AHCA/NCAL Post-Acute Care Conference

February 19 - 20, 2025 from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Registration opens at 8:00 am
inclusive of the Building Trust Workshop on February 21, 2025 from 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
at the Ala Moana Hotel (Garden Lanai Room)
410 Atkinson Dr, Honolulu, HI 96814

OVERVIEW | CONFERENCE AGENDA | SPEAKERS | CONTINUING EDUCATION | LOCATION | COST | REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT

The Healthcare Association of Hawaii is pleased to host our annual conference focused on long-term care!

Join us as we welcome three (3) post-acute care experts from our national affiliate, the American Health Care Association & National Center for Assisted Living. Our speakers will share the latest information related to compliance, quality, and workforce, focusing on nursing facility requirements and trends on day one, and incorporating information impacting assisted living and ARCH type II expanded care facilities on day two (see agenda below).

On day three, we focus on leadership training with the Building Trust Workshop. Participants will examine what trust is and why it matters, discuss psychological safety and strategies to improve it within an organization, explore how to communicate effectively with those who disagree, and we’ll take a look at building trust with historically marginalized populations and across cultures. Access to this workshop is included with registration to the AHCA/NCAL Post-Acute Care Conference.

Target Audience:
Nursing Facility (NF/SNF), Assisted Living Facility (ALF) and Type II Adult Residential Care Home (ARCH) leadership and staff including:

CEOs, Executive Directors, Administrators, Directors of Nursing, Quality Assurance RNs, Nurse Leaders, Reimbursement and Business Office staff, Social Services staff, Department Heads, and Corporate personnel.

* Please note: registration is limited to HAH and AHCA/NCAL members only.

David Gifford, MD, MPH, is a geriatrician who currently serves as Chief Medical Officer at the American Health Care Association (AHCA). He helped create the Quality Department at AHCA, which assists providers in their quality improvement efforts and works with administration officials on regulations and policies impacting the profession. He also established the Center for Health Policy and evaluation in LTC at AHCA and currently oversees AHCA’s Long Term Care Data Cooperative, a National Institute of Aging funded initiative to link EMR data from nursing homes to help improve care. He currently also serves as medical director for clinically integrated LTC networks in over 10 states.

He is a former Director of the Rhode Island State Department of Health from 2005 to 2011, where he received the National Governor’s Distinguished Service Award for State Officials for his management of the H1N1 influenza outbreak. Prior to that, he served as Chief Medical Officer for Quality Partners of Rhode Island, where he directed the CMS national nursing home-based quality improvement effort. He holds a faculty appointment at Brown University Medical School and School of Public Health and served as medical director in several nursing homes in Rhode Island. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and conducted his geriatric fellowship at UCLA, where he also earned his Master’s in Public Health while a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.

Holly Harmon, RN, MBA, LNHA, FACHCA brings both passion and a wealth of practical, real-world, clinical and operational experience to her role as Senior Vice President, Quality, Regulatory & Clinical Services at American Health Care Association (AHCA). Her extensive service in a wide array of settings including post-acute care, long term care, residential care, assisted living, independent living, a psychiatric hospital and occupational health have provided her with insights, knowledge, skills and innovative ideas which she exuberantly shares with others.

 At AHCA she oversees the quality, regulatory and clinical efforts. In this role, she has led AHCA’s national quality initiative that identified national priority goals and developed tools and resources for providers to achieve these goals.  She designed and launched AHCA’s infection preventionist certificate program, that has trained over 4,000 individuals nationally. She also led AHCA’s advocacy and feedback to CMS and CDC on how clinical guidance needs to pay attention to the resident’s quality of life and gained meaningful changes in guidance for those who live and work in long term care.

 In addition to her vast clinical experience, Ms. Harmon has put her dynamic energy into leading the statewide Maine Culture Change Coalition/LANE as President, the Maine Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes as Co-Chair, Vice-President of American College of Health Care Administrators, Maine Chapter and the Maine LANE Co-Convener for the national Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes Campaign. She also served as the Director of Quality Improvement & Regulatory Affairs at the Maine Health Care Association.  She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the national Moving Forward Coalition and on the Exam Committee for the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards.  She is a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Administrators.

She puts her boundless energy and warm and energetic personality into training, education and presenting both, nationally and locally. She has made simplifying the complex world of long term and post-acute care policy and practice an art.

Up to thirteen (13) nursing and social work contact hours are pending for the AHCA/NCAL Post-Acute Care conference. An additional six (6) nursing and social work contact hours are pending for the Building Trust Workshop. To receive a Continuing Education Certificate each individual must pay the registration fee, attend the in-person training, sign in each day, and complete the corresponding HAH evaluation(s). Credit is awarded commensurate with participation. Certificates will be issued via email within 30 days after completion of the evaluation.

This nursing continuing professional development activity is pending by the Oregon Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This program is pending approval by the National Association of Social Workers - Hawai`i Chapter.

State licensure boards have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses. Dr. David Gifford, Holly Harmon, Nisha Hammel and the planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

This conference will be held at the Ala Moana Hotel in the Garden Lanai Room, on the 2nd floor above the lobby.

Parking validation (10 hours) for self-parking in the hotel parking garage will be provided. Valet parking is the responsibility of the individual and costs $35 per vehicle.

Refreshments will include the following:

• Continental breakfast inclusive of coffee, tea and juice

• Coffee and tea at the morning break

• Buffet-style lunch

• Snack and beverages at the afternoon break

Conference participation is limited to HAH and AHCA/NCAL members only. Registration for this 3-day conference includes the Building Trust Workshop on February 21, 2025.

• Conference Registration: $350 per person

• Day 2 & 3 only (available to ALF/ARCH members only): $270 per person

For more information on the Building Trust Workshop, click here!

Split registrations are not available. Cancellations are subject to a processing fee and will be accepted until February 11, 2025 (email lhenning@hah.org). No refunds for non-attendance.

Registration closes on February 11, 2025. Registration for this conference includes registration for the Building Trust Workshop on February 21, 2025.