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Remington’s 10th Annual Think Tank Summit Pre-Conference Agenda
March 11-13, 2012
Don Cesar Beach Hotel  •  St. Pete’s Beach, Florida

Forecasting The Future Of Home Care In The Era Of Health Care Reform
New Innovations To Leverage Post-Acute Services


Pre-Conference
Home Care: Strategies For Growth, Diversification And New Value Propositions

Sunday, March 11, 2012
7:30 am – 2:30 pm

Pre-Conference Registration
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Grand Ballroom – 1st Floor
Networking Breakfast
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Grand Ballroom – 1st Floor
Attendees can enjoy a casual, free-flowing networking breakfast that provides an opportunity to catch-up with peers.
Transforming And Rethinking Home Care
8:30 am – 9:45 am
9:35 am – 9:45 am  •  Interactive Discussions
Grand Ballroom – 1st Floor
Speaker: Barbara McCann, Chief Industry Officer, Interim Healthcare, And At-large Representative Of The Home Care Profession To The Joint Commission’s Standards And Survey Procedures Committee
In this session, challenge or validate your agency’s strategic priorities to be sure they are aligning with health care reform initiatives. CEUs
• Build a shared understanding of home care and post-acute services as it exists today vs. the changes it needs to make.
• Discover key models and concepts that align with health “system” reform.
• Identify key internal and external challenges of transforming and rethinking home care.

Networking Break
9:45 am – 10:15 am
Grand Ballroom – 1st Floor
Bundled Payment Case Study For Hip Replacement – A Shared-Savings Risk Model Between Home Care, Health Plan And Physicians
10:15 am –11:15 am
11:05 am – 11:15 am  •  Interactive Discussions

Grand Ballroom – 1st Floor

Speaker: Ruth Odgren, President, Baystate Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice
New emerging risk-sharing models are opening-up both opportunities and challenges for home care. This agency’s health care system is on track to become an ACO. In this session we explore a “live” case study of a bundled payment for hip replacement. CEUs
Strategies:
 
• How The Model Works
• Risk-Based Pricing
• Performance Metrics
• Clinical Care Changes
• Financial Rewards
• Demonstration of Value
Home Care Diversification – Identifying New Revenue Streams
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
11:50 – 12:00 pm  •  Interactive Discussions
Grand Ballroom – 1st Floor
Speaker: Elaine Davis Jones, Chief Operating Officer, CareMinders Home Care
Challenge your agency to “think out of the box.” As deep Medicare cuts and pressures to do more with less loom over the future, learn the ropes from an agency that expanded their business to hedge the future and identify new revenue streams. CEUs
Strategies:
• Long-Term Care
• Third Party Payors
• Private Pay
• Medicaid
• Grants
• VA Programs
• Specialty Programs
Lunch
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
King Charles Ballroom – 5th Floor
Networking Discussion Groups With Your Peers!
These popular and informative interactive round table discussions will allow you to participate in lively, facilitated discussions, share common experiences, and find new solutions to challenges you deal with everyday with your peers from the same agency size.
The Value Of Home Care In Accountable Care
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm  •  Interactive Discussions
Grand Ballroom – 1st Floor
Speakers: Donna DeBlois, Executive Director of Kno-Wal-Lin Homecare and Hospice and Vice President of Community Health, Pen Bay Health; Maryanna Arsenault, President & CEO HomeHealth Visiting Nurses
In this session hear from home care providers that have defined the value of home care in accountable care. They focus on home care’s value proposition for reducing readmissions. CEUs
• Identify core competencies of home care in accountable care.
• Discuss measurement tools that drive home care’s value.
• Explore key clinical models and process measures to support value.
• Identify to value propositions – What are key characteristics of success?
Adjournment
2:30 pm

 Welcome Networking Wine & Cheese Reception
6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Pavilion West – Lower Deck
Join your colleagues, peers and conference supporters for wine and cheese. Spouses must be pre-paid to attend.
 Note: The Pre-Conference cannot be attended without registering for the entire conference.
 

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