Join nursing leader colleagues for this annual event focusing on leading and developing nurses. Throughout the conference, you will learn how leadership is changing, ways to affect that change, and principles that leaders can use to empower, energize and inspire themselves and those they lead.
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2024 ACHE Annual Conference - Please click here for more information, including registration. All questions regarding this conference should be directed to
ache-wi@badgerbay.co
The shift of Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) from "Improvement" to "Integrity" is driven by the urgent need to realign with its guiding principle. It is imperative for CDI to refocus on the patient at the core. Accurate documentation and precise coding are pivotal in portraying the patient's authentic clinical state, having a profound impact on patient outcomes and the advancement of healthcare. Nevertheless, the current approach and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may sometimes disregard this crucial aspect, potentially steering CDI in the wrong direction. Physicians face significant challenges in aligning their documentation practices with CDI standards, revealing a notable disparity between patient care and documentation and coding procedures. To bridge this gap, a shift in focus, collaboration among all stakeholders, ongoing robust education, and strategic utilization of technology are essential to elevate CDI from merely seeking improvement to becoming synonymous with integrity.
WHA Corporate Member, DocuComp’s, CDI Master Class [Turbo-CDI] program stands out for its ability to align all stakeholders, offering continuous educational sessions that delve deeply into the core issues, fostering a collaborative atmosphere to ensure that the true clinical picture is accurately captured in documentation and coding. This focus on data integrity leads to improved patient outcomes, emphasizing the crucial role of continuing education and collaboration in achieving this goal.
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Processes, Roles, and Workflows to Best Support Your Workforce Ecosystem
By thoughtfully designing WHAT work needs to be done to create maximum value and align to the organization's strategic priorities, WHO does the work so that you have the right resources at the right place at the right time, and HOW work is performed to create exceptional customer, employee, & provider experiences, organizations can accelerate realizing their goals and priorities.
Moving Forward with Our Workforce Strategies
The 2024 Wisconsin Healthcare Workforce Summit is scheduled for Tuesday, October 8 at the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
“Moving Forward with Our Workforce Strategies” will feature updates from WCMEW’s two key planning work groups, together with success stories on meeting workforce challenges, including:
- Creating Excellent Clinical Learning Environments
- Home Based Hospital Care: An Opportunity for Clinical Professional Fulfillment
- Optimizing Primary Care
- Interprofessional Competencies: Implications for Current and Future “Learners”
- Integrating Soft Skills into Medical Education
- Men Can HEAL: Evidence Of the Need to Promote Healthcare Careers Among Young Men
- Recruiting, Engaging, and Retaining a Rural Physician Workforce
Last year’s Summit drew attendees from all parts of Wisconsin in virtually every area devoted to our workforce.
Why should I attend?
The Summit will highlight:
- Wisconsin’s current and future workforce challenges.
- Real-world examples of innovations in our education and training pipeline.
- How communities are finding ways to attract and retain their healthcare workforce now and into the future.
- How we can work together to build the future workforce we need.
- Provide interdisciplinary, cross-sector attendees with ample opportunities to network, share successes and challenges, and participate in forming new and creative solutions.
In person
Each facility is responsible for compliance with survey data submission. All Wisconsin Medicare certified hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, are required to report survey data to the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) annually, based on their Fiscal Year End. WHAIC collects data pursuant to Chapter 153 of the State Statutes and subject to all terms and conditions as described in ss. DHS 120. Failure to comply with the reporting requirements may result in financial penalties to the organization.
Training Location
Lower Level Training Room
Wisconsin Hospital Association
5510 Research Park Drive
Fitchburg, WI 53711
Medicine errors account for the largest number of medical errors in health care. They’re also the most-common reason for unnecessary hospital readmissions. For the first time, CMS mentions that nursing needs to be aware of the pharmacy standards. This includes medicine errors, adverse events, drug incompatibilities, self‐administered medicine and required medicine policies. This program reviews the pharmaceutical services condition of participation and other regulatory areas that require pharmacist input and participation such as antibiotic stewardships, medicine administration timing policies, medicine self-administration and standing orders.
This training provides an introduction to, as well as highlights of, the WIpop manual, the WHAIC website, and data submission tools. It also covers common submission questions, any notable changes to the submission process and any issues or hot topics we address throughout the year. The opportunity will also be given to get to know the WHAIC staff and to ask them questions.
Training Location
Holiday Inn – Appleton
1565 N Casaloma Drive
Appleton, WI 54913
Registration begins at 8:00AM.
This training provides an introduction to, as well as highlights of, the WIpop manual, the WHAIC website, and data submission tools. It also covers common submission questions, any notable changes to the submission process and any issues or hot topics we address throughout the year. The opportunity will also be given to get to know the WHAIC staff and to ask them questions.
Training Location
Holiday Inn Pewaukee Milwaukee West
N14 W24140 Tower Place
Pewaukee, WI 53072
Registration begins at 8:00AM.
This training provides an introduction to, as well as highlights of, the WIpop manual, the WHAIC website, and data submission tools. It also covers common submission questions, any notable changes to the submission process and any issues or hot topics we address throughout the year. The opportunity will also be given to get to know the WHAIC staff and to ask them questions.
Training Location
Lower Level Training Room
Wisconsin Hospital Association
5510 Research Park Drive
Fitchburg, WI 53711
Registration begins at 8:00AM.
Each facility is responsible for compliance with survey data submission. All Wisconsin Medicare certified hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, are required to report survey data to the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) annually, based on their Fiscal Year End. WHAIC collects data pursuant to Chapter 153 of the State Statutes and subject to all terms and conditions as described in ss. DHS 120. Failure to comply with the reporting requirements may result in financial penalties to the organization.
Each facility is responsible for compliance with survey data submission. All Wisconsin Medicare certified hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, are required to report survey data to the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) annually, based on their Fiscal Year End. WHAIC collects data pursuant to Chapter 153 of the State Statutes and subject to all terms and conditions as described in ss. DHS 120. Failure to comply with the reporting requirements may result in financial penalties to the organization.
This training provides an introduction to, as well as highlights of, the WIpop manual, the WHAIC website, and data submission tools. It also covers common submission questions, any notable changes to the submission process and any issues or hot topics we address throughout the year. The opportunity will also be given to get to know the WHAIC staff and to ask them questions.