Home Care Certificate Information

Offered by CAHSAH, The Corridor Group and National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC)

Program Information

Home Care Manager Certificate Program - Entry Level Manager Certificate Program: Addresses fundamentals of leadership, regulations, compliance, reimbursement, budgeting, and human resources practices for entry level home care managers with less than three years of management experience.
Sponsored by: Care West Insurance Risk Management
March 30-April 1, 2010 - Anaheim, CA

Home Care Administrator Certificate Program - Intermediate Level Administrator Certificate Program: Addresses core competencies including strategic positioning, financial management, and legal compliance issues required of entry level home care administrators and senior managers. Participants must have at least one year experience as a home care administrator or senior level home care manager to be accepted into this program.
Sponsored by: Care West Insurance Risk Management, NewTech Care/Spark Technologies & Healthcare Synergy, Inc.
-July 21-23, 2010 - Las Vegas, NV (More Information & Registration)
PRE-READING MATERIALS
PROGRAM AGENDA

Home Care Executive Certificate Program - Advanced Level Executive Certificate Program: Utilizes a case study approach to address advanced competencies for strategic positioning, financial management, and legal compliance issues required of experienced home care administrators and senior managers. Participants must have at least three years experience as a home care administrator or senior level home care manager to be accepted into this program.
Sponsored by: Care West Insurance Risk Management
Supported by: Home Care Association of New York State
-November 3-5, 2010 - New York, NY (More Information & Registration)
PRE-READING MATERIALS & PROGRAM AGENDA

Program Goals

The goal of each Certificate Program is to provide a supportive learning environment for new managers, senior managers and administrators with a specific focus on various experience levels. By attending the appropriate Certificate Program for your experience, you will be able to advance your skills and knowledge base. Specifically, the Certificate Program will strengthen your competencies to position your organization for success and help you integrate the complexities of quality, compliance, financial, and strategic performance.

Program Content

Each Certificate Program is a three module, three day curriculum, with interactive discussions, didactic presentations, and, for the administrator level courses, reality-based case studies. Additional content information for each program can be found under the designated program link. Each participant receives a comprehensive manual that is a must-have resource for years to come.

Module I focuses on leading a strategically positioned organization.
Module II focuses on financial management principals and information.
Module III focuses on integrating quality and compliance management.

Continuing Education Units
Each attendee receives up to 21 Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) and a Certificate of Attendance at the completion of the program. Partial attendance certificates or partial CEU’s are not available.

Acronym of Program	HCMCP	HCACP	HCECP
Name of Program:	Home Care Manager Certificate Program	Home Care Administrator Certificate Program	Home Care Executive Certificate Program
Sponsors:	Care West Insurance Risk Management	Care West Insurance Risk Management, Spark Technologies & Healthcare Synergy, Inc.	Care West Insurance Risk Management
Program Description:	Provides core concepts and principles critical to home care management	Provides strategic and operational strategies to assist home care administrators position for success	Uses case study approach to integrate advanced strategic, financial and legal issues with implementation strategies
Who should attend:	Line staff moving into management, first line supervisors, business owners	Managers, Senior Level Administrators including CEO’s, COO’s, and CFO’s	Senior Level Administrators including CEOs, COOs, and CFOs
Required Prerequisites:	None	One year experience as a home care administrator or senior level home care manager	Three years experience as a home care administrator or senior level home care manager
Content
Leadership	Understand yourself as a leader and identify four leadership styles. Employ case studies to use concepts	Integrate trends in health care to core administrative responsibilities	Integrate advanced concepts in developing, maintaining and evaluating a strong leadership and management team
Strategic Management	Understanding basic trends and information to effectively manage your team	Integrate multiple challenges of health care management with strategic market positioning and implementation strategies	Learn advanced concepts to transform your organization from good to great
Financial Management	Understand basics of budgets, income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow. Medicare breakout covers PPS. Private duty breakout covers business cycle, accounting and marketing.	Implement key financial management strategies to interpret financial documents and to understand the impact of Medicare, managed care, and other payer sources	Build on critical financial indicators for growth, understanding key financial benefits and risks of positioning strategic and financing options for development
Regulatory Compliance	Understand basic regulations, why regulations exist, and who enforces regulations. Medicare breakout covers licensing, certification and other regulations. Private duty breakout covers applicable state and local regulations.	Understand key legal terms and penalties and risks of non-compliance	Understand relevant legal issues and corporate transactions; examine what to do if you have a legal or compliance problem
Marketing	Understand the latest critical emerging market trends, fundamentals of vision-driven marketing and key tips/tricks for effective sales/marketing. Private Duty breakout covers: understanding the home care business cycle, marketing: what’s it all about and critical elements to your agencies’ financial success	Not specifically covered	Advanced strategies to make your competition irrelevant
Human Resources and Labor Laws	Understanding pay practices, wage orders, ADA, family leave, interviewing and disciplinary action	Not specifically covered	Not specifically covered
Clinical Management and Quality Improvement	Covered in Medicare breakouts	Analyze case mix and ways to improve clinical and financial performance; integrating data management and analysis methods to improve performance in administrative, clinical and financial operations	Integrating clinical management with financial indicators to improve operational performance

How to register:

ON-LINE with your credit card!

Download registration form and FAX your registration to: 916-641-5881

MAIL your registration to:
CAHSAH
3780 Rosin Court, Suite 190
Sacramento, CA 95834

PHONE in your registration with credit card payment to: 916-641-5795 ext. 113

Questions?

For more information on these programs contact Richard Starks, Education Specialist with CAHSAH at (916) 641-5795 ext 117 or rstarks@cahsah.org.