Sawc Spring

Dear Colleagues,
Today’s management in acute care and long-term care facilities is faced with seismic changes due to proposed healthcare legislation in Washington, D.C. The election of President Barack Obama will have significant implications for healthcare providers: The Speaker of the House has vowed that sweeping healthcare reform will be proposed in July. When that legislation is finalized, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be tasked with implementing new regulations that will impact your business. To ensure maximum involvement by CMS, which will help clarify how the new and pending reforms will impact you as a provider, HMP Communications has moved the 4th Annual Symposium on Regulatory Issues for Management (SORIM‘09) to Baltimore, MD, to be in CMS’s backyard and close to Washington, D.C. SORIM ‘09 remains the only conference to gather decision-makers in long-term and acute care together with congressional representatives and officials from central and regional officers of CMS. By attending SORIM ‘09, you will receive the latest updates from key congressional and regulatory decision-makers, who will do their best to answer your questions and concerns. New this year will be the opportunity to choose from a variety of concurrent sessions that are certain to address the topics of interest for everyone. Important topics that will be covered at SORIM ’09 include

• Changes to reimbursement – what you need to know now
• Value-based purchasing and key projects shaping the future of healthcare
• Improving transition from one setting to another
• New federal regulations (F-tags) and other regulations being considered for the 2009/2010 period
• Potential future non-payments to be added to the current 13 hospital-acquired conditions
• Hospital present-on-admission (POA) data: what we now know
• Quality measures for hospital public reporting and the implications to changing hospital healthcare

Seating is limited for this important meeting, so please reserve space soon for a front row seat with these key legislative and regulatory leaders. As in past years, some of the best learning is sure to occur informally. To this end, we will provide time for socialization between participants and speakers.I look forward to meeting and learning from each of you in Baltimore, MD.

Respectfully,
Courtney H. Lyder, ND, GNP, FAAN
Conference Chairperson