Event Type : Education Events

Overview: 

This session will provide an overview of the CMS regulations governing the provision of nursing services in hospitals and critical access hospitals throughout the hospital organization. Will discuss the interpretative guidelines and the most cited nursing deficiencies.

This program is intended for all hospitals and health systems including general acute hospitals, critical access hospitals, and anyone involved with compliance regulations and standards.

Objectives:

• Describe minimum nurse staffing requirements
• Explain basic nursing care plans
• Describe essential parts of medication order
• Explain appropriate medication administration timing

CE’s: NHA

Presenter: Nancy Ruzicka, BS, RPh, MBA, MJ, CHC, Ruzicka Consulting

Nancy Ruzicka has experience teaching and assisting hospitals and other healthcare facilities in understanding applicable Federal and State laws, rules, regulations and interpretative guidelines. Her experience also encompasses teaching all levels of healthcare staff in understanding compliance and HIPAA requirements. Nancy has been a frequent speaker for the Iowa Hospital Association on EMTALA and Conditions of Participation for hospitals and critical access hospitals.

Nancy’s previous experiences include Director of Integrity & Compliance and Privacy Official at Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines; Director of Regulatory Compliance at UnityPoint Health and over twenty years of experience with Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals. Nancy received her MJ in Health Law, MBA and BS in Pharmacy from Drake University, Des Moines. She is certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) and maintains her Iowa pharmacy license.

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $49 for Non-Members.

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In this Leadership Scan episode, we’ll explore innovative strategies some hospitals are employing to address their near-term and long-term clinical staffing needs more economically.

Attendees Will Learn: 

• About the growth of the contingent nurse workforce.
• How to create the right balance.
• How to overcome hybrid workforce challenges.
• How to manage a hybrid workforce.

The benefits of building a clinical workforce strategy to:

• Address temporary shortages
• Assist in key specialty areas
• Expansion of internal workforce (converting contingent to permanent)
• Address rural workforce needs

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Overview:

As the PHE ends, home health and hospice agencies are just coming up for a breath- and realizing that we have not had time to focus on some of the basic issues of Medicare reimbursement, utilization, regulatory updates and audits! These webinars will get you all caught up to speed and get your agency focused again on an overview of Medicare reimbursement, issues with payment audits, and the hot topics in quality measures, and more importantly- what it means to your operations!

CE’s: NHA

Presenter: Annette Lee, Provider Insights, Inc.

Annette Lee is a registered nurse practicing since 1990, with the majority of her nursing experience in public health care, and has a Master’s in Health Care Administration. In 2000 she joined the home health intermediary Cahaba GBA where she became a Medical Review instructor, providing education to home health and hospice providers on Medicare reimbursement issues and effective documentation strategies. After nearly a decade working for the intermediary, she began Provider Insights, Inc. In the private sector, she was able to provide insights into Medicare regulations and how to make them work for agencies on a day-to-day basis to both increase quality and reduce risk. Most recently, CGS contracted Provider Insights, Inc to perform all of the MAC’s clinical education for home health and hospice providers. Her broad experiences make her uniquely able to provide practical solutions to meet the requirements of the fiscal intermediary system and medical review within the “real world” environment of hospice and home health. She presents nationally on Hospice, LCDs, Home Health coverage, OASIS, PPS, medical review/appeals, documentation and coverage.

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $49 for Non-Members.

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Overview:

Dr. Massey will present on buprenorphine and its efficacy for patients with serious illness and in end of life care situations.

CE’s: NHA & SW

Presenter: Dr. John Massey

Dr. John Massey is a Board-Certified pain management and anesthesia physician located in Lincoln, NE. His medical career has focused on helping patients return to their normal lives by relieving pain. Dr. Massey travels across the state of Nebraska treating patients with a broad range of needs related to the intersections of pain, traumatic experiences, and opioid use disorder. Dr. Massey is also involved in grant-funded initiatives at the Nebraska Medical Association that focus on providing education for medical providers on a broad array of issues related to pain, the treatment of opioid use disorder, and safely prescribing medications for pain and anxiety

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $49 for Non-Members.

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Overview:

As the PHE ends, home health and hospice agencies are just coming up for a breath- and realizing that we have not had time to focus on some of the basic issues of Medicare reimbursement, utilization, regulatory updates and audits! These webinars will get you all caught up to speed and get your agency focused again on an overview of Medicare reimbursement, issues with payment audits, and the hot topics in quality measures, and more importantly- what it means to your operations! This session will include an update on the Proposed rule.

CE’s: NHA

Presenter: Annette Lee, Provider Insights, Inc.

Annette Lee is a registered nurse practicing since 1990, with the majority of her nursing experience in public health care, and has a Master’s in Health Care Administration. In 2000 she joined the home health intermediary Cahaba GBA where she became a Medical Review instructor, providing education to home health and hospice providers on Medicare reimbursement issues and effective documentation strategies. After nearly a decade working for the intermediary, she began Provider Insights, Inc. In the private sector, she was able to provide insights into Medicare regulations and how to make them work for agencies on a day-to-day basis to both increase quality and reduce risk. Most recently, CGS contracted Provider Insights, Inc to perform all of the MAC’s clinical education for home health and hospice providers. Her broad experiences make her uniquely able to provide practical solutions to meet the requirements of the fiscal intermediary system and medical review within the “real world” environment of hospice and home health. She presents nationally on Hospice, LCDs, Home Health coverage, OASIS, PPS, medical review/appeals, documentation and coverage.

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $49 for Non-Members.

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Purpose: The goal of this webinar is to improve the clinical practices of the palliative care specialist by enhancing the ability to administer adjuvant analgesics for chronic pain.

Why Do I Need to Know This? The effective use of adjuvant analgesics is considered a best practice in the management of specific types of chronic pain experienced by populations with advanced illness, particularly cancer populations. This webinar will present the evidence in support of the efficacy and safety of the various drug classes that comprise the adjuvant analgesics and offer practical guidelines for the use of these drugs.

Objectives:

1. Discuss the approach to opioid pharmacotherapy in patients with pain that may be treated with adjuvant analgesics
2. Describe the selection and dosing of adjuvant analgesics for diverse types of chronic pain
3. Identify best practices in the treatment of neuropathic pain and bone pain

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0 physician, social work, nursing

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The workforce is health care’s most precious resource. Hospitals and health systems are committed to creating a culture of psychological safety and support and to improving access to behavioral health screenings, referrals, and treatment when the workforce needs it, but keeping up with best practices can be daunting.

This session will provide an overview of AHA’s new workforce mental wellbeing guide, Suicide Prevention: Evidence-Informed Interventions for the Health Care Workforce. We will take a deep dive into the three drivers of suicide — stigma, limited access to behavioral health resources and treatment, and job-related stressors — and the 12 evidence-informed interventions that leaders can implement to better support the mental wellbeing of their workforce and reduce suicide risk.

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Overview:

Advance Care Planning is a process by which healthcare providers can help their patients express what matters most to them should they become seriously ill or injured in order for them to receive goal concordant care. This presentation will discuss the what, why, when and how of the Advance Care Planning process in order for you to incorporate it into your daily work with your patients.

Objectives:

• Identify what Advance Care Planning is and what it is not
• Describe why Advance Care Planning is an important part of patient care
• Name five different events when Advance Care Planning should be done
• Define the C-A-R/R-E elements of how to do Advance Care Planning

CE’s: NHA & SW

Presenter: Michele Snyders, MSW, CSW-PIP, APHSW-C, Hospice and Palliative Care Program Manager, SDAHO

Michele is a clinical social worker with 26 years of healthcare experience. She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings, always working with patients living with severe, chronic diseases and their families. In 2007 she began working in Palliative Care. She holds a Post Masters Certification in Hospice and Palliative Care from California State University Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care and is Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work-Certified. She recently started working with SDAHO to support members providing Hospice and Palliative Care services and facilitates the LifeCircle SD group. LifeCircle is an inter-professional, inter-agency group of professionals who are committed to improving the lives of those with serious illness through education and advocacy.

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $49 for Non-Members.

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Overview:

When it comes to the prevention of pressure injuries, a 100% of the preventative interventions are performed by the caregivers. This session will review preventative interventions and the role of caregivers and front-line staff.   This session will provide caregivers with what causes and puts residents at risk for pressure injuries and skin breakdown. The session will also provide training on how to perform a skin assessment and what to report.

Objectives:

• Identify the causes and risk factors of pressure injuries and skin breakdown
• Discuss interventions that will prevent pressure injuries and skin breakdown
• Demonstrate how to do a skin inspection

CE’s: NHA & SW

Presenter: Jeri Lundgren, RN, BSN, PHN, CWS, CWCN, CPT President, Senior Provider Resources

Jeri Ann Lundgren has been working in the post-acute care market since 1990, specializing in wound care nationally since 1994.  She is board certified as a CWS (Certified Wound Specialist) by the American Board of Wound Management and a CWCN (Certified Wound Care Nurse) by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Society.  Her extensive background in wound management nationally includes survey management, litigation support, wound care consultation, program development, clinical wound expert for several state Quality Improvement Organizations and Departments of Health. Currently Ms. Lundgren is the President of Senior Providers Resource.

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $49 for Non-Members.

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During this thought-provoking session, hear how the use of AI and workflow automation are enabling front-line and leadership teams to efficiently:

• Predict discharges and admissions by specified unit on an hourly basis into the future.
• Get the right patients in the right bed (the first time).
• Uncover admission and discharge bottlenecks by service and level of care.
• Highlight high-impact transfers.

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Overview:

Home Health Providers seeking success must rewire traditional homecare operations to address the Volume to Value (V2V) transition under Impact Act reforms. By focusing on all elements of the V2V conversion, we can address both the operational and culture changes necessary for success in the Value era. Reviewing the care programming models of Part A Providers outside of Home Health can guide us in the development of a value-based, patient-centered model that addresses all elements of the reforms. Rewiring the HH Operational model allows for us to addresses the traditional homecare method of retro-active care management as we switch to real-time care control. A demo of the operational rewire allows us to identify each value point in the HH model, assuring timeliness and efficiency are monitored in an ongoing manner for outcomes. A summary of the value-based Operational model employs case study demoes to illustrate its’ focus on reform requirements for success in the Value era.

Objectives:

• Address areas of the PPS model that must be addressed for HH reform success
• Identify how traditional HH operations fail under Value-based HH reforms
• Propose w rewired HH Operational model for the Value era
• Demo care production, delivery, and management processes for Value-based HH reforms.

CE’s: NHA 

Presenter: Arnie Cisneros, President, Home Health Strategic Management

Arnie Cisneros is the President of Home Health Strategic Management; he has 30+ years of experience as a Physical Therapist across the care continuum, and he serves as a Post-Acute Consultant for multiple Health Systems and HH Providers. He is renowned for his adaptation of traditional Healthcare operations to address ongoing CMS reforms.

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $75 for Non-Members.

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This Sepsis Alliance Symposium, focused on precision medicine in sepsis care and examining host-directed diagnosis and treatment for infectious diseases and sepsis, will allow learners to better understand the host response and how precision medicine might be applied. Presenters will also review host-based diagnostics across the continuum and explore the role of data and machine learning in host-based diagnostics and therapeutics.

Learning Objectives: 

At the end of the activity, the learner should be able to:

• Identify the immune activation to immune suppression;
• Review current host-directed diagnostics and phenotyping being researched, translated, and used in infection and sepsis care;
• List possible approaches to host-directed therapeutics in infection and sepsis care;
• Describe the role of data and machine learning in precision medicine.

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Influencing new nurses with a strong emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is crucial at the onset of their training. By recognizing the importance of DEI, health care organizations are taking proactive steps to ensure that new nurses receive the necessary education and exposure to these principles and why this is critical to improve patient safety.

Register for this free webinar to hear an interactive panel of health care professionals review priorities and expectations set forth by CMS to implement DEI practices in every aspect of the health care team. The panel will also highlight opportunities to address DEI in nurse onboarding and ongoing professional development, including best practices from one health system actively incorporating DEI today.

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The development and advancement of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has transformed HIV/AIDs into a chronic disease, which results in an overall increase in prevalence of HIV/AIDS cases and rise in the number of people living with symptomatic HIV disease. Chronic illnesses have high symptom burdens and increase care needs. The course of illness is characterized by periodic, acute exacerbations that will require an increase of care, and aggressive symptom management during acute and future exacerbation is essential. Prognostication is challenging because these patients are at risk for sudden death but may stabilize for prolonged periods.

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Overview:

Given the healthcare industry is going through very rapid and unprecedented changes, post the COVID-19 pandemic, this 2 Part Webinar Series dives into “Emerging Practices” when looking to leverage cost effective, & streamlined solutions for bringing in and retaining key individuals at your organization.

Objectives:

• Re-evaluation of approaches to compensation philosophy.
• Approaches to defining the market, as well as the benefits of custom peer groups.
• Understanding pay for performance differently in a volatile environment.
• Introduction to Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Arrangements (SERPs), as cost effective ways to lock in an organization’s key people.

CE’s: NHA 

Presenters: Alexander Yaffe, Managing Director, Pearl Meyer; & Ryan Millman, Managing Partner, CEO, Modern Capital Executive Solutions

Alexander is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. The former president and CEO of Yaffe & Company, he is a second-generation expert in executive compensation and has two decades’ experience in the field. Alexander has assisted hundreds of tax-exempt boards and their leadership teams with assessing executive compensation programs, executive performance evaluation methods, retirement plan designs, leadership transition, succession, and retention planning. Additionally, he works with hospitals and integrated health systems to develop comprehensive physician compensation governance practices, assess current-state compensation and productivity relative to the market, and the development of next-generation plan designs. A common theme across his consulting engagements, Alexander focuses on aligning data, relationships, and circumstances to drive mutually beneficial outcomes for organizations, individuals, and affected stakeholder constituencies.

Ryan is a Managing Partner and CEO of Modern Capital Executive Solutions in Boston, MA. As a former Senior Partner of Stearns Financial Group & Regional Vice President of BFB Gallagher, he is recognized as an industry expert regarding non-qualified deferred compensation. Ryan has worked with over 200 tax-exempt organizations with updating, enhancing, and designing their supplemental executive & key leadership member retention plans. A common theme across his consulting engagements, Ryan focuses on aligning data, relationships, and circumstances to drive mutually beneficial outcomes for both the organizations and individuals in question. Ryan graduated from Tufts University in 2015 with a dual degree in Quantitative Econometrics and Entrepreneurship. At heart, Ryan is an entrepreneur that is driven by helping individuals in all aspects of his life.

Registration:

Registration is free for SDAHO Members and $49 for Non-Members.

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Save the Date! The Division of Behavioral Health, in partnership with other state agencies, is excited to announce the date of the Second Annual Suicide Prevention Conference, “We Need to Talk.” This no-cost conference is a great opportunity to elevate the conversation around suicide prevention as well as share tools and resources for suicide prevention and stigma reduction. The 2023 conference will feature key speakers, Kevin Hines and Dr. Craig Bryan.

This two-day conference will be held on August 10 from 10:00am-5:00pm CST and August 11 from 8:00am-12:00pm CST.

Registration for this conference will open in May. Visit the South Dakota Suicide Prevention website to stay up to date on additional information regarding the conference.

Please reach out to DSSPREVCONT@state.sd.us with any questions, and feel free to share with your colleagues.

The Department of Social Services, Division of Behavioral Health, in partnership with other state agencies, is excited to host the Second Annual Suicide Prevention Conference on August 10th from 10:00am-5:00pm and August 11th 8:00am-12:00pm CST in Sioux Falls.

This no-cost conference is open to anyone interested in learning more about additional tools and resources that are available in South Dakota. Featuring key speakers Kevin Hines, bestselling author and suicide attempt survivor; Dr. Craig Bryan, researcher and Veteran himself; and Dr. Kari Oyen, Program Director and Associate Professor of School Psychology. There will also be speakers in the areas of veterans, youth, tribal communities and compassion fatigue. Registration will close on August 1st, 2023 or until we reach capacity.

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