Start the Conference With Focused, High-Impact Education
Monday, June 22, 2026 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
The Westin Rancho Mirage Golf Resort & Spa
Separate registration required.
Arrive early and take advantage of targeted learning designed for home health, hospice, and home care leaders. These focused Pre-Con Learning Labs deliver practical strategies, timely insights, and tools you can bring back to your organization immediately.
Register NowPre-Con Learning Labs are designed to provide deeper learning before the full conference begins.
Owners, executives, administrators, clinical leaders, compliance professionals, managers, and emerging leaders across home health, hospice, and home care.
These sessions focus on the issues shaping care delivery today: payment reform, regulatory change, compliance expectations, workforce leadership, and operational readiness.
Choose Your Pre-Con Learning Lab
Each Learning Lab is designed for a specific audience and offers a focused, practical experience before the main conference begins.
Elite-Level Outcomes for Home Health: Winning in a Value-Driven Era
2026 is a pivotal year for home health providers. As PDGM pressures, Expanded VBP, MSPB-PAC tracking, bundled payment models, and the 2027 PAC PPS reshape the landscape, agencies must adapt to succeed. CMS's six-month moratorium on new agencies has intensified scrutiny of fraud, waste, and abuse. This session explores what regulators are targeting and provides practical strategies to improve outcomes, reduce readmissions and costs, strengthen compliance, and prepare for the future of Medicare reimbursement.
You’ll learn how to:
- What you need to know about the HH Moratorium
- How to avoid HH fraud, waste, and abusive practices in 2026 & beyond
- Improve clinical outcomes for VBP success
- Reduce re-admissions and control episodic costs
- Prepare for hospital-driven care models and post-acute bundling
- Adapt operations to meet the future of Medicare reimbursement
Arnie Cisneros, P.T.
Arnie Cisneros is President of Home Health Strategic Management and is a leading speaker in value-based programming for Impact Act reforms. He works with health systems, hospitals, and home health providers to deliver high-quality care and outcomes.
Kimberly McCormick, RN/BSN
Kimberly McCormick is a highly accomplished clinical consultant in the home health industry with practical insight into utilization management and operational excellence.
Proposed Hospice Regulations: Big Changes. Real Opportunities.
California’s hospice landscape is changing rapidly. New regulations, heightened oversight, and increased enforcement activity are raising expectations around compliance, leadership, quality, and operational accountability.
For hospice providers, staying informed is no longer optional - it is essential.
You’ll learn:
- The most significant federal and state regulatory changes impacting hospice providers
- New education, competency, and compliance expectations for California hospices
- Strategies to strengthen operational readiness and reduce organizational risk
- How to turn regulatory change into a strategic advantage
Sharon Fredrichs, RN, BSN, PHN, CPHQ
Sharon Fredrichs has served the home health community for more than 40 years, with experience in administration, quality assurance, compliance, utilization, and program development.
Cindy Hatton
Cindy Hatton has more than 35 years of experience leading successful hospice and home health organizations and previously served as CAHSAH’s Board Chair.
The Modern Leader: A Leadership Intensive for Home Care Executives
Strong leadership has never been more important. In today’s fast-changing healthcare environment, organizations need leaders who can communicate effectively, inspire teams, navigate challenges, and drive meaningful results.
Participants will gain insights into:
- Effective communication and leadership presence
- Decision-making and problem-solving strategies
- Team engagement and performance management
- Building resilient, high-performing workplace cultures
- Leading confidently through change and uncertainty
Jeni Kendall
Jeni Kendall is Vice President of Sales at Axxess, where she supports operational excellence and growth across Axxess’ care-at-home solutions.
Add a Pre-Con Learning Lab to Your Registration
Make the most of your time at CAHSAH’s 2026 Annual Conference & Home Care Expo. Arrive early, gain focused education, and leave with strategies you can put into action immediately.
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