NHPCO’s Interdisciplinary Conference Strengthen Your Organization: Care, Compliance, Quality

Monday, September 18, 2017

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


2A
Management of Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors
Paul A Sloan, MD

2B
Improving Interdisciplinary Leadership: Benefits of Coaching & Mentoring for New (and Not so New) Leaders
Sandra Lee Huster, BA, Patricia Talone, MSPT, Leanna Anderson, MSW, LICSW, Melinda M. Gruber, MBA, PhD, Bernice M Burkarth, MD, HMDC, FAAHPM, Cathy Emmett, PhD, ARNP, ACHPN, Dan Haire, RN, BSN, CHPN, Diane Snyder Cowan, CHPCA, MA, MT-BC, Brian W Jones, DHSc, CHPCA and Carla Cheatham, MA, MDiv, PhD, TRT

2C
What Your Medical Director Needs to Know About Determining and Documenting Relatedness: The Evidence Base for Coverage of Diagnoses and Drugs
Joan K Harrold, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAHPM and Robert Crook, MD, FACP, FAAHPM

2D
HQRP Updates
Carol D Spence, PhD and Jennifer L Kennedy, MA, BSN, RN, CHC

2E
Keeping Up With the Contractors - The Latest Trends in UPIC, ZPIC & MIC Audits
Meg S.L. Pekarske, JD and Karla Pinkerton, JD

2F
Counseling the Heart to Address Non-DNR Status Amongst Hospice Patient
Russell E Hilliard, PhD, LCSW, LCAT, MT-BC, CHRC

2G
Should I Stop the Warfarin? The Role of Antithrombotics in End-of-Life Care
Myra T Belgeri, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS, FASCP

1:45 PM-3:00 PM


3A
Breathing Easier: Palliative Management of COPD
Stephen A. Leedy, MD, MA, FAAHPM, HMDC

3B
Change Ready or Change Adverse?: The Role of the Team Leader in Successful Change Management
Sarah McKinnon, MA

3C
Interventional Pain Management for Hospice Patients
Paul A Sloan, MD

3D
Minding Your Ps for Q...Performance Improvement Priorities to Ensure and Enhance Quality
Melissa "Missy" D Ring

3E
Outliving Prognosis: Addressing Clinical and Regulatory Issues for Eligible Hospice Patients Living Past Their Expected Prognosis
Todd Robert Cote, MD, FAAHPM, FAAFP and Eugenia Smither, RN, BS, CHC, CHE, CHP

3F
"Can't We Just Get This Over With"? New Responses to Requests to Hasten Death
Jennifer M Ballentine, MA and John Tastad, MA

3G
Teaching Compassionate Communication to the Interdisciplinary Team
Larry Dawalt, MDiv, CT, CTSS and Jillian A. Tullis, PhD

3:15 PM-4:45 PM


4A
Cardiac Disease State Management: Partnering Across the Continuum
Daniel L Maison, MD, FAAHPM and Balu Natarajan, MD, HMDC

4B
Everyone Pulls Their Weight! Building Strong Interdisciplinary Teams: The Management/Leadership Role
Gary Gardia, MEd, MSW, LCSW

4C
Keys to Success in Managing Addiction in End-of-Life Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Russell E Hilliard, PhD, LCSW, LCAT, MT-BC, CHRC, Joan K Harrold, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAHPM, Yelena Zatulovsky, LCAT, MT-BC, CCLS, GC-C, HPMT and Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, MA, MDE, BCPS, CPE

4D
Hospice Compliance vs. Hospice Quality: Is Your Program Balanced?
Sarah McSpadden, RN, MSN, MHA

4E
Regulatory and Quality Hot Topics
Jennifer L Kennedy, MA, BSN, RN, CHC and Judi Lund Person, MPH, CHC

4F
Why Supervision Matters: The Impact of Management Structure on Practice and Patient Outcomes
Nancy Flowers, MSW, LCSW, Leanna Anderson, MSW, LICSW and Susan Bruno, MSW, ACSW, LCSW

4G
Guided Imagery and Dream Processing: Providing Comfort Care and Support During Life's Final Journey
Gretchen Franklin, LISW

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

11:00 AM-12:00 PM


6A
Hanging in the Balance: Successful Strategies to Maintain Sustainable Community-Based Palliative Care Services
Todd Cote, MD, HMDC, FAAHPM, FAAFP and Anne Monroe, MHA

6B
Maximizing Ethical Practices of the IDT
Paul D Longenecker, RN, MBA, PhD

6C
Morbid Obesity and End-of-Life Care: A 21st Century Problem
Joelle A Vlahakis, MD, FAAP, HMDC, FAAHPM

6D
Building Quality - Achieving Results: A Framework for Performance
Jacqueline Marie Lopez-Devine, RN, MSN

6E
Preventing & Managing Unplanned Hospitalizations
Roseanne Berry, MS, RN

6F
Final Stories
Ronald King, DMin

6G
Happening at a VA Near You: Conversations, Care Planning and Care
Deborah Way, MD, CMD, FAAHPM

2:00 PM-3:15 PM


7A
The Evidence and Best Practices Around Palliative Use of Marijuana
Thomas Strouse, MD

7B
A Passport to Transformational Leadership
Jacqueline Marie Lopez-Devine, RN, MSN

7C
New Drugs and Drug News: The 411 and Palliative Care Implications
Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, MA, MDE, BCPS, CPE

7D
Getting Flagged with a Tag is a Drag: CMS Top 10 Survey Deficiencies and Your QAPI Program
Jennifer L Kennedy, MA, BSN, RN, CHC and Eugenia Smither, RN, BS, CHC, CHE, CHP

7E
Learning From Others' Mistakes: Using CIA Implementation Challenges to Enhance Your Compliance Program's Effectiveness
Joanna Bennett, CHC, CPC and Heather Fields, JD, CHC, CCEP-I

7F
Techniques for Excellence in Attunement and Presence: Improving Staff, Patient and Family Satisfaction
Carla Cheatham, MA, MDiv, PhD, TRT

7G
"Au Naturel": Enhancing End-of-Life Symptom Management with Complementary Therapies
Britni Lookabaugh, MD and Jessica Erin Geiger-Hayes, PharmD, BCPS, CPE

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

10:00 AM-11:00 AM


10A
Palliative Use of Antipsychotics at EOL in Long-term Care: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
Birinder Marwah and Joan K Harrold, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAHPM

10B
The Experience of Compound Loss Within the Hospice Team
Yelena Zatulovsky, LCAT, MT-BC, CCLS, GC-C, HPMT and Ryana Goldberger, LCSW

10C
At The Table: Hospice’s Role In a Rapidly Changing Healthcare Environment
Daniel L Maison, MD, FAAHPM

10D
QAPI: I Have Data, Now What?
Ann Marie Ackerman, RN, BSN, MBA

10E
How Your IDG's Documentation Can Turn Around Top Cited Deficiencies
Colleen O'Keefe, RN

10F
Concerns in the Aging LGBT Population
Stephen Libby, LSW

10G
Simulation in Hospice: A Flight Plan for the Future
Demora McClave, PhD(c), MSN, Ed, RN, CHPN and Mary S Richt

11:15 AM-12:15 PM


11A
From Research to Practice: Implementation of ACO-Based Palliative Care Programs in a Research Environment
Torrie Fields, MPH and Susan Enguidanos, PhD

11B
Give the Team the Tools They Need: Creating Effective Communication Skills Workshops
Sheila Marquart, EdS, MSN and Lisa McGuire, MSN, BSN, RN, CPN

11C
The Balancing Act of Medication Use at the End of Life
Allison Webb, PharmD, BCGP, CDP

11D
Building Additional Serious Illness Measures into Medicare Programs
Lee Goldberg, JD, Deborah Waldrop, PhD, LMSW, Donna Dugan, PhD, MS and Katy Barnett, MPS

11E
Foreshadowing and Fortune-telling: What is CMS Telling Us?
Joan K Harrold, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAHPM and Judi Lund Person, MPH

11F
The Helper's Journey 2.0
Dale G. Larson, Ph.D.

11G
The Social Model Hospice; An Innovative Solution to the Caregiver Crisis
Kelley Scott, RN, BSN, CHPN and Jennifer K Clark, MD