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• The American Federation of Home Health Agencies (Silver Spring, MD) holds its annual membership meeting Jan. 24-26 in Lake Tahoe, NV. Topics to be discussed include "Provider Rights and Responsibilities During Audits," "How to Protect Your Assets in a Home Care Agency," "Retirement Planning and Employee Morale in Times of Change," "Corporate Compliance Plans to Survive Medicare Investigations," and "Maintaining Internal Audit Controls to Survive Medicare Audits and Sampling." For more information, call (800) 837-0979.
• The Illinois Home Care Council (Chicago) will hold its 1999 annual conference and exposition on March 3-5 in Springfield, IL. The council expects more than 350 healthcare providers and exhibitors to attend the meeting entitled "Putting the Pieces Together." This is the second year the council will offer one annual statewide meeting instead of two, as it had in previous years. Conference highlights will include three four- to six-hour workshop, 20 concurrent educational sessions, more than 60 exhibitors, and an award and volunteer recognition luncheon.
• The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (Oakbrook, IL) will host three public forums, two this month and one in February, to hear consumer ideas about healthcare quality and quality oversight. The forums, which will be from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., are scheduled for Friday, Jan. 22 in Chicago at the Chicago Marriott on Michigan Ave.; Friday, Jan. 29 in Los Angeles at the L.A. Airport Hilton and Towers; and Monday, Feb. 1 in Washington at the Doubletree Hotel on Rhode Island Ave. The Joint Commission will use input from the consumer forums to improve its accreditation process for more than 18,000 home health agencies, hospitals, health plans, and other healthcare organizations. Feedback from participants will also help the Joint Commission determine how best to make information about healthcare quality available to the public.
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