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May 18: The New Fraud and Abuse, Stark, and False Claims Initiatives WEBINAR
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am
Purpose: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes new enforcement provisions that provide federal and state governments additional tools to identify and take action against potential fraud and abuse. This webinar will cover changes to the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Law, the False Claims Act, and other criminal and civil enforcement provisions. The webinar will identify enforcement hot spots for hospitals and health systems, and provide suggestions for reducing the risk of liability under these laws.
Target Audience: CEOs, CFOs, CNOs, compliance officers, reimbursement personnel, clinical directors and administrative team, physician leadership, hospital trustees, and legal counsel.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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May 19: Employment Law Update 2010 WEBINAR
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Purpose: This webinar will provide a unique opportunity to understand the latest court cases, legislative and regulatory activity and crucial developments that will affect your workplace and your responsibilities in the coming year and beyond. The presenters will guide you through the maze of new developments in a fast-paced and fun-filled session that will prepare you for the challenges that lie ahead.
Program Topics:
- Recent statutory changes, including the Ledbetter Fair Act, Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act, and amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act;
- Latest case developments;
- Wage and hour issues; and
- Social networking
Target Audience: CNOs, Human Resource vice presidents/directors, department managers, legal counsel, and frontline supervisors.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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May 20: Prevention of Multi-drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) The Interface of Practice and the Environment WEBINAR
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Purpose: Provide an overview of the threat of MDROs transmission in the hospital and address the specific prevention strategies to reduce the transmission of these organisms, including MRSA, and related healthcare associated infections (HAI). CDC and APIC recommendations, the Joint Commission National Safety Goals requirements and successful prevention strategies will be reviewed.
Program Topics:
- Multi-drug Resistant Organisms - The Patient Safety Threat
- National Attention to MDROs
- Planning and Implementing Effective Strategies
- Hierarchy of controls
- Elimination of potential exposures
- Engineering controls
- Administrative controls
- Protective Equipment
- Assessing New Technologies
- Lessons Learned from the GMCF MRSA Scope of Work
Target Audience: CEOs, COOs, CNOs, the Joint Commission Coordinators, performance improvement directors, risk managers, patient safety officers, infection control staff, leadership in nursing and other clinical departments, professional staff nurses and other clinical staff.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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May 25: The New Payment Arrangements and Delivery System Reform Initiatives WEBINAR
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am
Purpose: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes new provisions that continue to shift reimbursement from fee-for-service to value based and bundled payments. In addition, many pilot programs have been created, with incentives for providers to develop new systems for coordinating care that integrating hospitals, physicians, and other providers. This session will review the new payment arrangements and delivery system initiatives and identify the timeframes for their implementation. The session will also provide pointers for hospitals and health systems as they implement the new payment arrangements and plan for increasingly integrated delivery models.
Target Audience: CEOs, CFOs, CNOs, compliance officers, reimbursement personnel, clinical directors and administrative team, physician leadership, hospital trustees, and legal counsel.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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June 8: Quality, Tax Exemption, and Other Reform Issues Providers Need to Know WEBINAR
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am
Purpose: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act introduces a variety of important provisions designed to address quality of care, tax exemption, and many other issues in the delivery of healthcare. This session will serve as a reform "grab bag," providing discussion of several topics with one thing in common: providers need to be aware of them.
Target Audience: CEOs, CFOs, CNOs, compliance officers, reimbursement personnel, clinical directors and administrative team, physician leadership, hospital trustees, and legal counsel.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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June 9-11: 14th Annual Western Regional Trustee Symposium - Elevating the Standards of Hospital Governance
Date: June 9-11, 2010
Location: Hyatt Regency Denver at the Convention Center Downtown, Denver, CO
Purpose: Attendees at this symposium will gain increased knowledge about many issues through educational sessions, networking, and information exchange with other trustees.
Target Audience: Trustees and executive staff from hospitals and health systems.
For more information and to register, please go to www.trusteesymposium.org
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June 17: HIPAA in a HITECH World: Proposed Amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule and How They Will Affect Your Hospital WEBINAR
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Purpose: The HITECH Act of 2009 mandated major changes in the HIPAA Privacy Rule. This webinar will cover the proposed changes to the HIPPA Privacy Rule, which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has indicated it will publish in May 2010. These changes are expected to include new rules on business associate contacting, restrictions on disclosure to health plans, patient electronic access to their health information, new restrictions on marketing and fundraising, and more.
Target Audience: CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CIOs, compliance officers, hospital legal counsel, privacy officers, and security officers.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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June 22: Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: Implications for Hospitals WEBINAR
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Purpose: The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) is a federal law that provides participants who already have benefits under mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) coverage parity with benefits limitations under their medical/surgical coverage. On February 2, 2010, regulations implementing MHPAEA were published.
Program Topics:
- Introduction
- Loopholes existed in old Mental Health Parity Act
- MHPAEA
- Designed to achieve total parity
- No aggregate annual or lifetime dollar limitations allowed
- New disclosure requirements
- Quantitative treatment limitations
- Non-quantitative treatment limitations
- Financial requirements
- New Definitions
- Party Rules
- Six classifications of benefits
- Parity rules on aggregated and annual dollar limits
- No limits, combined level or equivalent limit, or weighted average equivalent
- Application of rule - Parity rules on aggregate and annual dollar limits
- Within and outside coverage levels
- Special rule for multi-tiered drug benefits - Parity rules on financial and quantitative treatment limits
- MHPAEA Disclosure Requirements
- Best Practices
Target Audience: CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CMOs, CNOs, mental health directors, HR directors, social workers, and legal counsel.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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July 7: Hospitalist Programs: The Pros, the Cons, the Traps WEBINAR
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Purpose: This webinar will share with participants what a quality hospitalist program should look like. Both rural Critical Access hospitals and larger metropolitan facilities will learn what the primary challenges are of establishing a hospitalist program. Participants will learn the key elements of a successful program, how to evaluate their hospitalist program, and what the return on investment (ROI) could be.
Objectives: At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Assess the various hospitalist program models for application in their hospital
2. Establish performance metrics for hospitalists program with which the program can be measured and managed
3. Design a Cost/Benefit analysis for a potential or existing hospitalist program
4. Articulate the challenges in starting a rural hospitalist program as well as some ways to overcome those challenges
5. Articulate the challenges of starting a metropolitan hospitalist program as well as some ways to overcome those challenges
Target Audience: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and recruiting directors.
Registration:
AzHHA member rate: $200.00 per connection
Non-member rate: $400.00 per connection
For additional information and to register visit www.azhha.org/educational_services and click on Education Events
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or email edservices@azhha.org
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October 14-15: AzHHA's 2010 Annual Membership Conference: "Bringing the Future into Focus"
Date: October 14 & 15
Location: The Buttes Resort, Tempe, AZ
"Bringing the Future into Focus"
Featured Speakers:
Lowell B. Catlett, Ph.D is an exciting futurist...Regent's Professor/Dean and Chief Administrative Officer at New Mexico State University's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
Ron Galloway, Director of the noted documentary film "Why Wal-Mart works and why that makes some people crazy", and the soon to be released documentary film "Rebooting Healthcare."
John Nance, author of Why Hospitals Should Fly, named the 2009 "Book of the Year" by the American College of Healthcare Executives.
AzHHA's 2010 Annual Membership Conference brings hospital leadership from throughout the state for two days of education, networking and knowledge exchange. Please mark your calendars for October 14-15, as you will not want to miss this year's conference.
More detailed information will be available soon.
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By the Book - AzHHA's On-Line Bookstore
Welcome to By the Book
AzHHA's online bookstore delivers you the most up-to-date healthcare publications, books and other resources. By the book features a large selection of readings pertaining to areas that impact hospitals, including patient safety, workforce, compliance, finance and leadership. Whether you are looking for a book or resource to help you in your job, or to assist your entire staff, this online bookstore is to help. To access the online bookstore, click here.
While we feature the latest and more popular readings, we are open to our suggestions on other books to offer. Please feel free to e-mail edservices@azhha.org with your recommendations.
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careLearning
careLearning, your education management solution. careLearning is a comprehensive, Internet-based learning and learner management system for healthcare providers. Keeping employees trained appropriately and their skills and competencies up-to-date is a constant challenge for hospitals and healthcare providers. Add on the expenses associated with developing curriculum and difficulty of scheduling and it's easy to understand why healthcare provides are looking for alternatives to training.
Explore various types of learning with the help of careLearning: Mandatory Education, Competencies, Continuing Education, Hospital Specific Private Courses, Webinars and Nursing Education.
Learn more about careLearning or to download a brochure.
Questions, please call LeAnn Swanson, AzHHA Education at 602-445-4300 or e-mail: edservices@azhha.org
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Monthly Donor Network WEBINAR
Join us the third Wednesday of each month as we feature different speakers and discuss resources designed to increase organ donation at Arizona hospitals.
There is no cost to participate but if you would like to participate please email edservices@azhha.org to receive information on accessing the webinar a few days prior. Numerous people at your site are encouraged to participate in the webinar through one registration (utilizing one computer and one telephone line).
The next webinar is Wednesday, May 19
Upcoming Dates: June 23 & July 21
The Donor Network of Arizona and the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association are part of an HHS national breakthrough collaborative for organ donation. These monthly webinar series are being presented jointly in an effort to educate Arizona hospital professionals about organ donation and to increase our statewide conversion rate.
Questions: Please call 602-445-4356 or e-mail edservices@azhha.org
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