Home Health & Hospice Week

Check out Eli audioconferences on the CAHPS requirement, joint ventures, wound healing, HIPAA, QAPI, and more.

Get vital information on these topics fromthe comfort of your own office:

• Home Health, Hospice, and Facilities: Stay Out of the Joint Venture Red Zone. Thurs. June 3, 1 p.m. ET. Nursing facility joint ventures with home health and hospice providers are an area of special concern to the OIG and other federal and state enforcement agencies. Don’t let a good business opportunity turn into a crime --  identify and fix the most common problem areas in home healthnursing home relationships with advice from attorney Robert Markette Jr. For more information go to www.audioeducator.com/conference-home-healthhospice- facility-030610 or call 1-866-458-2965.

• Why That Wound Won’t Heal: Practical Tips to Get Wounds Moving. Tues. June 8, 1 p.m. ET. You’re faced with wounds that have been around for too long and under prospective payment, both visit numbers and supply utilization have to be closely managed. To make matters even more difficult, many wounds just seem stuck: they do not change in their appearance or measurements for extended periods of time. Wound care expert Beth Hawkins Bradley will help you identify common reasons why wounds won’t heal, give you practical interventions that will resolve the problem, and provide a “process pathway” to guide you in problem identification and resolution. For more information go to www.audioeducator.com/conference-Tips-to-Get-Wounds-Moving-080610 or call 1-866-458-2965.

• HIPAA Compliance: From Basics To Breach. Mon. June 21, on demand. With all the HIPAA changes, now is an excellent time to review what HIPAArequires with compliance expert Robert Markette Jr. For more information go to www.audioeducator.com/conference-HIPAACompliance-Review-170210 or call 1-866-458-2965.

• HH CAHPS How To: The Agency’s Role In HH CAHPS. Thurs. June 24, 1 p.m. ET. Your home health agency’s patient satisfaction data will be posted on the Internet early in 2011 --  what will it say about you? Failure to participate this year in the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (CAHPS) patient satisfaction survey program will result in Medicare financial penalties in 2012. Find out how to establish and manage the new processes efficiently and effectively with HH CAHPS expert Rebecca Friedman Zuber. For more information go to www.audioeducator.com/conference-HH-CAHPS-surveymedicare-guidelines-agencys-role-240610 or call 1-866-458-2965.

• How Good Is Your Hospice’s QAPI Program? Tues. July 20, 1 p.m. ET. Quality Assessment Performance Improvement (QAPI) continues to be the most overarching and all-consuming of the recently enacted hospice Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs). Don’t just layer the new QAPI requirements on top of your old CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) process. Understand and more effectively implement an organizationwide QAPI program with help from expert Charlene Ross, who will offer multiple QAPI forms and tools in this session. For more information go to www.audioeducator.com/conference-QAPIhospice-program-medicare-operations-200710 or call 1-866-458-2965.

Note: To browse and register for Eli home care and hospice audioconferences, go to www. audioeducator.com and select “home health” or “hospice” from the “Select Conference” box. Or call 1-866-458-2965. All sessions are available via CD or transcript after taking place.