VALUE
Create. Demonstrate. Articulate.
By 2030, home-based care will look vastly different. Larger businesses will proliferate as industry consolidation continues. Reimbursement pressures will demand we think differently about the areas we invest in – and that we invest smartly. Success will be multidimensional and will require: innovation, growth and outcomes. These aren’t just buzzwords. They’re necessary intentions every home care leader needs to embrace and embed into your daily operations. Home Care 100 is here to build these strategic muscles with practical, integrated approaches, and a fantastic community of your peers all focused on making our businesses (and ourselves) the best version possible. Let’s go!
SUNDAY
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Welcome Lunch
12:30 - 5:30 pm
Experiences
12:30 - 5:00 pm
A perfect day of relaxation and fun in the sun awaits at the stunning Monarch pool with access to our exclusive Home Care 100 hospitality cabanas. Drinks and small bites included.
12:45 - 5:00 pm
The ocean waves are your backdrop at the Monarch Beach Golf Links course, which has been named one of Golf Digest's "Best Places to Play".
Executives Only
1:15 - 4:00 pm
Did you know Southern California has the largest dolphin population in the world? Get up close and personal with these exquisite creatures in a boat with "eye-to-eye" underwater viewing pods.
12:30 - 4:15 pm
Choose between a delightful 60-minute Serenity Massage or Sea of Life Facial.
1:45 - 4:00 pm
From Napa to Sonoma, explore perfect combinations of California's best wines and artisanal cheeses. A flavorful journey for your taste buds!
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Welcome Reception
Please join us to kick off the conference - grab a drink, greet old friends, meet new colleagues, and enjoy a beautiful view.
Dinner is on your own this evening.
MONDAY
Innovation
7:30 - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 - 8:25 am | General Session
Scale to Innovate: Activating Your Value Flywheel
Margin pressure necessitates a relentless pursuit of scale-driven efficiency to spread operating costs across larger and larger footprints. Home Care 100 has a clear mid-year call to action: Gain the scale necessary to invest in capabilities for demonstrating superior outcomes to unlock value in your organization – or integrate with someone who can.
8:25 - 8:35 am | General Session
Powering Your Innovation Engine
Successful businesses in 2030 will have mastered the core discipline of innovation with an underlying drive for continuous improvement. Home Care 100 will share perspectives on building the right capabilities to enable growth, efficiency, and outcomes.
8:35 - 9:20 am | General Session
Outside Voices: Innovators in Action
Elevate your perspective on healthcare transformation with this diverse panel of trailblazers whose expertise spans investing, incubating, accelerating, and design thinking. Hear from them what it means to build a pioneering organization, what to look for (and watch out for!) in sourcing external solutions, and tips for operationalizing innovation at the ground level.
9:20 - 10:00 am | General Session
Provider Showcase: Leveling Up Your Core
Get ready to rethink the status quo! Providers seeing payoffs from new technologies, business models, and programs to drive better efficiency and outcomes will present their business cases. You’ll hear their forward-thinking initiatives and walk away with inspiration for your own strategy.
10:00 - 10:30 am
Wellness Break
10:30 - 11:30 am | General Session
Keynote: The Innovator's Mindset
Dan Seewald, the visionary behind Pfizer’s Dare to Try innovation program, blends behavioral science with design thinking to solve complex business challenges. At Pfizer, Seewald used this approach to:
- Transform customer engagement and operational planning in rare diseases
- Implement innovative clinician outreach strategies for vaccines
- Accelerate target discovery in immuno-oncology
This groundbreaking methodology will inspire you to embrace bold, yet calculated ingenuity and view breakthrough thinking as a practical, learnable skill. Get ready to be energized, engage in hands-on practice, and leave with tools to integrate transformative practices into your daily operations.
Dan Seewald
CEO
Deliberate Innovation
11:30 am - 12:15 pm | NEW!
Peer-to-Peer Incubator
The can’t-miss session of Home Care 100! Convene with hand-selected peers from your business function to share ideas for transforming how your work is done. Whether you lead operations, finance, clinical, people, technology or strategy, you’ll generate an entire conference of high-value ideas, practices, and relationships during this wildly productive discussion.
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 - 3:00 pm | General Session
From Today to Tomorrow: The Big Picture in Home-Based Care
The macro policy and regulatory environment looms large under the Trump Administration. The sharpest minds across our association and provider leadership will review what’s happening in Washington and analyze both opportunities and threats. Time will be devoted to each sub-sector: home health, personal care and hospice.
3:15 - 4:45 pm
One-on-One Meetings
These pre-scheduled meetings introduce you to Home Care 100’s best-in-class solution partners. You’ll have eight meetings on your schedule in a rapid-format structure that offers a highly-efficient, high-impact way to uncover new ideas and solutions.
6:00 - 9:30 pm
California Dreamin' Reception & Dinner
6:00 - 6:45 PM - Reception
6:45 - 8:00 PM - Dinner
8:00 - 9:30 PM - After Dinner Social
TUESDAY
Growth
7:30 - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 - 8:40 am | General Session
Scale to Innovate: CEO Growth & Investment Priorities
We’ll begin with an analysis of Home Care 100’s survey on industry growth and investment priorities, reinforcing how relentless margin pressure implies equally relentless consolidation and combination. Then, selected CEOs in high-growth organizations will share how they are framing up the ‘scale to innovate’ mandate by: raising capital and strategic M&A; developing leading technology infrastructures; taking on additional risk and accountability.
8:40 - 8:50 am | General Session
Deal Activity: Pulse Check
This mid-year check-up on the high expectations for 2025 deal activity will highlight current market conditions, including valuation trends, the evolving competitive landscape for buyers and sellers and key considerations for JVs as well as traditional M&A.
8:50 - 9:15 am | General Session
Deals Done Right
Why do so many home care deals fail to close or deliver expected benefits? Provider executives will discuss M&A pros and cons, with lessons learned from financial/compliance readiness and deal term negotiation to post-merger integration.
9:15 - 9:40 am | General Session
Non-Profits Scaling for an Upstream Future
Non-profit hospice and serious illness providers are scaling up through affiliations, networks, and managed services to gain a larger role in patient care and premium dollars. Explore this trend with CEOs who will project its impact on the future landscape, including the evolving revenue distribution and shifting referral patterns.
9:40 - 10:00 am | General Session
Home Cooking: Commercializing Your Unique Capabilities
Innovative organizations are converting internally-developed capabilities, like care models and proprietary analytics, into commercial product offerings. What does it take to make this complex strategy successful? Organizations who are doing it today will share their approaches, including how they’re tackling challenges like building skills for market assessment, product development, and solution sales, all of which require dedicated investment.
10:00 - 10:45 am
Wellness Break
10:45 - 11:45 am | Concurrent Sessions
No Regrets Investments for an Uncertain Future
For those committed to a value-based strategic identity, the sequence and level of investments for achieving current and future accountability expectations remains a vexing decision. Three foundational “no regrets” investments - data and analytics, contracting expertise, and enhancing patient satisfaction - will advance your value strategy as it dynamically evolves. Learn how peers allocate their resource investments and set priorities for these key capabilities.
When Providers Stick Together: The Power of REACH
Home-based care disciplines should stick together - particularly when it comes to serving high needs populations. Hear how successful REACH participants have leveraged the entire community of home care assets to reduce hospitalization, increase days at home, and ultimately produce outsized savings for the healthcare system.
The Seven Keys to Back Office Advantage
The back office – overlooked by some – is a distinct source of advantage for others. Home Care 100 will present the findings from a study of back-office practices demonstrating the keys to lowering the unit processing cost of care. Then hear how peer organizations are turning the back office into a source of advantage by: optimizing the blend of outsourced and insourced processes; streamlining workflows; leveraging technology; using zero-based, year-over-year benchmarking and budgeting; and more.
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm | General Session
Growth Case Studies
Rapid-fire stories from five providers across the care spectrum leveraging unconventional processes, new program and service models, and unique relationships, leading to real growth results for their organization. You’ll walk away with a new set of strategies and solutions for advancing your own growth goals.
2:15 - 5:15 pm
Experiences
Step away from the main stage and into small-group settings designed to keep the conversation going in a deeper, more interactive way. The choice is yours — learn, connect with peers, and recharge in the way that works best for you!
Growth & Value Workgroups NEW!
The Home Care 100 Intelligence Group’s year-round workgroups will provide the framework for these highly interactive roundtables. Come prepared to actively participate and collaborate.
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Home health organizations are facing a dual challenge to grow in an environment of increasing focus on value along with elevated expectations from partners. This workgroup will identify and share examples of 1) Delivering higher effectiveness in clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction and 2) Operating with higher efficiency, lowering costs to enable the economics of value.
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Hospice and palliative care providers are pursuing growth on two fronts: Protect the legacy business by demonstrating superior value to risk bearing entities and referral partners, while simultaneously moving upstream to garner a larger role in the patient journey and subsequent share of the premium dollar. The key strategic question for this roundtable: How do we continue to both communicate and deliver the value of the traditional hospice benefit in a marketplace of rapidly shifting incentives and alignments?
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Personal care providers know that the key to next-level growth is through changing their value equation. But how does the personal care space amplify scarce resources and demonstrate value across the care continuum? We’ll share and discuss success stories of how others are harnessing data to drive differentiation across their workforce, payer and contracting strategy, and consumer marketplace.
Recreation
Curated activities that showcase the best of Southern California. Exercise your muscles, mind or taste buds – or simply relax. There's something for everyone!
2:30 - 5:00 pm
This trail offers a fun mix of rolling hills, wildlife spotting, and a rewarding finish at the beautiful Salt Creek Beach with stunning views of the Pacific. A perfect hike for outdoor lovers that refreshes both body and soul!
2:30 - 5:00 pm
Immerse yourself in the history and artistic magic of Laguna Beach on a guided tour through its best galleries, with a stop for the best gelato in town!
2:30 - 5:00 pm
Enjoy a relaxing afternoon by the pool in a reserved space exclusively for Home Care 100 attendees, with dedicated seating, a refined selection of food and drinks, and access to private cabanas.
2:30 - 5:15 pm
Set sail on the Schooner Curlew for an unforgettable mix of adventure and relaxation. You can join the crew in sailing activities or simply sit back and enjoy stunning SoCal views.
6:00 - 9:30 pm
Reception & Dinner
6:00 - 6:45 PM - Reception
6:45 - 8:00 PM - Dinner
8:00 - 9:30 PM - After Dinner Social
WEDNESDAY
Outcomes
7:30 - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30 am | General Session
Framework: Reorganizing Legacy Offerings Around Outcomes that Matter
Success in home care partnerships requires more than delivering great care. It requires demonstrating value in terms your partners value most. This session introduces an adaptable, take-home framework to translate your organization's strengths and metrics into the outcomes that hospitals, ACOs, physicians, payers, and consumers prioritize.
8:30 - 9:15 am | General Session
The Up & Up: Updating Your Offerings for Upstream Partners
Decision-makers from key upstream partners and successful home care providers will showcase how they've aligned their work and metrics to deliver on shared priorities. Leading representatives from health systems, physician-led ACOs, and private duty consumer representatives will outline their must-have outcomes. The session culminates with case studies of innovative JVs and partnerships built on shared outcome goals.
9:15 - 9:45 am | General Session
From Data to Insights to Value: The Essential Infrastructure
Discover the essential technology infrastructure that powers successful outcomes management. Industry leaders will share their technology investment priorities, ROI metrics, and lessons learned, and we’ll map out critical investment areas:
- Smart data collection to capture the right data and metrics
- Analytics that transform data into insights
- Custom dashboards that communicate value effectively
9:45 - 10:30 am | General Session
Capstone 2025: The Outcomes Driven Workforce
Delivering outcomes that matter demands alignment and focus across every level of your organization. This capstone session explores the combination of leadership accountability, strategic data visualization, staff training, and innovative technology for creating true organizational alignment. Hear real world examples from home care organizations successfully translating high-level metrics into meaningful action at every level – from executives to frontline caregivers.
