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Gerry Fioriglio RN, CDP, BS
President/CEO/Owner @ Family Caregivers Network
Gerry has extensive education and experience in Geriatrics and Home Care. Gerry received her nursing degree from St. Luke’s Hospital Nursing School and holds a Bachelors in Health Administration. Gerry is a Certified Dementia Practitioner, Certified Patient Advocate and Geriatric Care Manager. She consults with families to assist with Long Term Care Planning for loved ones. Gerry provides education programs in our local communities and faciliates our Caregiver Support Groups. She is a Master Trainer with the Matter of Balance Program which teaches individuals how to improve strength, balance and safely live at home.
Eileen Freitag is a Partner and Director of Fazzi’s Strategic Consulting Division. She is the past President and CEO of one of the largest home care agencies in the United States at that time, the Boston VNA; has served as the CEO of a long term care continuum that included a major home health component; and the Vice President of Business Development of a start-up software company. During her 40 year career in home care, she has served on the boards of several local and national health care organizations. Eileen’s division works with home health agencies on a variety of marketing, customer service, referral enhancement and interim management efforts.
Eileen Freitag, MBA
Partner, Director of Strategic Consulting @ Fazzi Associates
Melinda and Mark Cannon founded the company in April 2001 to provide financial, reimbursement, clinical and cost reporting services to the home health, hospice and rehabilitation therapy industries. Melinda’s priority remains bridging the gap between clinical and financial issues in home health agencies. She is a speaker for multiple state home care associations and serves on the NAHC-HHFMA Work Group and is ex-officio on the Advisory Board. She is also the author of The Home Health Pocket Guide to OASIS-C1.
Melinda Gaboury, COS-C
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Healthcare Provider Solutions, Inc. (HPS)
Dan has been with the Medicare program since 2004. In 2008, he became part of Palmetto GBA’s Congressional Unit. This unit handled complex inquiries for Part A, Part B and Home Health and Hospice. His experience is extensive in, but not limited to, coverage polices, compliance, billing, enrollment, and systems. In 2007 and 2008, he was a manager for Palmetto GBA’s Beneficiary Call Center. Prior to working with Medicare, Dan worked in skilled nursing facilities for 12 years. He directed Dietary Departments, which included participation in nutritional assessments, care planning, wound rounds, and patient documentation.
Dan is co-presenting with Charles Canaan.
Dan George
Senior Provider Relations Representative @ Palmeto GBA, Provider Outreach and Education
J’non Griffin is a 30 year veteran of home care as an RN. She received her Master’s Degree in Health Care Administration in 2005. She has experience as a field nurse, director and executive with home health and hospice agencies, both large and small. She has served as Director of Staff Development and Appeals for home health and hospice agencies. She has taken part in mock surveys for agencies, and prepared agencies for accreditation. She has been directly involved in accreditation surveys, acquisitions and many regulatory crises with state survey agencies and the intermediary.
J'non is co-presenting with Christina Crumbley.
J'non Griffin, RN MHA, WCC, HCS-D, HCS-H, COS-C
Owner & President @ Home Health Solutions, LLC
David has significant clinical and mergers & acquisitions experience. He has closed several deals in home health, hospice, and physician practices. He also gained significant investment banking experience while working for the high technology mergers and acquisitions group at Morgan Stanley in New York City. David’s understanding of the goals of his clients is augmented by his clinical healthcare experience, which includes earning a medical degree, briefly practicing clinical medicine, and conducting award winning basic science research. He earned a Bachelors degree in biology at Harvard College, and an M.D. at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
David Hicks, M.D.
Vice President @ Fleetridge Pacific
Elizabeth is an attorney in private practice with extensive experience in health care. Prior to becoming an attorney, she was employed as a personnel manager by a Blue Cross-Blue Shield Plan. She studied at the University of Maryland School of Law, concentrating in health law, and gained considerable clinical experience, course work and employment experience in this area. Following her admission to the Bar, she developed an active practice in health law. She represents clients all over the country. Her clients are professional associations, managed care providers, and institutional health care providers, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, durable medical equipment companies, and hospices. She has also represented a number of individual providers and case managers concerning health-related issues. Ms. Hogue gives approximately 50 presentations each year on health-related topics, including future trends in the healthcare industry. Her numerous articles are regularly included in trade association publications and other journals. Ms. Hogue is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association. Her offices are located in Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Hogue, Esq.
Private PracticeFounder, Owner and Primary Nurse Consultant @ Alternatives, A Consulting & Education Service
Steve previously was Chief Operating Officer with Evangelical Homes of Michigan in Farmington, Michigan. Steve joined Evangelical Homes of Michigan as its Corporate Director of Wellness and Physical Health in 2007 after owning and operating several wellness businesses both in Michigan and Florida. His extensive Senior Services industry experience compliments his extensive experience in lifestyle coaching, leadership development and innovative program creation and execution. Steve currently sits on two non-profit boards and has had management responsibility of teams as large as 1000 with gross revenues of $50M+ and as small as two-person start- ups. Leading innovation discernment and execution as well as talent acquisition, placement and coaching individuals through transformation are common threads throughout Steve’s career. Steve’s Bachelor of Science education in Exercise Science took place at Eastern Michigan University and Spring Arbor College.
Stephen Hopkins, BS
Director @ Curo Technologies
Elizabeth is an award winning professional speaker, executive coach, published author, and a former home health nurse. Elizabeth works with CEOs and C-Suite executives who want to enliven their organizations, select great people, and turn ALL their leaders into high performers. Her clients include health systems, long term care organizations, home health agencies, and professional associations.A member of the elite CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame and a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Elizabeth presents keynote speeches and interactive learning events at organization meetings and association conferences. She has addressed over one million people in more than 4,000 presentations in the past three decades.
Elizabeth is co-presenting with Stephen Tweed.
Elizabeth Jeffries, RN, CSP, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame
CEO @ Executive Mastery... a Tweed Jeffries company
Lisa has worked at Baptist Health in Jacksonville Florida for 25 years with 20 years in home health administration. She has held multiple roles and is currently the Administrator for Baptist Home Health Care which is the product of several mergers between hospital based and VNA agencies. She is a board certified from ANCC as Nurse Executive-Advanced. She's a member of Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society, First Coast Nurse Executives, North East Florida Coalition for Coordinated Care for Seniors, Membership Chair for United Way’s Women In Local Leadership. She is a recipient of North East Florida Great 100 Nurses Award. She had an article published in the Remington Report on Developing a Disease Management Program in 2003. Recently she was very active in programs to decrease rehospializations and improve transitions of care throughout the Baptist Health System. These programs include the creation of Health Connections, a home based primary care service and a very successful telemonitoring program. Her passion is to increase coordination of care to prevent duplication or omission of care.
Lisa Kidd MSN, RN, NEA-BC
Administrator @ Baptist Home Health Care
Sue is a co-founder of Ritken & Associates. and a Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse with experience in the home care/hospice, acute care, rehab and LTAC settings. She has functioned in various roles from direct patient care to corporate program management, and offers realistic solutions to your WOCN needs. She possesses extensive knowledge of the WOCN Society best practices relating to in-patient and home based wound management, utilizing this knowledge to develop strategies necessary to ensure the highest possible patient outcomes while maintaining clinical and regulatory compliance. Sue served on WOCN/OASIS-C, C1 advisory committee to CMS, as content validation expert for WOCN Stoma Complications Document for clinician best practices and as a member of WOCN Document Review Task Force for review of Best Practice Documents. Sue is co-presenting with Debbie Ritter.
Sue Kennedy, RN, BS, CWOCN, FACCWS
Co-Founder @ Ritken & Associates
Wes is the Business Line Manager for Applied Analytics at Kinnser Software, where he leads the effort to use data to create innovative new products that help agencies improve their clinical outcomes and grow their businesses. Previous to Kinnser, Wes worked for Harden Healthcare, one of the largest providers of post-acute care in the nation prior to it's acquisition by Gentiva in 2013, and received his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Wes Little
Business Line Manager for Applied Analytics @ Kinnser Software, Inc.
Legally Nanny® is the leading law firm representing homecare agencies and household employers. Attorney Bob King is Legally Nanny’s founder. Bob works with agencies throughout the U.S. handling employment law matters. He represents nationwide homecare companies, franchisees, independent agencies, and families directly employing caregivers. Bob is an acclaimed speaker and author on homecare legal issues and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, USA Today, ABC News and CNBC.
Bob King, Esq.
Founder & Attorney @ Legally Nanny®
Linda, a physical therapist in home care since 1988, is a nationally recognized expert on OASIS and home health quality improvement. She serves as a consultant to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractors, assisting in quality improvement measures and initiatives, PPS models analysis and enhancement, refinement of the OASIS data set, Guidance Manual and resulting measures, and development of related support and training materials. Currently she oversees the contract managing the national CMS OASIS Q&A Mailbox and provides training for CMS’s State OASIS Education Coordinators. She served as the President and a Founding Member of the OASIS Certificate and Competency Board (OCCB), and continues to oversee the COS-C Exam as Chair of the Exam Review Task Force.
Linda is co-presenting with Marian Essey.
Linda Krulish, PT, MHS, COS-C
President & Founder @ OASIS Answers, Inc.
Margherita C. Labson is Executive Director for the Home Care Program at The Joint Commission. In this role, she is responsible for coordinating the efforts of the Home Care Business Development team in identifying new markets, familiarizing organizations with the accreditation process, participating in new product development, and the strategic development and tactical operations of the Home Care Accreditation Program. Ms. Labson is a veteran health care professional who has specialized in the provision of home care services since 1977 from both multi-operational and academic perspectives. She has extensive knowledge in the legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements for the scope of home care programs provided in the United States and Puerto Rico. She is an experienced lecturer, educator, a published author, and functionally fluent in Spanish.
Margherita Labson RN, MS, CPHQ, CCM
Executive Director @ The Joint Commission
5 Star Consultants is a national consulting, education and coding firm specializing in homecare services. Sharon has been in the homecare and hospice industry for over thirty years. Prior to founding 5 Star Consultants, she was executive director of the homecare and hospice services division for Unity Health in St Louis, MO. Sharon was an ACHC surveyor until December 2013, and a former CHAP surveyor, performing Medicare deemed surveys for ten years. In her consulting firm, she and the 25 RNs in 5 Star Consultants assist agencies in providing quality, meeting regulations, managing efficiently and achieving financial viability. Sharon and her staff perform coding and OASIS reviews, clinical record reviews, do mock surveys and help agencies across the country stay in compliance. Sharon regularly speaks at national and state associations and does frequent webinars for education firms on many topics such as continued survey readiness, ICD- 10, case management, OASIS assessments and diagnosis coding, management and operational topics, Quality Improvement/QAPI, as well as various other topics integral to being successful in the homecare and hospice industry.
Sharon Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D
Founder & Senior Managing Partner @ 5 Star Consultants
Kimberly has established herself as an expert in Utilization Review (UR) management of the Home Health PPS Model, including SURCH and Care Modeling - HHSM homecare products. With 20 years’ experience and nearly a decade as a homecare Administrator, Kimberly displays the knowledge and insight into Home Health you’ve come to expect from HHSM. Kimberly authors the HHSM nursing newsletter, and presents nationally on homecare topics including; care models proposed by CMS for the future of the Home Health industry, SURCH OASIS training, UR-based care production, and delivery protocols for the progressive Home Health Provider preparing for the future.
Kimberly is co-presenting with Arnie Cisneros.
Kimberly McCormick, RN, MBA
Chief Nursing Officer @ Home Health Strategic Management (HHSM)
Lisa has over 20 years in medical social work experience; from acute care hospitalization, home healthcare, to hospice and palliative care. Lisa is currently the Clinical Compliance Educator for the ACHC where she is responsible for educating organizations on the ACHC accreditation process as well as assisting organizations with the interpretation of the ACHC Standards for Accreditation. Prior to this role, Lisa was a Hospice Surveyor with ACHC, affording her the opportunity to assist organizations with compliance with the ACHC Standards as well as developing best practices. Lisa’s previous work experience allowed her to successfully prepare and lead the hospice agency she was employed with, through the ACHC Accreditation process. Lisa also speaks at State and National conferences and associations and conducts workshops on the accreditation process as well as various topics that are relevant to the health care industry.
Lisa Meadows MSW
Clinical Compliance Educator @ Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc (ACHC)
With a B.S. in Health Promotion, Sarah has over 12 years of experience working within the Health and wellness arena. Her experience stems from serving as a Wellness Consultant and Coach for organizations across the U.S. Through the creation and establishment of preventative health programs and benefit offerings, Sarah has partnered with numerous employers—including LogMeIn, Inc., Nike, United States Special Operations Command, and Greenville Health System--to increase employee wellness and satisfaction beyond compensation.
Sarah spent 10 years as a specialty sales professional in the biopharmaceutical industry. Promoting products pertaining to metabolic and cardiovascular disease states, she possesses unique insight in understanding the connection between mental and health modifications and their contributions to the pathophysiology of chronic disease states. She maintains experience on both ends of the healthcare spectrum: understanding the financial burden of chronic disease state management and possessing hands-on experience in offering preventative health care benefits.
Her understanding of the connection between employee health and retention provides a different perspective for employers seeking methods to increase their value beyond an employee’s compensation. Her presentations offer relevant guidance and solutions to Affordable Care Act compliance and increased employee engagement, recruitment, and retention through appropriate benefit offerings.
Sarah Oliver
National Account Executive @ Benefits in a Card
Ann leads Qualidigm’s growing home healthcare services and develop strategic initiatives to further Qualidigm’s mission to improve the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare through transformational change.
At Interim HealthCare of North Haven, Inc., a full-service home healthcare agency, Ann was the Vice President of Operations. Previously, she was the President and CEO of Interim HealthCare of Hartford, Inc.. a comprehensive healthcare organization which includes a Licensed and Medicare Certified Home Health and Hospice Agency, Healthcare Staffing Company and a Personal Care and Support Division. Olson brings over 30 years of management, strategic planning, business development, and leadership experience to her presentations.
Ann is co-presenting with Kathy Roby.
Ann Olson, RN, BSN
Principal and Vice President @ Qualidigm
Merrily is an expert marketing strategist, multiple award-winning business leader, community activist and serial entrepreneur based in Louisville, Kentucky. She was a pioneer in the home care industry, creating a geriatric care managed model for non-medical long term in-home care in 1981. She recently served as the Chief Strategic Officer for the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) for their private duty affiliate, the Private Duty Homecare Association of America (PDHCA), an affiliate she had chaired and served for several years on their advisory board. Nationally, she is a sought after speaker, contributes articles in several national business and senior care publications, produces home care educational materials and actively works on planning conferences. Orsini holds a Masters degree from the University of Louisville.
Merrily is co-presenting with Sam Smith.
Merrily Orsini, MSSW
President/CEO @ corecubed.com
Mary is a leading authority on the longevity marketplace. Social and serial entrepreneur, founder of SeniorNet (1986), ThirdAge Media (1996), and MFA (2002), through her three companies Mary has secured over $135 million in venture financing and corporate sponsorships for companies with products and services to serve the needs of the boomer/senior marketplace. She is a past winner of the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Top 100 Women of Influence award and the author of Turning Silver into Gold: How to Profit in the New Boomer Marketplace. For the past 13 years, Mary has produced the industry-leading What’s Next Boomer Business Summit and the Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit. She has appeared on NBC, CBS, and NPR and is an advisor to the Ziegler Link•age Longevity Fund, LP.
MFA’s private client practice is comprised of many of the leading startups and corporations in the longevity marketplace. She also serves as an adjunct professor, focusing on entrepreneurship and women in leadership at the Leavey School of Business in Santa Clara, CA.
Mary Furlong, Ed.D.
President and CEO @ Mary Furlong & Associates (MFA)s
Brian Kirk is the Project Manager for the KidsWell Florida initiative with Florida CHAIN. The KidsWell Florida initiative focuses on ensuring all children in Florida have access to affordable, quality health care. Prior to joining Florida CHAIN, he worked for over 4 years with Florida Covering Kids & Families at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. His previous work experience focused on conducting Florida KidCare business outreach efforts in addition to assisting the activities of 19 local Florida KidCare coalitions across the state. Brian has a strong interest in health care policy and consumer protections with respect to health care access and quality. He received a B.S. in Biology from Florida State University and a M.H.A. and M.P.H. from the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health.
Brian is co-presenting with Aldiana Brezanin.
Brian L. Kirk, MHA, MPH
Project Manager @ Florida CHAIN
Farlen Halikman, CPA
Moore Stephens & Lovelace
Farlen is a shareholder at Moore Stephens Lovelace, a Certified Public Accounting and business advisory firm serving Florida’s healthcare industry. Farlen is the shareholder-in-charge of the Firm's Long-Term Care Practice Group. He has over 30 years of experience in CPA practice and, in addition to being a CPA, he has additional certifications in Healthcare Fraud Examination, Risk Management and Compliance. He is often called upon by healthcare attorneys to provide regulatory audit support services and expert services in regulatory proceedings. Farlen is currently serving the profession as a member of the AICPA’s Health Care Expert Panel.
Jared Koreff, CPA, CFE, MPAc
Jared is a PhD candidate at the University of Central Florida’s Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting. Jared has an undergraduate and Master's degree in Accounting from Bryant University. Prior to entering the PhD program, Jared worked as an auditor at CliftonLarsonAllen for over 2 years. Jared's research interests include fraud, data analytics, healthcare organizations and auditor's judgment and decision-making.
HCAF is honored to have the following presenters participating in our 2016 Annual Conference & Trade Show.
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