Real Time Accurate Education on the New Home Health Cops
Product Id : HE31Instructor : Sharon Litwin
Feb 15, 2018 Feb 15,2018 1:00 PM ET | 12:00 PM CT | 10:00 AM PT | 150 Minutes
Description
The home health care industry has not seen a change in Medicare’s Conditions of Participation (CoPs) in three decades. However, in January, CMS finalized new standards for improving the quality of health care services for home health patients and strengthening their rights. These changes in the home health CoPs, which must be implemented by January 13, 2018, have major implications for home health agencies. In order to be prepared in this short time frame, agencies must train their staff and revise their processes to be compliant. Surveyors will start using the new CoPs January 13th, so don’t put your agency at risk. Start now to prepare, educate your staff and implement the necessary changes.
Join industry veteran Sharon Litwin for our special 2018 Home Care Virtual Boot Camp, where she will discuss how significant the new CoPs are and how they will impact your agency’s day-to-day operations. This webinar will provide you with the information to get started quickly in order to implement these changes by the upcoming deadline of January 13, 2018.
Session Highlights
- Overview of what’s included in the CoPs changes effective January 13, 2018
- Responses to the Final Rule clarifying the CoPs
- Detailed look at all conditions
- How the CoPs changes make major changes to the rights of your patients
- The importance of integrating services among disciplines and the physician
- The impact on the plan of care and updates to orders
- How a good QAPI program can lessen your day-to-day challenges
- Which data to analyze to develop or enhance your QAPI
- Know your responsibilities: Guidelines for emergency preparedness
Session 1: New Conditions of Participation - New Conditions, OASIS Reporting & Release of Information, Patient Rights, Organization and Administrative Services and Personnel Qualifications
Length: 60 minutes
- Overview of key changes
- First changes in three decades
- New conditions: QAPI and infection control
- Expanded patient rights
- Aide services – big changes
- Evolving plan of care
- Principles of new CoPs
- Patient centered care
- Integrated care team
- Focus on improving patient outcomes
- Expanding patients’ rights
- Patients’ rights
- Patient and selected representative included in all aspects of care
- Transfer and discharge policies given to patient
- Written information given to patients – details in condition reviewed
- All detailed changes in patients’ rights CoP
- Organization and administrative services
- ubunits eliminated
- Administrator – new qualifications
- New clinical manager designation – can have more than one, and can be therapists
- OASIS reporting and release of information
- Revisions to CoPs
- Personnel qualifications
- Administrator – new qualifications
- New clinical manager
Session 2: New Conditions of Participation – Comprehensive Assessment, Care Planning / Coordination of Services, Quality of Care, Skilled Services and Aide Services
Length: 60 minutes
- Care planning and coordination of services
- Integration of team for a patient centered approach
- Care management
- Plan of care changes
- Comprehensive assessment
- Comprehensive assessment changes
- Skilled services
- Combined into one condition from the three currently in place: skilled nursing, therapy services and social services
- Aide services
- Part of the integrated team
- Can be a CNA
- Can be supervised and have duties assigned by therapists
Session 3: New Conditions of Participation – Infection Prevention & Control and QAPI
Length: 60 minutes
- Infection control
- Control
- Prevention
- Education
- QAPI
- Review of the new CoP and how agencies can prepare
Session 4: New Conditions of Participation – Emergency Preparedness, Compliance with Federal, State and Local Laws and Regulations related to Health and Safety of Patients, and Clinical Records
Length: 60 minutes
- Emergency preparedness
- Review all of the CoP items and what agencies must do to comply
- Step by step process for agencies to comply
- Compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations related to health and safety of patients
- Review of the CoP revisions
- Lab / CLIA revisions
- Clinical records
- Review prescriptive changes
- Patient to have chart at request in specific timeframe
- Timed documents in clinical records
- Other revisions
- CEOs
- Directors
- Administrators
- Quality Managers
- Clinical Managers
- QAPI Coordinators
- Physicians
- Clinicians
- Nurses
- Field staff
- Office staff
Speaker Profile:
Sharon M. Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D, Founder and Senior Managing Partner, 5 Star Consultants, LLC (2003 - Present).
Sharon Litwin, founder and senior managing partner of 5 Star Consultants, a national consulting and coding firm specializing in homecare and hospice services since 2003. Sharon is a former ACHC and CHAP surveyor, performing Medicare deemed surveys for ten years. Sharon has been in the homecare and hospice industry for over 30 years.
In her consulting firm, Sharon and her team of RN’s assist homecare and hospice agencies in providing quality, meeting regulations, ICD-10 coding, OASIS, increasing outcomes and Star Ratings, and having continued survey readiness. Sharon and her staff perform ICD-10 coding and OASIS reviews, QAPI, clinical record reviews, mock surveys and help agencies across the country stay in compliance. Sharon is a regular speaker to education companies, state and national associations and publications.
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