2024 Annual ConferenceHotel & Location | Registration | Exhibitors & Sponsors | Trivia & Silent Auction | Schedule | Sessions
Care in the home space continues to be a challenging environment to operate based on consolidated market space, legislative cuts, and regulatory changes. Working together we will triumph in navigating these obstacles. We will see you in May! HOTEL INFORMATIONOAHC has a room block reserved for Hillside and Ocean View rooms available at the Best Western Agate Beach Inn. Secure your room before the April 29th deadline to take advantage of the reduced room rate. Hillside Rooms..........$139 Make your reservations today by calling (541) 265-9411 ext. 3
REGISTRATIONRegister by May 9th to receive the early bird rate! Members: $400 REGISTER ONLINEBrochure & Registration Form (pdf)CALL FOR EXHIBITORS & SPONSORSA premier opportunity to meet Oregon Home Care Agency Decision Makers and Buyers... Industry vendors have exhibited for years at many state and national events for healthcare. Consider the results that would come from exhibiting at a highly focused event designed specifically for home care and hospice agency directors, administrators, financial managers, clinical managers and support staff-- just the professionals you want to meet. Your participation as a sponsor / exhibitor will give Oregon home care professionals the opportunity to meet your representatives face-to-face and to learn about the products and services that will help them provide the best home care services to their clients. With the ongoing changes in home care and hospice, this single event brings together industry management from all areas of Oregon. 2024 Exhibitor & Sponsorship Details EXHIBITOR REGISTRATIONSILENT AUCTION & TRIVIA NIGHT!
Prepare for an enjoyable blend of networking, bidding wars, and engaging trivia! This year, we're shaking things up. Gather your peers and embark on an exhilarating Trivia Night adventure, where you can put your knowledge to the test in teams. This is an event you don’t want to miss! RSVP required! Silent Auction We are planning another entertaining Silent Auction again and need your donations to help make this a success! All proceeds go to providing educational classes and webinars from Home Care leaders and experts to help you agency successfully navigate the transformation of providing care at home. The silent auction items will be displayed all day Thursday May 30th and will remain displayed through the evening event. Nothing is too small or too big; all ideas are welcome. It does not need to be home care related. Think of items you would enjoy bidding on and getting for a steal! Items donated in past conferences include stress reliever basket, handmade jewelry, bath accessory baskets, wine baskets, specialty food items, movie night basket with all the goodies, gardening baskets, homemade crafts, weekend trips to the beach, cookies and specialty breads basket, artwork, gift certificates for massages, consulting services, and a horse! The list goes on. The auction is a lot of fun when everyone is trying to outbid each other! The more items there are with great variety, the more fun it is! NOMINATE A PEER FOR HOME CARE HERO OF THE YEAR AWARD!OAHC is now accepting nominations for its annual Hope Runnels and Home Care Employee of the Year Awards. Nominate those who demonstrate outstanding service in home care. Recognize and honor your peers for all the wonderful work they do on behalf of home care. Awards will be presented during the awards luncheon on June 2nd at the Annual Conference in Redmond, Oregon. Nominations are due May 10, 2024. Nomination Submissions: Online | Nomination form CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Keynote The Relentless Pursuit We spend our whole lives thinking that if we can just arrive at the destination, we’ll be happier. When we get that promotion, the new house, the next best thing. However, we’re far more likely to be happy while working to achieve something great than after we've accomplished it. It’s the relentless pursuit. The path to happiness and satisfaction in life comes from pursuing a significant long-term goal or objective: It’s the thrill of the chase, the working to be better and do better every day that gives us a purpose. Yet, many times we get lost in the mundane instead of enjoying the climb. Let’s find joy in the journey again by remembering why we started this relentless pursuit.
Government enforcement in the homecare world is at or near record levels. Providers are faced with scrutiny from auditors, whistleblowers, and others. Government agencies including CMS, DOL, EEOC, DOJ, MFCU and others are scrutinizing the industry. Hospice, which had previously been viewed as one of the good guys, may now be subject to more scrutiny than home health. Providers can best prepare for this scrutiny by proactively building a culture of compliance. This is best done through the development and implementation of a compliance program. This session will briefly review the legal authorities behind compliance. We will then discuss the seven elements of a compliance program, including key concepts within each element. We will then review some of the most common compliance issue in homecare as well as current areas of DOJ, OIG and MFCU concern as well as common mistakes providers make that lead to enforcement actions.
Home health and hospice providers are under more scrutiny than ever. The increasing frequency of audits, which can lead to recoupment demands and payment suspensions, makes it harder and harder for providers to keep their money. This session will review the most common audit issues for home health and hospice. We will then review the related regulatory requirements to better understand homebound status, terminal illness, face-to-face and medical necessity. We will spend time on the specific technical requirements related to home health and hospice face-to-face as well as the hospice certification of terminal illness. We will consider several recent developments from Review Choice Demonstration and their impact upon these requirements. We will then review a number of strategies to prevent denials based upon these technical issues. This will include strategies to supplement the physician’s record for face to face, ensure all required statements are present in the CTI, ensure CTI contains the technical elements, address issues related to timing of signatures, content of the plan of care and other common errors.
Focusing on our patient’s physical and behavioral health and treating the whole person with a team model will lead to improved overall health outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in mental illness across the United States. Which brought to light the importance of mental health services. Patients receiving home care experienced unprecedented levels of anxiety and depression due to the increased isolation and fear caused by COVID. In addition to COVID, CMS in 2023 implemented the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act (the IMPACT Act). This law requires Post Acute Care Providers to assess Cognition, Depression and Delirium in all clients. In this session, we'll discuss why your organization should provide behavioral health services, and how adding this service can assist patients/clients with managing mental health conditions, which may negatively affect their medical comorbidities. We will discuss why addressing a clients Behavioral Health need can increase Value Based Purchasing (VBP) outcomes.
It is essential that homebased healthcare providers are aware of these changes so that they can continue to provide high quality of care, remain compliant with the myriad of participation requirements, and obtain fair reimbursement for the services rendered. This session provides a real-time update on what Congress and federal agencies are doing affecting home care, home health, and hospice. In this session, moderated by Summer Napier, you will hear from Calvin Davis, Director of Government Affairs of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, and Damon Terzaghi, Director of Medicaid Advocacy, share a complete update on the industry, including impacts, trends, and legislative considerations to set your agency up for success. State Home Health & Hospice Survey Updates Our state surveyors will be joining us to provide an update on the new state surveyor guidance and rules for home health and hospice. Breakout: Identifying, Differentiating and Managing Depression, Anxiety and Grief in Palliative and Hospice Care Most individuals experience grief, anxiety and or depression when faced with a serious or terminal illness. It is often difficult to differentiate between grief and depression due to the commonality of symptoms. There is often a misperception that depression is a universal and normal phenomenon in the seriously ill population. (Periyakoil et al. 2012) Depression, anxiety and grief can all cause significant distress at the end of life. Effectively assessing these conditions can enhance an individual's quality of life and decrease pain and suffering in Hospice and Palliative Care. Nurses and other clinicians often see clients at the end of life with symptoms of these conditions but don’t necessarily assess them to promote management by the interdisciplinary team. Breakout: Innovative Models of Care in the Home - Summer Napier, M.L.S Healthcare Law, BSN, RN, Healing Hands Healthcare Description coming soon.
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