Webinar Details

Emergency Preparedness: Are You Prepared?

Speaker: Nancy J Beckley, MS, MBA, CHC Learn More^

Nancy Beckley is President of Nancy Beckley & Associates LLC, (NBA) an outpatient therapy compliance boutique consulting firm. The firm offers compliance outsourcing, risk assessment, compliance plan development, annual compliance training, external auditing, due diligence and investigation support. Clients including providers under Medicare probe review, progressive corrective action plans, corporate integrity agreements, ZPIC investigations and RAC audits. NBA’s signature product is the compliance learning management system (LMS) for rehab specific courses in fraud, waste and abuse and therapy risk. Training courses are delivered to over 5,000 therapy providers on an annual basis.

Nancy Beckley is a nationally known speaker and author on rehab compliance, and has presented at the National Provider Practice, Florida and Chicago Regional Compliance Conference, and the Annual Compliance Institute. She is a compliance columnist for Compliance Today and APTA Private Practice Section’s IMPACT magazine.

As a twenty-year NARA member, Nancy is considered a top knowledge expert in rehab agency and CORF regulations and has worked with over 125 provider groups in their quest for survey, certification, accreditation, policies and procedures, plan of correction and certification appeals. Nancy was a member of the NARA workgroup assisting AAAASF (“Quad A”) CMS application and was a trainer for the first group of Quad A inspectors/surveyors. She also served on Quad A’s advisory group. Nancy served on the CMS Technical Expert Panel for CORFs advising CMS on the opportunities and potential for CORFs from a policy and regulatory perspective.

Nancy has been a NARA Board member, Program Chair, Nominating Committee Chair and now serves as the coordinator of the NARA’s Compliance Special Interest Group. Nancy is certified in health care compliance by the HCCA Compliance Certification Board, and was among the first in the therapy industry to be certified. She has a MS in Therapeutic Recreation from the University of Illinois, MBA from the University of South Florida, and a certificate in Managed Care from Harvard School of Public Health. She is a frequent speaker for APTA at the state and national level on compliance matters, recently speaking at the Private Practice Section and the Combined Sections Meeting.

Description:

Audience:

This webinar is designed for the existing Rehab Agency that is preparing to update existing disaster policies and procedures for compliance with the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule. This webinar will be helpful for those in process with an application to be certified as a Rehab Agency. This webinar is also suitable for those in a Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF).

Level of Presentation:

This webinar is designed at the intermediate level and assumes basic knowledge of overall Rehab Agency Conditions of Participation (CoP) and basic requirements of Survey and Certification disaster requirements under the previous CoP. Basic Rehab Agency information on CoP will not be covered. (Note: Entry level webinars on becoming a Rehab Agency or CORF are available at NancyBeckley.com).

Goals:

Identify and interpret the CMS Emergency Preparedness (EP) Conditions of Participation specific to the Rehab Agency.
Understand resources essential to the development of an All-Hazards Vulnerability Risk Assessment including where to find resources and how to use them.
How to connect with, and document participation with local, regional and state disaster authorities and coalitions.
How to use your Risk Assessment to develop the four CoP requirements:
1. Emergency Plan
2. Policies and Procedures
3. Communication Plan
4. Training and Testing Plan.

Webinar Description:

Disaster preparedness implies that you are ready and “prepared” to face a wide range of scenarios from hurricanes, wild fires, cyber threats, and active shooter incidents amongst others. For the Rehab Agency accustomed to running an annual fire drill as a “check the box exercise”, the level of preparation for meeting Emergency Preparedness under the new CoP cannot be overstated.

The Emergency Preparedness CoP is required and effective for surveys after November 15, 2017. Rehab Agencies may find that they are not prepared for a survey, or worse yet, for a disaster. The current survey cycle of 5 - 6 years, (3 years for accreditation) dictates that Rehab Agencies must anticipate scrutiny of their preparedness. Given the complexity, content and breath of the CoP correction of a Condition level deficiency would not be achievable in the 10 day timeframe associated with a Plan of Correction.

Following this webinar, a Rehab Agency will have the information necessary to:

Conduct an effective assessment of Rehab Agency specific risk areas
Understand elements to be considered in establishing a plan for emergencies
Develop new, or expand existing, policies and procedures to encompass emergency preparedness
Understand the comprehensive approach required for communication with staff, patients, community, and first responders
Design and conduct the comprehensive training consistent with the CoP requirements
Evaluate the effectiveness of Rehab Agency emergency preparedness testing approach, content, and documentation

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