Cardiac Rehab:

#1 - Marketing strategies: How to Sell your program: From the inside out

1. Marketing within your organization: cultivating relationships with other departments and services
2. “Selling” your program to the medical staff
3. Collaborating with local community service clubs and pharmaceutical companies

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. List the departments and people within your organization that impact your program(s).
2. Identify strategies to educate health care providers about your services.
3. Identify ways to educate and involve the community in your program.

#2 - Your Team: It's All About the People

1. Behavior-based interviewing of new job applicants
2. Developing an orientation/preceptor program
3. How to conduct an employee performance review

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the types of questions to ask a job applicant.
2. List the components of an orientation/preceptor program.
3. Identify how the link between a job description and performance review are related.
4. Describe how to create a performance improvement action plan.

#3 - Building a Better Mouse Trap: Quality & Performance Improvement in Cardiac Rehab

1. All work is a process
2. Process improvement tools for the cardiac rehab tool belt
3. Examples of the 5 Why’s, LEAN, Six Sigma, garaging and spaghetti diagrams

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Identify process improvement models
2. Explain how to apply process improvement concept to cardiac rehab
3. List opportunities to improve work processes in your cardiac rehab program

#4 - Cardiac Rehab: Show Me The Money (or at least help me understand it)

1. The history and future of reimbursement in cardiac rehab
2. Understanding and improving cardiac rehab revenue
3. The expense side of cardiac rehab – it’s all about people
4. Ideas for improving the financial picture of your program

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the history or cardiac rehab reimbursement and the outlook for the future
2. Describe opportunities to improve revenue generation in cardiac rehab
3. Identify the expense drivers in cardiac rehab

#5 - Policies & Procedures Based on Guidelines and Program Certification

1. Recognizing the science that justifies and supports the practice of CR
2. Incorporating that science into the program you provide to your patients
3. Automated systems to achieve 100% data collection-your staff will thank you
4. Certification is easy once you have all the pieces in place
5. The pieces

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the current documents that set essential standards of care for the practice of cardiac rehabilitation (CR).
2. Identify components of your CR program that are necessary for AACVPR program certification.
3. Describe the “paperwork and processes” that will assure the inclusion of these critical components.

#6 - Innovative Programming: Creating Your Business Plan

1. Taking the concept from an idea to fruition.
2. Components of a plan include a SWOT analysis, financial proforma, community needs assessment, timeline, inclusion of key players, staffing, capital purchases, location of service.
3. How to measure the success of your program/service.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the process to develop a new program/service.
2. List the steps for creating a financial proforma.
3. Identify methods to measure program/service success.

Accreditation Information

Academy Medical Systems is also a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider #CEP14413, for 9 hours. AMS is an approved provider of the Florida Board of Nursing, provider # 50-19, for 9 hours.

Iowa Nurses - The Iowa Board of Nurses will recognize the recorded webinars as a home study program. They recognize our ANCC approved provider status as well as our CA and Fl Board of Nursing provider approval for home study products for nurses in Iowa.

All other states recognize our approved provider status listed in the above text for continuing education credit for nurses.

Dietitians – Academy Medical Systems is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) will receive 9 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this material.

Exercise Physiologist – ACSM recognizes AMS’s approved provider status with the ANCC and will honor continuing education hour for Certified Exercise Physiologist recertification purposes.

Physical Therapists – PTs in the following states will receive 9 contact hours: CA, CO, CT, DE, IA, ID, KS, MI, MA, MT, NE, NH, NM, NC, ND, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WY.

Occupational Therapists – Occupational Therapist will receive 9, continuing education hours for completion this program and a test score of 70% or better. AMS is an approved provider for the AOTA , provider # 5470.  This course is an intermediate education level.

Certified Athletic Trainers – Academy Medical Systems is recognized by the Board of Certification (BOC) to offer continuing education for certified athletic trainers. 9 hours will be awarded at the completion of this program.

Call our Accreditation Dept at 866-414-3500 with questions.

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