Home Health Survey Readiness: The Journey of Quality and Compliance & CDPH Update (Elk Grove, CA)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Current CMS and CDPH regulations guide quality care and compliance. Are you ready for your next survey? Spend the day immersed in preparedness and regulations, engaging in interactive action planning, sharing QA tools to identify and demonstrate improvement in common survey deficiencies. We will explore how Care Coordination spans from referral to claims submission, and how OASIS impacts your Comprehensive Assessment, individualized goal setting, and discharge function scores.

Come prepared! Review your last survey and correction plan, your top three QAPI PIPs, your STAR rating, and your PEPPER report. You will ideas to revise your data collection/audit tools, exchange ideas with peers, and depart with a prioritized, agency-specific action plan.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDPH Update

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Break

11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Regulations and Updates 

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Lunch

12:45 PM – 2:15 PM Regulations and Updates Continues

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Break

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Survey Readiness 

Outcomes:

• Leverage historical survey and CMS findings to demonstrate current quality care and complicance

• Recognize the necessity of continous improvement processes, emphazing that timelines is critical

  Develop actionable strategies to overcome the top three most common survey findings: care coordination, comprehensive assessments, and individualized care plans. 

• Understand the critical need for a comprehensive compliance plan.

FACULTY

Sharon Fredrichs, RN, BSN, PHN, CPHQ
Co-Owner 
S&S Home Care Consulting

Sharon Fredrichs has been serving the home health community over 40 years, combining a background of administrative, quality improvement,compliance, utilization and program development. Interpreting regulations, followed by implementation, operational efficiency and clinical outcomes establishes the dynamics for survey readiness and resilience. Presentations are interactive, sprinkled with a bit of humor.  Educational sessions provide take home tools and policies to prioritize supporting professional and team regulatory and survey knowledge.     

David Thomas, PT, COS-C, CHCM

With 26 years of experience, David Thomas, is a distinguished Physical Therapist specializing in home health. His career is marked by a deep understanding of patient care across multiple settings, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. In his current roles, David functions as a home health clinician, mentoring therapists and nurses; an evaluating therapist for two skilled nursing facilities; and a consultant focused on OASIS accuracy and compliance and efficient clinical operations, specializing in on-site one on one and small group education. In this role he uses his extensive field experience and manager’s certification to provide balanced education and guidance. He has been instrumental in guiding new agencies to launch successfully as well as improving the efficiency (and compliance!) of current organizations.

CANCELLATIONS

Cancellations are subject to 30% handling fee. There will be NO REFUNDS issued for cancellations received within 10 business days prior to program. Cancelations must be in writing. Refunds will not be made for no-shows. However, substitutions will be allowed. Should CAHSAH® cancel the program, a full registration fee refund will be issued.

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #CEP17394) for seven (7) contact hours of continuing education. Continuing Education report will be issued to attendees once attendance has been confirmed.