Program
Conference Program Coming SoonOur full speaker schedule is coming soon. You’ll be able to choose any sessions you like from our four education tracks to get the most out of your Convention experience:
- General Education – Timely information and resources to maximize the quality of your facility’s long-term care.
- Leadership & Workforce Development – Level up your leadership skills, inspire and engage your staff, and make your facility a better place to work.
- Regulatory & Legal – Ensure your facility is abiding by all laws and regulations, and avoid unnecessary citations, sanctions, and/or fines.
- Clinical – Provide exceptional care to the residents in your facility and be prepared for diverse medical and wellness needs.
Interested in presenting at our September conference or an upcoming webinar? Submit your presentation proposal today.
Annual Convention Keynote:
Let Humor Work
The WHCA Annual Convention keynote is intended to inspire and encourage our long-term care community—and no more so than this year! Please plan to join us for Lon Keiffer’s upbeat session, “Let Humor Work,” at the Spokane Davenport Grand Hotel. This session will provide a lighthearted look at how humor is essential in the long-term care workplace, where stress is certain. Lon will help participants understand cognitive distortions that can occur with chronic stress and will provide great tips for overcoming “stinking thinking.”
Regardless of your role and position in long-term care, this session will provide you with an opportunity to reflect on your own style and become inspired by the opportunity to create community with your team and others through shared experiences.
Lon Keiffer has a breadth of experience in long-term care as a nurse, and a nursing home administrator. His style is informed by his early experience as “One of Baltimore’s Funniest Young Comedians” in 1986 and continues his work to build community and synergy in healthcare.
Full Schedule to be released soon! Check out a preview of some of the invaluable sessions we’ll be offering below.
Monday, May 20, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Don’t Answer the Ring
Presented by Jeff Mason
Serengeti Care
Learn to Love (or at least like) Your Job Again… And Help Your Team to do the Same
Presented by Samantha Jones
Samantha Jones Consulting LLC
Employee Financial Wellness and the Employee Experience
Presented by Robert Moore
Time Equipment Company
Wellness: A Different Perspective
Presented by Beth Payne
Independence Rehab
Train to Retain-How Investing in Professional Development Reduces Turnover
Presented by Dr. Michele Carr
McKesson
Wound Care in the Patient with Alzheimer’s Disease
Presented by Dr. Michele Carr
McKesson
Legislative Session: Where We Are & Where We’re Going
Presented by WHCA Government Relations Team
WHCA
Keynote: Let Humor Work
Presented by Lon Kieffer
Defenders of Caregiving
Dementia Programming: Back to the Future!
Presented by Tia Hovatter
Health Consultants Plus, Inc
Resident Council: Meeting Madness!
Presented by Tia Hovatter
Health Consultants Plus, Inc
Behavioral Health Management in Nursing Facilities and Substance Abuse
Presented by David Rodriguez
Comagine
Reasonable Accommodations and Ergonomics
Presented by Shamus Harmon
ERNWest
Expecting the Unexpected: DOSH Compliance Inspections
Presented by Shamus Harmon
ERNWest
Roads to Community Living: Washington’s Money Follows the Person Program
Presented by Julie Cope
ALTSA
Surrogate Decision Making
Presented by Sascha Schilbach
Lane Powell
The Med Pass: Promoting Quality in Medication Management
Presented by Vicki McNealley & Kelli Carr
WHCA and Consonus Healthcare
Rock Solid Person-Centered Service Planning
Presented Rebecca Evans
Consulting Resources
Documentation Basics and Tracking Behaviors
Presented by Krystle Malo
RCSBHT
Understanding Lewy Body Dementia
Presented by Lori Dierolf
Working with Residents with Developmental Disabilities
Presented by Heather Bartholomew
Treatment of Hard-to-Heal Wounds
Presented by Pamela Scarborough
United Wound Healing
EBS and Behavioral Programs
Presented by Dr. Kristina Kovacs
BHS
Find, Verify, and Get Paid for Your Med B Supplies: A Live Demonstration
Presented by Eric Hansen
Burst Medical Billing
Referrals and Reimbursement: Understanding the Correlation Between Key SNF Success Factors
Presented by Sarah Scott
Simple
Grow Your Occupancy!
Presented by Dresden Cincurak
How to Build a High Quality Culture of Care
Presented by Barbara Kohnen Adriance
The Malden Collective
What’s in Your QAPI Plan?
Presented by Nina Sanderson & Shannon Finegood
Comagine
Deciphering The Code: Understanding New Requirements for Flow, Doors, Dampers, and the Like
Presented by Kimberly Bloor
WSP
Infection Control
Presented by Linda Dunn
Transforming Risk Management through QAPI Training
Presented by Barbara Kohnen Adriance
The Malden Collective
State Staffing Requirements and Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) – Impacts and Insights
Presented by Nathan Anderson
Simple
Crisis Response and De-escalation
Presented by Krystle Malo
RCSBHT
Huntington’s Disease: Following the Genetic Links
Presented by Lori Dierolf
Director of Nursing 101: Fundamentals of Clinical System Management
Presented by Jennifer Brown
Caldera Care