Unique Education for the LTC Sector!
LTC Funding and Reporting in 2021: What’s New, What’s Necessary
New Start Date: October 5, 7 and October 14, 2021
9:00AM-12:30PM, all 3 days
Program Sponsored by:
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(Note: Sessions must be purchased as a set)
Members: $275
Non-Members: $390

No home can afford to be out of the loop on current practices, updates or expected changes related to Ontario’s long-term care funding and reporting procedures. Advantage Ontario guides you through it with insight directly from Ministry and member home representatives and experts. Whether you’re new to long-term care financial management or are an experienced manager keen to enhance your knowledge, don’t miss this once-a-year opportunity for the only education of its kind in Ontario. We’ll cover everything from preparing and reporting a budget to board, to best practices, to impacts of COVID-19 on provincial funding policies and Ministry direction on staffing reports. Get your questions answered and demystify requirements for this key operational area.
Day 1
LTC Funding and Reporting Processes: Essentials and Updates
New Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021
9:00am – 12:30pm
- Understand Level of Care funding envelopes and other long-term care funding sources, including the COVID-19 Emergency Measures Funding Policy.
- Find out about Ministry of Long-Term Care’s new approach to directions for staffing data collection and reporting.
- Stay updated about the Resident Co-Payment and Rate Reduction Program and learn about the process one member home uses for budget reporting to its board.
Speakers:
Mark Schroter, Team Lead, Funding and Programs Branch, Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care;
Meg Litchfield, Senior Policy Advisor, Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care;
Abonti Mukherjee, Policy Analyst, Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care;
Dave Kearns, Divisional Controller, Long-Term Care, County of Simcoe;
Shannon Honsberger, Senior Policy Advisor, Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care
Day 2
Connecting the Dots: The Effective Use of RAI and CMI Data
Thursday, October 7, 2021
9:00am – 12:30pm
- Review the Case Mix Index (CMI) and learn about an AdvantAge Ontario application that can help your home forecast its CMI.
- Get practical insights from a member home on how to work with Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) data and how to calculate your home’s CMI.
- Gain an understanding of data available from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) as well as other products and services long-term care homes can access for analytic and improvement purposes.
Speakers:
Saul Melamed, Manager, Client Affairs Ontario, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI);
Margaret Mao, Manager (A), Health Sector Models Branch, Ministry of Health;
Ying Liu, Senior Methodologist, Health Sectors Models Branch, Hospitals and Capital Division, Ministry of Health,
Melissa Norman, Manager, Quality Improvement and RAI, The Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health Centre;
Feroz Masjidi, Manager of Funding Policy, AdvantAge Ontario
Day 3
The Annual Reporting Process and Managing Bad Debt
Thursday, October 14, 2021
9:00am – 12:30pm
- Review the Annual Reporting process, how to reconcile bad debt and hear about the bad debt process used by a member home.
- Understand how the LTCH Ontario Healthcare Reporting Standards (OHRS) and Management Information System (MIS) Standards work and how to use them in your reporting.
- Learn about comparative information you can draw from your home’s annual report for budgeting, analyzing operational trends, and targeting cost-saving centres, and how AdvantAge Ontario’s benchmarking service can support that work.
Speakers:
Richard G. Lee, Senior Financial Analyst, Long-Term Care Homes Unit, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Long-Term Care;
Rita Yip, Business Advisor, Health Data Branch, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Long-Term Care;
Mary Young, Director of Finance & Administrator, The Glebe Centre Inc.;
Amit Joshi, Director, IT Innovation, Data Analytics and Capital Development, AdvantAge Ontario
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