Education and training
HCPro Boot Camps
Bring the Medicare Boot Camp®—Long-Term Care Version, Five-Star Quality Rating Boot CampSM for Long-Term Care, MDS 3.0 Boot Camp, or the MDS 3.0 Boot Camp: Beyond the Basics to your facility. If you have a group to train, holding a Boot Camp at your organization is easy and cost-effective. Eliminate travel costs and enjoy a group discount while ensuring your entire staff is up to date on the latest regulations and guidelines. Learn more about each of our long-term care boot camps below.
MDS 3.0 Boot Camp: Beyond the Basics
Harness the potential of the MDS 3.0 to deliver outcomes that will grow your business. HCPro’s all-new MDS 3.0 Boot Camp: Beyond the Basics will establish the assessment as the core driver of your clinical and business decisions. Your interdisciplinary team will learn to improve processes, enhance communication, and execute clinical pathways to achieve premium person-centered care, quality outcomes, and accurate payment.
Using a combination of instruction, class discussions, case studies, and role-play exercises, this intensive three-day course will help you:
- Validate your assessment expertise through HCPro’s new Certified Professional in Resident Assessment (CPRA) certification
- Establish the MDS 3.0 as your core business tool, using the data collected to synergize person-centered care, care planning, quality outcomes, and payment
- Ensure that the interdisciplinary team, not just the MDS coordinator, is accountable for quality outcomes in the MDS 3.0
- Streamline the CAA process to collect real-time, meaningful data
- Reduce error rates using internal data, time management techniques, and internal review processes
- Improve documentation and communication by clarifying the RAI User’s Manual and eliminating misinformation
The MDS 3.0 Boot Camp: Beyond the Basics is offered around the United States at various locations. For a list of upcoming courses, click here.
MDS 3.0 Boot Camp
The MDS 3.0 Boot Camp is an intensive training program that focuses on accurate completion of the new MDS 3.0 assessment and links the assessment process to clinical standards of care. This program identifies process changes that will result in a successful transition to MDS 3.0 including clinical care, clinical outcomes, and reimbursement.
Using a combination of lecture, class discussion, and exercises, this intensive, four-day course gives you:
- Section-by-section guidance on MDS 3.0 completion
- A system-wide approach to improving accuracy and the bottom line
- Advice on how to use internal data, time management techniques, and internal review processes to reduce error rates
- A method to benchmark the MDS process based on outcomes
The MDS 3.0 Boot Camp is offered around the United States at various locations. For a list of upcoming courses, click here.
Medicare Boot Camp – Long-Term Care Version
This HCPro Boot Camp covers the Medicare rules and regulations applicable to skilled nursing facilities. The objective of this four day course is to provide course participants with a detailed understanding of the Medicare “rules” with a particular emphasis on the operational application of those rules. This program follows a Medicare patient from pre-admission through discharge, addressing the function of each department, and uncovering the pitfalls along the way. Our exceptional instructors provide positive reinforcement and ensure that every student learns, regardless of previous experience level.
Skilled nursing facilities are under increasing financial pressure and Medicare accounts for a large portion of their revenue. Completion of the Medicare Boot Camp – Long-Term Care Version will give you the knowledge and confidence to:
- Find the answers for your most troublesome Medicare questions
- Determine the correct MDS-driven payment category and bill accurately
- Improve interdepartmental communication to avoid compliance pitfalls
- Prevent missing revenue and denials
- Improve communication that will increase the productivity of your billing and MDS staff
- Gain nursing and nursing home administrator CEUs
The Medicare Boot Camp – Long-Term Care Version is offered around the United States at various locations. For a list of upcoming courses, click here.
Five–Star Quality Rating Boot Camp for Long-Term Care
This boot camp is an intensive, four–day course outlining a pathway for long–term care facilities to improve a poor ranking or to maintain an excellent rating. With the introduction of this rating system, CMS has turned inconspicuous data into crystal clear, very transparent, publicly reported information. The stars are awarded for three major components (survey results, staffing, and quality measures) and a composite rating. The composite rating is heavily weighted by survey results from the preceding three years. Mastery over these three essential elements will provide the basis of a strategic approach to quality improvement. The Five–Star Quality Rating Boot Camp for Long-Term Care will provide an in–depth review of all recent and upcoming regulatory changes and the tools and resources necessary to ensure that a facility is survey–ready all year round.
The Five–Star Quality Rating Boot Camp for Long-Term Care will provide you with an understanding of:
- The star ratings system
- How to stay compliant with new and upcoming F–Tags
- Strategies for coping with surveyors and survey teams while they are in your building
- How to minimize and fight deficiencies under the current regulatory environment
The Five–Star Quality Rating Boot Camp for Long-Term Care is offered around the United States at various locations. For a list of upcoming courses, click here.
For more detailed information about any of our Boot Camps, contact us at 800/780-0584 (or bootcamps@hcpro.com).
The Center for Post Acute Excellence
The Center for Post Acute Excellence partners with providers in long-term care and home health on cutting-edge, customized solutions to meet your most complex education and consulting needs.
Our dedicated team of regulatory experts and analysts track the latest industry rules to help your organization navigate the ever-changing regulatory and payment landscape with customized regulatory surveillance, onsite educational programs, and consulting offerings.
Visit The Center for Post Acute Excellence today to learn more!
Meet our long-term care regulatory specialists
Diane Brown
Diane is a long-term care educator, editor, and author with more than 25 years of operational experience in health care. In her current role at HCPro, she develops quality educational programs and investigates new opportunities for business development. She is a regulatory specialist, lead instructor for HCPro’s Five Star Quality Boot Camp—Long-Term Care Version, and instructor for HCPro’s Medicare Boot Camp—Long-Term Care Version and MDS 3.0 Boot Camp. Her strong leadership, problem-solving, and team-building skills communicate possibilities, define innovative solutions, and motivate for outcome. She frequently lectures on MDS, SNF PPS, documentation, survey compliance, Medicare, and other health care topics.
Carol Marshall, MA
Carol Marshall is an adjunct professor for HCPro. As a risk management and regulatory specialist, based in Fort Worth, TX for the past 18 years, she has trained managers and staff members in long-term care facilities about the benefits of exceptional customer service and risk management. Her areas of expertise include risk management, quality assurance, performance improvement, program development and training in long-term and post-acute care settings.
Frosini Rubertino, RN, CRNAC, C-NE, CDONA/LTC
Frosini is a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience in the health care industry. Former president of an Ohio-based long-term care consulting and education firm, and a former member of the Arkansas Healthcare Association’s Education Committee, she is currently a clinical services consultant with an Arkansas-based clinical consultant group. As an HCPro faculty member, she brings her experience in risk management, regulatory compliance, clinical systems, and education into the classroom for the Medicare Boot Camp® – Long Term Care Version course.
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