Volume 12, Number 13 — April 19, 2023
Dear Healthcare at Home Colleague,
As the workforce shortage continues unabated, the need for new ideas to recruit, hire, and retain staff grow more urgent. We have pledged to make it a priority to seek out these new ideas, especially new technology solutions, vet them for you, and present them in our pages. Too often, what we find is the traditional wisdom — pay more, offer rewards for dependability and customer satisfaction, provide career advancement training, throw employee-of-the-month parties, etc. — but we rarely if ever see the core issue addressed.
Desperation hiring, the practice of offering a position to every applicant regardless of qualifications in hopes of ending up with a couple good, long-term employees, is a major financial money pit. But many of you continue the practice, often without calculating the waste. The wise HR executive calculates a company's total cost of hire. Knowing the total investment in salaries, support systems, training sessions and other overhead enables a company to know how many hours a caregiver must work or visits a clinician must complete before they have covered their own hiring costs as well as the costs of all those "bad hires" who do not stay long enough to cover their own costs.
I created a detailed exploration of this issue for a LinkedIn post, as it is a little too long and involved for this publication. If you would like to hear how to calculate your Total Cost of Hire and learn some technology solutions that you may not have heard of before, try this link. It should take you to the article if you have a LinkedIn account.
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If you are getting this issue Wednesday morning, take note of our CMS News column. An Open Door Forum call is scheduled for 2:00 EDT today.
With the way CMS is dedicated to reducing Home Health reimbursement rates year after year, the need for Congress to hear directly from every provider is more important than ever. NAHC has an excellent resource on its web site, detailing five ways to join the advocacy effort. Click on the headline below.
State and national conference season is approaching. We do our best to post every announcement sent to us. Scroll down to see our current list of upcoming events. There are some where we hope to see you. Let me point out a couple.
Home Care Innovation Forum is a new conference from "The Influence Group," set for June 4-6 in Carlsbad, California. Not to be confused with Home Care Innovation and Investment Conference, a production of Lincoln Healthcare Leadership, the organizers of Home Care 100. It will take place in Chicago, June 12-14. Detailed below in our Upcoming Events column are state conferences in Utah, Colorado, and the first joint meeting of North and South Carolina. Looking to May, CAHSAH is scheduled for the 22nd to 25th at the The Westin Rancho Mirage Golf Resort & Spa. We hope to see you at one or more of these.
CMS News: Open Door Forum
Wednesday at 2:00 EDT. Call-in only.
NAHC Renews Reminder of the Need to Join Advocacy Effort
Dombi says the advocacy effort never ends.
ONC Announces Public Comment Period, New Grants
Office of the National Coordinator released several important news items at HIMSS this week.
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First Joint Conference of the Carolinas
Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina & South Carolina Home Care & Hospice Association
Dates: April 23-26
Venue: Westin
City: Charlotte
Rise Above!
Michigan Home Care & Hospice Association Annual Conference
Dates: May 3-5
Venue: Grand Traverse Resort & SpaThe theme for the Conference is “RISE ABOVE” a fitting recognition of the challenges our industry and each of you overcame in your personal lives and professional careers to navigate the challenges of the past three years.
The MHHA conference presents an opportunity to meet new friends and reacquaint with peers. What better place to rise above, than at the spacious and beautiful Grand Traverse Resort & Spa? This conference has a little bit for every service line and discipline. Wednesday offers a track for Volunteer Managers and Thursday offers a track for Palliative Care as well as many other sessions for Certified Home Health, Hospice, DME and Private Duty Home Care.
2023 Annual Home Health & Hospice Conference
Homecare and Hospice Association of UtahDate: May 10-11
City: Sandy
2023 Rocky Mountain Home Care, Home Health & Hospice Conference *Presented by: Home Care and Hospice Association of Colorado
Dates: May 18-19
Venue: Beaver Creek
Home Care Innovation Forum*Presented by: The Influence Group
Dates: June 4-6
Venue: Park Hyatt Aviara
City: Carlsbad, CAFeatured Speakers:
- Mark King, CEO, Taco Bell
- Darryl "DMC" McDaniels
- David Causby, President & CEO, Gentiva
- Susan Benoit, CEO & President, CenterWell Home Health
- Bruce Greenstein, EVP, LHC Group
- Bill Dombi, President, NAHC
Partial list of topics:
- AI-enabled Remote Patient Monitoring
- Recruitment/Retention strategies
- AI and Automation for Better Hiring
- Developing an Effective MA Strategy
- The Future of Telehealth
- Taking on Risk
HI2: Home Care Innovation and Investment Conference *Presented by: Lincoln Healthcare Leadership
Dates: June 12-14
Venue: Swissotel
City: ChicagoFeatured Speakers:
- Vin Gupta, CMO, Amazon
- Patrick Conway, MD, CEO, Care Solutions
- Kevin Ban, MD, Global CMO, Walgreens
- Andy Slavitt, Founder, Town Hall Ventures, former CMS Administrator
leading ONE vision
Homecare Homebase User Group Meeting
Dates: June 12-14
Venue: Sheraton Dallas HotelClinical Education Credits
Nationally recognized speakers, eight clinical sessions. Clinicians are encouraged to sign up for the clinical sessions, but are free to jump between clinical and non-clinical topics. Clinical topics include a homecare focus on Wound Care, Value Based Purchasing, Clinical Leadership, conflict resolution, Quality Report, Oasis and more.Featured Speakers:
- Mark Scharenbroich: Award Winning Author, Emmy Award® Winner for an ABC TV special, National Speakers Association Hall of Fame Inductee, Golden Apple and Silver Screen Film award for his movie, "The Greatest Days of Your Life…(so far)," International film festival award winner.
- David Glickman: David has been a professional speaker and entertainer for over twenty years and has presented over 2000 programs. Before transitioning from "show business" to "speech business," he worked with everyone from Steve Martin to Ellen DeGeneres and performed at private parties for singer Gloria Estefan and former President Jimmy Carter. He also appeared on "Evening At The Improv" and several other national television shows.
Your state or national association meeting or webinar not listed? Send the details to Conferences@RowanResources.com using this format:
Conference Title
Sponsoring Association
Date(s)
Hotel or Conference Center, City, State
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