Participants will learn about the latest methods and research for what’s working and what might not be such a good idea. Also addressed will be which of the “old” approaches are still a good idea, and why. This is an outstanding event that all managers and hiring personnel in long-term care, senior living and home care should check out. One registration will enable attendees to take part in as many presentations as they wish. 

Content in development.

Attendees will learn:

• The impact of an aging A/R on your facility
• Defining strategic KPIs for A/R
• Strategies in reducing your Cost to Collect

Speaker: Lori Zindl, Vice President of Business Development at Inovalon

This event will feature CE-approved webinars. Each has been designed to help you survive and thrive. Best of all, registration is free. All you have to do is sign up. Doing so will allow you to hear from some of the industry’s top minds.
 

Content currently in development.

This session will review the key issues our profession needs to be focused on to prepare for the future. This includes the challenges of workforce, federal minimum staffing rules, Medicaid reimbursement and census trends.  We will outline what providers should be doing now to face these challenges and be successful in the future.

Learning objectives:

• Examine the current headwinds facing the industry
• Understand the opportunities with potential tailwinds
• Evaluate potential future scenarios in the next 3, 5, 10 years
• Examine key implications for operators and investors
• Discuss what lessons learned from the SNF sector could be valuable to the senior housing sector

Speakers:
Laurie Thomas, Chief Operating Officer, Consonus Healthcare

Phill Fogg, President & CEO, Consonus Healthcare & Marquis Companies

• Why speed is so important in healthcare recruiting
• Actionable steps you can take to speed up your hiring processes
• How automation and AI can play a role in shaving days off your time-to-hire

Speaker: Brett Kirhofer , Market Strategy Lead at Hireology

Session 1:10:00 am ET

Pharmacogenomics: Medication Risk Management for Long-Term Care

More than four billion drugs are prescribed annually. Many of these drugs do not work as intended, and over two million prescriptions in the U.S. result in an adverse reaction. While clinical trials on prescription drugs can determine data such as recommended dosages for the population involved, this approach assumes that most individuals share genomes that enable them to process drugs at a similar rate and in a similar manner. However, genetic variation can significantly impact individual responses to medications.

Pharmacogenomics is the study of drug-genome interactions and their clinical implications. This form of precision medicine looks for genetic markers that indicate how a resident might respond to a drug, which can help facilities identify, monitor, and manage potential issues associated with resident medications. This event will explain the practice of pharmacogenomics, its benefits to facilities and residents, and PharMerica’s partnership with Singulab to offer risk assessments and testing to help clients reduce adverse events, lower costs, and improve outcomes.

Speaker: Stephen Creasy, Director of Clinical Services, PharMerica

Session 2: 10:30am ET

Get Your Shifts Together: Modern Scheduling Software For Today's Workforce Challenges

See how the best communities are using Kevala's staff scheduling and credential management technology to schedule smarter. Kevala is leading the way for the next generation of better scheduling with easy-build scheduling features, integrated VMS technology and agency marketplace, and an employee experience your employees will actually use.

Speaker: Noah Kusz, Cofounder & CRO, Kevala 

Session 3: 11:00am ET

Employee Retention Credit for Long Term Care Operators

Long-term care, home care, and senior living businesses can participate in the Employee Retention Credit, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per location. 

This program has not expired; you can still claim it even if you took PPP. Unfortunately, many are still missing out.

Organizations impacted by government orders or those that have seen decreased revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic may be eligible for the Employee Retention Credit of up to $26,000 per employee. 

This must-attend presentation will help long-term care, home care, and senior living businesses learn if they qualify for the credit and explain how to navigate it.

Plus, learn the latest news from the IRS and what it means for your business.

Attendees will learn:

• Qualification criteria and requirements for long-term care, home care, and senior living businesses to claim ERC 
• What's the credit worth and how to properly claim it
• How to ensure you're protected when filing

Speaker: Sadler Graham, President, One Eagle Advisory

Session 4: 11:30am ET

The healthy buildings company

We're short-staffed and struggle to retain nurses and custodial staff. Utility costs have gone up. These are common concerns we hear from the many senior living facilities we've worked with.

With a growing focus on healthy indoor air competing with rising costs, we'll share how R-Zero's senior living partners use affordable, automatic, and continuous indoor health and disinfection solutions to provide healthy spaces, reduce the risk of infection for residents and staff, and reduce staff workload.

Speaker: Kristen Alexander, Chief Marketing Officer, R-Zero

As staffing constraints and mounting regulations continue to challenge nursing homes nationwide, it is imperative for care providers to develop innovative strategies in adopting value-based care initiatives that will improve facility performance, occupancy and revenues.

During a recent webinar, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Executive Editor James M. Berklan sat down with Scott Rifkin, MD, founder and executive chairman of Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), to discuss the various types of value-based care payment models available and proven strategies that enable facilities to demonstrate value as high-performing providers for their hospital and health plan partners.

The value-based care payment model

Previously, the payment system model incentivized providers by “increasing length of stay, having people go to the hospital and come back as Medicare patients, and it hasn’t been good for the healthcare industry,” Rifkin explained. In contrast, value-based care “incentivizes good patient outcomes, quality of care, and keeping people healthy and out of the hospital.”

In addition to improving patient care and outcomes, the adoption of a value-based care mindset has many
benefits for skilled nursing operators.

“It opens up a whole new revenue stream if we can share in the savings created by reducing hospitalizations and keeping people healthier,” Rifkin said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity if we can change the way we think about providing care and nursing.”

While value-based care payment models pertain to both short-stay and long-term care patients, there are tremendous opportunities to work with insurers among the short-stay patient population, Rifkin said. While as the owner and operator of Mid-Atlantic Health Care LLC (MAHC), Rifkin partnered with a large insurer in Philadelphia to reduce the typical hospital stay of 23 days. The company handled its own case management, discharge planning and social work efforts and received the full Medicare rate for only 15 days. The result: “The actual length of stay was 10.8 days, the return to hospital rate was lower from the nursing home, and we dropped our readmission rates for short-stay patients from 20% to 22% down to 8% to 10%,” he noted.

“It opens up a whole new revenue stream if we can share in the savings created by reducing hospitalizations and keeping people healthier,” Rifkin said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity if we can change the way we think about providing care and nursing.”

Learning Objectives: 

• Discover which metrics matter most to achieve: Accepted claims, Improve first pass acceptance by understanding the source of denials
• Advanced visualization, Reduce the need for corrections and manual intervention
• Faster payments, Speed up reimbursements and strengthen cash flow

Speakers: 

• Lori ZIndl, VP Business Development at Inovalon
• Rachel Dallmann, Director of Revenue Cycle at Phelps Memorial Health Center

During this webinar, you'll learn how to:

• Bring it all together with the first all-payer claims management dashboard
• Reduce denials with a 99% or better clean claims rate
• Save time with eligibility verification during claims upload

Session 1: 10:30 AM ET – Sponsored by ComForCare
Strategies for implementing person-centered Parkinson's care

During this session, we will address the pressing issue of Parkinson's disease (PD), a condition affecting nearly one million people in the U.S., and projected to rise to 1.2 million by 2030. PD is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease, following Alzheimer's disease, and sees nearly 90,000 new diagnoses in the U.S. each year (source: Parkinson's Foundation). For Aging Services professionals, having effective strategies for delivering person-centered care to individuals living with PD is crucial.

Our speaker, Melissa Morante, Co-Owner and Chief Marketing Officer of ComForCare Home Care, a private duty and home care agency serving south Florida, will provide insight into Parkinson's disease (PD). She will delve into the latest approaches, best practices, and innovative techniques that empower Aging Services professionals to help prioritize the unique needs, preferences and quality of life of those living with PD.

Objectives:

• Define Parkinson's disease (PD) and explain its progression.
• Identify strategies for caring for individuals living with PD.
• Identify three strategies and additional resources for promoting person-centered care.
• Describe three key aspects of the person-centered care philosophy as applied to older adults with PD receiving Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS).

Speaker:  

• Melissa Morante, Co-Owner and Chief Marketing Officer at ComForCare Senior Services 

Session 2: 12:00 PM ET – Sponsored by: SmartLinx
Be ready for 2024 with these workforce management trends and strategies

As we look to 2024, senior care providers are experiencing a perfect storm of workforce challenges including staffing shortages, a new proposed staffing mandate, and the mission critical goal of providing optimal quality of care while streamlining operations. While these challenges aren’t new, and are sure to evolve, there is an opportunity to get ahead of them with the right strategies in place.

In this webinar, we will address long-term care workforce trends and share industry insights and proactive strategies to be ready for workforce challenges in the coming year.

• Learn what workforce management trends and challenges we expect to see in 2024 and the implications of these trends.
•  Discover workforce management best practices for the long-term care industry and how to implement them to achieve better business and patient outcomes in 2024.
• Gain direct insights into how technology automation can simplify intricate processes, improve efficiency, enhance patient care, and provide better visibility into staffing fluctuations.

Speaker:  

• Marshall Dobbs, Director of Product Development at Smartlinx

Session 3: 1:30 PM ET – Sponsored by: One Eagle
Employee Retention Credit in LTC: A complete guide with IRS updates

Long-term care, home care and senior living operators can participate in the Employee Retention Credit, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per location. 

This program has not expired. You can still claim it even if you took Paycheck Protection Program. Unfortunately, many are still missing out

Organizations impacted by government orders or those that have seen decreased revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic may be eligible for the ERC of up to $26,000 per employee. 

This must-attend webinar will help long-term care, home care and senior living operators learn whether they qualify for the credit, and explain how to navigate it.

Plus, learn the latest news from the IRS and what it means for your business.

Attendees will learn:

• The most up-to-date information from the IRS regarding the Employee Retention Credit and what it means.
• Qualification criteria and requirements for long-term care, home car and senior living businesses to claim ERC 
• How a multimillion dollar home health organization was able to successfully navigate the ERC program. 
• How to ensure you're protected when filing

Speakers:  

• Sadler Graham, President of One Eagle Advisory
• Matt Eddleman, EA, Managing Director, Strategic Tax Planning 
• Teri Ellerbe, Owner and Administrator at Assisteo Home Health
• Arnie Braasch, Owner at Assisteo Home Health