Gain working knowledge of the survey process from beginning to end from the professionals conducting your surveys and the consultants who are in agencies before, during and after. You will also learn about key operational components which impact Home Health Agencies performance and survey success.

Who Should Attend?

All certified agency owners, administrators, directors of clinical services, and clinical supervisors.

8:00 - 9:00 am Registration

9:00 - 10:15 am DPH Update

• Types of Surveys: Standard, partial extended, or extended survey
• Survey frequency
• Regulations: State and Federal
• Survey Tasks: How surveyors prepare for a survey and what they look for in the survey process. Info gathering methods Surveyors use during a survey.
• The Plan of Correction: Timeliness and content
• Present and future trends for survey process, including initial surveys
• Most written deficiencies on a survey

10:30am - 12:00 pm CMS Update

• Re-enrollment (Form 855A) status
• CMS directive requiring description of need and accreditation alternative for initial certification
• Any major policy changes
• Difference in surveying large agencies vs. small agencies
• Fraud and Abuse
• Resurveys

12:00 - 1:00 pm Networking Lunch (provided)

1:00 - 3:15pm Key Operational Components that impact Survey Success

• OBQI/OBQM reports and utilization of results
• Referral and intake
• Staff orientation and education
• Supervision of clinicians
• Documentation and documentation review processes
• Elements of a Plan of Correction (PoC) & developing an acceptable PoC

3:15 - 3:30pm Questions and Answers

3:30pm Adjourn

Lisa Hall, RN (Sacramento Workshop only)
Licensing and Certification
District Administrator Sacramento District Office
California Department of Public Health

Sherry A. Evans (Ontario Workshop Only)
Licensing and Certification
Field Branch Chief, Region V
California Department of Public Health

Pat Frey, Nurse Consultant
Lead for Home Health and Hospice
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Mary Lou Connolly, RN, MS
Consultant
McCoy & Connolly Consulting, Inc.
Former Administrator, UCSD Home Care

Nancy McCoy, RN, MS
Consultant
McCoy & Connolly Consulting, Inc.
Former Dir. Of Clinical Services,

CANCELLATIONS:
Received 10 business days prior to the program date are subject to a 20% handling fee. Cancellations must be in writing. NO REFUNDS will be issued for cancellations received within 10 business days of the program. Refunds will NOT be made for no-shows. However, substitutions will be allowed. Should CAHSAH cancel the program, a full registration fee refund will be issued.

*If you are having problems with the online registration,
please download the registration form, fill it out, and fax to (916) 641-5881
To place a registration by phone with credit card information, please contact (916) 641-5795 ext 113.