Part 1 – March 15:
- Overview and changes in CoPs including the new items and changed items.
- The new CoPs require Continuous, integrated care process across all aspects of home health services, based on a patient-centered assessment, care planning, service delivery, and quality assessment and performance improvement.
- Use of patient-centered, interdisciplinary approach that recognizes the contributions of various skilled professionals and their interactions with each other to meet the patient's needs.
Part 2 – March 29:
- QAPI and the requirements for a successful QAPI program.
- Stress quality improvements by incorporating an outcome-oriented, data-driven quality assessment and performance improvement program specific to each HHA.
- Eliminate the focus on administrative process requirements that lack adequate consensus or evidence that they are predictive of either achieving clinically relevant outcomes for patients or preventing harmful outcomes for patients.
Part 3 – April 11:
- Infection prevention and control with the use of standard infection control practices and patient/caregiver education.
- Agency programs for infection control, tracking and what needs to be included in these programs for compliance.
Part 4 – April 25:
- Safeguard patient rights by describing the steps that must be taken to protect those rights.
- Needed items for compliance and a successful Emergency Preparedness Plan.
Faculty: J’non Griffin, RN MHA, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-C, is the president of Home Health Solutions, LLC, and a nationally recognized speaker with over 30 years of home health experience. J’non has experience as a field nurse, supervisor, quality assurance director, staff development and appeals coordinator, and chief operations officer. Her responsibilities have included risk management, acting as compliance officer, development of policies and forms, survey compliance, appeals of Medicare denials, writing Corrective Action Plans
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