The Sixteenth Annual

January 16 – 18, 2018The Colonnade HotelBoston, MA

Northeast

Home Health

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Sponsor Information

Pre-Conference

Summit AGENDA

SPEAKER League

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Summit Website

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The Sixteenth Annual

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EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNTRegister for the Summit by December 15 and save! Your registration fee includes access to expert speakers, designated meals and more. Register for the Summit simply and securely using your credit card online at www.eventville.com/hcanys. You can also fax or mail in your registration form accompanying this brochure. Be sure to indicate if you wish to participate inthe pre-conference session and/or the group dinner for which there are additional fees. Registration fees may not be shared. Walk-in registrations will not be accommodated. Special fees apply to vendors who are not sponsors.

Sponsorship of the SummitSponsorship is open to anyone who supports home care, including suppliers of home care products and services. Sponsors are featured on the summit website, in the conference program and in the sponsor directory provided to each attendee. Be recognized as a supporter of home health and become a Sponsor today!

Visit www.nehomehealthsummit.com to see who has sponsored already and to view the 2018 Sponsorship brochure outlining all the opportunities available. Please contact Ms. Billi Wilson at bwilson@hcanys.org for further information.

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11:00 AM Conference Registration Opens

1:00-2:00 PMSpanning the Gap: Who Will Care For Us?Paul Osterman, Author “Who Will Care for Us? Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce”

This session will discuss the challenges facing America in providing home-based care, as demand explodes in the next two decades. Osterman will focus on the role of home care aides and how to attract more people into the field, expand their scope of practice, and finance these improvements –no doubt a heroic task.

2:00-3:00 PMInfrared Visions on Population Health and Home HealthDr. Charles Pu, MD, FACP, CMD

How do the demands on an ACO drive health care redesign, and where does home health fit into that? Where do the hurdles lie? What are the possible successes and what is holding home health back?Dr. Charles Pu will use his unique vision to connect some of these dots from his perspective as a geriatrician and as Partners Director of Population Health.

3:00 – 3:15 PM Break

3:15-4:15 PMLegion Work to Meet the Palliative Care Imperative Kate Lally, MD, FACP

Learn how organizations can become more “conversation-ready” and encourage their health care providers to engage more patients in end-of-life conversations. Lally will share outcomes from a program that developed a legion of “conversation nurses,” which are RNs that have been trained in goals of care conversation used in their hospitals and SNFs.

4:15 PM – Adjourn

Enjoy the exceptional dinner experience of your choice in Boston.

Pre−Conference – The Sooth Sayers: We Have Seen the Future and We Are Here To Share

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17

SUMMIT AGENDADay Day Day Day 11118:00 AM Registration

9:00-9:15 AM –Welcome to the 16th Annual Northeast Home Health Superhero Summit

9:15-10:30 AMFear, Outrage and the Courage to Change LanesLois Kelly, Co-Author of the best-selling book “Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within,” Co-Founder of the Rebels at Work movement

Every leader knows that the need to change and adapt is essential, especially in home care. Many think that the answers can be found in empowering people, having a clearer mission, and innovating.

These are all helpful. But there’s something much more fundamental: Tapping into our fear, outrage and love to propel us into acting more courageously. All meaningful change requires courage.

In this creative, interactive session, the author of Rebels at Work and Be the Noodle, Lois “Lane” Kelly, will help us tap into our own lanes of courage, reconnect us with our professional North Stars, and create an experience where we witness a courageous act in all its messiness, humor, vulnerability and love.

10:30-10:45AM Break

10:45 AM-12:00 PMSignal Responses from D.C. Headquarters with “Dynamic Dombi” Bill Dombi, President, National Association for Home Care & Hospice

From his operations center in Washington, where he serves as President of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), Bill Dombi finds himself in multiple places at once, tackling all of the critical issues facing home care providers on

the national front. He will highlight some of the work he and NAHC are doing to protect and support vital home care services as well as some directions that NAHC is taking to reinvent itself as an the association, with the opportunity to receive input from attendees.

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00-2:15An Elixir for Unstoppable Innovation and Differentiation‘Daring’ David Rendall, Author, “The Four Factors of Effective Leadership” and “The Freak Factor”

What can tiny houses, Spartan races, knuckleball pitchers, armless archers, Snapchat, unibrows, and Minecraft teach us about innovation and differentiation? We all know that innovation and differentiation are essential for success in our careers and our companies. But developing and implementing truly unique ideas and practices seems very difficult, and most people and organizations fail in their efforts to be more creative and distinctive.

The elixir for this problem is surprisingly simple. Once you learn this singular method for finding unconventional ideas, called “oppositioning,” you’ll dramatically improve your ability to stand out and you’ll have an endless supply of original breakthroughs. You’ll go from unconventional to unforgettable to unstoppable.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17

3:45 – 4:00 PM Break

4:00-5:00Social Media Shutdown #IceBucketChallengeNancy Frates, Mother, ALS Advocate and Inspiration behind The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge did more than just educate and raise millions for ALS; it also disrupted an entire social media platform. This single campaign forced Facebook to create a “donate” button on its website, paving the way for other groups to increase donations. In this session, Nancy Frates will show how her work to raise awareness about her son’s illness, ALS, ended up changing the very business model for how advocacy campaigns are conducted, garnering support across all social media platforms by earning the trust of consumers, partners and philanthropists.

5:00-6:00 PM All-Star Networking Reception- The ColonnadeSpring into action building your web of colleagues at our annual networking event.

6:30 PMTitanium Tonics & An Iron-Rich Feast (A.K.A Group Dinner)The Brahmin33 Stanhope St, Boston, MA 02116

Rendezvous at this modern day ‘Bat Cave’ for American cuisine & cocktails to recharge your superpowers.

*There is an additional fee to attend this dinner. Please see registration form for details.

2:15-3:45 PM Break Out Sessions

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18

Day 2

7:30-8:30 – Power-Up Breakfast

8:30-9:45 AM

Advanced Care Transformation‘Transformation Master’ Khue Nguyen, PharmD, Chief Operating Officer, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) Innovations

The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) is dedicated to the ideal that all Americans with advanced illness, especially the sickest and most vulnerable, receive comprehensive, high-quality, person- and family-centered care that is consistent with their goals and values and honors their dignity. The Coalition’s newly launched “Campaign to Transform Advanced Care” is the largest industry leader-led movement to advance change in care delivery, payment, regulation and measurement. Nguyen will share the 8 steps to transformation, as well as how to design and implement the program at your organization.

9:45-11:15 AMThe Acute Care/Home Care Dynamic Duo: What's Happening, What's Possible

Even as we seek to create alignment within the care continuum, the question arises: Are we doing enough to connect and align around advocacy? We will explore this question with the leaders of our state hospital associations in a wide-ranging conversation about working more cooperatively on such issues as population health management, controlling medical costs and developing innovative and more integrated models of care.

Hospital Association Panel Jeff Tieman, President and CEO of Vermont Hospital & Health SystemsSteven Michaud, President of the Maine HospitalAssociationKathy Bizarro-Thunberg, MBA, FACHE, ExecutiveVice President / Federal Relations, NewHampshire Hospital AssociationJames Iacobellis, Senior Vice President,Government and Regulatory Affairs, ConnecticutHospital Association

11:15-11:30 AM – Break

11:30AM - 12:30 PMThe Crash Reel‘Captain America’ Kevin Pearce, Champion Snowboarder & Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor

Champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce’s epic rise, life-changing fall and inspiring road to recovery were chronicled in The Crash Reel, the acclaimed HBO documentary by Oscar-nominated director Lucy Walker. With dramatic footage from the film that brings his moving story to life, Kevin shares his stellar snowboarding career before the crash and his spiritual and physical journey to accept and overcome his traumatic brain injury. This is an unforgettable story of family, strength, determination and the triumph of the human spirit in overcoming even the greatest challenges.

12:30 PM Closing Lunch & Adjourn

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Chris Brickler is an experienced leader in driving new business growth through innovative technologies and communication platforms. He is currently the CEO and co-Founder of MyndVR, a healthcare company pioneering a new network of Virtual Reality experiences to improve the

cognitive health and happiness of our aging population. Chris has managed large business units at Verizon, British Telecom, AT&T, Guidespark and has served on the boards of a NASDAQ company and several non-profits. His production group in Los Angeles, Xlantic.com, created an artistic, multi-platform video program around love and relationships that was nominated for an Emmy.

Bill Dombi is President of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. He previously served as the Vice President for Law at NAHC. Dombispecializes in legal, legislative, and regulatory advocacy on behalf of patients and providers of home health and hospice care. With nearly 40 years of experience in health care law and policy, Bill Dombi has been involved in virtually all legislative and regulatory efforts affecting home

care and hospice since 1975, including the expansion of the Medicare home health benefit in 1980, the formation of the hospice benefit in 1983, the institution of Medicare PPS for home health in 2000, and the national health care reform legislation in 2010.

Lois Kelly creates experiences that help teams see possibilities and find the courage and resiliency to make those new ideas real. From many years in strategic communications and marketing for Fortune 500 companies, she’s observed that most organizations don't lack great ideas, but

they do lack focus on what will make a difference, the courage to say “no” to what no longer works, and the determination to introduce new ideas in bold, inspiring ways. Kelly is the author of the best-selling book “Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within” and “Be the Noodle: 50 Ways to Be a Courageous, Compassionate, Crazy-Good Caregiver.”

Kathleen A. Bizarro-Thunberg has been with the New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA) since 1985, where she currently works on federal legislative matters that affect health care and hospitals. She is also responsible for state advocacy efforts, health policy development,

hospital financial reporting, data management andmore. Kathy is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and has served as President of the Northern New England Association of Healthcare Executives, ACHE Regent for the State of New Hampshire, and as a Governor on the ACHE Board of Governors.

James Iacobellis is the Senior Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at the Connecticut Hospital Association. He is responsible for representing Connecticut’s 27 not-for-profit hospitals before the Connecticut State Legislature and State Agencies. Jim also advocates on behalf of Connecticut hospitals

before Connecticut’s Congressional Delegation and Federal Agencies and coordinates CHA's legal and policy research on issues affecting hospitals and healthcare. Prior to joining CHA in 2000, Jim served as Counsel to the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and its Democratic caucus, Counsel to the Majority Leader, Senior Legislative Attorney for the Legislative Commissioner's Office of the Connecticut General Assembly, and Staff Attorney for the State of Connecticut Judicial Department. He has also taught Business Law as adjunct instructor at Naugatuck Valley Community and Technical College in Waterbury.

Kate M. Lally, MD, FACP, is the Director of Palliative Care at Care New England, Hospice Medical Director at the VNA of Care New England, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Steven Michaud, President, joined the Maine Hospital Association in 1987 and became President in 1999. In this capacity, he is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of the Association and its affiliates.

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In 2012, Nancy Frates’ 27-year-old son Peter was diagnosed with ALS. Her family’s world changed in a moment. Then she helped change the world … by inspiring the viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge campaign, raising $220 million for the ALS Association and its partners. Nancy holds a business degree from Boston College and an honorary Doctorate in Humane Studies

from Endicott College. During her 14-year career at Keller Williams, Nancy was a top agent in her market. She presently serves on Endicott’s Board of Trustees and is a National Trustee for the ALS Association. Her Ted Talk has been viewed over 1 million times and her speaking engagements have taken her all over the world.

Nathan Alejandro Zapata is a mystic author and music producer who has collaborated with Grammy-winning and multi-platinum artists, DJs and producers globally for over fifteen years. NZ, as he is known, has been dedicated to sharing techniques for increased energy, inspiration, and self-expression – and the development of a genuine connectedness to others and the life process overall.

As chief executive officer of Reflexion Health, Dr. Joseph (Joe) Smith has decades of health-IT focused strategic, engineering, clinical, and healthcare policy expertise. Prior to joining Reflexion Health, Dr. Smith served as: the founding chief medical and science officer at the West Health Institute; president of the West

Health Policy Center in Washington, D.C.; and manager of the West Health Investment Fund. Prior roles included industry leadership positions at J&J, Boston Scientific, and Guidant Corp. He holds a Ph.D. from the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Satyaraji is a teacher and seeker of Truth; she is an artist, designer, and yogini. Her intense interest in the science of Yoga led her through a transformative adventure in Nepal, where she completed her Yoga Instructor Certification at Nepal Yoga Academy. She now teaches techniques for the art of self-transformation –integrating the practical and the philosophical methods of accessing true freedom, power, and harmony in life.

Kevin Pearce is a Champion Snowboarder & Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor. Pearce went from being an Olympic gold medal hopeful to suffering a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) that nearly took his life. Today Kevin Pearce is known for his

contagious optimism that lifts up audiences. He is delivering a powerful message of perseverance, purpose, overcoming adversity and finding strength through helping others.

Prior to becoming a speaker, David Rendall was a leadership professor and stand-up comedian. He also managed nonprofit enterprises that provided employment for people with disabilities. Rendell has a doctor of management degree in organizational leadership, as well as a graduate degree in psychology. He is the author of three books: “The Four Factors of Effective Leadership”, “The Freak Factor”, and “The Freak Factor for Kids.”

Dr. Charles Pu is the Medical Director at Care Continuum, Partners Center for Population Health. He is also currently an Attending Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, as well as an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pu is skilled

in strategic planning and program implementation, quality improvement, clinical research, medical education and complex Illness care.

Khue Nguyen is a health care leader with extensive experience in the design and development of population health management programs, spanning chronic diseases management to advanced illness. She led implementation of the system-wide rollout of the AIM® initiative at Sutter Health that was funded in part by

CMMI,spreading the program to 11 counties covering more than 10 hospitals and 5 community physician networks. More recently, Khue developed clinical programs for providers and payers through alternative payment models including Bundled Payments, Independence at Home and Medicare Shared Savings programs. Khue is a co-author of CTAC’s Advanced Care Report and leads the development of alternative payment model.

Paul Osterman is the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Professor of Human Resources and Management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management as well as a member of the Department of Urban Planning at M.I.T. His research focuses on changes in work organization within companies, career patterns and processes

within firms, economic development, urban poverty, and public policy surrounding skills training and employment programs.

Jeffery Tieman is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Vermont Hospital & Health Systems.Jeffrey joined VAHHS in August 2016. He leads the association toward implementing its vision through member relations, strategic planning and serving as the public face of the association. Prior to his role at VAHHS, Mr. Tieman served as Chief of Staff of the Catholic Health Association in Washington, D.C. He

worked with CHA in a variety of roles beginning in 2004, and led the organization's advocacy work regarding health care reform and the Affordable Care Act. Prior to joining CHA in 2004, he served as Washington Bureau Chief for Modern Healthcare magazine.

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