Healthcare Highwire

Developing, Executing and Sustaining a Strategic Post-Acute Care Plan

Episode 69: 00:36:56

Blake Gillman, VP/Director of Post-Acute Care Services, Cindi Nelson, VP/Director of Healthcare Marketing and Sales and Tony Galvan, Director of Health and Wellness discuss how communities can create and maintain a successful post-acute care plan.  With the ever-changing healthcare landscape, the conversation focuses on the importance of leveraging market-specific data to drive the relationships, outcomes and programs, such as Health & Wellness Navigation, to deliver an effective strategy.

Compliance and Ethics Program Part 5 of 10: Element #4-Due Diligence

Episode 68:  00:08:02

Laura Franco, VP/Director of Post-Acute Regulatory Strategy meets with Beth Lori, Compliance Director and Corporate Compliance Officer for Life Care Services to review Element #4 of the Compliance and Ethics Program.  This is the fifth in a 10-part series outlining the requirements of the program.

Compliance and Ethics Program Part 4 of 10: Element #3-Sufficient Resources

Episode 67:  00:07:15

Laura Franco VP/Director of Post-Acute Regulatory Strategy meets with Beth Lori, Compliance Director and Corporate Compliance Officer for Life Care Services to review Element #3 of the Compliance and Ethics Program. This is the fourth in a 10-part series outlining the requirements of the program.

Overview of Changes to the MDS Oct. 1, 2018: Addressing Therapy sections

Episode 66:  00:19:17

Meredith Mull, Director of Rehabilitation Standards for Life Care Services, discusses a high level overview of the changes to the SNF MDS coming October 2018 that will affect therapy. The CAST discusses the apparent changes relating to proposed payment reforms and alignment with other industry programs and initiatives.

Second Quarter Survey Activity

Episode 65:  00:13:10

Deb Goss, Director of Survey Compliance, examines the first half of 2018 LCS health center survey activity with the new Requirements of Participation and the new Long Term Care Survey Process.  The average number of deficiencies with comparative numbers are discussed as well as the top five (5) deficiencies.  Deficiency scope and severity are briefly identified as well.

The Final Rule Discussion

Episode 64:  00:27:16

Blake Gillman, VP/Director of Post-Acute Strategy and Laura Franco, VP/Director of Post-Acute Regulatory Strategy have an open discussion about the recently published Final Rule. The four main topics discussed are:

• The market basket increase
• SNF VBP
• SNF QRP
• The new payment model - PDPM

F610-Investigate, present and correct alleged violations

Episode 63:  00:11:24

In this podcast, Laura Franco, VP/Director of Post-Acute Strategy and Jennifer Lamb, RN MBA, Mock Surveyor at Life Care Services discuss the new CMS F-tag F610 – Investigate, present and correct alleged violations. This podcast is part of a 49 podcast series where Laura and Jennifer explore all 49 potential substantial care citations with the new F-tag numbering system.

Conversation with Beth Sanders from LifeBio

Episode 62:  00:22:07

Laura Franco VP/Director of Post-Acute Regulatory Strategy meets with Beth Sanders, Founder and Owner of LifeBio. Laura and Beth discuss the benefit of capturing and individual’s life story and how LifeBio supports a Person-Centered Care Environment.

F609-Reporting of Alleged Violations

Episode 61: 00:13:30

In this podcast, Laura Franco, VP/Director of Post-Acute Strategy and Jennifer Lamb, RN MBA, Mock Surveyor at Life Care Services discuss the new CMS F-tag F609 – Reporting of alleged violations. This podcast is part of a 49 podcast series where Laura and Jennifer explore all 49 potential substantial care citations with the new F-tag numbering system.

Part 3- Conversation with Colin Milner, focusing on ICAA’s Business Case for Wellness white paper

Episode 60:  00:24:30

In the third and final part of our time with Colin, we begin by going over how effective wellness programs help to create competitive positioning for communities by powering sales and marketing efforts.  We talk about how this applies across all levels of care within a community and how it relates to referral sources in particular.  Part of this includes the leveraging of a wellness program in a community’s post-acute strategy.  We close with Colin discussing the ICAA’s Leadership in Wellness Management Certificate.