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Top Homecare Provider Shares Its Secrets

Mars, PA, November 24, 2008 - One of our region's premier home healthcare providers is about to share a lot of valuable information. Celtic Healthcare is pleased to announce that they will now offer specialized teleconference educational sessions to interested parties, such as home health associations, agencies, and private insurance companies.

Celtic Healthcare features teleconference sessions to maximize learning efficiencies and create a simple way for organizations to tap into their wealth of knowledge on today's healthcare issues, which range from homecare and hospice-based management to interdisciplinary topics that span the healthcare field. Celtic Healthcare's teleconference programs create significant value for participants - minimizing the cost of continued education and increasing operational efficiencies.

Two of our industry's well-known experts, Celtic Healthcare's own Tonya Miller and Misty Kevech are offering seminars on a wide array of topics including, but not limited to:

It Takes a Team to Reduce Acute Care Hospitalizations

The national hospitalization rate on Home Health Compare remains at a daunting 28%. More than 1 in every 4 homecare patient's episodes ends in a hospitalization. Learn how to use strategies and tools, at both the leadership and clinician level, to keep patients at home. Discover how to integrate an interdisciplinary team approach to reducing acute care hospitalizations using current best practice interventions.

Heart Failure Management: Using the Interdisciplinary Team and Technology

Learn how to make the most of your interdisciplinary team to care for the heart failure patient. Integrate technology into clinical practices to improve early identification of potential complications and communication between disciplines.

Are Your Clinicians Hearing Each Other Clearly?

Quality patient-centered care requires consistent, concise and complete communication. Learn more about methods to improve communication from discipline to discipline utilizing tools, tips and technology. Promote a shared interdisciplinary mental model to improve patient care.

Improving Care Transitions for Better Patient Outcomes

Homecare patients transfer across many health care settings such as hospitals, nursing homes and physician offices frequently with lack of information sharing. CMS, IHI and Joint Commission have all identified care transitions as a national priority. This presentation will build upon the evidenced-based theories to practical applications for your agency.

Home Health Data: What is it? And what do I do with it?

Data. You have it. You look at the reports. But do you really understand it? Do you know how to interpret it? What about utilizing the data and applying it to your quality improvement processes or your agency goals and vision? In this session you will learn the basics about home health data, how to select significant data, and create a simple data dashboard to monitor results. Learn how to transform a variety of data into an agency action plan, design a monitoring process, and track success towards goals.

Wound Care: An Interdisciplinary Team Approach for Improved Outcomes

Wounds are costly to the health care industry and have a significant impact on patients' quality of life. Yet, often health care providers address wound care in a linear approach - producing poor results. Discover how agencies can use a multi-faceted approach to wound care in order to improve outcomes and quality of life for the patient.

Interdisciplinary Telehealth Programs: Taking Technology to the Next Level

Telehealth has become a common intervention used by agencies to monitor patients' status during the homecare episode. Often, Telehealth is used primarily as a nursing tool to assess patients daily. Telehealth combined with evidence-based practice can be a powerful tool for rehabilitation professionals as well. Discover how the whole team can utilize the Telehealth technology to improve treatment interventions and provide quality patient care.

For more information on these sessions, please contact Karen Michael at michaelk@celtichealthcare.com or 724-714-6395.

Misty Kevech, RN, BS Ed, MS, COS-C received her Bachelor's Degree in Public Health Care Education and her Master's of Science Degree in Professional Leadership with emphasis on training and development. She has over 25 years of homecare experience, primarily in quality improvement and education. Currently, Misty is the Director of Nursing Education and Program Development for Celtic Healthcare. Misty creates and provides clinical education - utilizing current evidence-based practices, tools, and resources to improve outcomes and actively provides OASIS education for clinicians. She utilizes technology to provide convenient, applicable e-learning for all disciplines, and community and patient videos. She was previously the Communication/Training Manager for Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, the Home Health Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Support Center. She coordinated and produced tools and resources for QIOs and home health agencies nationally. Misty was the editor of the Best Practice Intervention Packages for the National Home Health Quality Improvement Campaign. She has provided national presentations on many topic areas, especially related to best practices and interventions to reduce avoidable acute care hospitalizations and quality improvement. Additionally, she has written articles for Remington Report and Home HealthCare Nurse.

Tonya Miller PT, DPT COS-C received her Masters in Physical Therapy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1992 and her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Temple University in 2007. She is currently the Director of Rehabilitation Education and Program Development for Celtic Healthcare. In this role, Tonya creates and provides education programming for interdisciplinary clinicians, patients and families related to rehabilitation services in homecare. She also coordinates clinical program development, including implementation of evidence-based practice into patient care provision. Prior to her current position, Tonya was the director of a home care rehabilitation department, where she supervised more than fifty therapists. She has been an active member of APTA since 1992 and has served as the Home Health Section's Newsletter Editor since 2006. Tonya has provided national presentations related to a wide variety of aspects of homecare rehabilitation. She has also had the opportunity to publish articles in industry magazines such as Caring and Success in Home Care.

About Celtic Healthcare
Celtic Healthcare, Inc. (Celtic) is a leading multi-state, full-continuum home healthcare services provider. Headquartered north of Pittsburgh in Mars, PA, Celtic offers a comprehensive array of home health-related services, including: Geriatric Care Management, Living Assistance Services, Homecare, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech/Language Pathology, Medical/Surgical Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Medical Social Services, Palliative and Hospice Care, through an integrated multi-organizational approach. Celtic Healthcare was named #1 Large Company in the 2007 "Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania" and was ranked in the Top 20 in both the 2007 and 2008 list of Pittsburgh's 100 fastest growing companies by the Pittsburgh Business Times. CEO Arnie Burchianti has been honored as a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and is a well-known national speaker on healthcare-related subjects.

Dec 1, 2008

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