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• In-Home Aide Monthly Newsletter Subscription 2025

  • Start
    Wednesday, January 01, 2025
  • End
    Monday, December 01, 2025
  • Schedule
    12 sessions
  • Location
    Monthly Newsletter

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  The Kansas Home Care & Hospice Association is pleased to bring you this educational program through an agreement with the Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina…

  
  

  Description:  For years, AHHC of NC has published the Partners In Quality Care newsletter for in-home aides. This popular publication includes an informative newsletter, post-test, answer key and certificate. It is designed for one hour of educational credit that includes: 1. Review of Objectives; 2. Reading of educational material from the Partners in Care Newsletter; and, 3. Satisfactory completion of a test. The monthly newsletter serves as an adjunct to satisfy your CMS requirement within the Medicare Conditions of Participation, and the newsletter topics are timely, relevant to home care and can help enrich your in-home aides’ knowledge base.
  
  

  Feedback from KHCHA subscribers:

  • We find these newsletters very insightful and relevant for our home health aides and homemakers.
    
    
  • I'd like to renew - this format worked beautifully to keep our HHA up to speed, and our JCAHO surveyor was very happy with the documentation of the training. Thanks!
    
    

  • Just want to let you know that our employees love this format of education. They even comment on how informative the materials are and how much they enjoy the topics. We really appreciate that KHCHA provides this program at such a reasonable cost.
    
    

  • This training series was well received by our last JCAHO surveyor--it definitely serves the purpose very well!
    
    

  Annual Subscription Fee:

  KHCHA Members:  $120 / agency
  Non-Members:  $240 / agency

  With your annual subscription, you will receive a monthly newsletter and accompanying materials every month January - December 2025. 

  Join anytime and receive all back issues for 2025.
  
  

  2025 Topics:
  

  • January- Home Safety
  • February- Infection Control
  • March- Dementia
  • April- Stroke
  • May- Personal Care
  • June- Challenging Behaviors
  • July- Home Environment
  • August- Nutrition
  • September- Communication Concepts
  • October- End of Life Care
  • November- Emergency Preparedness
  • December- Mental Health

  Cancellations: 

  Fees will be refunded only if written cancellation is received prior to the January 2025 issue being sent to your agency. In the event of a written cancellation, KHCHA will retain, or charge, $25 of the initial registration fee, per registrant, to cover administrative overhead.

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• KHCHA Winter Conference - Now Virtual

  • Start
    Monday, January 13, 2025
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  • End
    Thursday, February 06, 2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Webinar

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• OASIS-E1 Update: What Has Changed?

  • When
    Tuesday, January 14, 2025
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    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar

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  The Kansas Home Care & Hospice Association is pleased to bring you this educational program through an agreement with the Home Care Association of Florida.

  
  

  
  Join us for this monthly webinar series designed to provide you with valuable insights quickly and efficiently. As a valued benefit of your KHCHA membership, this informative program delves into the latest hot topics within the Medicare home health sector and is offered for free to KHCHA members!

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  January's Hot Topic: 

  OASIS-E1 Update: What Has Changed?
  

  Tuesday, January 14, 2025 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) (CST) - Login at 10:45

  Description

  The OASIS-E1 is a minor revision to the data set but includes deletions, revisions and a new item for COVID vaccination status. This webinar will catch you up on the changes in items, their associated guidance and teach best practices for accurate OASIS data collection for 2025.
  

  Meet the Speaker

  Jennifer Osburn is a Clinical Consultant with Healthcare Provider Solutions, Inc. (HPS). With over 30 years of home health experience, Jennifer brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise which includes education and training, agency management, quality, clinical case management, and software technology. She is also a credentialed OASIS and ICD-10 Coding expert.

  Jennifer began her home health career in a large privately owned agency after transitioning from Medical-Surgical Urology hospital nursing; however, she has worked for all types of agencies in multiple states. Her love for sharing knowledge and experience led her to clinical consulting, where she enjoys translating technical guidance into information that the busy home health professional can deploy to improve the efficiency and quality of care being delivered to the patients they serve.

  Jennifer Osburn has led numerous home health educational seminars for state and national associations as well as specifically designed education training plans for agencies for the past 12 years. In addition to consulting across the US, she has trained staff for The Joint Commission and ACHC, has authored numerous industry blogs and articles, and has assisted home health software companies with solutions that ensure compliance with Medicare guidelines. Her areas of expertise and firsthand experience include OASIS, ICD-10-CM Coding, Case Management, Medicare Home Health Conditions of Participation, Billing Requirements, Documentation Compliance for Quality and Payment, Emergency Preparedness, Agency Operations, and PDGM.

  Registration Fees

  Registration fees per session for this series are as follows:

  • KHCHA Members: FREE
  • Non-Members: $25

  An additional registration fee will be charged for each additional non-member login. Participants are encouraged to log in at least 15 minutes before the program begins. Following the webinar, a link to the recording will be emailed to all registrants (typically within a week).   

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• Monthly Member Roundtable

  • When
    Thursday, January 16, 2025
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    11:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    74

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  Beginning in January 2025, all KHCHA members are invited to participate in our Monthly Member Roundtables at 11:00 am CT on the third Thursday of every month. Each month will cover a different topic and will be hosted/facilitated by a different KHCHA District or At-Large Representative. Join us!!
  

  
  

  
  

  I am excited to host the first roundtable meeting in 2025! 

  
  

  We are pleased to have Jeff Miller and perhaps others from KDHE as guest speakers!  He has been instrumental in helping many of us with challenges with Authenticare. This will be a very timely topic as the claims processing updates that will require that all transactions run through Authenticare is scheduled to deploy on January 23.  

  
  

  Jeff has asked that we send him any specific topics that we want covered to him prior to the roundtable. Please include those in your registration or send directly to Kristen at kada@kshomecare.org!

  Pam Morgan

  Director of Finance

  Douglas County Visiting Nurses Association, Inc.

  KHCHA At-Large Representative

  
  

  Registration is required in order to receive Zoom link.

  
  

  
  

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• KHCHA Spring Clinical Conference

  • Start
    Tuesday, April 08, 2025
  • End
    Wednesday, April 09, 2025
  • Location
    Bluemont Hotel, Manhattan, KS

  
  

  Full Details Coming in Early February!

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