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Session 60 | Psychotropic Stewardship: Stay Compliant

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The presenter will identify the compliance and regulatory tags that are related to psychiatric medication management. This session will discuss challenges with reducing unnecessary psychiatric medications without sacrificing quality care. The presenter will also address the OIG Report released in November of 2022 and how it will impact care versus compliance issues in long term care settings.

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Session 59 | Teach Leaders How to Lead

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The first step in learning to lead is to discover why you want to lead and why you feel qualified to lead. True leaders develop other leaders. This session will teach participants how to lead by example and how to identify issues that challenge leaders. It will help participants improve departmental morale and teach leaders to catch the vision of the community in which they serve. Listening is an important skill, and this session will give needed insight to mentoring, teaching and developing a positive and motivating environment.

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Session 58 | Balancing Opioid Risks and Benefits

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Managing the risks and benefits of opioid medications is a continual balancing act that long term care providers must contend with, as this drug class has both immense analgesic and adverse effect potential. This session will reflect on the ongoing opioid crisis and identify the relevant regulations enacted in an effort to curb suboptimal opioid use. The attendees will benefit from hearing practical steps that skilled nursing centers can take to align with "best-practice" elements that focus on resident-centered pain management. Additionally, the very real issue of opioid diversion will be discussed, and steps to safeguard the chain-of-custody will be provided. This session will offer perspective from a pharmacist engaged in the topic, with experience operating within the ASCP Opioid Stewardship Work Group. This unique perspective will benefit members across the interdisciplinary team, all of whom have a part to play in appropriately managing resident pain and balancing the inherent risks vs benefits of the opioid drug class.

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Session 57 | Leadership and Team Accountability: Think Big and Think Small

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Leaders manage a complex web of interconnections, all with competing demands. The Baldrige Framework for Performance Excellence provides a framework which compels leaders to deploy the organization's mission, vision, and values to the workforce and create an environment for success. The leader's ability to navigate demands and effectively communicate with customers, suppliers, shareholders, and their intercompany peers is paramount to creating team alignment and to accomplish action plans that support the organization's overall strategic goals.

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Session 56 | The New Frontier: Exploring Florida Medicaid

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Providers will inevitably be facing new challenges as the unwinding of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) begins. Attendees will be invited to openly discuss specific reimbursement issues they see on the horizon and, together, develop proactive action plans to avoid financial disasters. Presenters will deliver insight on reimbursement topics including timely Medicaid application and eligibility, Medicaid Managed Care claims payment, and private billing practices. We will educate providers on federal and state Medicaid policies and best practices to avoid denials, increase cash velocity, and ensure claims are paid timely. This session will provide practical and legal strategies for providers to avoid and/or work through Medicaid appeals, guardianships and discharge for non-payment. Attendees will become a skilled resource not only for their company, but also for residents and family members.

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Session 55 | Restorative Nursing Program Implementation

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This presentation will discuss the regulatory considerations for implementing a Restorative Nursing Program across nursing, therapy, activities and administration. The presentation covers various applicable terminologies and the importance of Restorative Nursing with its multiple components. How the Restorative Nursing Program aligns with functional, physical, psychological and spiritual health will be a focal point within the discussion, as well as accurate Minimum Data Set coding. The attendees will participate actively in several case studies to help them understand the process.

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Session 52 | Preceptor Refresher Course

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Florida Board of Nursing Home Administrator (BNHA) regulations pursuant to 64B10-16.0025(2), FAC, require all Florida Nursing Home Administrators with Preceptor Certification to take a two-hour Preceptor Refresher Course upon license renewal every two years. This course will meet that requirement. If you are considering becoming a Preceptor, this session will also provide an overview to help you understand the needs and expectations of AITs and Preceptors. FHCA’s Senior Director of Quality Affairs Deborah Franklin will moderate this session as experts, including current and past members of the BNHA, probable cause panel members and experienced Preceptors, share their knowledge.

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Session 51 | Forging through the New MDS and Its Impact on Quality Measures and Reimbursement

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Join this session as the presenters navigate through the new frontier of MDS. The presenters will be hammering through how the redesign of the MDS also reshapes Quality Measures. The conversation will include the changes affecting Quality Measures, how to start planning now, the impact on your Medicaid reimbursement rates going forward and how to monitor your center's information. Don't get burned by not knowing or understanding the changes and how they impact you.

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Session 48 | Life Safety Codes and Standards

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This session will review the differences between Florida and CMS adopted versions of life safety codes and standards, including a review of the upcoming changes on December 31, 2023.

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Session 47 | Improving Health Care Employee Engagement and Retention through Impactful Recognition

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Perhaps the most pressing threat to quality health care today is staffing shortages. Shortages require health care centers to limit capacity, affecting both their mission and their bottom line. Most providers can't respond to the workforce market by simply increasing compensation or other new and cost intensive benefits. Creativity is required to make positions in the field more compelling. Some organizations, particularly those heavily dependent on government reimbursements and in rural and community-based settings, are constrained in their total reward offerings. As a result, need for low-cost, high-impact initiatives to increase worker resilience, reduce burnout, improve retention, and maintain high safety and quality of care standards is greater than ever. In this session, you'll learn best practices in the science of recognition, how to build programs that have credibility and stand the test of time, and how recognition and engagement technology can ease the burden of managers and leadership teams.

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Session 46 | PDPM for Leaders: The Simple Approach to Identifying Trends

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This session will provide a brief overview of the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) components. Presenters will provide a simple and straightforward way to identify trends and the impact on reimbursement.

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Session 45 | Functional Mobility Maintenance Activities to Reduce Rehospitalization

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Learn how to improve the mobility of your residents and reduce rehospitalizations. The presenter will discuss how the decline in functional status of your residents has a negative impact on your rehospitalization rates and the financial impact it poses. Receive proven mobility maintenance tools that can directly affect the residents for the good of their care and the center.

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Session 43 | Building a Successful AIT Program

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Becoming a nursing home administrator is a long journey and culminates in completion of an Administrator in Training (AIT) program. For preceptors, taking on an AIT can be a rewarding but challenging experience. This session will outline how to build a successful AIT program and how to structure the program so that the preceptor and center can both benefit.

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Session 42 | Abandonment of the Greatest Generation

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Florida's long term care community is increasingly responsible for caring for residents who have been abandoned by family. Learn how to prevent it through proper and aggressive admissions policies and how to stop the financial bleeding when it happens by quick Guardianship action.

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Session 41 | Is Your Staff Quietly Quitting?

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In this session, you will learn the definition of the new buzz word "quietly quitting" and what it can mean to your organization. You will also learn tips to spot staff who may be quiet quitters and some ways you can prevent this from happening in your organization.

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Session 40 | Collaborate Together for Value-Based Reimbursement and Better Quality Outcomes: Introducing Florida Health Care Quality Partners Provider-Owned Network

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With the increase in market penetration of Medicare Advantage and Medicaid Managed Care, even the savviest providers are being challenged. Provider-owned networks are helping providers improve clinical outcomes and access value-based reimbursement, which has eluded long term care and post-acute care providers without the volume to do so. Under Florida Health Care Association's leadership, provider members have created the Florida Health Care Quality Partners, a provider-owned network to negotiate collectively with managed care payers. This session will help you learn more about participation in provider-owned networks as a nation wide strategy to improve providers' position negotiating with managed care, and specifically on joining FHCQP, Florida Health Care Association's provider-owned network.

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Session 39 | Quality Cabinet Strategic Goals

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The Florida Health Care Association Quality Cabinet is comprised of nursing home administrators, senior clinicians, medical directors, institutional pharmacists, the Quality Improvement Organization and other organizations that collaborate on quality as needed. The Quality Cabinet meets for a strategic planning session every two years and sets the two-year quality improvement goals. This session will educate attendees on the goals, how to capture data and strategies to improve quality. Included in the session will be current Quality Measure rankings comparing Florida to the nation.

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Session 37 | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: What You Do Not Know About Transporting The Elderly/WC19

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Motor vehicle safety for drivers and passengers has increased exponentially over the past 40 years. However, according to research, people seated in wheelchairs during travel are 45 times more likely to be injured in an accident than a typical passenger (Buning et al., 2012). Of great concern, adults over the age of 65 are at higher risk for severe injury in motor vehicle collisions (MVA) due to age. This session will discuss transporting residents in wheelchairs and proper systems to keep them safe.

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Session 33 | Evaluation of Sleep Issues Among Residents with Dementia

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Sleep issues impact approximately 60% of individuals living with dementia who reside in nursing centers creating a critical challenge for managing night-time care and sleep-related issues. Often, older adults in this setting are prescribed a psychotropic medication, specifically a sedative or hypnotic pharmacological treatment, to alleviate such symptoms. However, neither are intended for long-term use due to potential adverse side effects. To ensure delivery of person-centered care and to promote the highest quality of life possible for nursing center residents, providers should develop a systematic process to assess and alleviate sleep issues prior to the prescription of a psychotropic medication. This presentation will teach how to complete individual resident sleep assessments by considering underlying medical conditions, evaluating current medication regimes and deploying nonpharmacological approaches prior to use of a psychotropic medication.

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Session 30 | Topics That are Hot

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This session will highlight areas where centers are being cited under the CMS regulations with a focus on areas where interpretation of the regulation may differ among survey teams or seem inconsistent with the language of the regulation. Case law interpreting the regulations, if any, will be discussed. Case studies will be used to explain the rationale for the citations, and tips will be given on how to avoid violating specific regulations.

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Session 29 | Telling Your Positive Story: The Why and the How

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Do nursing centers have an image problem? Attendees will answer this burning question and learn strategies to broadcast their positive stories to the masses. From story retrieval and creative packaging to cultivating positive relationships with local media, attendees will learn to leverage Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and digital media to change the nursing center narrative.

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Session | Preceptor Provider Program

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This six (6) hour Preceptor Training meets the requirements of 64B10-16.0025(2), FAC. This session will be an interactive training program to qualify attendees to become preceptors and help shape the careers of new long term care administrators. Additional registration fees are required for this program. Lunch is included.


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Session 54 | Developing the Leaders Around You

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Developing leaders is essential to making a great and lasting impact. The leader sees the big picture, but he or she needs other leaders to help make their mental picture a reality. In this session, attendees will be challenged to develop leadership qualities while also learning to invest in the potential leaders around them by learning tested and proven principles. The time you spend developing your leadership skills will prove to be a worthy investment.


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Session 53 | VA Care for Veterans

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U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs eligibility for services and application for coverage are complicated. This session will provide you with information about long term care programs for veterans and their spouses. It will provide eligibility standards, the application process to receive benefits, where you can get assistance with this process and how your center can apply to be a VA contracted nursing center.


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Session 50 | The Java Project: Addressing Loneliness in Long Term Care

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Loneliness is affecting a majority of residents in long term care. Residents themselves represent a largely untapped resource to address these issues. The Java Project is a research-based innovative approach using resident peer support groups and mentoring that has demonstrated decreases in loneliness by 15%, depression by 30% and increases in resident engagement by 60%. Presenters will provide results to date, including successes and lessons learned.


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Session 49 | Boots, Chaps and Resident Stats

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Gather 'round the campfire as the presenters discuss how the use of technology to share data is assisting post-acute care providers. Learn about benefits that the Florida Health Information Exchange's Encounter Notification Service (ENS) can provide post-acute care organizations, including building relationships with partners (payers, ACOs, and hospitals), sharing of admission and discharge data with partners and being informed when recently discharged residents return to a hospital.


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Session | Circle of Excellence Award Luncheon & Officer Installation

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Join us as we celebrate excellence, success and significant achievements in long term care as the 2024 prestigious Walter M. Johnson Jr. Circle of Excellence Award is presented and the 2024-25 FHCA Board of Directors is installed. Following the award recognition and installation, we will have a motivating presentation.


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Session | Mega Session: AHCA Update

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Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from Kim Smoak, Assistant Deputy Secretary/ State Survey Agency Director, Agency for Health Care Administration, for this Mega Session. In the past, this session was standing room only, so get there early for a good seat and hear about the state of affairs, current regulations and survey trends impacting Florida’s long term care profession.


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Session 36 | Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ian

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In this session, attendees will hear first-hand testimonies from administrators directly impacted by Hurricane Ian. Presenters will offer insight into safe and effective evacuation, competent and prepared receival of evacuees and capable management of the complications that arise during the recovery period. Presenters will walk attendees through these vital questions: what are the key factors in making the decision to evacuate, who needs to know what and when, what happens when a well-developed and viable disaster plan fails, and lastly, how can we build back stronger in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Panelists will be interviewed for additional insight about their experiences.


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Session 35 | Unleashing the Power of Love Languages in Long Term Care: A Global Journey to Unlock Unconventional Tactics for Building Stronger Connections in the Workplace

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Join this session and hear how the "5 Languages of Love" can inspire perspectives and motivate professionals. Attendees will learn how to flip a negative relationship with a peer or resident with these proven tactics for creating unique human connections. With the presenter’s insights, attendees will learn how to encourage their team with simple exercises to improve connections between the colleagues within their organization.


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Session 34 | Every MDS Counts: Aligning Care, Quality Initiatives and Reimbursement

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This session will review the use of properly timed Resident Care Assessments with appropriate MDS coding to align intentional resident care with CMS Quality Initiatives and reimbursement. The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) increased documentation complexity for optimal reimbursement to reflect resident needs and the increasing importance of Quality Initiative programs. Attendees will learn how to implement assessments affecting up to 14 Quality Measures (QM), eight 5-star Measures, seven Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Measures and Case Mix Group (CMG) reimbursement.


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Session | Mega Session: Quality Award Ceremony/Legislative Update

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Please join us for a combined session designed to both inform and honor attendees. The FHCA Government Affairs team will provide a recap of Florida’s 2024 legislative session and the impact it will have on long term care providers across the state. The team will also discuss expectations for the 2025 session and the advocacy initiatives needed for success. In addition to the legislative update, we will recognize our distinguished care centers who have received national and state awards and celebrate their remarkable accomplishments as they take center stage.


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Session 31 | Regulatory Dodgeball: Protecting Your Reimbursement in 2023

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Long term care has been experiencing significant changes in 2023, and it’s critical for skilled nursing centers to be informed and prepared. From iQIES to new CMS audits, each new regulation could have a major impact on your reimbursement. This session will explore the most significant regulatory risks for 2023 and how to protect your reimbursement, with topics focused on Section GG, PBJ, iQIES, CMS audits, and more.


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Session 28 | Maximizing Your Medicaid Quality Incentive Add-On

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Understanding how the Florida Quality Incentive Add-On program works is challenging unto itself. Improving your quality incentive add-on is both an art and a science. This session will take attendees through the three process measures, five outcome measures, two structure measures and two credentials and offer strategies for improvement. Center operational leaders will learn how to set themselves up for success by creating a culture of improvement, while clinical leadership will take away specific measure assessment and care strategies.


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Session 27 | Managing Accidents and Incidents: Using a Clinical Risk Approach

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Managing accidents and incidents is part of a strong risk management program. Using a clinical risk management approach will strengthen how your team’s focus on reducing and minimizing these occurrences will cause a positive effect. This session will focus on three components: understanding the requirements and intent of CMS, clinical risk considerations and steps to an effective program to help reduce and minimize accidents and incidents.


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Session | Mega Session: Membership Meeting and Election of Officers: AHCA/NCAL National Update

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Join your colleagues for more Long Term Care Achievement Award presentations, committee reports and the election of officers for 2024-25, followed by a keynote presentation by AHCA/NCAL President and CEO Governor Mark Parkinson and NCAL Executive Director LaShuan Bethea. We are honored to have American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living President and CEO, Governor Mark Parkinson, and National Center for Assisted Living Executive Director, LaShuan Bethea, join us for on overview of national legislation, regulations and developments impacting the profession and the latest initiatives that are helping to enhance quality care.


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Session | Mega Session: Kick-Off Membership Meeting

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At this official kick off for the 2024 Annual Conference & Trade Show, FHCA members gather to hear exciting FHCA business, enjoy an uplifting keynote presentation and celebrate winners of the Long Term Care Achievement Awards. Candidates for the 2024-25 FHCA offices will also be announced.An encouraging and motivational presentation will follow.


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Session 24 | Benefits of Provider-Owned Institutional Equivalent Special Needs Plans

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Significant features of Medicare coverage can differ based on whether a person is enrolled in fee-for-service or a managed care plan. Attendees are likely to know and understand the needs of the Medicare beneficiaries they serve. Consequently, their understanding of different Medicare plans and Medicare's special needs plans can help them support their residents. The Institutional Equivalent Special Needs Plan (IE-SNP) is designed for people who need more care. Specifically, the IE-SNP is intended for people whose condition requires an institutional level of care but reside in the community. The presenters will provide an overview of the IE-SNP model and explain how this model enhances the provider and member experience. IE-SNPs cover benefits above the standard Medicare benefit package, offer enhanced care coordination and provide an array of additional benefits.


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Session 23 | The ABCs of PBJ

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Data submission to the Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) system is more important now than in the past. Join this session to learn more about recent regulatory changes, the intricacies of submitting data to PBJ and what the data trends reveal about staffing. Also, learn about enforcement actions related to new F-tags in this area.

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Session 21 | Goldrush: Onboarding, Orientation and Ongoing Education

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This session will review innovative and effective measures to onboard new staff, as well as provide tips for a viable and engaging orientation and ensuring compliance with ongoing staff education requirements. Presenters will share proven best practices to improve operational flow of newly hired staff with an emphasis on the orientation experience for each individual. This session will present approaches and systems tailored to skilled nursing centers in the pursuit of staffing stabilization.

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Session 20 | Clinical and Operational Review of PDPM: Pioneering Excellence through MDS Accuracy

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With providers well into the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), it might be time for a temperature check. Skilled nursing centers have learned there are significant changes in how we ensure accurate payment under PDPM, but how are they doing? How providers are faring depends largely on how they integrated this reimbursement change into the operational system and, particularly, their MDS coding. When auditing MDS Assessments, it is surprising how many errors are found. In this session, presenters will talk about what they have learned so far. This session will review some of the potential pitfalls related to PDPM. Key focus areas for providers will be addressed, including auditing for areas of risk, quality assurance initiatives, using the facility assessment to identify care strengths and weaknesses, analyzing marketplace dynamics, CMS initiatives relative to alternative payment models and leveraging technology solutions to ensure success.

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Session 19 | Make a Difference in Your Rehospitalization Rates

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This session will discuss the impacts of high rehospitalization rates in skilled nursing centers. There will be a discussion about how to target high-risk residents and action steps to reduce rehospitalizations, along with tangible steps to make a difference in your rehospitalization rates.

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Session 18 | Infection Prevention and Control Updates

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To build a successful infection prevention program in an assisted living facility, leadership needs to have knowledge of the regulations impacting this care environment, what policies and procedures are needed to support the program and strategies for how to implement the program. This session will review each of these topics and discuss the role of the risk assessment, infection prevention plan, and a culture of safety to support an effective infection prevention program.

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Session 17 | Forging a Financially Viable Future

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This session will look at the financial and operational challenges the skilled nursing profession has endured, with a focus on occupancy and workforce challenges, financial outcomes, and increased regulatory oversight. Presenters will discuss various strategies to meet some of these challenges and innovative ideas for organizations to explore as they pursue a financially viable future.

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Session 16 | CMS Updates to Compliance Program Guidance: A New Sheriff in Town

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Compliance requirements are continually changing. Learn about the latest updates from CMS and ensure your center is prepared and compliant when surveyed. Join the panel of presenters as they provide professional views of CMS guidance to keep you current.

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Session 15 | The Pulse of Employee Benefits: Enhance Your Workforce’s Health and Well-being

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Staffing and retention continues to be a top priority for provider organizations. What are employers doing to stay dynamic and innovative? This session will explore the movement in employee benefits to enhance company culture and the health and well-being of your workforce.

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Session 14 | The Reimbursement Pony Express

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This session will focus on the results of the 2023 legislative session regarding the Medicaid budget and other legislative issues impacting the Medicaid reimbursement landscape. The session will also focus on changes projected for the October 2023 Medicaid rates and address the impact of the elimination of the "hold-harmless" clause and elimination of the cap on gains for providers. Attendees will learn how to manage their spending to prepare for rate rebasing in 2024, the importance of maintaining or improving quality and the right way to make center improvements count. Attendees will also learn the steps they need to take now to ensure they are prepared to compete in the future.

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Session 13 | Florida Department of Health, Health Care-Associated Infection Prevention Program

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The Florida Department of Health will provide an introduction to the Health Care-Associated Infection Prevention Program. The program includes containment strategies, infection prevention and control principles and best practices, antimicrobial stewardship programs, antibiotic resistance, injection safety, bloodstream infections, urgent threats and data-driven strategic approaches to reduce health care-associated infections across Florida. This session will focus on surveillance, detection, outreach initiatives, contact precautions, and enhanced barrier precautions for targeted organisms, including Candida auris and carbapenemase-producing organisms. In addition, the presentation will highlight the role of county health departments, implementation of preventative efforts, available resources, as well as partnerships and collaborations.

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Session 11 | Using the Baldrige Framework to Improve Your QAPI Program

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The Baldrige Framework provides a roadmap for managing components of an organization using a big or systems based approach. Given the vital role nurses play in the nursing center environment, it is imperative that they are equipped with knowledge to understand how to use existing data to analyze performance, create meaningful performance improvement projects and sustain results.

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Session 10 | Grievance Management: One Key to a Successful Risk Management Program

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Grievance management is a critical aspect of a successful risk management program. This allows the resident, family or other interested person to be able to express themselves in a meaningful manner in which they feel heard. It reduces complaints to the Agency for Health Care Administration which reduces your regulatory risk and increases overall satisfaction. This session will discuss key aspects to better support your team and help them recognize possible issues to report for resolution.

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Session 9 | Beyond the Pizza Party: Forging New Frontiers for Staff Recognition to Impact Quality

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Staff appreciation, recognition and staff development terms are overused and highly overrated. What do they even mean in a profession where turnover can be as high as 50% and finding and hiring qualified staff is costly? Retention is more critical now than ever, so, what can you do? This session will look at recognition and employee appreciation through several different lenses. Attendees will evaluate their mindset related to recognition and learn cost-effective, real-time strategies proven in the field.

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Session 8 | Improve Profitability through Creative Insurance Purchasing

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Florida long term care providers are suffering from increased expense load in many areas. This session will review the current state of the insurance marketplace. Attendees will learn how to most effectively structure their insurance programs in the face of rising costs.

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Session 7 | Is Your Staff Feuding Over Resident Safety?

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In this session, attendees will play Family Feud and explore the best practices to achieve resident safety. Using adult learning principles, this session will explore how to reduce hospitalizations due to C. Diff, how to reduce adverse drug events and reduce center acquired infections such as MRSA. At the end of the session, attendees will have the skills necessary to identify barriers and opportunities for improvement to ensure resident safety aligns with best practices. The session will review tools and resources for your inter-disciplinary team to use and an implementation plan for quality success.

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Session 6 | Agency Top Ten Deficiencies and Updates

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In this session, the Agency for Health Care Administration will provide an update on the top ten assisted living facility citations and topics to help manage the latest survey updates. Hear about case studies to provide instruction and guidance on ways to avoid frequent high-level citations.

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Session 5 | Taming the Wild World of Labor Law: Current Trends in Workplace Law

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New laws and regulations have been enacted and interpretations of existing laws are changing. It is easy to put the cart before the horse and misjudge the impact of labor and employment law, resulting in financial harm not only to your center but also to yourself. Presenters will explore the most commonly misunderstood areas of employment law, updated for 2023, to help avoid costly litigation. The second part of this session will feature a panel discussion on positive employee engagement. Increasing evidence shows a connection between engaged employees and stronger business performance. Positive employee experiences can lead to higher productivity, a decrease in turnover and better retention of knowledge and skills. Join this interactive session to hear from attorneys and profession peers who are putting engagement at the center of work as they discuss established strategies on how to improve the employee engagement process.

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Session 4 | Saddle Up: Managing Incapacity and Avoiding Legal Process Tumbleweeds

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Do you have residents who can't make legal and financial decisions? Are you concerned they can't sign legal documents due to a physician's determination of incompetency? Is lack of decision-making authority delaying discharge? This session will explain when guardianship is necessary and whether there are alternatives that may provide a better, quicker solution.

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Session 1 | Reducing Antipsychotic Medication Using Person-centered Approaches

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Providing person-centered care can help you reduce antipsychotic medication use in your skilled nursing center. The presenter has proven you can systematically reduce these medications and meet the behavioral and psychosocial needs of each resident. In this session, you will learn best practices and simple steps for improved quality of care for each resident and providing a culture of success.

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Session 22 | Preparing for the Elimination of Section G

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services posted a draft of updated Minimum Data Set (MDS) specifications, noting that all of Section G will be eliminated. The volume of new data that providers will be required to collect in MDS 1.18.11 starting in October 2023, is significant and will require a great deal of preparation. This session will provide insights regarding the specific changes, key preparation, planning steps to take and suggestions as far as what measures, metrics and outcomes to focus on to maintain a high-performing organization.


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Session 12 | Saddle Up for the Continuum of Care Ride

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With so many options across the care continuum, what role do assisted living facilities play? How do we dig in our spurs to bridge the gap and best coordinate the transitions in care? How do we improve communication so that all needs are met on the sometimes bumpy trail? This session will help you to understand both sides of the discharge planning process and give you tools to implement best practices for your Medicaid residents.


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Session 3 | The Great Eight: Leadership and Motivation

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This session has been cancelled; we apologize for the inconvenience.


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Session 2 | Managing Managed Care From a Nursing Perspective

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Managed care organizations don't make it easy for nurses to understand and manage the reimbursement for residents who have managed care payers. This session will help attendees understand how managed care reimbursement works, how to capture the best appropriate reimbursement to match the residents' clinical care needs and how to identify and capture outliers and exclusions.


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Session | Nursing Home Administrator 101

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This six-hour training is for new administrators with five years or less experience and is designed to motivate and develop the skills needed to become a great leader. Attendees will also make valuable connections through the program's networking opportunities. The training will focus on leadership, financial, legal and regulatory, life safety, survey readiness and quality improvement skills. Hear from long term care leaders as they discuss best practices and tools for the administrator to be successful. Nursing home administrators are responsible for leading the team to ensure regulations are met and quality of care is of the highest standard. This course will provide a foundation for new administrators and serve as a refresher for seasoned administrators. Registration includes lunch, breaks, a resource reference manual and 6 CEUs.


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