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Bernie
Dana,
is an Assistant Professor of Business at Evangel
University and serves as a special advisor to
the AHCA Quality Committee. He received AHCA's
prestigious "Friend of AHCA Quality Award"
in 2003 and is the author of a book released
by AHCA titled, Developing a Quality Management
System: The Foundation for Performance Excellence
in Long Term Care. He is the editor of AHCA's
newly published Guide to Facility Performance
Measures. Bernie spent 14 years as Executive
Vice President and Director of Administrative
Support Services with Vetter Health Services,
Inc. (VHS). During Bernie's tenure, four of
the facilities were recipients of Nebraska's
Edgerton Award, the state quality award modeled
after the Baldrige National Quality Award. Many
of the VHS facilities are recipients of the
AHCA Step 1 and Step 2 Quality Awards.
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Carol
Hegeman, has
26 years of experience as Director of Research
at the Foundation for Long Term Care, the not-for-profit
research entity affiliated with the New York
Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
She has directed (and won three national awards
for) multiple national and statewide projects
in elder care. Her varied projects include service
learning in elder care, childcare in long-term
care settings, respite, staff-family communication
programs, communication at the end of life,
and caring communication in elder care. She
has developed and led multiple programs in peer
mentoring in ltc care settings, both for CNAs
and charge nurses. In 2005, she won an award
from the American Society on Aging for work
on the topic of today's presentation.
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Martha
B. Holstein, Ph.D,
does research on ethics, policy, and community-based
long term care in affiliation with the Center
for Long-Term Care Reform at the Health and
Medicine Policy Research Group in Chicago. She
teaches bioethics and professional ethics, conducts
training in ethics for health and social service
providers, and is a frequent lecturer on aging
related topics. Her publications have focused
on community-based elder care, care-giving and
justice, cultural issues and old age, and older
women. She is currently on the board of Aging
and Disability Advocates, and the Chicago Coalition
for End-of-Life Care. Formerly she has been
a Senior Associate for Research at the Park
Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith,
and Ethics and the Deputy Director of the American
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Steven
Jones, CPA
is a Shareholder at Moore Stephens Lovelace,
P.A. (MSL) and is the Director of the Firm's
Skilled Nursing Facility Practice Group. Steve
has over 27 years of experience in public accounting,
primarily serving clients in the Long Term Care
industry. He focuses his practice on skilled
nursing facilities, home health agencies and
hospice organizations, providing reimbursement
consulting services and serving as an advocate
for his clients to various healthcare regulators
and 3rd party payers. He serves as both an advisor
to FHCA's Board of Directors and its reimbursement
policy committees. He authors a monthly article
on reimbursement accounting and compliance issues
for the association's newsletter as well as
Long Term Care Updates for the firm's clients
and contacts. He is also responsible for developing
Florida benchmarking data for skilled nursing
facilities. |
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Lynda
Mathis, RN,
is the Lead Clinical Consultant for LTC Systems.
Lynda Mathis worked as a nurse's aide in an
84-bed nursing home while attending nursing
school, graduating from Northwestern State University
in Natchitoches, Louisiana with an Associate
Degree in Nursing in December of 1972. She worked
in small rural hospitals for several years before
relocating to Shreveport, Louisiana and LSU
Medical Center and Shriner's Hospital. She became
Director of Nursing at Shriner's in 1981 and
served there 2 years before becoming a Licensing
& Compliance Surveyor for the State of Louisiana
from 1983 through 1991. While surveying, Lynda
completed her Baccalaureate Degree. Since that
time she has been a nurse consultant to long-term
care facilities in 5 states. Lynda has completed
requirements at LSU Shreveport for her Master's
Degree in Health Policy Formation except for
her final project. Lynda has developed clinical
delivery systems that assure positive resident
outcomes as well as excellent survey results.
Currently she serves as the Lead Clinical Consultant
to 15+ facilities in Arkansas. |
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Kathy
Pellatt, RN,
has over twenty-eight years of experience in
the long-term care field. She has had responsibilities
as a nursing supervisor, coordinator of adult
day care, director of quality improvement, assistant
director of nursing and finally, director of
nursing services. Since 2001, she has had the
position of Quality Improvement Analyst at the
New York Association of Homes and Services for
the Aging. In this role, she has utilized her
clinical expertise to assist members and users
of the EQUIP for Quality software in effectively
using the Quality Measure/Indicators (QM/QIs)
to identify quality of care issues. Additionally,
she guides members in using the innovative risk
predictor reports to identify specific residents
at risk for negative outcomes such as falls,
pressure ulcers and urinary tract infections.
She writes content for the EQUIP newsletter
and other publications, conducts user group
sessions related to the EQUIP for Quality reports
and develops and presents educational sessions
on the QM/QIs. She is currently assisting with
the development of an online informatics curriculum
for long-term care nurses that is the focus
of a federal grant funded by HRSA. |
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Susan
Riggin, RN, RAC-CT, CRNAC
has worked in the long -term care field since
1989. She has experience in the RAI process
as an MDSC / Medicare Manger, in both the private
sector of LTC facilities, and in the corporate
level both as an MDS Coordinator, and as a Nurse
Consultant. She has provided assistance with
management of the RAI process under crisis management
teams, and teaches the RAI process from first
hand experience. She has single handily created
an MDS Boot Camp, and teaches this throughout
the state of Arkansas. She was on the founding
board of AANAC. She holds her RAC-CT certification,
from AANAC, and her CRNAC certification from
NASPAC, and is a member of both of these nationally
recognized organizations. She has been employed
as MDS nurse Specialist for LTC Systems in Conway,
Arkansas since 2002. |
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Rena
R. Shephard, MHA, RN, FACDONA, RAC-C,
is
the president of RRS Healthcare Consulting Services
in San Diego, providing long-term care consulting
and training services to facilities, corporations,
and attorneys nationwide. A nationally recognized
expert on MDS coding and the RAI process, she
serves as a consultant to several of CMS' MDS-related
projects and to several state Quality Improvement
Organizations. She also is a scriptwriter and
presenter for CMS MDS-related satellite broadcast/Webcasts.
Ms. Shephard, who is the founding chair and
Executive Editor of the American Association
of Nurse Assessment Coordinators, was a Director
of Nursing Services in skilled nursing facilities
for 14 years, with expertise in all aspects
of long-term care. She is the author of a number
of books about resident assessment and care
in nursing homes, and she is a national speaker
on those topics. Ms. Shephard is a fellow of
the National Association of Directors of Nursing
Administration in Long Term Care. She holds
a master's degree in healthcare administration
from Seton Hall University. |
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Linda
Smith, RN, is a Quality Improvement
Analyst at the New York Association of Homes
and Services for the Aging. For the last 30
years, Linda devoted most of her career to long
term care. She has work in nursing homes is
as director of nursing, inservice educator and
designer of an adult day care program. She joined
the staff of NYAHSA in 1999 as a senior policy
analyst/consultant providing on and off-site
assistance to association members on various
quality issues. She joined the staff of NYAHSA's
EQUIP for Quality division in 2005 where she
assists clients in understanding the EQUIP software
program, provides educational material for clients
on a variety of clinical topics, manages the
EQUIP Newsletter and web content, and is currently
developing on-line education modules for a large
nurse education grant funded by HRSA. Linda
has been a conference presenter for the Foundation
of Long Term Care and has spoken extensively
on policy, quality of care and quality of life
issues. |
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Christie
Teigland, Ph.D.,
is the Director, Health Informatics and Research
for the New York Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging. For the past 10 years Dr. Teigland
has specialized in long term care quality measurement
research. She has served as Principal Investigator
for six large outcome studies, including a 4-year
patient safety project funded by DHHS (AHRQ)
that developed innovative predictive risk reports
for falls and pressure ulcers. In 2006, Dr.
Teigland received a grant from the Alzheimer's
Association to develop new quality of life measures
for dementia/Alzheimer's residents. In 2005,
DHHS (HRSA) awarded a large nurse education
grant to develop on-line education modules to
provide much needed training in the new 'nursing
informatics' skills now essential to support
complex clinical decision making, including
how to use computerized patient data to improve
resident outcomes and quality of care. Christie
is assisting CMS and AHRQ in piloting the Consumer
Assessment of Healthcare and Providers and Systems
(CAHPS) nursing home resident satisfaction surveys.
She also serves on several CMS expert panels
including the CMS MDS 3.0 Validation Panel evaluating
changes to the Minimum Data Set, RAND panel
to identify national patient safety indicators,
and AHRQ panel to develop a national patient
safety culture survey for long term care. |
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Diana
Waugh, BSN, RN, Waugh Consulting,
Diana is currently a nursing home consultant
and conducts seminars on geriatric care such
as behavior management, falls, mitigation, restorative
care and restraint freedom. She works with professional
health care workers in areas such as staff retention,
teamwork, self-esteem, and leadership and consults
on standards of practice for long-term care.
Diana brings both formal education and years
of practical nursing experience to her audience.
She has serviced on faculties in all types of
nursing programs; managed a regional rehabilitation
program; worked as a long-term care consultant
for over 15 years; and even learned how to write
and produce television commercials! |
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Marc
Zimmet, Partner, head of the Reimbursement
Audit Group at Zimmet Healthcare Services Group,
LLC, where he developed and built one of the
most prolific operations in the industry. He
has been involved in SNF compliance and reimbursement
for 12 years. During that time, he has managed
related engagements for a wide array of post-acute
care operators including private, publicly traded
companies, government facilities and not-for-profit
providers. He has served as expert witness in
matters relating to skilled nursing facility
reimbursement and compliance. Mr. Zimmet is
a member of numerous long-term care associations
and has conducted hundreds of continuing education
seminars on matters relating to skilled nursing
facility operations and management. He holds
a degree in CPA Accounting from Syracuse University
and an MBA in Healthcare Administration from
Baruch College/Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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