Session Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Session Time: 8:00 AM - 12:15 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

This program will be held on Zoom. The session will be recorded and available on-demand, however, no CE will be offered for on-demand participation.

The 2025 CMS changes to the Critical Element Pathways are fast approaching—and staying ahead of these updates is critical to maintaining compliance and delivering top-notch care at your skilled nursing facility.

Are you prepared for the new survey processes? Are you compliant with the new and revised CEPs?

Join us for an essential half-day virtual seminar where we'll break down these recent, significant changes and give you the tools and knowledge to implement them with ease. This seminar is designed specifically for nursing leaders like you who need to understand the details and develop strategies to stay compliant once these new regulations take effect.

What You'll Learn:

• Key Changes to the Critical Element Pathways
  We’ll give you a comprehensive, down-and-dirty breakdown of the 2025 updates to CMS’ survey process, focusing on critical element pathways that impact your daily operations.

• What You Need to Do to Stay Compliant
  Our experts will walk you through the exact steps required to adjust your facility’s documentation, processes, and workflows in line with the new survey guidelines.

• Practical Tips and Strategies
  Gain actionable insights on how to update your policies, ensure your team is trained, and prevent non-compliance issues. We’ll also share real-world examples from skilled nursing facilities that have already made the necessary adjustments.

• How to Prepare for the New Survey Process
  Be ready for the 2025 survey changes by understanding how they’ll impact your day-to-day operations, including survey timelines, documentation expectations, and facility responsibilities under the new rules.

Learner Objectives:

1. The participants will be able to identify the changes to the survey process effective 3/24/2025.
2. The participants will be able to describe the changes to the Critical Element Pathways.
3. The participants will be able to develop the changes to improve the outcomes of the residents.

Nurse Learner Outcome:  At the conclusion of this session, participants will self-report a knowledge gain of the implementation of the federal conditions of participation to improve resident outcomes  on the post session evaluation.

RN: This program will provide participants the opportunity to earn up to 4 nurse contact hours. Health Care Association of Michigan is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This program is jointly provided with MI-NADONA/LTC.

NHA: The Health Care Association of Michigan is a Certified Sponsor of continuing education with the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB).

• This program has been submitted, but not yet approved for Continuing Education for 4 total participant hours by NAB/NCERS - Approval #
• NHA CE is not being offered for on-demand completion of this program.

CE Reporting:  HCAM will need 30 days after the event conclusion to compile and process all attendance data. Once the data is compiled, certificates will be available to access. Certificate questions should be directed to Mary Gettel.

Requirements of Participation:

1. Attendance is being strictly monitored.
2. Be sure you are entering and exiting sessions at the start and end of the session – if you miss more than 10 minutes because you arrived late or left early, you will lose partial credit. HCAM will issue partial credit by half hour attended. It is YOUR responsibility to follow the agenda and be on time!
3. A post-test must be successfully completed with a passing score of 85% or higher in order to earn credit.
4. The evaluation must be completed in order to earn your certificate of completion.
5. Attendees caught cheating or violating our attendance policies will not receive credit for the remainder of the event.