Home Care March on Washington:
HCAC's annual trek to the nation's capitol was successful with visits made to all nine of Colorado's congressional offices. Elected officials and their health care staffs were educated about the disastrous effects of imposing a co-pay on home health services and were asked to support legislation to allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to order home health. See more!

Agencies can complement their orientation of new nurses with an online course available monthly, either through a facilitated or independent study course. Your nurses will dive into four dynamic modules providing them with the fundamentals that include planning and making a home visit as well as the clinical applications using actual case scenarios to challenge critical thinking skills. And, 24 continuing education credits will be granted for coursework upon completion!

This course has been written, designed and developed by home health nurses. The Facilitated Course will have two weekly conference calls led by a home health care professional, and will last 4 weeks. The Independent Study Course will allow the user to complete the course at their own pace. The course is expected to take anywhere between 2-10 weeks to complete depending on which format of the course the student chooses to take.

Click here for details and to register!

Erin Denholm named CMS Innovation Advisor
Erin is past president of HCAC and current chair of the Colorado Foundation for Home Care Technology & Education

Erin Denholm, president and CEO of Centura Health at Home, has been named an Innovation Advisor by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Innovation Advisors will work with the CMS Innovation Center to create and test new models of care delivery in their own organizations and communities, and share them throughout the United States. The 73 Innovation Advisors were selected from 920 applicants through a competitive process, and include clinicians, allied health professionals, health administrators and others. Participating advisors will deepen their knowledge in health care economics and finance, population health, systems analysis, and operations research. Among other duties, the advisors will support the Innovation Center in testing new models of care delivery, forming partnerships with local organizations to drive delivery system reform, and improving their own health systems to achieve better care at a lower cost for the communities they serve. Read full press release....

New Partnership Offers Powerful Resources and
E-Learning Discounts

CHAMP is offering a "Spring Fever" discount that starts today, March 20th, and runs through March 30th, which means HCAC members are eligible for an additional 20% discount off of any CHAMP course. Click here for more information.

HCAC has teamed with CHAMP (Collaboration for Homecare Advances in Management and Practice) to bring valuable resources to our members. CHAMP is an innovative web-based initiative to advance home care excellence for older persons. CHAMP’s website, www.champ-program.org, offers a “go to” place where frontline clinicians can find relevant resources (tools, practical checklists, guides, reminders, patient and clinician education materials, etc.) for use in the home setting. CHAMP also provides e-learning courses tailored to the home care sector and a community blog with advice from colleagues on key topics for geriatric care. In addition, there is a growing inventory of evidence-based tools to help providers trying to make a real difference in the lives of older people who receive care at home.

Upcoming Courses on Advance Clinical and Leadership Skills
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HCAC members receive an additional 20% discount!
 

Home Care Manager Certificate Program (HCMCP)  Offered year-round in cooperation with the California Association for Health Services at Home. This entire program, including the Colorado specific modules, has been developed to meet new licensure regulations.
Click Here for details and additional information on licensure regulations.
 

Click here for date, place and dial-in number for 2012 CDPHE Home Care Advisory Committee meetings!

Plus:

þ Home Care Guide to
Pandemic Flu
 

The National Association for
Home Care and the state home care associations have initiated a new public policy education program entitled "HelpUsChooseHome."
Click the logo above to see details
and the video shown to members of Colorado's congressional delegation
in Washington, D.C. in April.