Ensuring Your Community-Based Palliative Care Success
ONE DAY ONLY! This seminar has proven to be extremely helpful to anyone working to launch or upgrade a community-based palliative care program. Palliative care is an integral part of the post-acute care networks being developed in response to CMS value-based care initiatives. Who is better positioned to offer these services than your organization?
This is the time to jump-start or revitalize your program!
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Palliative Care Education From Experts You Know
This seminar features content developed by national palliative care experts including Janet Bull, Jean Acevedo, Torrie Fields, Kathleen Kerr, Brian Cassel, Kathy Brandt, Helen McNeal, and more!
Implementing and integrating a community-based palliative care program is a complex endeavor. Can you answer all of these questions affirmatively? If not, then this one-day, live course is for you.
- Do you understand the benefits and challenges of each type of palliative care model?
- Have you assessed the needs in your community using publically available data and stakeholder interviews?
- Do you know how to bill CMS for palliative care?
- Is your palliative care budget realistic?
- Can you present an evidenced-based business case to payers or provider partners?
- Are you measuring the right quality indicators to demonstrate the effectiveness of your program?
- Do you have a comprehensive implementation plan?
Build a Sustainable Palliative Care Program
This interactive and informative full-day workshop will teach you what it takes to build a palliative care program and provide you with a customizable organizational implementation plan that can lead to your success.
All attendees who pre-register for the course will receive a link to access one free registration to the CSU Institute for Palliative Care’s How to Get Started Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Program online course to complete prior to attending the November 1st workshop.
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“They showed us not only how to do it but gave us tools to help us work through the situations in our own communities and get a [palliative care] program started that would be successful and sustainable.”
Dr. Neville Sarkari, Tidewell Hospice, Sarasota, Florida
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the organizational capabilities required for an organization to successfully build a community-based palliative care program
- Identify critical areas on which your organization must focus in order to successfully implement a palliative care program
- Create a framework that can be used to assess organizational readiness and plan the implementation of a palliative care program
Topics Covered in This Palliative Care Training Seminar
Overview and Comparison of Palliative Care Models
- Describe specific models of community-based palliative care
- Define the benefits and challenges of continuity of care in relation to each model
Conducting a Needs Assessment
- Identify key stakeholders to involve in a palliative care needs assessment
- Describe the process involved in determining the palliative care needs in your community
- Analyze gaps between perceived need for and availability of specific palliative care services
Billing, Coding, and Payment Models Relevant to Palliative Care
- Discuss the elements required to bill using evaluation/management codes
- Identify the requirements and use of transitional care, chronic care, and advance planning codes
- Recognize the reason claims get denied
- Outline the elements of a comprehensive palliative care program budget
Exploring Payer Partnerships
- Utilize value-based healthcare to attract payer partners
- Identify the elements of a business case for payer partners
Metrics and Measurement for Community-based Palliative Care
- Apply a measurement framework for palliative care programs
- Follow five steps to select appropriate measures
- Describe optimal measurement strategies, and mistakes to avoid
Creating the Data for a Data-Driven Business Plan
- Discuss the elements of a business case for community-based palliative care
- Describe data commonly needed for a business plan
- Review strategies for securing or developing some of the data
Creating an Implementation Plan to Build Your Palliative Care Program
- Distinguish stages and dimensions of organizational change
- Name core elements of palliative care Policies and Procedures and the rationale for developing
- Describe key considerations for planning the configuration and development of the interdisciplinary palliative care team and roles of team members
Since attendees will come into this course with various levels of experience and expertise, an overview of the CSU Institute’s Action Planning Tool will be provided. This will include how to prioritize the logical next steps and how to find the support needed to get your program started.
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Meet the Faculty
Kathy Brandt, MS, Principal, the kb group, Washington, DC Kathy Brandt has more than twenty-six years working in hospice, palliative care, aging, and caregiving at the national, state, and local level. As a leading provider of community-based palliative care and hospice consulting, Kathy helps organizations identify and maximize their capacity through business development, project management, marketing, strategic planning, leadership development, and systems design. In that capacity, Kathy wrote Covenant Hospice’s successful Medicare Care Choices Model application, working with the leadership to develop and refine the program.
For more than 16 years Kathy helped lead the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, working her way up through the organization to become the Senior Vice President, Office of Innovation and the Executive Director of NHPCO’s Mary J Labyak Institute for Innovation. Kathy led NHPCO’s efforts to help hospices evolve beyond the Medicare Hospice Benefit, expanding services in a fiscally-prudent, mission-focused way to help people access palliative care sooner in their disease process. NHPCO’s go-to-person for strategic planning, Kathy facilitated strategic planning for the boards of NHPCO, the National Hospice Foundation, the Hospice Action Network, and Americans for Better Care of the Dying and chaired the planning committee for the American Society on Aging (ASA).
Kathy has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society on Aging and the Florida Council on Aging. She is currently chair of the ASA membership committee.
Janet Bull, MD, FAAHPM, Chief Medical Officer, Four Seasons, Flat Rock, NC Janet Bull, MD FAAHPM is the Chief Medical Officer at Four Seasons and holds a consultant assistant professorship in the internal medicine department at Duke University Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), board certified in hospice and palliative medicine as well as holds a hospice medical director certification.
Dr. Bull participates as a Senior Medical Advisor for Aspire Healthcare and sits on the steering committee of the Palliative Care Cooperative Group and chairs the Membership Committee. She is President Elect for The Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and serves on the Executive Board.
Dr. Bull has been an Associate Editor of PC-FACS since 2008, and has authored or coauthored several papers on palliative care and quality data reporting, and billing and coding. She directs the research department at Four Seasons and has served as the Principle Investigator on over 45 clinical trials in hospice and palliative medicine. She is Program Director of the Palliative Care Immersion Course and directs Four Seasons’ Center of Excellence, which offers consulting services in hospice, palliative care, and research.
She was the recipient of the Sharon O. Dixon Award in 2007, the Cuniff-Dixon Hastings Award in 2012, and the Josefina B. Magno Distinguished Physician Award in 2013. In 2014 she was named as one of the top 30 visionaries in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Bull is the current Principal Investigator of a CMS Innovations Grant entitled “Increasing Patient and System Value With Community Palliative Care.”
J. Brian Cassel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Dr. Cassel is Assistant Professor in the division of Hematology/Oncology and Palliative Care at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He has published over 25 articles and chapters on palliative care, and has presented at dozens of conferences and seminars in the US and abroad. In 2012 he was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting senior lecturer at the Cicely Saunders Institute of King’s College London, UK. As a faculty member of VCU’s Palliative Care Leadership Center he has helped to train more than 150 palliative care teams from all over the US. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in health outcomes evaluation, field research, social psychology, and healthcare ethics.
Meet the Faculty
Kathy Brandt, MS, Principal of the kb group, Washington, DC
Kathy Brandt has more than twenty-six years working in hospice, palliative care, aging, and caregiving at the national, state, and local level. As a leading provider of community-based palliative care and hospice consulting, Kathy helps organizations identify and maximize their capacity through business development, project management, marketing, strategic planning, leadership development, and systems design. In that capacity, Kathy wrote Covenant Hospice’s successful Medicare Care Choices Model application, working with the leadership to develop and refine the program.
For more than 16 years Kathy helped lead the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, working her way up through the organization to become the Senior Vice President, Office of Innovation and the Executive Director of NHPCO’s Mary J Labyak Institute for Innovation. Kathy led NHPCO’s efforts to help hospices evolve beyond the Medicare Hospice Benefit, expanding services in a fiscally-prudent, mission-focused way to help people access palliative care sooner in their disease process. NHPCO’s go-to-person for strategic planning, Kathy facilitated strategic planning for the boards of NHPCO, the National Hospice Foundation, the Hospice Action Network, and Americans for Better Care of the Dying and chaired the planning committee for the American Society on Aging (ASA).
Kathy has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society on Aging and the Florida Council on Aging. She is currently chair of the ASA membership committee.
Kathleen Kerr, BA, Principal, Kerr Healthcare Analytics, Mill Valley, CA
Kathleen Kerr is a health care consultant in private practice in Mill Valley, California. Her work is focused on developing sustainable models for community-based palliative care, with particular emphasis on evaluating the business case for such services. Ms. Kerr has supported several statewide initiatives focused on promoting the development of quality community-based palliative care programs in California.
She is the developer/co-developer of several educational and technical assistance tools for palliative care program leaders, including an on-line course, The Business Case for Palliative Care, offered through the California State University Institute for Palliative Care. Ms. Kerr is a longtime member of the selection committee for the American Hospital Association’s Circle of Life Award, which recognizes excellence and innovation in the delivery of hospice and palliative care across the care continuum.
John Morris, MD, VP Clinical Outreach, Palliative Care Medical Director, Four Seasons, Flat Rock, NC
John Morris is passionate about helping people and organizations develop excellent palliative care programs. His role is to teach, mentor and develop great palliative care clinicians and leaders as well as develop palliative care organizations that succeed.
John moved to Asheville in 1989 where he worked in pulmonary and critical care and started working for Four Seasons part time in 2003 to help start the palliative care programs in the hospitals until 2005 when he became the full time Medical Director of Palliative Care in 2005. Four Seasons now serves palliative care patients in 11 counties, with 3 palliative care clinics as well as a strong home and NH palliative care program.
John is co-director of the Palliative Care Immersion Course. This course uses innovative techniques and role play to teach clinical palliative care skills to a national audience several times yearly. John also teaches palliative care program development in Four Seasons Center of Excellence. John received the Sharon O. Dixon Award for Clinical Excellence presented by Carolina Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in 2011.