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Late Morning Breakouts (1.0/1.5 CEUs)

11:00a - 12:00n/12:30p

Developing Operational Strategy: Maximizing your facility assessment and AHCA Quality Award Application
Amy Lee, RN, MSN, CRRN, QCP
Core-Tactics

THIS PROGRAM will conclude at 12:30p and provide 1.5 CEUs.

 

The Facility Assessment became mandatory November 28, 2017 with Phase 2 of the Requirements of Participation (RoP).  If utilized properly, the Facility Assessment can become a key resource to improving your facilities position in the marketplace, strengthening your service offerings and assisting with the completion of your AHCA Quality Award application. This session will demonstrate the linkage between the Facility Assessment and AHCA Quality Award application and give leadership key approaches to utilizing both in strategic planning and improving your organizations position in the marketplace.

 

Objectives

 

  1. Discuss key elements of strategic planning.

  2. Discuss the linkage between the Facility Assessment and AHCA Quality Award application.

  3. Discuss how the Facility Assessment and the AHCA Quality Award application are key components to developing an effective organizational strategic plan.

  4. Identify how to use the Facility Assessment, key outcomes, strategic planning and QAPI to sustain facility improvements and better position your facility in the marketplace.

Amy Lee is the president and CEO of Coretactics™ Healthcare Consulting, Inc.  She is a pragmatic and innovative speaker who uses her decades of experience in acute and skilled nursing to bring a holistic approach to healthcare operations. Amy has established numerous best practice approaches in falls reduction, wound care management, antipsychotic reduction, behavioral management, person-centered care planning and reducing re-hospitalizations, just to name a few.   
 

Her knowledge of regulatory compliance, operations, CMS Five Star Rating, MDS 3.0, CMS Quality Measures and reimbursement allows her to assist teams with improving resident care as well as their strategic position in the healthcare market.  
 

Amy has a Master's in Nursing, a Certification in Nursing Rehabilitation, is a certified OASIS Master Trainer, a QAPI Certified Professional and serves as an AHCA National Quality Award Examiner.

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Findings from the April 2019 Statewide Coalition Surge Test Evacuation Exercise: A Long-Term Care Perspective
 
Joe Bohunicky, NHA, MBA
Mt. Carmel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
Amy Cullum, MPH, MSN, CNL,
 Community Health Institute/JSI
Shaylin Deignan, MSEM
Granite State Health Care Coalition, Foundation for Healthy Communities
J. Scott Nichols, MBA
Granite State Health Care Coalition, Foundation for Healthy Communities 

The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) requires that all health care coalitions conduct an annual Coalition Surge Test (CST) exercise.

 

The CST aims to improve the ability of the health care system to manage a 20% increase in residents/patients using a simulated evacuation scenario.

 

This presentation discusses the Granite State Health Care Coalition's (GSHCC's) 2019 Coalition Surge Test, including findings and lessons learned, long term care facility exercise experiences, and how you can get involved in both the GSHCC and the 2020 exercise.
 

Joe Bohunicky has been an administrator for 16 years.  He has worked in private, for-profit and non-profit organizations.  For the past 13 years he has been employed by Catholic Charities New Hampshire; 3 years at St. Teresa Rehabilitation and Nursing Center and 10 years at Mt. Carmel Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.  In 2017 Mt. Carmel received the AHCA /NCAL National Quality Award at the Silver Level.  Joe received the 2019 ACHCA Eli Pic Facility Leadership Award in recognition of organizational leadership provided in the achievement of designated dimensions of quality.  Joe was very excited to be part of the Granite State Health Care Coalitions “Collation Surge Test” held in April. Joe believes being prepared, thru practicing for when a real disaster strikes, is one of the most important aspects of his job. . 

Amy Cullum has been working to strengthen public health and health care emergency response capacity in NH and beyond since 2003. As a part of this work she has designed, implemented and evaluated countless state- and local-level exercises including the 2018 and 2019 Granite State Health Care Coalition Statewide Coalition Surge Tests.

Scott Nichols, Director, Granite State Health Care Coalition, works to bring together and provide opportunities for providers and health care and community stakeholders to plan, prepare, and train for catastrophic events through collaboration essential to integrated disaster response. Scott joined the FHC in December of 2017 with extensive public safety and planning experience with a diverse background. He has previously worked for the City of Concord New Hampshire as a police officer, a regional emergency planner for the City of Boston writing regional strategic response plans for New England, and an emergency management planner for New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management.  He holds an MBA with a focus on Leadership from Franklin Pierce University.

 

Shaylin Deignan, MSEM, Program Coordinator, Granite State Health Care Coalition, is responsible for coordinating and administrating tasks associated with the Health Care Coalition grant administered by the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services with funding provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Shaylin provides technical assistance to health care coalition members and assists in completing program reporting requirements. Shaylin previously worked at the City of Worcester as the Regional Hospital Coordinator coordinating health care system preparedness initiatives for all ten hospitals in the region. Shaylin also worked at Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire as Enrollment and Matching Supervisor. Shaylin received a Bachelor’s Degree in U.S. History from Keene State College and Master of Science in Emergency Management from Anna Maria College.

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The Media, Public Relations, and You
 
Rachel Reeves
American Health Care Association
National Center for Assisted Living

This session will teach best practices for interacting with the media. The presentation will take the audience through the ins and outs of how to handle yourself in an interview, including what to say and what not to say and the importance of all communications from you, your community, and your staff. The session will show participants how to avoid the mistakes that could lead to financial distress or denigration of your reputation and how to win back trust and credibility.

As the Director of Communications for the National Center for Assisted Living, Rachel Reeves develops and implements strategic communications plans to engage members of NCAL, the media and the public. Before joining NCAL, Rachel served for more than three years in the Public Affairs department at the American Health Care Association. Rachel has also worked in the communications offices for former Congresswoman Nancy Boyda and former governor of Kansas Mark Parkinson. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Political Science with an emphasis in Public Affairs from Emporia State University.

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A New Perspective and Approach that Equips Nursing Staff, Limits Liability, and Saves Lives
Judith Salisbury
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This new workshop offers unique training from the perspective of not only nursing but also EMS and a former POA. Discover the important missing elements in the current training of nursing staff, why they are missing, and how to fill the gap. Realize the dangers of semantics, which can hinder quality care. Participants will learn the importance of rapid assessments; how they save lives and how naturally they fall within their scope of practice. Learn how to better interact with 911, and what to do if the unthinkable happens to save the lives of others and your own.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants learn the important missing elements in nursing training, and why they are missing.

  • Understand the danger of semantics that can seem helpful but could cause more harm than good.

  • How staff can move from passive, task-oriented to a more alert, medically-minded approach.

  • Vital to EMS, rapid assessments save lives and fall within nursing's scope of practice. Learn how.

  • Learn to interface more effectively with 911 and EMS personnel during emergencies including what you can do if the unthinkable happens to save lives and perhaps your own.

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