Course Offerings for January 2009
To attend any of these classes, please download the registration form located to the left.
To apply for the webinars (if paying by Visa or Mastercard) please go to our Webex page at http://boyerandassociates.webex.com/ and fill out the registration form.
Questions? Please contact: Chris Kussman at ckussman@boyerandassociates.com or at 262-754-0525
Special Addition to the Development Center January Schedule!!
Live & Webcast
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
10:00am -12:00pm or
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Live $99.00 per person
Webcast $250 per facility
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the new Five-Star Quality Rating System on December 18, 2008. The process has caused confusion and anxiety for many facilities. It is difficult to understand the process by which CMS is calculating the number of Stars. In addition, the staffing calculation is now based on the acuity level of residents. This workshop will give you an overview of the program, provide specific examples of survey and staffing calculations and show you strategies you can put into place in your facility to improve your rating. This is a must see workshop for all of your management staff.
At the completion of this workshop, each participation should be able to:
* Analysze the compononets of each "peformance measure" of the scoring system.
* Discuss the scoring rules for each area of health inspection, staffing and QMs.
* Determine how to calculate their staffing by acuity.
* Identify strategies to improve the facility's score
This workshop is essential for each facility. Our one price allows you to have all your managers in one room for one small price.
January 7th: Med Pass Update
8:30am – 3:30pm (At the Development Center)
Presenter: Terry Nelson
Cost: $119.00
Course Summary: The course will begin with a “refresher” to strengthen the knowledge base and understanding of medication administration. In the refresher, participants will learn about the various forms of medications, how to translate orders so that they are given at the correct time and by the correct route, along with the tasks involved in giving medications accurately. With the number of medications that are being ordered for proper healthcare management, the course will also review how drugs affect the major body systems. The participants will participate in a pre-test to identify current knowledge level and a post-test to determine satisfactory completion of the course objectives.
January 14th: Understanding the Power of the MDS Coordinator
9:00am – 12:00pm (At the Development Center)
Presenter: Gail Robison
Cost: $99.00
The skills and operational performance of an MDS Coordinator directly impacts the majority of income for your Long Term Care Facility. This presentation will identify the power of the MDS Coordinator related to financial, reimbursement, and compliance areas. Attendees will be able to gain insight into measurement of the MDS Coordinator being a leader able to strategically manage the RAI and OBRA systems while coordinating the practice standard of clinical operational. The standard of practice along with the many challenges of this key staff position will be defined with demonstrated ways of improvement.
January 20th: Administrator’s/CEO’s/CFO’s breakfast meeting
7:30am – 9:00am (At the Development Center)
Presenter: Ron Nunziato,
Cost: Free
We have set the time for this series from 7:30 am to 9:00 am to fit into the busy Executive’s schedule. A Continental Breakfast will be served. Each month we will sponsor a speaker who will share a 45 min to 1 hour educational session on topics of interest to you. Boyer & Associates will sponsor the first three sessions free of charge so that you can try it and see how this format meets your needs. We plan to file for NAB credits when possible.
Ron Nunziato is the Corporate Compliance Officer for SIR Management in the Chicago area. Ron has been instrumental in turning compliance challenges into excellent quality programs. Come and learn from Ron how a good Corporate Compliance program can benefit your organization.
January 22nd: DON Training and Development Series: Easy to use Audits
9:00am – 3:30pm (At the Development Center)
Presenter: Terry Nelson
Cost: $149.00
In today’s long term care and skilled care environment, well trained Director’s of Nursing are hard to find. This series is being developed to assist you in training your new DON, training a Nurse Manager or ADON for succession planning or enhancing the knowledge of your long term DON. The program will include topics that have been challenging for DONs, including management techniques, personnel management, financial management and those areas of management that can’t be taught in school. The series, beginning in January 2009 can be purchased as a single session if your DON or Manager just needs an update or enhancement in one or two areas. However, if you have a new DON/Nurse Manager that needs experience, it is suggested that you purchase the whole 12 month series. We will hold classes one time a month and you can begin the entire series at any time. Those involved in the series will have practical assignments that they will complete with their Administrator/DON between sessions.
January 23rd:: Therapy and Nursing: A Cooperative Focus
10:00am – 12:00pm or 2:00pm – 4:00pm (At the Development Center)
Presenter: Michele Peterson & Evonne Fillinger
Cost: $99.00
Effectively ensuring that residents receive the benefits and services necessary for Medicare PPS and Medicaid is the objective of any SNF. To ensure this outcome, it is imperative that communication between Therapy and Nursing Staff is timely and effective to understand the complex and individual needs of each resident, to establish the correct Assessment Reference Date (ARD), to provide the needed care and services based on individualized resident assessments, to correctly document the skilled services being provided, and to have in place the needed equipment and education upon discharge to maximize resident success in the community.
Webcast Training
January 8th: Solving the Dilemma of working the RAPs
10:00am – 12:00pm
Presenter: Pat Boyer
Cost: $250 per facility
Although the MDS process has been in place for years, nurses still have difficulty with the concept of “working” the RAPs. This workshop will explain how the RAPs fit into the RAI process, how the RAPs are needed to develop the plan of care that should “drive” patient care. The importance of this critical component of the process will be explained. Participants will take away examples of RAPs that are properly written to meet regulatory compliance and that are useful in their facility.
(Live & Webcast)
January 30th: Get Ready for the MDS 3.0! Part 1: Interviewing Skills
10:00am – 12:00pm
Presenters: Pat Boyer & Terry Nelson
Cost: $250.00 per facility for the webinar
$ 99.00 at the training center
The new MDS 3.0 is expected to be finalized in early 2009 and implemented October 1, 2009. One of the biggest changes in this new MDS is the emphasis on utilizing direct interview items to consistently elicit the resident voice. The interview process asks residents directly about how they feel and their preferences. Initial pilots have shown that even the dementia resident can respond adequately to most of the interview questions. This workshop will give participants interview techniques to help them be successful with this new tool. Participants will be able to take this information immediately back to their facilities for improved accuracy and validity of their MDSs.
