Celtic Healthcare Educates at NAHC's 27th Annual Meeting
Celtic Healthcare recently played a large role in the National Association of Home Care and Hospice's (NAHC) 27th Annual Meeting, which took place from October 11 – 15, 2008. NAHC is the nation's largest trade association representing the interests and concerns of homecare agencies, hospices, homecare aide organizations, and medical equipment suppliers. The meeting, which was held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida provided numerous educational and professional development opportunities for attendees and featured well-known speakers including Judy Woodruff, Former President Bill Clinton, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Alison Levine.
Known for our focus on education and service excellence, Celtic Healthcare presented the below topics at this annual event:
● The Rehabilitative Professional as a Manager/Administrator in Home Care and Hospice – A program for agencies wanting to promote rehab professionals as managers/administrators and for the rehabilitative professional seeking guidance in management development.
Presented by: Tonya Miller, PT, DPT COS-C, Director of Rehabilitation Education and Program Development
● Building Upon The Basics: Moving Forward in the Home Health Quality Improvement Campaign - This session addressed the application of higher level interventions, patient-self management, disease management and transitional care coordination to improve patient quality outcomes, especially acute care hospitalization rates.
Presented by: Misty Kevech, BS, Ed, MS, COS-C, Director of Nursing Education
● Re-Engineering Therapy using OASIS for Improved Clinical and Financial Outcomes - With recent changes to PPS, it is essential for agencies to re-design clinical and financial strategies. This session provided information on using OASIS for individualized patient therapy care planning and therapy utilization analysis.
Presented by: Kurt Baumgartel, MPT, Chief Operating Officer
● Creating the Model for Tomorrow, Today - The move from PPS to a P4P model is imminent, although most agencies have done little to prepare. The use of technology and new operational models of efficiencies can catapult into P4P today. Pay for Performance is expected to be the new payment model for home health with the demonstration planned to end in December 2009. Should P4P begin as early as January 2010, this would most likely include data from patient episodes today (October 2008). The question then becomes, "How can my agency be ready for P4P today?".
Presented by: Marian Essey, RN, BSN, Vice President Performance Improvement, Arnold Burchianti II, MPT, Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Jodi McKinney, Director of Sales and Marketing
