Allison's Blog

Welcome to the herd two new smarty pants…both from Oregon (a very smart place, for sure!).

Susie Walton is the Associate Director for Pathway Enterprises in Medford, Oregon (way, way down south….). She knows LOTS AND LOTS and can lead you through billing and attendance, ISPs, provider administration and most other things you may come up with. I’m waiting on her blog (and dog pictures!).

As you can see above, Susie has excellent taste in friends.

Gina Loraine is of the highest quality…that is ‘cos she is the Training Quality Manager from Dungarvin in Portland, Oregon. She is never in her office as she is always running around teaching people things.

(I understand Gina.)

Gina also is a friend of Archie’s, having pug-sat in Salem…she, as Susie, has excellent taste in friends.

Welcome these guys! They are among the awesomest of the awesome…which would be all SIXTY (yes, I said it) of Therap’s Certified Trainers!

Allison

Justin met with Oregon users today and reviewed the plans for adding their ISP to Therap. This will become Therap’s default ISP document and it really is very cool.

Watch for more on this as the release grows closer and I hit the road around Oregon in June and July!

Allison

This morning, Justin did a completely awesome review of the new and upcoming features within Therap that will meet CCHIT standards, as Therap goes for Electronic Health Record (EHR) certification.

We are planning more sessions for certified trainers…so keep a look out!

Allison

Lorelei discusses quality assurance techniques! Very cool indeed!

Check it out!

Allison

I recently made my first trip to Arizona a month or so ago, spending time in Phoenix, Tucson and Mesa. This second trip has also been a quick one, primarily spent in Mesa where IT IS TOO HOT (Richard!) but of course, it is a dry heat and that MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

Whatever.

Well, we are cooking’ with gas, as they say, with Rise Services!  They are working towards their launch of Health Tracking and the Medication Administration Record (MAR). Rachel and I have been through an outline of what needs to happen and she is devising their timeline. The best advice I can offer agencies at this point–the second phase of implementation after Tlogs, GERs, and SComm–is to be methodical and steadfast with their outlined time frames.

Make sure the Individual Data Forms are entered, complete, and procedurally, they are being maintained. This becomes crucial within Health Tracking as allergies, diagnoses, shared contacts, and such is all automatically populated into reports, consultation forms, and the MAR. It is easy enough to do but maintenance is key to ensure all of the information as it spreads, remains correct.

One change fixes everything! And that is the beauty of it.

But the IDFs need to be complete with Health Tracking coming out of the box. Start there…and then drop me a note if you want some more information on how to roll out health tracking and the MAR. I’m happy to help.

Allison

and if you are keeping count, that makes 58 certified smarty pants sprawled all over the country. All these comings and goings, who can keep up? That number will change by next week. Promise!

Maggie Paine is the Associate Director (and QMRP) for Allegany Arc in Wellsville, New York. She is their provider administrator, which is no small feat with their hundreds of staff and consumers. They are newer to Therap than some of their other New York neighbors, having used it for about a year so far. Maggie is a whiz with ISPs and all of the New York habilitation plan material. Look out for her as she is a super smarty pants with all of that–my head was spinning.

Shannon Crawford was born and raised in Texas! She is also the FIRST TEXAN to be an official smarty pants as far as Therap is concerned. Shannon is the Regional Therap Coordinator for Mosaic (she is joining her posse, as many Mosaic folks lurk in the halls of Certified Trainer-hood). She has been with Mosaic for eight years in a variety of positions. She also knows this Therap stuff inside and out! (And “Tlog” always sounds better with a Texan accent…)

More coming.

Allison

Christina (resident Australian), Devin (he likes zombies, too!), and Mary (arm wrestler, devil slayer)

I have been at SISO Care working with their managers and staff. They are going live next week to join the rest of Oregon in their Therap madness. Two of their residential programs have great names: one called Hobbes House, the other Calvin House. I love it. I have seen some fantastic residential program names over the year: Goldeneye, Betelgeuse (all houses were named after constellations) and one called simply The House.

They have some great staff over here. Mary has done and will do a great job and corralling everyone and pushing along SISO’s implementation. Devin is their new Therap trainer…He also trains in OIS (sounds like a few others in Oregon!). Devin tells some amazing stories as well; I’ve never had a provider administrator who fought with the devil and knocked out his front tooth.

Amazingness.

Allison

this may be the most awesome photo ever...

Heather Thornton is the Program Coordinator for Carmel Community Living Corporation (CCLC) in Boulder, Colorado. She is tenacious! It only took us about three months to finally get together! Heather is an Oklahoma transplant (though you could never tell by her accent!) and has lived outside of Denver for around two years. She handles all of her agency’s training and provider administration. She reports that CCLC is using just about everything except billing (but most likely not for long!). Heather is the second trainer from Colorado, joining Linda Medina as a representative of the Rocky Mountain state.

And she is a Therap queen…like someone else I know (Renee!!!).

I’m in Eugene today, working with SISO…and surprising Shane over at Alvord-Taylor by barging in on him. (Shane is awesome because he loves zombies…and lots of other things, but zombies, we know, are my weak spot!). He also showed me where the Oregon users will meet in August and it is really cool. Thanks, Shane!!

Allison

Lorelei Lascko of Mosaic reviews tracking risk assessments using the Individual Plan of Oversight Protection and Safeguards (IPOP).

Watch it!

Allison

Certified Trainers, Bill Heinecke and Brianne Conner, from the states of  Montana and New Mexico respectively, demonstrate the mechanics and use of the oversight Therap account as it is employed by both state governments.

Have a look!

Allison