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Conference Program Coming Soon

Our 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

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