OCS is proud to announce Christy Whitney, President and CEO of Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado, as a speaker at the upcoming 2007 OCS Summit. Christy will be presenting a specialized session on "Demonstrating the Value of Open Access Hospice Care." This session is targeted toward those in the hospice field who want to gain an understanding of specific challenges to open access hospice care and how to demonstrate the value of open access to referral sources, board members, donors, payers beyond Medicare, and legislators addressing long-term hospice reimbursement options.

Be sure to take advantage of our Early Bird Savings! Register now for the OCS Summit. Early rates expire on August 15, 2007. For more information on the OCS Summit please visit our OCS Summit web page.

If you have any questions regarding the OCS Summit, please send an email to Crystal Schaeffer or call her at 206.325.3396.

Heading to Boston for the National Association for Home Care and Hospice 13th Financial Management Conference? If so, don't miss our session on The State of Home Care Technology, being presented by Bill Bassett, Senior Director Market Strategy and Corporate Development for OCS, on Thursday, July 19th, from 2:15 - 3:55 p.m.

Be sure to stop by booth #64 to visit with OCS. For more information, contact OCS at 206.325.3396 or send an email to info@ocsys.com.

OCS has created a series of OCS PPS Impact™ Web Conferences in an effort to help you fully understand and assess the impact the proposed Home Health PPS refinement rule will have on your agency, and to help you learn how you can thrive in the new payment system.

Due to demand, OCS has scheduled repeats of previous OCS PPS Impact™ Web Conferences, updated with new information.

Tools for PPS Success
Tuesday, July 24th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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The Proposed PPS Rule and
Strategies for Agency Success
Tuesday, August 7th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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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!

PatientView
Tuesday, July 17th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Oasis Reports & Graphs
Thursday, July 26th
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Are You Ready for QAPI ?
Tuesday, July 31st
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Disease Management
Thursday, August 2nd
10am PDT/1pm EDT
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Financial Management
Info At-A-Glance
Thursday, August 9th
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.

On Tuesday, July 17 at 11am PDT/2pm EDT, OCS Director of Strategy and Planning, Melinda Moore, BSN RN, joins UHSA CEO Mary Argo for a lively, interactive audio seminar to provide you with easy-to-understand analyses of a typical agency's financial performance comparing the current Home Health PPS model with the proposed rule change.

Discover how the OCS PPS Impact™ Toolkit, the third offering in the PPS Impact™ product suite, completes the industry's only solution that shows where, and to what degree, your agency will be affected by the announced PPS reforms.

Become empowered as we explain the strategy that UHSA and OCS have developed to help you make the refinements needed to more accurately predict pending resource utilization and to gain the operational efficiencies necessary to thrive using an integrated, agency-wide approach.

To enroll, click here.

The outstanding educational sessions at the OCS Summit, while valuable, are bound to make you hungry!

Click here find out just how lucky you are that the Summit is in Denver this year!