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• Home Health Nuts & Bolts

  • Start
    28 Jul 2026
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    30 Jul 2026
  •  
    1:30 PM
  • Location
    Webinar

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  Home Health Nuts & Bolts

  
  

  Tuesday, July 28, 2026 – Thursday, July 30, 2026
  10:00 AM - 1:30 PM Daily

  Live Webinars

  Home Health Nuts & Bolts© is a comprehensive 101/201‑level course designed for professionals who work in — or support — home health agencies and need a strong, working command of how home health operates within today’s regulatory and payment environment.

  This training provides a structured, in‑depth review of the core regulatory, clinical, and operational requirements that govern home health practice. While foundational in scope, the content is substantive and detailed, reflecting the level of understanding required to support compliant operations, accurate documentation, and survey readiness.

  Delivered primarily through expert-led instruction with real-time interaction, the course walks participants through the essential building blocks of home health — including patient eligibility, documentation expectations, payment and quality programs, and Conditions of Participation — with a consistent focus on how these requirements are applied, reviewed, and cited in real-world settings.

  Whether you are newer to home health, transitioning into a support or oversight role, or looking to strengthen your foundational knowledge, Home Health Nuts & Bolts© builds the critical framework needed to understand how patient care, documentation, compliance, reimbursement, and survey risk intersect across the life of a home health episode.

  Who This Course Is For

  Home Health Nuts & Bolts© is designed for a broad audience, including:
  

  • Nurses, therapists, and clinicians new to home health
  • Intake, referral, and scheduling staff
  • Coding and billing team members
  • Quality, compliance, and education staff
  • Operations, management, and leadership roles
  • Sales, implementation, and support professionals who work with home health agencies

  No prior certification is required.

  What You’ll Learn

  By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
  

  • Understand the structure and intent of the Home Health Conditions of Participation
  • Identify required elements of compliant home health documentation
  • Explain patient eligibility, coverage basics, and the role of physician orders
  • Recognize common compliance risks and documentation pitfalls
  • Understand how OASIS fits into care delivery, payment, and quality oversight
  • Describe the connection between clinical practice, reimbursement, and survey outcomes
  • Apply foundational concepts to real‑world home health scenarios

  Key Topics Covered

  Home Health Nuts & Bolts© reinforces regulatory and compliance essentials across core areas of home health practice, including:

  • Home Health Medicare Benefit and coverage fundamentals
  • PDGM (Patient‑Driven Groupings Model)
  • OASIS essentials, accuracy, and downstream impact
  • HHVBP (Home Health Value‑Based Purchasing)
  • Regulatory requirements and the Conditions of Participation
  • Survey readiness and common deficiency trends
  • Emergency preparedness and infection control
  • Quality reporting (HHQRP), QAPI, and OASIS‑E2 updates

  Instruction focuses on how these requirements show up in day‑to‑day operations — not just what the rules say, but how they are applied, reviewed, and cited.

  Course Format & Experience

  • Live, instructor‑led virtual training
  • Delivered over three half‑day sessions
  • Opportunities for questions and discussion throughout
  • Designed to be approachable, practical, and immediately useful
  • Focused on how things actually work in home health — not just what the regulations say

  Each individual registration includes:

  • Three half‑days of live instruction
  • 9.75 ANCC nursing contact hours
  • Therapy CE packet available for therapists to submit for state approval
  • Three months of access to the session recordings
  • Post‑test

  REGISTRATION:

  The cost of this education is per person. Multiple site participation from individuals within your agency will require separate registration. 

  Member Price: $395
  Prospective Member Price: $495

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• Hospice Nuts & Bolts

  • Start
    4 Aug 2026
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    6 Aug 2026
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    1:30 PM
  • Location
    Webinar

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  Hospice Nuts & Bolts

  
  

  Tuesday, August 4, 2026 – Thursday, August 6, 2026
  10:00 AM - 1:30 PM Daily

  Live Webinars

  Hospice Nuts & Bolts© is a comprehensive 101/201‑level program designed for hospice clinicians and leaders who need a strong, working command of hospice regulatory, eligibility, and documentation requirements. This live‑virtual training reinforces core compliance essentials, including the Medicare Hospice Benefit, eligibility and documentation best practices, Conditions of Participation, and interdisciplinary group excellence.

  Hospice compliance hinges on details — especially how eligibility is supported, documented, and communicated across the interdisciplinary group. This course focuses on those critical details and how they surface in day‑to‑day hospice operations, medical record review, and survey oversight.

  Delivered live‑virtual through expert‑led instruction with active, real‑time interaction, the course walks participants through the core elements that surveyors, reviewers, and auditors routinely evaluate — and where hospices most often struggle. Participants are encouraged to ask questions throughout, with real‑time clarification and discussion led by the instructor. 

   Hospice Nuts & Bolts© provides a structured, substantive walkthrough of hospice fundamentals with direct operational relevance. This is not a cursory overview or a regulation read‑through, but a focused, applied program designed to strengthen eligibility support, documentation consistency, and compliance confidence in hospice practice.

  Who This Course Is For

  Hospice Nuts & Bolts© is designed for professionals across the hospice care continuum, including:

  • Hospice administrators and executive leaders
  • Clinical leaders, educators, and QA teams
  • Nurses, social workers, chaplains, and other IDG members
  • Hospice physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and providers involved in certification and recertification
  • Organizations seeking stronger documentation consistency and survey readiness

  What You’ll Learn

  By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the intent and structure of the Medicare Hospice Benefit
  • Apply eligibility criteria and prognostic indicators in a compliant, defensible manner
  • Identify documentation expectations that support eligibility and recertification
  • Understand the clinical and regulatory requirements within the Conditions of Participation
  • Strengthen interdisciplinary group (IDG) decision‑making and documentation alignment
  • Recognize common survey risks and deficiency trends
  • Connect quality reporting and QAPI expectations to clinical practice

  Key Topics Covered

  Hospice Nuts & Bolts© reinforces regulatory and compliance essentials across core hospice operations, including:

  • The Medicare Hospice Benefit
    • Philosophy of hospice care
    • Core services and coverage determinations
    • Face‑to‑Face requirements
  • Conditions of Participation
    • Patient rights
    • Assessment and coordination of services
    • Infection control
    • Interdisciplinary Group (IDG) fundamentals
  • Eligibility & Documentation
    • LCD guidelines and prognosis support
    • Demonstrating and sustaining eligibility
    • Diagnosis‑specific assessment and documentation strategies
    • Discharge and revocation criteria
  • Interdisciplinary Group & Plan of Care
    • IDG roles, responsibilities, and decision‑making
    • Individualized plans of care
    • Hospice physician role
  • Facility‑Based Care
    • Coordination of care and documentation expectations
    • GIP and inpatient considerations
  • Quality Reporting & QAPI
    • HQRP requirements
    • HOPE tool fundamentals Data‑driven performance improvement

  Course Format & Experience

  • Instructor‑led training delivered by a hospice subject matter expert
  • Live‑virtual format with real‑time questions addressed throughout the session
  • Practical, real‑world examples grounded in survey and review expectations
  • Focus on consistent, defensible hospice practice — not “checking boxes”
  • Designed to support clinical judgment, documentation clarity, and compliance confidence

  Each individual registration includes:

  • Three half‑days of live instruction
  • 9.75 ANCC nursing contact hours
  • Therapy CE packet available for therapists to submit for state approval
  • Three months of access to the session recordings
  • Post‑test

  REGISTRATION:

  The cost of this education is per person. Multiple site participation from individuals within your agency will require separate registration. 

  Member Price: $395
  Prospective Member Price: $495

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• Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy

  • Start
    14 Sep 2026
  • End
    16 Sep 2026
  • Location
    Manchester, NH

  
  

  
  

  Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy
  ~hosted by the Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire~

  September 14 & 15, 2026
  (optional COS-C Exam: March September 16, 2026)

  
  

  Puritan Conference & Event Center
  245 Hooksett Road
  Manchester, New Hampshire  03104

  Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy is a 2-day, 13-hour workshop highly focused on the OASIS E2 data collection rules and instructions. As these rules continue to evolve, Blueprint keeps you up to date, always sourcing instructions and providing the latest key source documents in handout form to rely upon after the workshop. Empowering staff with defendable OASIS scoring practices provides your agency with the accurate outcomes and proper reimbursement you deserve to provide quality care. All sessions are presented by two expert instructors who have earned the Certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical (COS-C) designation. Our instructors use their many years and varied home health experiences to illustrate concepts, answer questions and guide attendees easily through multiple application scenarios and a mock exam. The Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy program serves as the premier review workshop for the COS-C exam and is offered exclusively through OASIS Answers, Inc. – the industry leader in OASIS Education.

  This workshop is designed to:  

  • Teach home health clinicians how to collect OASIS data using all the most recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
  • Provide a preparatory review for candidates for the COS-C (Certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical) Exam.
  • Supply the knowledge and tools to boost clinical confidence with a foundation of precise data collection.
  • Provide nursing contact hours.

  Pricing:
  Members: $545 (Maine members can get the discount price)
  Non-members: $695

  Please CLICK HERE for more information and/or to register through the Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care Alliance of New Hampshire
  (register as a New England partner to receive the "member" rate)

  Contact:
  Debby Vargas 
  dvargas@homecarenh.org  
  603-225-5597

  Confirm Your Proficiency - Take the Exam

  The Certificate for OASIS Specialist‐Clinical (COS-C) Paper & Pencil exam will be administered at The Falls Event Center in Manchester, NH, on September 16, the day following the Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy workshop. The scope of the COS‐C exam includes CMS rules and instructions related to the OASIS time points, regulations, patient populations & OASIS item specific scoring. 

  Registration fee for the COS-C exam is separate from the Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy workshop.

  Click here to register for the COS-C Exam online at OasisAnswers.com 

  Exam Schedule

  • September 16, 2026
  • Registration 8:15 am – 8:45 am
  • Must be seated by 8:45 am
  • Testing 9:00 am – 11:30 am

  *This COS-C exam will cover OASIS-E2 Guidance.

  Exam candidates can take the Paper & Pencil (P&P) test in person at scheduled locations. P&P exams are held all over the country throughout the year, typically immediately following the two-day OASIS training. These exams are sponsored by OASIS Answers, Inc., State Home Care Associations and private Home Health agencies. All candidates sitting for a P&P COS-C exam offered directly after a Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy workshop will be granted a $50 discount toward the COS-C exam registration.  Attendance at the workshop preceding the exam is not required for the discount.
  
  If unable to take the Paper & Pencil Test on scheduled date, you may consider registering for Computer Based Test or Remote Online Test which allow scheduling flexibility.

  Click here to download a fax/mail-in application form for the COS-C Exam. 

  Coming from out of town? 

  The Alliance has reserved a limited number of hotel rooms at Tru by Hilton, a short drive from the Puritan Conference & Event Center . Reserve by August 10 to receive the $119/night group rate. Book directly at Tru by Hilton Manchester or call the property at 603-669-3000.

  
  

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