Fall 2010 Newsletter
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Macvpr news The mission of the MACVPR is to promote the practice of high standards of care in cardiovascular and pulmonary News rehabilitation in Massachusetts Co-Presidents: Fall 2010 Priscilla Perruzzi BA, RRT Kate Traynor, RN, MS President Elect: Esther Burchinal, MS, CES, RCEP Co-President’s Message Judy Flannery, RN, BSN Immediate Past President : Fall has arrived and the clocks have turned back but the Breaking News! Stephanie DiCenso, MS, RCEP, CEP MACVPR continues to move ahead!! It has been a busy Please check out the newly released 2011 Hospital Treasurer : month both on the national and local fronts and here is a Outpatient Prospective Payment System ( HOPPS) for final regulations(posted11/2/10) . It contains some Susan Carrigan, BSN, RN C synopsis of what has been going on. exciting developments! Newsletter Editor : NATIONALLY: th Lynne MacDonald, PT The New England area was well represented at the 25 AACVPR meeting in Milwaukee. It was a wonderful LOCALLY: Education: opportunity to network and to hear experts in the field. Congratulations to all programs that have achieved Deborah Sullivan MS, APRN, BC We are proud to announce that Wayne Reynolds past certification / recertification this year !!! This brings president of the MACVPR and current chair of the J14 Ginny Dow, RN, BSN, BC the total of certified programs in our state to 34, 25 MAC Committee has been appointed to the AACVPR Membership : Health Policy and Reimbursement Committee. This is cardiac and 9 pulmonary! (please see page 7) Melessa Ashworth, RN, BSN certainly an honor for Wayne as well as our state and Administrative Assistant : professional organization. Deb Sullivan and her education committee out did Ann Stone, BS themselves once again–the New England Symposium was a huge success. It was a great turnout on a sunny The AACVPR has announced that it is reinstating the A Publication of the fall day with attendees from seven states-the word is state Certification Chair/Liaison position. The individual Massachusetts Association of out about the quality of our meetings. Our national in this position at the state level will serve as a liaison Cardiovascular and Pulmonary speakers updated us on the issues that we are all Rehabilitation between the national organization and the local affiliates struggling with as we try to comply with the new with issues pertaining to the certification process. More regulations. A unique experience was the cooking on this position below in the “Local” portion of our demonstration using healthy recipes that those in Table of Contents update. Information and news pertinent to AACVPR attendance were then able to sample at lunch—very certification is in the ”Certification Update” of this Letter from the Editor 2 tasty!! Our first poster presentation was equally newsletter and is provided by our President Elect. successful and we encourage all programs to start Reimbursement Update 3 thinking about a submission for next year’s program. MACVPR Forum Update 3 HR6376 –this is a very important bill that would allow Our thanks to all involved who helped to make this physician extenders (PA’s, NP’s) to act in the supervising such an informative program. Clinical Article: 4-6 role in cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs. This is Executive Committee Overuse Injuries of the especially important for critical access hospitals that may We are pleased to introduce our 2011 executive Upper Extremity not have a physician on site at all times. Without this committee that was voted on at the meeting, as well legislation there is the potential for programs to close. Certification 7 as announce that we have filled the vacancy in the The push is to have the bill attached to the Physician Fee President Elect position!!! Treasurer’s Report 7 legislation that will be voted on before the end of the session. It is critical that we all contact our Tales from the Trenches 8 Co-Presidents : Esther Burchinal and Judy Flannery representatives to ask them to sign on as co sponsors of President Elect: Robert Berry Membership Committee 8 this bill. If you have not done so already, please contact your local US representative requesting their support Past President: Priscilla Perruzzi and Kate Traynor Distinguished Service 9 and co sponsorship of this bill. There are sample letter Treasurer: Susan Carrigan Award templates available on the AACVPR website if you need Education Committee/ 10- help drafting a letter. Education Chair: Ginny Dow Symposium Highlights 13 Newsletter Editor : Lynne MacDonald Connections: Mind/Body/ 14- The AACVPR is offering a Webcast on Thursday Membership Chair: Melessa Ashworth Spirit 15 November 18, 2010 at 1pm entitled,” Medicare Robert Berry would like to share the President Elect Regulations for CR and PR: 2010 Review and 2011 position with another MACVPR member — we Membership Form 16 Preview”. Check the AACVPR website for more info and encourage anyone interested to please contact us. to register for this important update. P A G E 2 Co-President’s Address ….. continued Bylaw Revisions The members present voted on revisions in the MACVPR by laws. Please refer to the bylaws online in the members only section to view in entirety. Membership Fees After careful deliberation by the EC, the membership fees will be increasing to $100 ( for 2yrs ) effective January 2011. We understand that this increase comes at a time that is financially challeng- ing to many but as is evident in managing our CR and PR programs the cost of maintaining a quality product is increasing, There has not been an increase in membership fees in many, many years and this increase remains considerably less than those of other organizations in the health field. The additional funds will allow us to continue to provide high quality of educational sessions that meet the needs of our members as well as improve our website. The executive committee continues to work towards innovative ways to keep our members up to date in this fast changing health care Priscilla and Kate environment. at the 2010 N.E. Distinguished Service Award Cardiovascular & Congratulations to Wayne Reynolds, Coordinator of CR and PR at Signature Healthcare- Brockton Hospital, the Pulmonary Rehab recipient of the 2011 MACVPR Distinguished Service Award. Please see the details of his well deserved selection in this newsletter. Symposium In closing we would like to wish all our members a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING. We are thankful for the op- portunity to work with such professional, knowledgeable and caring individuals. And a special thanks to our friends on the Executive Committee who have been superb and made our load lighter: Esther, Judy, Deb, Ginny, Lynne, Stephanie, Susan and Melessa and to Ann Stone, our Administrative Assistant, without whom this entire organization could not function! Letter From the Editor This edition of MACVPR News is chock full been focused on in rehab. of valuable information. Please read about our recent Distin- MACVPR does not accept respon- We were fortunate to have a clinical article guished Service Award Winner, Wayne Rey- sibility for the accuracy of the submitted by Judith Ciampa Wright OTR/L, nolds, who is very deserving of this prestig- information produced herein. The CHT on overuse Injuries of the Upper Extrem- ious MACVPR award . statements and opinions con- ity in response to many clinicians reporting tained in the articles of the Finally, please enjoy reading the recap of MACVPR Newsletter are solely overuse injuries related to repetitive blood pres- our phenomenal 2010 New England Cardio- those of the individual authors sure taking in rehab. I am sure you will find this vascular and Pulmonary Rehab Symposium. It and contributors and not of information helpful in avoiding injuries in the was a tremendous success, including our addi- MACVPR. We do encourage com- future. tion of the Poster Presentations — what a ments, articles, and other contri- butions while reserving the right to Once again, Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, wealth of information!! reject or edit the material. The HN-BC of Stress Resources has contributed Please feel free to e-mail me as I am al- articles in the newsletter are for another installment of our feature: Connec- ways interested in ideas for clinical articles or readers to use as they deem tions: Mind/ Body/Spirit . She has written a developing a new regular feature in the news- necessary in their programs of terrific article on how to facilitate safe and com- letter. I need feedback and ideas in order to keep this newsletter vibrant and continue to clinical practice and are not nec- fortable care to an individual with symptoms or a essarily standards of care by be a helpful tool to you and your individual diagnosis of PTSD in your program. She gives us AACVPR. programs. plenty of resources and hands on advice in deal- ing with these patients. Lynne MacDonald, PT In our “Tales from the Trenches” column I Milton Hospital Cardiac Rehab have included information from a recent JCAHO Newsletter Editor survey to help outline some points that have newslettereditor@macvpr MACVPR NEWS P A G E 3 Reimbursement Update Reimbursement of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation standard cost center” for cardiac rehab services? If not, please services continues to be a “hot topic” and summaries of key is- visit aacvpr.org (you do NOT need to be a member) sues were presented recently at both the AACVPR National and click on the Health and Public Policy Tab. Under Regula- Meeting and the MACVPR Regional Symposium. Hopefully many tory and Legislative resources, all background information is of you took advantage of these VERY informative opportunities. posted there and there is a “printable version” for distribution. Key points are summarized below: This will require follow-up on your part but the outcome Pulmonary Rehabilitation: could potentially be very positive! How can we not all benefit -Qualifying diagnoses must be Moderate, Severe or Very Se- from increased reimbursement… vere COPD (GOLD II, III, and IV) to use Procedure Code -aerobic exercise every day, but not every session (unlike Pul- GO424 and Revenue Code 0948.