Hospice Administrator Certificate Program (HACP)



PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The goal of the Hospice Administrator Certificate Program (HACP) is to provide a supportive learning environment to you, as a hospice administrator. You will be able to advance your skills and knowledge base to position your organization to prosper in emerging end-of-life care services and incorporate the complexities of quality, compliance, financial and strategic performance. The three-day core curriculum is designed to prepare you for the challenges of administration and to thrive into the future.

The HACP is a three-module curriculum:
  • LEGAL focuses on legal/compliance management to help you integrate quality, compliance and financial strategies appropriately and successfully.
  • FINANCE focuses on financial management principals and information.
  • STRATEGY focuses on vision driven leadership and performance management strategies to position your organization for success.

PROGRAM TOPICS
Upon successful completion of the HACP, participants will be able to:
  • Identify key health care trends that will influence positioning strategies for your hospice organization.
  • Integrate data management and analysis methods into your quality assessment and performance improvement program.
  • Implement key financial management strategies to prepare and interpret financial documents and to understand the impact of current changes in health care.
  • Understand the importance of various accounting methods to improve hospice performance and position for success.
  • Understand leadership responsibilities in promoting a quality driven organization.
  • Understand leadership responsibilities in promoting a quality driven organization.


PROGRAM SCHEDULE


Day 1: Tuesday, July 19, 2022
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Program Overview
8:05am - 10:00am Current and Future Trends Affecting Your Home Care: Sharon Seaton
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Information Management for Home Health and Hospice Leaders: Christine Lang
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Industry Data and Opportunities for Using Data: Christine Lang
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm From Strategic Planning to Execution: Sharon Seaton
4:00pm - 6:00pm Reception with Sponsors

Day 2: Wednesday, July 20, 2022
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Overview of the Day
8:05am - 10:00am Essential Elements of Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch with Sponsors (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar

Day 3: Thursday, July 21, 2022
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Overview of the Day
8:05am - 10:00am Integration of Compliance Management into Organizational Performance: Angelo Spinola and Jennifer Evans
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Legal Compliance Management: Angelo Spinola and Jennifer Evans
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Legal Compliance Management: Angelo Spinola and Jennifer Evans
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Legal Compliance Management: Angelo Spinola and Jennifer Evans
4:00pm - 4:30pm Evaluations

FACULTY


Mandy Hager
Executive Director
Suncrest Hospice of Colorado


Christine Lang
Director of Data Consulting
Simione Healthcare Consultants

Christy brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare data analysis, primarily focused on home health and hospice, to her role leading Simione´s efforts to increase and improve the use of data in consulting projects and client operations. Christy is an active member of the post-acute professional community, serving on a number of NAHC workgroups and committees and frequently presenting on topics that include business intelligence, benchmarking, quality measurement, customer satisfaction and value-based purchasing. Christy earned a Masters of Business Administration and a B.A. in political science and mathematics from the University of Washington.

Sharon Seaton, RN, BSN, CHPN, HCS-O, HCS-D
Clinical Product Development
Corridor

Angelo Spinola
Shareholder
Polsinelli

With two decades of legal experience, Angelo Spinola's practice focuses on employment litigation with a special interest in the home health, home care and hospice industry. Bringing a wide breadth of knowledge across the health care spectrum, he works with an array of home-based care clients, including Fortune 500 organizations and franchisors, small-owned businesses and franchisees across multiple industries. Additionally, Angelo works closely with private equity firms and investment groups with respect to labor and employment issues that may arise during acquisitions and activities in these sectors.

Angelo partners with attorneys in Polsinelli's Health Care, Corporate and Transactional and Franchise practices to build coalitions that bring a deep bench of experience and industry knowledge to his clients in the home health, home care and hospice industry.

Angelo regularly represents employers across the United States in class actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state and wage hour laws.

Jennifer Evans
Office Managing Partner
Polsinelli

Jennifer is a Shareholder in the Health Care Department, Practice Leader of the firm's Health Care Compliance practice and Office Managing Partner of the firm's Denver Office. Her legal practice is focused on fraud and abuse, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and regulatory compliance. She advises large health systems, emerging companies in health care and entities focused on behavioral health serving commercial and safety net patients.

Jennifer served as Deputy Director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, the single state agency responsible for administering Medicaid and the CHP+ programs. At Colorado Medicaid she was responsible for Administration & Operations including audit, program integrity, provider enrollment, provider enrollment, claims payment and information technology. Jennifer previously served as Legislative Director and Legislative Assistant for Health Care in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.