Learn how to break down the three categories of volunteer hours and how to calculate the 5% requirement. Volunteer activity FAQs will be addressed to clarify issues related to crafting, entertainment, and clinicians providing clinical support as volunteers.

WEBINAR DETAILS: The end of the Public Health Emergency means the return of the volunteer 5% requirement, a rule that CMS will reinstate as of January 1, 2024. Resuming compliance with the volunteer requirement is posing a significant regulatory challenge for agencies, post pandemic. This webinar will take agencies through the hospice volunteer requirements. It will review what activities qualify for the 5% requirement. In addition, it will address best practices for recruitment, retention, and utilization of volunteers to run a successful and effective hospice volunteer program. Volunteers are critical to a hospice agency. This timely webinar will help agencies design an effective volunteer program to meet the reinstated 2024 requirement.

AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Explain the Medicare hospice volunteer 5% requirement
• Clarify which volunteer activities meet the 5% requirement
• Recognize direct and indirect patient care activities
• Identify volunteer training requirements
• Discuss the importance of documenting volunteer recruitment activities

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES: Hospice

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?  This informative session is designed for hospice leadership, CFOs, DOPCSs, volunteer coordinators, volunteer directors and managers, social workers, spiritual counselors, and chaplains.

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

• Volunteer cost savings policy and procedure (guidelines)
• Tracking and Reporting Volunteer Activities on the Medicare Hospice Cost & Data Report
• Volunteer coordinator job descriptions
• Valuable links and resources
• Training log
• PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
• Attendance certificate provided

DON’T MISS THIS RELATED TRAINING!

Online Volunteer Training Program

NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other agencies or those not employed by your agency is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

MEET THE PRESENTER: Kathy Ahearn, RN, BSN, PHN, ALECC, Inc.

Kathy Ahearn has a Bachelor’s in both Nursing and Social Work and is the CEO and Founder of ALECC, Inc. ALECC provides years of post-acute care experience, ranging from clinical staff to executive leadership and consulting. Kathy provides a unique ability to identify agency challenges and opportunities, quickly providing education, support, and mentoring to organizations, guiding them to a new level of operation and success.

Kathy helped develop pain scales to standardize assessment with the American Pain Society and the Joint Commission. She expanded into medical devices as a Managed Care Director developing one of the first real-time cloud-based disease specific software programs to assist patients, clinicians, and managed care organizations to improve outcomes and collect data.

Kathy began healthcare work due to a disabled parent and later a child living with chronic disease state. She has experienced healthcare professionally and personally, dedicating her life to it and to working as a change agent for the betterment of all served.

Registration fees:     Members- $159          Non-members- $219

There are no refunds.

CLICK HERE to register.