7:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Registration

7:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Exhibits Open

8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast Product Theater (No CME)

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome & Introductions: Opening Remarks

Janice Hoffman-Simen, Pharm.D., EdD, APh, BCGP, FASCP (President) &
Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD (Education Chair)

9:15 -10:45 a.m.

2024 Medical Updates: Common Conditions in PALTC 

Speaker: Eric Widera, MD

Learning Objectives:

1.  Discuss the importance that prognosis plays in clinical decision-making in long-term care settings.

2.  Describe the time-to-benefit of several common medications and preventive interventions used in 
     the long-term care setting.

3.  Describe three ways to estimate prognosis, including the use of prognostic indices.   

4.  Describe how to talk about prognosis with your patient and their family members.

10:45 -11:15 a.m.

Break in the Industry Exhibit Hall

11:15 -11:45 a.m.

Best Practices in PALTC: Discovering the Latest Trends & Innovations 

Speaker: Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD

Learning Objectives:

1.  Describe how an organization can set up an environment to facilitate innovations.

2.  Describe two innovative practices employed by PALTC providers and how they were implemented.

3. Identify two areas where innovative ideas are needed in PALTC. 

11:45 -12:30 p.m.

Where Do I Start? Behavioral Health Needs Assessment and Support

Speaker: Jacob Berelowitz, LNHA, LMSW, CPHQ, CCM

Learning Objectives:

1.  Define 4 step process for a nursing facility behavioral health needs assessment.

2.  Identify key components of behavioral health services available to nursing facilities, within the facility and the community.

3.  Describe the Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) purpose, audience, types of service
     and how to access them.           

12:30 -1:45 p.m.

Lunch Break/Exhibit Hall Open

12:35 -1:35 p.m.

Lunch Product Theater (No CME)

1:45 -2:15 p.m.

2024 Infection Prevention & Control Updates 

Speaker: Dolly Greene

Learning Objectives:

1.  Discuss updates in Infection Control Guidance impacting SNFs.

2.  Identify the difference between Enhanced Barrier Precautions, Standard Based Precautions, and
     Transmission Based precautions.

3.  Identify the CDC targeted multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs)

2:15 -2:45 p.m.

CDPH Wrap Session

Speaker: Cassie Dunham

Learning Objectives:

1.  Review recent All Facility Letters (AFL's).

2.  Identify the top five deficiencies and major focus of surveys for 2024 and 2025.

3.  State the changes that are coming to PALTC.

2:45 -3:10 p.m.

California Regulatory Updates 

Speaker:  Michael R. Wasserman, MD, CMD

Learning Objectives:

1.  Identify at least three new laws, regulations, or guidelines which impact your long-term care practice. 

2.  Discuss annual updates to the Consent Manual.

3.  Describe at least three areas which are hot spots for new regulations.

3:10 -3:40 p.m.

Break in the Industry Exhibit Hall

3:40 -4:25 p.m.

Federal Regulatory Updates 

Speaker: Alex Bardakh, MPP

Learning Objectives:

1.  Discuss latest federal legislative and regulatory developments.

2.  Discuss quality reporting strategies that align with clinical practice and facility reporting requirements.

3.  Identify current value-based medicine reporting requirements, including MIPS, APMs SNF VBP. 

4:25 -5:30 p.m.

In-The-Trenches

1) Complex Cases:  Common Conditions in PALTC; Eric Widera, MD

2) When Their Pain Becomes Your Pain; Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD          

3) Ask the Expert: What's Happening in Washington; Alex Bardakh, MPP          

4) Advocacy in CA and Beyond; Michael R. Wasserman, MD, CMD and Cassie Dunham

5) What's Bugging Your Facility; Dolly Greene, RN, BSN, CIC

6) Behavioral Health in LTC; George Woods, MD, LFAPA and Glen Xiong, MD, CMD

7) New Drugs; Janice Hoffman-Simen, Pharm.D., EdD, APh, BCGP, FASCP

5:30 -5:45 p.m.

CALTCM Officer Installation                   

Janice Hoffman-Simen, Pharm.D., EdD, APh, BCGP, FASCP &
Ashkan Javaheri, MD, CMD

5:45 -6:45 p.m.

Poster Session & Cocktail Reception

6:45 p.m.

Adjourn