2023 MHHA Annual Conference

May 3-5, 2023

The 2023 MHHA Annual Conference will be held from May 3-5, 2023. Attendees can access handouts for the event below. This year’s conference will include sessions on topics such as hospice care, home health agencies, volunteer recruitment, cybersecurity, music therapy, legal and regulatory compliance, and more. The event will also feature round table meetings, a business meeting, and general sessions. The last day of the conference will include a session on sex trafficking and a closing session on using emotional intelligence to overcome industry barriers and challenges.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

Time Item
7:30 am — 8:15 am
  • All Attendee Orientation Breakfast
8:30 am — 9:30 am
  • Opening Session: The Health System of the Future is in the Home
9:45 am — 11:00 am
  • Hospice Agencies Preparing for Federal Survey – Ten Deficiencies
  • HME Audit Climate: What You Need to Know
  • OASIS E and Impact on Value Based Purchasing
  • Top Homecare Employer Mistakes
  • Michigan’s Statewide Initiatives to Expand and Elevate the Direct Care Workforce (DCW)
  • Volunteer Recruitment 101
11:15 am — 12:15 pm
  • Committee Round Table Meetings
  • Certified Committee
  • HME Committee
  • Hospice/Palliative Care Committee
  • Private Duty Committee
1:00 pm — 2:30 pm
  • Home Health Agencies Preparing for Federal Survey – Top Deficiencies
  • Unlocking Performance Value in Care at Home – Strategic Use of Analytics
  • Medicare/Medicaid Managed Care: Rights of the DME
  • Better Together: Oncology and Hospice Care
  • Maintaining Hospice Fundraising Income with a Small Philanthropy Team
  • Selling & Marketing to Hospitals in the Value Based Care Era
  • Top 10 Practices of Volunteer Engagement

Thursday, May 4th, 2023

Time Item
7:30 am — 8:15 am
  • Continental Breakfast and Annual Business Meeting
8:15 am — 9:30 am
  • General Session: Cybersecurity for the Healthcare Profession
10:15 am — 11:45 am
  • Riding the Value Based Home Health Model to Successful Programming
  • Music Therapy: A Physician’s Perspective & Other Fun Treatments
  • Legal/Regulatory Compliance Issues for Home Care
  • Palliative Care Telehealth Best Practices
  • Active Shooter Prevention and Response
  • Working and Contracting with National Payers
2:15 pm — 3:45 pm
  • Medicare Updates – TPE, One on One Education and the Oxygen LCD
  • Home Care & Hospice 2023: A Washington Update
  • Challenges with Opioids: Managing Adverse Effects and Treating Patients with Substance Use Disorders
  • Auto No Fault Reform: Historical Recap and Current Status
  • Artificial Intelligence: The Future in Healthcare is Now
  • The State of Palliative Care in Michigan: Findings from Recent Palliative Care Provider Survey
  • Company Culture: The Life Blood of Continuance
4:00 pm — 5:15 pm
  • Transforming Your Agency to Meet the Needs of VBID, ACO, REACH and Other Lucrative Reimbursement Models
  • Fostering a Culture of Belonging
  • Licensing for Home Care: A Proposal in Michigan
  • Deprescribing: What Do I Need to Know?
  • Legislative Update
  • Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM): Caring for the Patient in Real Time
  • Difficult Conversations

Friday, May 5th, 2023

TimeItem
8:00 am — 9:00 am
  • Continental Breakfast
9:00 am — 9:30 am
  • General Session: Making of a Victim: Sex Trafficking and Grooming
10:45 am — 12:00 pm
  • Closing Session: Using EQ Coupled with IQ and CE to Overcome Home Health Care & Hospice Industry Barriers and Challenges.