHC Home Care & Hospice Expo Grand Opening & Reception

Monday, October 24
8:00am - 10:00am NAHC Keynote Speakers & General Session
10:00am - 3:30pm NAHC Home Care & Hospice Expo
10:30am - 12:00pm

Educational Programs - 300 Series

301. The CMS 8th Scope of Work and Home Health Agencies

302. Access along the Continuum Using OASIS Data to Identify Appropriate Hospice Referrals

303. Therapy "Out-of-the-Box" Positive Outcomes and Positive Staff Retention

304. Compliance & Your Agency Is Your Compliance Program Really Working?

305. Merging Technology Integrating Information to Demonstrate Improved Patient Outcomes and Operating Efficiencies

306. Circuses Make Money on the Popcorn! Home Care Strategies for Diversification and Growth

307. WWW.Due Diligence What, Why, and When

308. Effectively Using Computers in a Staff Development Program

309. The Top Techniques to Grow Your Private Duty Home Care Business

310. Second Annual Hot Topics in Home Health Rehabilitation Therapy

311. How to Become a Medicare Part B Provider

312. Maximizing Home Health Aide Productivity Using Six Sigma Methodology

313. Learn the "RERR" Secrets of a Successful Volunteer Program

314. Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management at Home

315. How to Make Healthcare More Affordable for the Uninsured-Answers for Your Employee and Your Customers

316. Palmetto GBA Meet Your Medicare Regional Home Health Intermediary

12:00pm Luncheon in the Exhibition Hall
2:30pm - 4:00pm

Educational Programs - 400 Series

401. How to Measure Your Organization's Performance in One Easy Lesson

402. Joint Commission Accreditation - 2006 Update

403. Improving Education Outcomes Enhances Quality

404. The Medicare Prescription Drug Program How it will Affect the Home Care Providers and Beneficiaries

405. Keystone Telecare Passive Monitoring, Medication Compliance and Vital Signs

406. "Getting to the Bottom of It" Recognizing the Drivers Underlying Your Financial Performance- Part I Revenue Drivers

407. Cost Report 101A How to Complete a Medicare HHA Cost Report

408. Managing the Education of Your Workforce to Create "Knowledge Workers"

409. Using Operational Benchmarks to Strengthen Your Hospice Program

410. Alzheimer's Care Increasingly the Face of Home Health

411. Dashboards Check Them Before Flying!

412. Introducing Point of Care Automation in a Hospice Setting

413. Private Duty Marketing Success

414. "We Don't Take Kids Do We?" Pediatric Palliative Care for Adult Programs

415. CAHABA GBA Meet Your Medicare Regional Home Health Intermediary

416. Move over Mel Gibson CMS and the Value Equation

4:15pm - 5:45pm

Educational Programs - 500 Series

501. Evidence-Based Practice for Advanced Dementia Lessons Learned

502. Six Sigma Quality Improvement with the Bottom Line in Mind

503. How to Use Benchmarking & Best Practices to Improve Patient Care & Outcomes

504. Telehealth Home Health Success Story for CHF Patients

505. Developing a Total Agency Marketing Team of Employees

506. "Getting to the Bottom of It" Recognizing the Drivers Underlying Your Financial Performance - Part II Cost Drivers

507. Manage Growth and Make a Profit Using Information Systems in a Rural Health Care System

508. Caring for Your Employees from the Inside Out

509. Falls Benchmarking and Prevention

510. Teaching the ABC's of Diabetes Management

511. In the Northwest Rising above the CMS Quality Tides

512. Management of Non-pain Symptoms

513. New Medicare-certified Hospice CoP QA/PI Program Requirements Are You Ready?

514. Bringing Pediatric Health Care Home

515. How to Make Healthcare More Affordable for the Uninsured-Answers for Your Employee and Your Customers

516. United Government Services (UGS) Meet Your Medicare Regional Home Health Intermediary

8:00pm - 11:00pm NAHC Home Care & Hospice Benefit Concert

Tuesday, October 25
8:00am - 10:00am General Session with Featured Speakers
10:00am - 2:00pm NAHC Home Care & Hospice Expo
10:30am - 12:00pm

Educational Programs - 600 Series

602. ACHC Home Health & Hospice Standards and Process

603. Assessment of Functional Performance and the Continuum of Rehabilitation Care

604. Rehab and Technology - A Great Team for Home Care!

606. Niche Programs The Power of Partnering Nursing and Therapy

607. Touching Our Wounds Gently Transforming Emotional, Social & Spiritual Pain

608. Mentoring Cutting Edge Teams to Help Recruit and Retain the Best

609. Home Safe Home

610. Can Therapists Walk the Walk?

611. Laughing All the Way Harnessing Humor for Serious Results with OBQI

612. The Art of Hospice Certification and Recertification of Non-Cancer Diagnoses

613. Implementing a Successful Process of Care Investigation Determining Best Practice in Administration of Oral Medications

614. Private Duty Program The First Six Months

615. Improving Outcomes Best Practices Insights from the National Hospitalization Reduction Study

616. Pay for Performance It is Not Too Early to Start Preparing!

617. How to Make Healthcare More Affordable for the Uninsured-Answers for Your Employee and Your Customers

618. Associated Hospital Services Meet Your Medicare Regional Home Health Intermediary

12:00pm Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Educational Programs - 700 Series

701. The New Medicare Appeals System How to Successfully Advocate in the New Structure

702. A Prescription for Outcome Improvement and Financial Success Critical Clinical Problem Solving

703. OBQI Adapted Specifically for Non-Certified Agencies Can It Work?

704. The Vision and Challenges of Standardizing and Sharing Information in an Integrated Health Care System

705. Targeting Culturally Diverse Patient Populations Program Development and Marketing Strategies

706. How to Start a Planned Giving Donation Program

707. Disease Management A New & Exciting Opportunity in Home Care

708. Starting a Hospice Program Issues to Consider

709. Development of a Disease Management Program for COPD

710. Planning and Executing a Seamless Transition of Agency Ownership

711. Maximizing Information Gathered from Point-of-Care Technology

712. The New Reality of Home Care Disease Management Clinics

713. Referral Boosting Strategies

714. What Should I Do? Difficult and Challenging Cases in the Hospice Environment

3:45pm - 5:15pm

Educational Programs - 800 Series

801. A Complete and Total Tutorial on Medicare Patient Notices

802. Public Payer Dependence Bad Private Payer Diversification Good

803. CHAP Celebrating Forty Years of Accreditation Excellence with Revised Private Duty Standards for 2005

804. Best Practice Wound Care at End of Life

805. CRINKING (Creative Thinking) for Strategic Planning in Your Organization

806. Outpatient Therapy for HHAs

807. The Game of Education Creative In-services for the Home Care Aide

808. Diabetes An Independent Risk Factor for Pressure Ulcers

809. Home Health Agencies and Physician House Call Programs Seven Years of Lessons from the Trenches

810. Home Care's Role in State Emergency Disaster Preparedness and Planning

811. Home Care 2006 Adopting the Preemptive Assessment Model

812. A Wound/Ostomy Consultant Program How One Agency Developed "From Within"

813. The Gift of Dying at Home Alone

814. New Medicare Hospice Benefit Proposed Conditions of Participation

815. How to Make Healthcare More Affordable for the Uninsured-Answers for Your Employee and Your Customers

7:00pm NAHC Celebration for Attendees

Wednesday, October 26
8:30am - 11:30am Closing General Session