Scott Motyka

CEO
Covenant Health Network
Phoenix, AZ, USA
  • 3-B. Remote Monitoring: Transforming Care Across the Continuum

    • Sunday, November 02, 2025

    2:45 – 3:45 p.m.

    3-B. Remote Monitoring: Transforming Care Across the Continuum

    Remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies can transform care delivery across the continuum. This session will showcase two types of RPM devices: contactless devices that track key clinical indicators like heart rate and respiratory changes, and connected devices like blood sugar monitors, blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, and digital scales that collect vitals remotely. Presenters will explain how these technologies help prevent health complications and unnecessary emergency room visits by sending data to remote clinicians who can follow up with care teams as needed. Discover how RPM technology can help your organization reduce staff burden and improve resident/patient (and family) satisfaction. You’ll gain practical insights for selecting and deploying RPM solutions in your community.

Anna Mowry

Director of Workforce Solutions
LeadingAge Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 140-B. International Perspectives: Creating Pipelines for Foreign-Born Workers

    • Sunday, November 02, 2025

    2:45 – 3:45 p.m.

    140-B. International Perspectives: Creating Pipelines for Foreign-Born Workers

    The demand for qualified caregivers is rising worldwide, and workforce shortages in aged care are intensifying. Domestic solutions are critical, but the aged care sector must also embrace innovative global partnerships. This session will examine how providers in Minnesota are working with the Kenyan State Department of Diaspora Affairs to create sustainable pipelines for foreign-born workers. Discover how similar initiatives can strengthen the U.S. healthcare workforce, enhance global skillsets, and improve healthcare outcomes. You’ll learn the steps necessary to engage in international recruitment, navigate complex immigration systems, and foster partnerships that prioritize workforce needs and advance global healthcare.

Cameron Muir

Chief Medical & Innovation Officer
National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation
Washington, DC, USA
  • 74-C. Tools to Enhance Your Hospice and Palliative Care Referrals

    • Sunday, November 02, 2025

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    74-C. Tools to Enhance Your Hospice and Palliative Care Referrals

    Are you looking to increase referrals to your palliative and hospice care programs, extend the length of stay, and provide patients with more quality days at home? This session will equip you with the tools you need to achieve these goals. Representatives from a national association of nonprofit hospices will share insights from their work developing and implementing three community-based advanced illness management programs focused on cardiac, lung, and dementia care. Presenters will describe the resources they created to promote clinical excellence in hospice care and improve access to their programs. You’ll gain insights into the key components of advanced illness management and receive materials you can share with hospice patients and their caregivers.

Betsy Mullen

COO
Legacy Lifecare
Peabody, MA, United States
  • 56-L. Stronger Together: Securing Your Future through Affiliation

    • Wednesday, November 05, 2025

    11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

    56-L. Stronger Together: Securing Your Future through Affiliation

    Affiliation has become an indispensable tool for nonprofit senior living organizations facing complex challenges. This session will include case studies where organizations enhanced operational efficiency, stabilized finances, improved care quality, and strengthened recruitment and staff development after affiliating with a network of charitable, nonprofit senior care organizations. Presenters will provide practical strategies for examining various collaborative models. You’ll take home a framework for evaluating when affiliation might be beneficial, criteria for identifying and selecting suitable partners, and tips for ensuring that an affiliation aligns with your organization’s mission and goals. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore a strategy that could help secure your organization and its mission.

  • 146-F. Easy-to-Implement Strategies for Boosting Staff Retention

    • Monday, November 03, 2025

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    146-F. Easy-to-Implement Strategies for Boosting Staff Retention

    Are you looking for proven strategies to boost staff retention? Look no further than this session featuring leaders from Chelsea Jewish Lifecare in Chelsea, MA. Chief Executive Officer Barry Berman and Chief Operating Officer Betsy Mullen will discuss their organization’s impressive retention record: 25% of the employees have been with the organization for at least 10 years, nursing staff turnover is among the lowest in the state, and they haven’t relied on staffing agencies for 30 years. Presenters will share their keys to success, including an innovative onboarding process, ongoing communication, and staff appreciation initiatives. Join this session to learn easy-to-implement strategies for reducing vacancies, lowering turnover, and fostering a high-performing culture.

Steve Muller

Chief Operating Officer
Garden Spot Village
New Holland, PA, USA

Dianne Munevar

Partner
Healthsperien
Washington, DC
  • 77-E. Positioning Senior Living in a Value-Based Care Environment

    • Monday, November 03, 2025

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    77-E. Positioning Senior Living in a Value-Based Care Environment

    Recent research suggests that senior living residents experience lower mortality rates and fewer hospitalizations than their peers in the broader community. This session will explore what these research findings suggest about the growing value of the housing and care provided to older adults living in congregate settings. Presenters will discuss the role that senior living organizations play in delivering integrated solutions for chronic disease management and proactive well-care. They will also detail integrated housing and care models that offer preventive services while boosting resident satisfaction, improving healthcare outcomes, and providing financial incentives to senior living providers. You’ll gain insights into the role of data in positioning your community to participate in value-based care.

Dianne Munever

Vice President, Health Care Strategy
NORC at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
  • 77-E. Positioning Senior Living in a Value-Based Care Environment

    • Monday, November 03, 2025

    3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    77-E. Positioning Senior Living in a Value-Based Care Environment

    Recent research suggests that senior living residents experience lower mortality rates and fewer hospitalizations than their peers in the broader community. This session will explore what these research findings suggest about the growing value of the housing and care provided to older adults living in congregate settings. Presenters will discuss the role that senior living organizations play in delivering integrated solutions for chronic disease management and proactive well-care. They will also detail integrated housing and care models that offer preventive services while boosting resident satisfaction, improving healthcare outcomes, and providing financial incentives to senior living providers. You’ll gain insights into the role of data in positioning your community to participate in value-based care.

Nicole Munsey

President, Co-Founder
Morning Light Strategy
Naperville, IL, USA
  • 57-A. Messaging Roadmap: Aligning Corporate and Community Branding

    • Sunday, November 02, 2025

    1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

    57-A. Messaging Roadmap: Aligning Corporate and Community Branding

    It can be challenging for a marketing team to strike the right balance between promoting a provider organization’s corporate brand and advancing the brand identity of one of its senior living communities. During this session, a multi-site senior living leader and a marketing consultant will team up to present primary research on how prospective residents perceive corporate senior living brands compared to the brands of individual communities. Presenters will share a roadmap to help you refine your brand identity, boost occupancy, and create a unified, compelling message that reflects both corporate values and local charm. You’ll take home tips for ensuring your brand stands out in a competitive senior living market.

Kathleen Murray

Director of Organizational Learning & Development and International Recruitment
Benedictine Health System
Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • 140-B. International Perspectives: Creating Pipelines for Foreign-Born Workers

    • Sunday, November 02, 2025

    2:45 – 3:45 p.m.

    140-B. International Perspectives: Creating Pipelines for Foreign-Born Workers

    The demand for qualified caregivers is rising worldwide, and workforce shortages in aged care are intensifying. Domestic solutions are critical, but the aged care sector must also embrace innovative global partnerships. This session will examine how providers in Minnesota are working with the Kenyan State Department of Diaspora Affairs to create sustainable pipelines for foreign-born workers. Discover how similar initiatives can strengthen the U.S. healthcare workforce, enhance global skillsets, and improve healthcare outcomes. You’ll learn the steps necessary to engage in international recruitment, navigate complex immigration systems, and foster partnerships that prioritize workforce needs and advance global healthcare.

Joseph Musgrave

CEO
Home & Community Care Ireland
Dublin, Ireland

Cyrelle Muskat

Chief Heritage Officer (interim), Director of Quality Systems and Wellness
Baycrest
North York, ON, Canada
  • 73-C. International Perspectives: Driving Care Quality through Data Sharing

    • Sunday, November 02, 2025

    4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

    73-C. International Perspectives: Driving Care Quality through Data Sharing

    The Seniors Quality Leap Initiative (SQLI) is an international consortium established by North American and South African leading long-term care organizations. SQLI strives to enhance the quality of life and care for older adults by encouraging providers to share performance data and outcomes from their quality improvement initiatives with one another. During this session, SQLI leaders and members will showcase their efforts to improve providers’ benchmarking capacity, including ongoing research into developing an overall resident quality of life composite score and consistent employee engagement measures. Three aging services executives will discuss how SQLI participation has influenced their organization’s quality improvement efforts.

Valerie Mutterperl

Associate Principal
Perkins Eastman
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • 45-D. Reposition Obsolete Care to a More Appealing Care Model

    • Monday, November 03, 2025

    8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

    45-D. Reposition Obsolete Care to a More Appealing Care Model

    Despite evolving consumer needs and preferences, the fundamental nursing home model has remained unchanged since the advent of Medicare and Medicaid 60 years ago. This session will explore a new direction. You’ll meet a chief executive who transformed a traditional nursing home into a comprehensive long-term care organization and a highly respected architect leading efforts to redesign and reposition nursing homes. Together, they will examine anticipated changes to Medicare and Medicaid that could create opportunities for revitalizing long-term care by implementing innovative and scalable models tailored to diverse consumer preferences. Join this session to discover the steps you can take to reposition your nursing home as a more appealing care model.