The Broussard Group 2021 Healthcare Conference

4728 Constitution Avenue,Baton Rouge LA 70808

27 April, 2021

Description

Intense. Clinically Focused. Rigorously Informative! Purpose Broussard’s Healthcare Conference will provide attendees in the post-acute care environment with education on how to prioritize, delegate, and promote critical thinking and effective decision making. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze reports and consider case studies to identify areas for improvement and develop strategic plans to assure quality and improvements for optimal resident outcomes. Participants will be empowered with the tools and resources needed to be successful and will come away with increased confidence, improved job performance and personal satisfaction. Do not miss this opportunity! Target Audience This program is designed for Providers, Administrators, Directors of Nursing, Assistant Directors of Nursing, Nurse Managers, RNs and LPNs, Marketing Liaison, Dietary, Therapy, Infection Preventionist, with beginning to intermediate levels of expertise or for advanced nurses who may need a “refresher”. Meet the 2021 Healthcare Sponsors & Speakers Moira Reeves RN, RAC-CTA, Broussard Healthcare Consulting: Session Title: Leadership – The Touchstone of a Nursing Home Summary: The source of expectations for the role comes from all directions—the Administrator, facility staff, residents, families, and State and federal regulatory bodies. Learn how to look at the role of the Director of Nursing (DON) with more than a nursing eye! Session Title: How to Keep on top of 5 Star Quality Measures Summary: Learn how today’s data will impact future outcomes and publicly reported measures. Session Title: ICD-10 & PDPM Summary: The PDPM classification system relies on the resident’s clinical conditions rather than the quantity of services as the focus of Medicare payments. Managing a systematic diagnosis coding process will become the foundation of accurate payment classification. Lea Ann Walsh RN, Broussard Healthcare Consulting: Session Title: Infection Prevention Infection Control Summary: This session will provide implementation strategies for infection prevention and infection control protocols and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Session Title: QAPI 101 Summary: An effective Quality Improvement / Quality Assurance (QI/QA) committee is much more than the nursing management team of your facility. Session Title: QAPI - Root Cause Analysis Summary: In this session, learn how to involve the entire interdisciplinary team. This presentation will examine current practices within the facility and how to improve your facility’s positive outcomes. Session Title: Implementation of a Falls Management Program Summary: A Falls Management Program is an interdisciplinary quality improvement initiative. It is designed to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care, and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement tools. Lori Haen RN, RAC-CT, CRM, CDONA, LNHA, Broussard Healthcare Consulting: Session Title: Focused Survey – Are you ready ? Summary: Are you ready for survey to kick back up? Survey readiness should be practiced in your building every day. Learn how to use CMS pathway tools. Review the different level of tags that can be given to your facility. Identify areas that survey is targeting for this year. Session Title: Emergency Preparedness – Resolve to be Ready Summary: Ahhh….Mother Nature, she arrives without any warning. Since you cannot predict where you will be for disasters, it is important to have plans and supplies for the places you go to regularly. Planning makes sure that your facility will know what to do and have the supplies you need to be safe wherever you are. Session Title: Healing and Wound Staging Summary: Wounds come in all shapes and sizes, so having standardized criteria to categorize each can help clinicians provide more holistic and seamless care for patients, especially if multiple individuals are providing various segments of wound care for a single patient. Presenter: Henry Okonkwo, Chief Medical Officer & Chief Operations Officer Session Title: The PDPM and Wounds (Pressure, Diabetic, Vascular, and Others) Understanding the Paradigm Shift Summary: Discuss how healthcare is becoming more data and metrics driven and how rising healthcare costs are affecting SNFs. Develop full understanding of PDPM and its payment components, while explaining how wounds impact reimbursement. Describe the point system under PDPM and how different wound diagnosis earn different number of points. Presenter: Dr. William Day, DPh, PD, RPh, FASCP Session Title: Antibiotic Stewardship: Keep It Safe and Susceptible (KISS) Summary: Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications in nursing homes, with up to 70% of residents in a nursing home receiving one or more courses of systemic antibiotics when followed over a year. Harms from antibiotic overuse are significant for the frail and older adults receiving care in nursing homes. In this session, Dr. William Day adapts the CDC Core Elements into practical ways to initiate or expand antibiotic stewardship activities in nursing homes. Presenter: Eran Arden Session Title: Mitigate the risks of social isolation with RESTORE-Skills Summary: From the safety of their rooms, residents can play remotely with their loved ones, connect with other residents in the skilled nursing facility for a group activity, and even participate in live, nationwide gaming tournaments - without noticing the effort they are putting into the session. Presenters: David Menchue - CEO/Owner-Partner of Group Purchasing Advantage Joe Simpson - Sales Director, Bonafide Session Title: Bac-Track ATP Testing and Cloud Based Infection Control Solution Summary: Monitor contamination risk and track infections through one cloud-based platform. Keep your patients and staff safe through real-time ATP monitoring by facility, department, and even down to a single room. Remain CDC compliant according to 483.80 Guidelines which includes a system of surveillance. Connect all facilities and reports of contamination and provide reporting of outbreaks to visualize better understanding and a corrective plan of action. Presenters: David Menchue - CEO/Owner-Partner of Group Purchasing Advantage Amanda Taylor - RDN, LDN, Director of Clinical Operations Session Title: Implementing Liberalized Diets and Reduce the Risk of Malnutrition Summary: Food is an essential component of quality of life; an unpalatable or unacceptable diet can lead to poor food and fluid intake, resulting in malnutrition and related negative health effects. Presenter: Dr. Kyle Daigle, DC FIBFN-CND Session Title: Improving Clinical Outcomes with the Utilization of Neurosage and Hemispheric Approach Summary: Optimum muscle function is what keeps us alive and in motion. Specific visual and auditory stimulation along with prescribed physical exercises can accelerate one’s muscle strength and function. Attention and Cognition issues are on the rise with patients. Learn how to use interactive video games with specific eye movements that has been effective in improving cognitive function. Presenter: Krista Olson, MS, CCC-SLP Session Title: Reimbursement Rewind: Strategies for Success in this Post-PDPM Era Summary: Efficient, high quality clinical care. Outcomes & key performance measures. Sustainable fiscal success in this post PDPM Era. Session Title: Surviving and Thriving in 2021: Strategies and Solutions to Rebuilding Census and forming partnerships amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Summary: With the continued surge of COVID-19, providers across the state continue to report concerns regarding declining and fluctuating census numbers compared to pre-COVID amounts. Now more than ever it is essential to develop a market plan to target census growth and network development in the new year. Session Title: Waiver Utilization in the COVID-19 World Summary: A Falls Management Program is an interdisciplinary quality improvement initiative. It is designed to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care, and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement tools. Presenters: Nicole Seabolt, MS, CCC-SLP, DCS, RAC-CT Laurie Fuller, L/COTA, DCS, RAC-CT Session Title: Caring for the Cognitively Impaired Resident – A Person Centered Care Approach Summary: During this discussion, you are going to be provided with a common framework about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, imperative information regarding regulatory mandates, and vitally important strategies, tools, and resources. Registration Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u28v1y4o1cnis0j/Broussard%20Healthcare%20Conference%20Registration%20Info%20%26%20Agenda.pdf?dl=0