SHP is excited to attend the 2018 NAHC Home Care and Hospice Conference and Expo, in Grapevine, TX. Visit SHP at booth #527, and we'll show you how our real-time reports and benchmarks can help you improve performance. SHP's Chris Attaya will also be co-presenting a two-part series on using data to drive performance and operations, don't miss it! 10/7 at 4 pm and 10/8 at 11:30 am.

Join us September 26th to learn how SHP for Hospice can help you measure and improve quality in real-time, manage CAHPS Hospice Surveys, and ensure compliance with CMS hospice requirements.

Mark your calendar for: "PDGM is Alive and Kicking - Now What?" at the 2018 CareVoyant User Group Conference. The Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is the latest proposal to dramatically change the way Home Health Agencies will be paid starting in CY 2020. Join Chris Attaya to learn the latest updates from CMS along with a review of the proposed PDGM components, expected winners and losers of the new payment model, and how agencies can be successful.

On August 21st 2018, SHP released significant enhancements to the hospice portion of the Dashboard. These updates included the release of a new widget that can be configured to display quality measures for all of the same data types as the Hospice Scorecard. Join us for an educational webinar to help you understand how to configure, and utilize these new features. We are confident that you will find these new tools to be powerful additions to your performance improvement arsenal!

In this SHP webinar, Mark Sharp from BKD will present findings of the first annual SHP and BKD joint benchmarking project to study the financial indicators of the hospices consistently in the top 25% for quality and financial performance. Please join us in this presentation as we combine financial, Hospice Item Set (HIS) and CAHPS Hospice data to identify the characteristics of top performing hospices.

BKD’s Mark Sharp and Strategic Healthcare Programs’ (SHP) Chris Attaya will present findings of the annual SHP and BKD joint benchmarking project as they study the financial indicators of the agencies consistently in the top 25 percent for quality and financial performance. Join us as we combine financial, clinical, operational and Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data to identify the characteristics of top-performing agencies. We’ll also consider how these benchmark leaders are positioned for anticipated payment reforms.

SHP will be attending the Home Care Association of Florida's 2018 Annual Conference & Trade Show - HomeCareCon. Come say hello to SHP reps at booth #210. Also be sure to check out Chris Attaya of SHP and Sue Payne of Corridor's session on the Home Health Grouping Model (HHGM), Wednesday, August 1st at 8 am.

If you are attending the NAHC Financial Management Conference and Expo this year don't miss session 102: HHVBP and Star Ratings – Updates and Keys to Success. SHP's Chris Attaya, Carolyn Flietstra of Christian Living Services, and Pat Laff of Laff Associates will be sharing insights on how to optimize operations for success given the recent changes to the star rating and HHVBP criteria. Monday, July 16th at 11am.

HealthEast Hospice had over 50% of their patients pass away within 7 days of admission to their hospice program and an average length of stay well below the state and national benchmarks. The number of referrals from their home care were also lower than what they expected. Join guest lecturers Autumn Zehren and Micki Ranallo Schaefer as they describe how they used the Lean methodology to identify the root causes and process improvements that helped turn their situation around.

If you are attending the 2018 HCHB Users Conference this year, stop by booth #15 to visit with SHP. Representatives are looking forward to connecting with HCHB users.