Provides Skilled services such as Nursing, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Medical Social Services and Certified Nurse Aide Services.
Definition: One (1) CEU is equivalent to one (1) clock hour or 60 minutes of time.
Class A Skilled Home Health Agency
$1499
First-time Administrator or Alternate Administrator Training Bundle
24 CEU's
This bundle is perfect for primary and alternate administrators in the Skilled arena who are new to Colorado Licensure regulations or those who want a refresher of the foundational regulations that apply to skilled home health agencies: 24 Continuing Education Units (CEU) required by regulation.
The Class A Administrator and Alternate Administrator are required to complete 12 clock hours of “approved” training each year.
This 12-CEU bundle provides a continuation from the first-timer bundle, and includes six courses of 2-CEU each.
We retain the right to adjust course assignments if a Learner’s account indicates duplicate enrollment in the same course within a 12-month period, ensuring a diverse learning experience without repeating topics within one year.
All Home Care personnel should be able to discuss the Agency process for informing patients and clients about Advance Directives.
This 2-CEU Certificate course teaches advance directives for the Colorado home care professional.
After completing this course:
Learners will accurately identify at least three types of advance directives through the written identification of form contents, Learners will correctly verbalize when the agency staff is required to present the health care decision information to clients and patients
Learners will describe how to achieve successful survey results for being compliant with Advance Directives regulation. Includes workbook with sample policies and forms plus the Colorado brochure entitled Your Right to Make Health Care Decisions in both English and Spanish
Class A Skilled Home Health Part 6 Licensure Regulations
2 CEU's
Understanding and effectively applying the regulations for Licensed Class A Skilled Home Health Agencies are part of daily operations.
The goal of this course is to provide the fundamentals of Home Care Management for compliance with requirements by CDPHE.
Attendees will learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure rules in Chapter 26, Part 6 to include an in-depth review followed by Tips for Compliance and suggested evidence to have on hand for presentation to surveyors.
Self-tests follow each section so you can determine areas that need further study.
This is THE foundational course from which all other courses flow.
This course provides an overview of home care agency Licensure requirements in Chapter 26 (effective 2/14/2022).
The goals of this course are to:
Enhance the understanding and effectiveness of the administrator / manager role(s) in managing the operations of an agency
Understand regulatory compliance requirements in Federal and State law that affect home care providers
Analyze the quality aspects of the compliance requirements using tools that will aid in your agency-wide quality assurance program — that evaluates the quality of consumer services, care, and safety, — and complies with the requirements for Quality Management Program in Chapter 2
Successful completion of this course requires 80% or better on two exams and meets requirements for both First-time administrators/managers and Annual training for administrators/managers.
Learning Objectives:
You will learn the skills necessary to show a clear understanding and appropriate application of Licensure Standards.
After this course, you will be able to:
List three reasons for the need for licensure
Identify differences between skilled and non-skilled services
Utilize at least five concepts of written notice of consumer rights in the home care setting
Identify 3 responsibilities of the Governing Board Administrator/Manager & voluntary PAC
Define ongoing training program components for PCWs, CNAs, Administrators, Managers & Alternates
Demonstrate at least 4 needs of a compliant Quality Management Program, Define the term, “minimum standards” and how it applies to your daily operations
Describe how to locate Chapter 26 and 2 in the Colorado Code of Regulations and briefly describe content of each
Define the term “consumer”
Compare and contrast License classification types A and B and legal limits of services therein
Illustrate dually regulated home care and what that means
Communicate the key points in 18 federal laws that affect the aged, infirm, & disabled
Consider at least 5 components required in handling Complaints/Incidents/Occurrences
Depict similarities of the Quality & Risk Management Programs
List at least 10 documents required to present to surveyors upon the initiation of an unannounced survey
Distinguish between an organization’s bylaws and articles of incorporation (organization)
Describe client rights of LEP or Limited English Proficiency and more
Behavior Management of the Client with Dementias or Cognitive Disorders
2 CEU's
The video content of this 2 CEU, certificate course written by Bonnie J. MacLeod, LCSW includes:
The nature of dementia
Common behavioral issues of clients with dementias or cognitive disorders
Appropriate behavior management techniques
Inappropriate behavior management techniques
Safety of the consumer
Competency evaluation, and
Effective strategies to manage challenging behaviors in clients with dementia
Our introductory course equips caregivers with practical skills, understanding, and compassion to manage challenging behaviors without reducing the the quality of care or safety for the consumer.
“Care about Care Coordination helps home care administrators and managers learn how to communicate with everyone involved effectively so they can worry less and enjoy an optimal and engaging relationship with patients/clients.”
Course Goals:
Attendees will learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure Care Coordination rules in daily operations.
Course Content
This Certificate Course includes the following curriculum, with interactive discussions, presentations and case studies.
The curriculum includes:
Review of licensure standards for Care Coordination
Common survey focus areas and frequently cited deficiencies
Challenges to monitor in Care Coordination efforts
Understand Care Coordination barriers, measures of effectiveness, evaluation of your policy and procedure for today’s care settings
The home health care (HHC) setting is unique because it is both a household and a care-giving environment.
As such, it may present a risk for adverse events that could affect the health and safety of clients and patients.
Those new to the Home Care arena will learn about unsafe household conditions with potential implications for client and patient safety in the HHC setting.
Learning Objectives in this program include:
Understand the unique setting(s) of home care services
Discuss questions for your agency relative to policies and procedures pertaining to monitoring home environment risk and safety
Recognize how training creates a safety-minded culture to help reduce any occurrences in the home
This program explores the current landscape of services for patients with complex needs, details characteristics of these clients, addresses the challenges of caring for these clients, and offers programmatic and policy changes that can help Home Care Agencies better deliver services to all clients, including those with the most complex health needs.
Attendees will learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure rules in the implementation of a Grievance Plan and position of Client Care Advocate using guiding principles, program scope, oversight and responsibilities, and data collection relative to patient rights.
A Certificate is provided after the successful completion of an evaluation and exam with 80% or better score.
This Certificate Course offers a three-part curriculum, and includes:
Client Care Advocate role and responsibilities
Grievance Mechanism Components
Communication and Training requirements
Interpretation and Translation Services requirements
A Clinical Manager provides oversight of all patient care services and personnel.
I this course we delve into the multifaceted responsibilities of a Clinical Manager; from overseeing patient care plans, to collaborating with a diverse array of healthcare professionals.
Our comprehensive course is designed to equip you with the essential skills and knowledge needed to excel as a Clinical Manager.
Learn about required qualifications, day-to-day responsibilities, and general oversight of all patient care services and personnel.
This course is appropriate for new clinical managers, those seasoned professionals who want a refresher, and all staff in the skilled home health agency who desire a complete understanding of the regulations and responsibilities of a Clinical Manager.
Included: Over 40 pages of Tools to use in your agency.
In this video course, you will learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure rules in appropriately investigating, resolving, and documenting complaints and incidents.
Learning objectives include:
Discuss the minimum standards for complaint & incident processing
Identify weakness in your agency relative to commonly cited deficiencies and common survey focus areas
Includes the Complaints Guide, sample forms, policies and protocols
Real life scenarios and deficiencies are used to demonstrate requirements for compliance
Essential and Best Practices needed to meet higher standards
Rights and Ethics are usually flip sides of the same coin, and behind every ‘patient right’ is one or more ethical principle from which that right is derived, according to the National Institutes of Health or NIH.
Establishing clearly defined patient or consumer rights helps standardize care and service provided by all agency staff, which enables all patients or clients to have uniform expectations.
Health law by way of Chapters 26 and 2, directly impacts home care providers and patients by setting the standards for care, protecting patient rights, and ensuring access to quality health services.
CDPHE surveyors work to uphold these standards and protect the rights of both providers and patients in the healthcare system.
Managing contracts in a homecare setting can be challenging; you’re involved in numerous business relationships, have contracts with patients/consumers, and enter into vendor agreements.
All of these agreements require healthcare contracts that outline the duties and obligations each party has in the relationship while maintaining patient/consumer privacy and limiting exposure to risk.
After the successful completion of this course, you will:
Understand the minimum requirement for content of written agreements for any direct care personnel
Comprehend when a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is needed for all non-employee personnel
Create and implement documentation for the evaluation of contractual relationships
Design and employ a plan for line item review of Contracted direct care providers (or any provider) to use in the Agency QMP/QAPI
The purpose of this course is to help home care agencies create a program to identify and develop internal staff for management tracks so that an adequate workforce is always being cultivated.
NOTE: This course is 100% downloadable with no computer use in response to demand for training with offline loading!
Learning Objectives:
Clarify to workers how they might move from their current roles into managerial roles
Clearly identify strengths, areas of development needed for individuals as well as the agency
Gap Assessment with Tool to help evaluate needed competencies (individual and group)
Take the time to create a development plan with each new employee
Identify Why You Should Establish Policies and Protocols for internal promotions
Know how to identify strong candidates
Work to support new managers
Understand why it is important to develop new managers and provide continuous growth opportunities
Understand that having adequate staff means always cultivating and developing internal members of your workforce.
DRA 2005 Compliance Fraud & Abuse Policy and Procedure Program
HCPF AND DRA 2005 NOTICE FOR AGENCIES WITH $5M or MORE ANNUAL REVENUE: Implementing a compliance program is important to identify and prevent fraud and abuse for any entity in the health care at home industry.
The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing wants evidence of certain written policies and procedures in place that are readily available to all employees, contractors, or agents, by email on or before November 1, 2022.
This 17-page document with an Acknowledgement form meets the requirements of the HCPF request.
Significant Federal Emergency preparedness regulations overlap Infection Control and Prevention, especially during a Public Health Emergency.
The goal of this 2-hour video program with Jennifer Windram, RN, BSN and former CDPHE Surveyor is to provide the fundamentals of the Federal rules along with the rules of CO Licensure.
BONUS content included in this course is:
FORMS AND POLICIES APPROPRIATE FOR ALL STANDARDS:
Four broad standards of the Federal rule, Policies & procedures
Fraud, Waste and Abuse training is a 2-CEU fast-paced overview of the laws and penalties involved in oversight of health care programs by Federal and State authorities.
Healthcare organizations need to fully understand FWA compliance to maintain integrity, protect patients, and uphold regulatory standards.
In this overview guide, we delve into FWA compliance in healthcare, and explore significant key regulations.
After completing this course, the learner will be able to correctly:
Recognize FWA in the Medicare Program
Identify the major laws and regulations pertaining to FWA, and
Recognize potential consequences and penalties associated with violations
This video program covers the content of your Infection Control and Prevention Program including Goals, Requirements, and Elements of the Program.
Attendees are guided through measurable objectives in the prevention and control of infections and communicable diseases, ensuring your staff is engaged in Standards of Practice such as standard precautions.
Staff and client education requirements and best practices are included along with Control measure in an agency-wide program for Surveillance, Identification, Prevention, Control and Investigation.
Ongoing Evaluation and Monitoring via data collection, Data transmittal to members of the Governing body and Committees with responses.
General Requirements apply to all agency types; Skilled, and NonMedical Agencies.
In this course, we review the management of Out of state headquarters, Branch offices, Admissions, Discharges, Consumer rights, Care coordination, Advance directions, Disclosures, Reporting requirements, Information Management, Payment disclosure, Consumer and family education, Communication clarity and more.
This course is in compliance with Annual Training and Initial Training required by CDPHE of all Administrators, Managers & alternates.
Home Health Nurses and the Agencies that employ them interact with the state Nurse Practice Act in the provision of care.
Scope of practice regulations for health professions are intended to protect clients from the risk of harm of being treated by an unqualified individual (Cox & Foster, 1990).
After completing this course, you will know the answers to these questions and more:
Do you know how Colorado defines delegation for the RN?
What is nurse delegation?
Do all states have nurse delegation regulations?
How does the Health Department create and enforce nurse delegation rules?
Do all home health agencies have the same policy and procedure for nurse delegation?
What tasks may be delegated?
What’s the role and responsibility of the delagatee?
In this 2 CEU audio course, attendees will learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure rules in the implementation of a data collection and monitoring system relative to quality management.
Workshop Content (Quality Management Basics vs. All about Data)
In CHC’s Quality Management Basics course we discuss the overall requirements for a compliant quality management program and QMP components such as:
Data collection
Data monitoring
Identifying problems and areas for improvement
Implementing corrective/improvement actions and monitoring those actions to decide if they were effective or not
In this course, Quality Management – All about Data, we focus on the data collection and monitoring aspect of a QM program.
This will include a more in-depth discussion of data collection and data compilation methods, with additional sample tools to help you streamline your data collection and documentation processes.
The Quality Management Basics course is recommended prior to taking Quality Management – All about Data, but it is not required.
QMP is the most cited deficiency in all agency types.
Learn specifics to ensure your program demonstrates the quality aspects of consumer care and safety!
Every licensed agency shall establish a quality management program appropriate to the size and type of facility that evaluates the quality of patient or resident care and safety, and that complies with this regulation in Chapter II.
This 2020 video program with Jennifer Windram, BSN, RN (In Memoriam), former CDPHE-surveyor will engage learners to reach a better understanding of what is expected in the Quality Management Program from a Surveyor perspective.
Attendees will learn skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure rules in the implementation of a quality management program and avoid common pitfalls.
The curriculum includes:
Review of licensing standards for the quality management program
Common survey focus areas and frequently cited deficiencies
Methods to monitor care and services, prevent problems, and maintain compliance with State Licensing rules
Using the PDCA cycle to investigate and improve areas identified as needing improvement
Quality management tools used in analyzing problems and identifying solutions
After this course, you will be able to:
Discuss the minimum standards for quality management
List at least three current trends in citing deficiencies
Identify weakness in your agency relative to commonly cited deficiencies and common survey focus areas
Demonstrate an understanding of how to document effective meeting minutes
Quality Management is agency-wide oversight. It is also the most cited deficiency in all agency types.
Jennifer Windram, BSN, RN (In Memoriam), former CDPHE-surveyor, will engage learners in this video program with 2021 updated regulations from Chapter 2.
This program is an update to QM Basics.
Learning Objectives include:
Name the requirements for a compliant quality management plan
Discuss data that can be collected as part of the QM program
Discuss the different roles and responsibilities in quality management, Analyze the difference in QM Program and QM Plan
Identify the process for taking the data collected and using that data to select QM projects
Design, implement and document a QM project
Use QM tools in analyzing problems and identifying solutions
Materials include:
Two (2), one (1)-hour videos with corresponding Workbook with slide deck and supplemental materials with Sample policies
This 2 CEU video course with Jennifer Windram, RN, BSN (In Memoriam) and former CDPHE surveyor reviews the requirements for patient care–from referral through discharge using Licensure Standards. It includes a Brief Update to the Skilled Standards that became effective 2/14/2022.
CDPHE-approved online interactive training
The Provision of Skilled Services: From Referral to Discharge
Your care and services:
Is your agency on the right track?
Are you admitting clients who are appropriate for your agency?
Does your comprehensive assessment include all required elements and does it help you identify high-risk patients?
Are you properly documenting medication management for all your clients?
Are your nursing, therapy, social services and nurse aide services provided in accordance with regulatory requirements and professional standards?
Does your agency document everything necessary when discharging a client?
If you can’t answer yes to all of these questions, your next survey could be a frustrating and difficult experience.
Our online interactive course, The Provision of Skilled Services: From Referral to Discharge, can help you ensure your agency is in compliance with all requirements and better prepare you for when the surveyors walk through the front door!
Attendees will learn the skills and tools necessary to apply State Licensure standards in day-to-day operations of a skilled home care agency as well as how to assess and monitor compliance on an ongoing basis and avoid common pitfalls.
In this video program the learning objective is Understand how State and Federal surveyors and inspectors engage the home care agency staff in the survey process.
Administrators and Managers may use that knowledge to prepare for survey and improve quality management activities on an ongoing basis.
There are many reasons for surveys but in all cases, Surveyors are specifically focused on ensuring that home care agencies comply with Licensure and Certification standards plus Conditions of Participation (CoPs) or Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) for Medicare and Medicaid-certified agencies. These conditions outline the requirements that facilities must meet to participate in these government-funded healthcare programs.
After the successful completion of the course, the learner will be able to:
Describe at least 2 different types of surveys
Name at least 3 components of the survey process
Identify at least 2 items an inspector might evaluate during a home visit
Name at least 3 items an inspector might evaluate when reviewing an agency’s quality management program
Audio course written by Barbara Buehner, RN, BSN. Universal Precautions is required annually for workers of Skilled Home Health Agencies and Non-medical Home Care Agency Personal Care Workers and Supervisors.
Bonus includes Step-by-step competency test: Apply and Remove PPE. 2 CEU
Workshop Goals: This eLearn course is available 24/7 and offers clear learner progress indicators and unlimited replays of course material.
Resume learning exactly where you left off, on your mobile, tablet, laptop or any device.
Attendees will learn the basics of Universal Precautions, a topic required annually for all workers in all home care agency types.
Program includes:
Exposure Incident Reporting Form
Illness log
Sanitizing and Disinfecting Guide
OSHA Exposure Control Plan, and
numerous posters to download – some in Spanish and Chinese as well as English.
After successfully completing this course, the Learner will be able to:
Define Universal Precautions
Identify how diseases can be spread
Describe types of Personal Protection Equipment and how and when to use it properly
This course is recommended for:
Nurse Aides
Family Care Providers
Personal Care Workers, and
Direct care staff in Adult Day Services
COURSE MATERIALS are copyrighted
Paid attendees only may use training materials and attend online programs.