The Summer Institute is featuring Hospice Practice is Changing – Take Charge! where you can learn the latest knowledge and tools to advance your practice and prepare for what’s coming. See what the presenters have to say about this upcoming course in Pittsburgh, PA, July 26-27, 2016.
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Deepen your knowledge and understanding of the Medicare hospice benefit to ensure your hospice is providing and documenting care that aligns with regulatory compliance. This course will include a review of the basics, plus discuss regulatory changes and challenges – including relatedness, eligibility, narrative construct, and the new payment model – a worthwhile investment for all hospice medical directors, novice or seasoned!
– Ruth Thomson, DO FACOI FAAHPM HMDC, Chief Medical Officer at Hospice of Dayton, Inc.
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Learn how healthcare reform is likely to impact the hospice industry as we move to a value based reimbursement system. Identify benchmarks to monitor for your hospice organization to keep you in compliance and away from the auditors!
– Janet Bull, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Four Seasons
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Learn how to “debride” those insanely long lists of medications and make solid, evidence-based decisions about which ones are worth keeping and which medications can be “voted off the island.” We will introduce you to a 5 step process of deprescribing and discuss common classes of medications that leave us scratching our head: statins, PPI’s, anticoagulation, and medications used for dementia, COPD and diabetes. Everyone wins when the medications are directed the most benefit and least risk!
– Kathryn Walker, PharmD BCPS CPE, Senior Clinical Director of Palliative Care at MedStar Health
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Haven’t taken a day for yourself in months—or years?! Come rejuvenate, rewind, relax and revisit the core of what brought you into caring for dying patients and their families. Discover the latest research on burnout and the innovative approaches recently developed to promote resiliency in those of us working in overburdened hospice and palliative care teams. Network with physician colleagues and engage in topics from leadership opportunities to regulatory compliance. Let your mind and spirit be nurtured for a few days this summer – you’ll leave feeling confident and focused on how to grow and prosper in your role in hospice care.
– Kathleen Faulkner, MD FAAHPM, Good Shepherd Community Care
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A whirlwind tour of pain management topics ranging from bread and butter issues to more difficult situations and a few cutting edge techniques as well.
– Bruce Scott, MD FACP, HMDC, Assistance Professor of Internal Medicine, Wright State Physicians
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Learn more at www.aahpm.org/summerinstitute. Register soon. The early bird rate ends June 28.
