New Quality Regulations and How They Affect Your Hospice Residents in a Long-Term Care Setting

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Thursday October 25, 2012 1:00 PM ET, 12:00 PM CT

With the new measures set forth by the national quality forum for hospices, Long-Term Care Communities are already seeing a dramatic change in their residents' plans of care today and in the future.

Join Long-Term Living and Crossroads Hospice President, Perry Farmer, for a live and interactive webinar as they discuss variety of topics from necessity of collaboration to ease transitions; to engaging your physicians to keep from avoidance of palliative medicine and symptom management.

Register today to join in the discussion!

Learning Objectives:

  • Why collaboration is necessary and beneficial
  • Why physicians avoid the palliative question
  • What measures did the national quality forum pass
  • Which measures will go into effect now and how does that affect my residents
  • What can I expect in the future

CEU Information:

*This program is currently pending NAB approval.  NAB certificates will be provided pending this event's approval 

About the Speaker(s):

Perry Farmer 
President
Crossroads Hospice

Perry Farmer is president, and an original founder, of Crossroads Hospice, a $100 million hospice care business known for innovation and raising the bar in care for patients, families, caregivers and health care professionals.

Farmer graduated from the University of Oklahoma. Driven by creativity and enthusiasm, Farmer started his carrier in health care in 1989. Believing in learning from the ground up, Farmer began as a nurse's aide and worked through each department in the nursing home, eventually becoming administrator. In 1995, Farmer and his family started Crossroads Hospice. Learning from his LTC background, their program has changed expectations of hospice care in LTC facilities in each of the communities they serve.  Farmer continues his LTC involvement as an owner of a facility in Tulsa.