OCS announces that Cerner, Inc. , located in Kansas City, Missouri, has joined the Hospice Leaders Project.

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The OCS Summit is moving to Denver, Colorado on October 6, 2007, just prior to the NAHC Annual Meeting. Join us for this one day learning intensive, focused on demonstrating value in home care.

You will have the opportunity to learn and share with the most progressive leaders in home care and hospice who have demonstrated value in areas such as payment reform, patient satisfaction, managed care, etc.

We will honor those agencies that have demonstrated value through our Vision Awards. Award winners will be announced during the OCS Summit. Vision Awards honor home care, hospice and private duty organizations for strategic and/or innovative use of OCS products in furthering agency performance. These awards acknowledge creative problem solving efforts that lead to improved quality of care or agency operations.

Visit the 2007 OCS Summit page to download a registration form. Send it in by August 15, 2007 to take advantage of our Early Bird rates.

For more information, send an email to Crystal Schaeffer or call all her at 206.325.3396.

Martha Tecca, Senior Director of Hospice and Peer Forum will be on the road, participating in the Iowa Hospice Organization's Regional Workshops on Data-Driven Management, June 26 - 28, 2007. Martha will be leading workshops on the following dates and locations, providing new educational material and facilitating group sharing.

• June 26th in Des Moines, at the Iowa Hospital Association Education Center, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
• June 27th in Storm Lake, at the Buena Vista Regional Medical Center Board Room, from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm.
• June 28th in Hiawatha, at the Hospice House of Mercy Board Room, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

OCS has created a series of web conferences in an effort to help you fully understand and assess the impact the proposed Home Health PPS refinement rule, released on April 27th, will have on your agency, and to help you learn how you can thrive in the new payment system.

The Proposed PPS Rule and
Strategies for Agency Success
Wednesday, June 27th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Tools for PPS Success
Thursday, June 28th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Space is limited in these web conferences, which are offered at no charge, so be sure to enroll today.

PLEASE NOTE- Dialing and WebEx instructions, including a link to the handouts, will be delivered to your email inbox on the morning of the web conference.

These informative OCS Product Web Conferences also touch on current issues, topics and trends in the Home Health, Hospice and Private Duty industries. Sign up today!

Home Health Connection
Thursday, June 21st
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Disease Management
Tuesday, June 26th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Dialing and WebEx instructions, including a link to the handouts, will be delivered to your email inbox on the morning of the day of the web conference you have enrolled in.

Check out this grant opportunity from the Retirement Research Foundation www.rrf.org

General Program Grant funds work to

• Improve availability and quality of community- based and institutional long-term care programs
• Expand opportunities for older persons to play meaningful roles in society
• Support applied and policy research into causes and solutions of significant problems of the aged
• Increase number of professionals and paraprofessionals adequately prepared to serve the elderly

Proposal must fall into one of four categories

• Model or service projects
• Advocacy for system change
• Education and training
• Research

Coming to Denver for the 2007 Annual Summit?

Click here for important information to help you plan your trip!