Spark the Room: Creating the Conditions Where People Engage, Belong, and Come Alive
1. Understand what meaningful interactions look like—and how to build them intentionally.
2. Identify practical tools to get to know colleagues and clients beyond their job titles or roles.
3. Demonstrate how to move past "stuck" and into momentum, even in turbulent times.
4. Discuss strategies to “read any room” and establish the right tone for authentic communication and trust.
5. Identify techniques for navigating differences with empathy and curiosity instead of judgment or avoidance.
6. Learn how connected cultures fuel creativity, belonging, and engagement.
Nina Meehan, CEO
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10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Generating Savings through Benefits: Powerful Cash Savings Tool
The BEST businesses generate profits by effectively managing costs. In this high-energy, highly relevant session, Jeff Mitchell tackles one of the biggest challenges facing Homecare and Hospice agencies today: finding cash savings to offset rising costs. Drawing on decades of real-world leadership experience, Jeff breaks this down to easy to understand steps and processes while showing you exactly what the positive financial impact will be on your company and the employees. The program outlines a fresh perspective, practical insights, and clear takeaways that will help you generate meaningful cash savings for the company and increased Net Pay for the employees. This session is a must-attend.
Jeff R. Mitchell, Founder and CEO, Fueled Growth Partners, LLC
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10:30 - 10:40 a.m.
Break
10:40 - 11:40 a.m.
Rising Above Dyspnea: Interdisciplinary Pathways to Improving Your Score
1. Identify how dyspnea affects the functional performance.
2. Discuss strategies to accurately score your OASIS.
3. Describe interdisciplinary strategies to apply in the home.
4. Discuss how clients can successfully manage dyspnea at home.
Michelle Kuske, RN, BSN, COS-C, Manager, Ridgeview Home Health/Hospice, Jodi Jahnke, MA, OTR/L, Director of Rehab, Tru Healthcare, Kristin DeBoer, RN, Director of Nursing, River Valley Home Care
1.0 CEU Available:
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DHS Update
1. To be announced.
John Connolly, Temporary Commissioner and State Medicaid Director, DHS
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11:45 - 1:00 p.m.
Awards Lunch and Business Meeting
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
101: AI: Where is the ROI for Providers?
1. Identify the measurable and often overlooked benefits of AI-assisted documentation.
2. Explain how AI-assisted documentation improves eligibility for quality incentives.
3. Describe how AI-assisted documentation reduces denials and write-offs.
4. Evaluate the impact of AI-assisted documentation on staff satisfaction and retention.
5. Discuss how AI-assisted documentation supports faster onboarding processes.
6. Analyze how AI-assisted documentation strengthens audit readiness.
Jonathan Morris, Agency Consultant Team Lead, MITC Software
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102: Front Line Supervision in Home Health: The Key to Unlocking Clinical Excellence
1. Discuss step-by-step strategies for supervisors to build a high-impact orientation experience.
2. Describe what new clinical supervisors should expect in their role.
3. Explain key daily actions supervisors can take to best manage a compliant team.
Cindy Campbell, MHA Healthcare Informatics, BSN, RN, CCS-HH, Senior Director Advisory Services, WellSky and Katherine Morrison, RN, BSN, MSN, CHPN, CCS-HH, Director Advisory Services, WellSky
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103: From Claims to Cash: Revenue Cycle Management Best Practices for Home Care Providers
1. Identify common breakdowns in the home care revenue cycle that contribute to denied claims, delayed reimbursement, and lost revenue.
2. Explain the importance of accurate intake, eligibility verification, and network validation in preventing reimbursement issues before care begins.
3. Implement best practices for authorization management, EVV alignment, and clean claims submission to improve billing accuracy and cash flow.
Tony Sanfelippo, Account Executive, Paradigm Senior Services
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104: CFSS Transitions
1. To be announced.
TBA
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2:00 - 2:10 p.m.
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2:10 - 3:10 p.m.
Medicare Advantage Panel
1. Assess how Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration is reshaping referral patterns, reimbursement, and operational models for care at home providers.
2. Examine the impact of MA prior authorization, denials, and utilization management on patient access and care continuity.
3. Identify strategies providers are using to negotiate value-based and risk-sharing arrangements with MA plans.
4. Explore how MA supplemental benefits (e.g., in-home support, transportation, meals) are being leveraged to expand the scope of care at home.
5. Identify how policy and regulatory trends (e.g., CMS rate changes for both plans and providers, audits, Star Ratings) are likely to affect MA-home care relationships in the near term.
Moderator: Jennifer Sheets, President, National Alliance for Home Care and Hospice
Panelists: Jody Hahn, CEO, CareAparent, Kristen Husen, PT, Senior Director, Home Health and Hospice, CentraCare, and Karen Leutner, PT, Director of Home Health, Allina Health
1. Gain insights into home health's trends and changing landscape.
2. Learn about recent home health legislative and regulatory changes and new proposals.
Jennifer Sheets, President, National Alliance for Home Care and Hospice
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10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Expo Hall & Refreshment Break
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
State Legislative Update
1. Gain insights into Minnesota's political climate and the upcoming legislative session.
2. Understand MHCA’s priority advocacy issues.
3. Understand how these issues will potentially affect you, your business, and the home care industry.
Kevin Goodno, MHCA Government Relations Counsel, Fredrikson Government Relations, LLC
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11:15 - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch with Exhibitors
12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
State Legislative Panel: Looking Ahead to 2027
The Legislative Panel will consist of a 45-minute facilitated discussion where members of the Minnesota legislature will be asked to share their thoughts on the upcoming session, including, potential areas of focus for Health and Human Services and personal areas of interest for potential reform. This presentation will provide audience members with state legislators' perspectives on various emerging issues in the Health and Human Services arena.
Kevin Goodno, MHCA Government Relations Counsel, Fredrikson Government Relations, LLC
Legislators to be announced.
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12:45 - 1:30 p.m.
Expo and Silent Auction
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
201: The Retention Equation: What Actually Keeps Home Care Workers in the Field
1. Identify the primary operational and cultural drivers that contribute to caregiver turnover in home care settings.
2. Evaluate key break points in onboarding, communication, and workload design that impact retention outcomes.
3. Apply practical, experience-based strategies to improve caregiver engagement and reduce early attrition.
Sina Holloman, Chief Executive Officer, HomeCare Hands 24/7 Care at Home & Staffing
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202: Documentation That Defends Itself: PDGM Strategies to Reduce LUPAs and ADR Risk
1. Analyze how gaps in clinical documentation (objective data, teaching, and patient response) impact skilled need justification, LUPA risk, and ADR exposure.
2. Apply documentation principles, including early vs. late period timing, alignment based on primary and secondary diagnoses, and care planning to ensure documentation reflects true patient complexity and clinical need.
3. Implement compliant documentation and care-planning strategies that improve coding accuracy, reduce audit risk, and support appropriate Medicare reimbursement without compromising patient care.
Sara Fisher, RN, Consultant, Senior Care Solutions
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203: Reading CMS's Tea Leaves: The Future of HHVBP
1. Identify recent HHVBP changes that signal CMS's future priorities for value-based reimbursement.
2. Analyze the impact of revised HHCAHPS measures and changing patient experience expectations on future HHVBP performance.
3. Evaluate emerging quality measures, including self-care and functional outcome measures, and their implications for agency operations.
4. Discuss potential future expansion of claims-based measures, including broader use of Medicare Advantage and Medicaid data.
5. Develop strategies to position agencies for success as HHVBP continues to evolve.
Lisa Selman-Holman, JD, BSN, RN, HCS-D, COS-C, Vice President Clinical Services, McBee, Part of Netsmart
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204: Give Me A Break: Breaks, Leaves, and Accommodations
1. Identify requirements of an employer to provide employee breaks and leaves.
2. Understand reasonable accommodations which may include extra breaks or leaves.
3. Learn tips to help prevent discrimination actions based on leave and break laws and requests.
301: Keeping Up with the Changes - How to Succeed with 2026 HH Reforms
1. Identify VBP and HH Spending reforms in 2026 Final Rule.
2. Demo goals of 2026 HH Final Rule changes.
3. Outline specific operational processes to support 2026 changes.
4. Demo tools to Manage 2026 changes to improved HH Otucomes.
5. Present HH Case Studies of VBP - MSB PAC Success.
Arnie Cisneros, BS, PT, President, Home Health Strategic Management - HHSM
and Kimberly McCormick, RN, BSN, Executive Clinical Director, Home Health Strategic Management - HHSM
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302: Journey Home: Improving the Hospital to Home Transition Experience for Our Patients and Their Families
1. Understand benchmarks for average delayed discharge days, post discharge readmissions, post discharge ED visits and missed school days for medically fragile patients.
2. Identify barriers for smoothly transitioning a patient from hospital to home through a comprehensive care model.
3. Understand steps to reduce discharge delays, improve parent readiness, educate backup care providers, and provide a smooth transition home.
Kathy Wodzinski, RN, Care Integrator, Pediatric Home Service, Bruce Estrem, BA, RRT-NPS, LRT, Respiratory Clinical Educator/Founding Staff Member, Pediatric Home Service, Tanna Jensen-Nelson, RN, BSN, Regional Director of Nursing- Upper Midwest, Pediatric Home Service
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303: National Medicaid Updates
1. Understand current Federal priorities, including legislation, regulation, and compliance actions taken across the country.
2. Understand the impact on states, the areas of requirement and flexibilities, as well as the decisions Medicaid agencies will need to make over the next few years.
3. Understand actions to take to help mitigate harm to your agency.
Damon Terzaghi, Senior Director of Medicaid Advocacy, National Alliance for Care at Home
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304: Cracking the Code on Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms (CPOs)
1. Define what a carbapenemase-producing organism (CPO) is.
2. Explain why CPOs are a concern in healthcare and home care settings.
3. Identify infection prevention and control (IPC) practices healthcare workers can use to help prevent the spread of CPOs.
Caramae Steinwand, BS, Planner Intermediate, MDH Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Unit and Project Firstline, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control (IDEPC) Division
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3:40 - 3:50 p.m.
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3:50 - 4:50 p.m.
401: Rewire HH Operations for Improved Clinical and Fiscal Outcomes
1. Identify HH Changes from Volume-2-Value reforms.
2. Outline how traditional HH Operations fails Value Era requirements.
3. Demo HH Operational rewire to support Value Era HH changes.
4. Present Case Study demoes of HH Providers who rewire Operations for Improved Clinical-Fiscal Outcomes.
Arnie Cisneros, President, Home Health Strategic Management and Kimberly McCormick, RN, BSN, Executive Clinical Director, Home Health Strategic Management
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402: Honoring Cultural Needs in Elder and Disability Home Care
1. Recognize the impact of cultural values and traditions on health care perceptions and decision-making among elders and individuals with disabilities.
2. Identify strategies for providing culturally grounded, person-centered care that respects clients' languages, traditions, and lived experiences.
3. Develop practical skills to navigate cross-cultural communication challenges and build trust with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds in elder and disability health care settings.
Mariah Moskalik, Sr. Director of Program Management & MN Operations, Jae England-Sullivan, Director of 245D Services/Designated Manager, Elizabeth Hough, Regional Director of Operations, One Circle
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403: Getting Everyone on Board: Turning QAPI Plans into Daily Practice
1. Evaluate current methods of QAPI communication and engagement.
2. Identify opportunities to integrate QAPI discussions into routine team operations.
3. Develop strategies for translating QAPI goals into actionable clinical practices.
4. Explore techniques for increasing clinician ownership and participation in quality initiatives.
Melinda A. Gaboury, COS-C, Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Provider Solutions, Inc.
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404: What Just Happened? A High-Level Look at Changes to IHS, Night Supervision, and DWRS
1. Understand recent legislation and upcoming changes to the Individualized Home Supports (IHS) and Night Supervision services, and how their rates will be calculated.
2. Discuss an overview the Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS), its purpose, and mechanics.
Kenneth Bence, Director of Research, Analysis, and Policy, ARRM
Home Health 2026–2027 Federal Update: Navigating Regulatory Change, Payment Reform, and Quality Changes
1. Identify key federal regulatory and reimbursement changes impacting home health agencies in CY 2026 and proposed changes for CY 2027.
2. Analyze the financial implications of PDGM adjustments and case-mix recalibrations.
3. Discuss changes to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program (HHQRP), including measure updates, OASIS revisions.
4. Evaluate HHVBP measure-set changes, performance expectations, and strategies.
5. Develop action plans to prepare their organizations for upcoming regulatory, operational, and quality initiatives expected to shape home health care delivery through 2027.
Melinda A. Gaboury, COS-C, Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Provider Solutions, Inc.
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10:00 - 10:10 a.m.
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10:10 - 11:10 a.m.
Substance Use in Home Care: Clinical Identification, Assessment, and Interventions for Safe, Effective Care in the Home
1. Identify common signs of substance misuse in the Home Care environment and describe how substance use impacts mobility, ADLs, pain, cognition, and participation in home-based therapy.
2. Select and administer appropriate screening and assessment tools to inform clinical decision-making and determine the need for referrals within the Home Care context.
3. Apply PT/OT-specific interventions tailored to Home Care that address pain, safety, routines, coping strategies, emotional regulation, fall prevention, and engagement in meaningful home-based activities to support recovery and reduce relapse risk.
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