Call for Presentations!

HCA Education and Research, the education arm of the Home Care Association of New York State, is looking for professionals to present home health industry education programs at our signature events, including our Annual Membership conference in 2012. We also invite ideas for educational webinars and articles for our education-focused newsletter, The Educator. To learn more about the benefits of presenting, and to see a list of topic recommendations, please see the link below.

»Download HCA's Call for Presentations Form

HCA's State Advocacy Day

February 6 and 7 — Albany

HCA's State Advocacy Day on February 7 is a vital, must-attend oopportunity for all HCA home care providers to come to Albany and advocate on behalf of New York's home care community.

Please be sure to bring as many of your agency's staff and health care community partners as possible to this signature event so that the home care community's voice is heard loud and clear by state elected leaders.

In addition to our Advocacy Day program, HCA is also holding a special pre-Advocacy Day PAC reception and dinner the evening before, on February 6. Please join us for this important event in support of HCA's Political Action Committee, to further help HCA in our advocacy agenda for 2012 and beyond.

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The Aide's Role in HIPAA

Teleconference — February 9, 2012 (3 to 4 p.m.)

This presentation will focus on assisting your in-home aides in understanding HIPAA and confidentiality guidelines.

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Educational Teleconferences for Hospice Aides

HCA is pleased to offer five teleconference that will benefit the hospice aide. The programs will all take place from 3 to 4 p.m. on each date below:

February 14, 2012: The Meaning of Caring for the Hospice Aide. In this presentation, we will explore the meaning of caring as it relates to end of life and the importance of demonstrating that caring attitude toward the dying patient.

March 13, 2012: Caring for the Stroke Patient in Hospice. This presentation will focus on some of the challenges we face as hospice aides when dealing with the stroke patient. Case scenarios will also be discussed.

The cost of each teleconference is only $139 per phone line connection for HCA members.

Financial Management 2012: A Webinar Series

Mastering financial management in home health is, as they say, all in the numbers. This series of webinars geared for every level of management staff — from the experienced professional to the novice manager — provides skills, resources, reviews, new tools, and savvy advice about all aspects of financial management in Medicare home health today. Remaining sessions include: 

• February 7: The Tale of Two Cities
• March 7: Effective Billing Oversight Practices in Home Care

Each webinar will be held from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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The Home Care Survey — Three Part Webinar Series

February 14, February 28 and March 13

The Home Care Survey focuses on the critical aspects of the survey process including the revised survey protocols, surveyor preparations and steps agencies should take for continual readiness and survey success.

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ICD-10 Prep for Home Health Agencies: What You Need to Know Now, What You Need to Do Later

Webinar — February 23, 2012 (3 to 4:30 p.m.)

This session will provide home health agencies with an overview of the timelines and tasks related to the 2013 transition to ICD-10. Specific discussion related to comparing and contrasting ICD-9 and ICD-10, as well as an introduction to General Equivalence Mapping (GEMS), will be included.

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S.U.R.C.H.ing for Success in 2012 with Arnie Cisneros

March 21 — Nanuet, NY

Arnie Cisneros, PT, President of Home Health Strategic Management will be presenting a one-day workshop on S.U.R.C.H.ing for Success in 2012 on March 21. Arnie will offer his unique Service Utilization Review for Care in the Home program (S.U.R.C.H.) which will offer quality-assurance-controlled, utilization review-based programming for all care episodes.

The S.U.R.C.H program is performable without point-of-care software and you can use it immediately. Through this revolutionary home health programming method, care is focused and controlled, clinical outcomes are improved, finances are stabilized and audit worries will disappear. This progressive protocol replicates the same quality-assurance-controlled care that will be required for Accountable Care Organizations and Bundling models of the future.

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Home Telehealth Certification

Mount Kisco — March 22 

The Home Telehealth Certification workshop offers a comprehensive understanding of what telehealth is and how it is successfully applied in the health care environment. The program will focus on patient selection, clinical and quality improvement, documentation requirements, information management, reimbursement structures and much more. Included will be hands-on demonstrations of various models of telehealth technologies by select vendors.  The workshop and completion of online activities will result in a certificate.

»Download the full brochure and registration form

All programs offered by HCA Education and Research,

an affiliate of the Home Care Association of New York State (HCA)