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 in our sector 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.
Tim Bateman
Managing Director
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
8:25 - 8:35 am | General Session
Powering Your Innovation Engine
Research shows that innovative companies see more significant growth faster than their peers. 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.
Jeanette Lynn
President
Home Care 100
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. They will share what it means to build a pioneering organization, what to look for (and what to watch out for!) in sourcing external solutions, and tips for operationalizing innovation at the ground level.
Adam Groff, MD
(Moderator)
Co-Founder & CEO
Maribel Health
Steven Collens
CEO
MATTER
Amelia Hay
VP Startup Programming & Investments, AARP Innovation Labs
Patrice Martin
Co-Founder & CEO
The Holding Company
9:20 - 10:00 am | General Session
Provider Showcase: Leveling Up Your Core
Join us for engaging success stories from peer organizations rethinking the status quo. Home care providers seeing payoffs from new technologies, business models, and programs to drive better efficiency and outcomes for their organizations will present their business cases. You’ll hear about forward-thinking initiatives, new solutions, and walk away from this impactful session with inspiration for your own strategies.
Mission Healthcare: Automating processes by 75% fueling census and reducing turnover
Charles McDonough
COO
Cypress HomeCare Solutions: Tripling workforce at half the cost per hire
Bob Roth
Managing Partner
Care Partners: Improving productivity, recruiting and margin via staffing model innovation
Randy Platt
Chairman & CEO
Devoted Guardians: Reducing hospitalizations and readmissions via care navigation program
Justin Tyler
COO
Avail Health: Increasing referrals and filling behavioral health care gaps
Joe Harrison
Founder & CEO
10:00 - 10:45 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
Founder & 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 new Administration. We'll tap the sharpest minds across our association and provider leadership to review what’s happening in Washington and analyze both the opportunities and threats therein. We’ll devote time to the issues facing each sub-sector within home-based care: home health, personal care, and hospice.
The New, Not So Normal, DC Picture
Our national association leaders share their perspectives on the rapidly evolving Washington landscape and detail what the new picture entails for businesses in our sector.
Steve Landers, MD
CEO, The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance)
Jason Lee
CEO
Home Care Association of America
Driving Program Integrity at the Local Level
An association leader from our host state of California frames up critical leverage points for leading hospice program integrity in your state.
Sheila Clark
President & CEO
California Hospice & Palliative Care Association
In the Know: Research Fueling Policy and Practice
Expert voices from the research community will outline sentinel studies in our sector, the connection to policy-making, and how (and why) you can (and should!) get involved in the research process.
Kathy Bowles
VP & Director of Research
VNS Health
Mike Johnson
Chief Researcher, Home Care Innovation, BAYADA Home Health Care
Turning Today’s Uncertainty into Tomorrow’s Action
Key provider leaders will discuss their strategic imperatives and initiatives for managing the volatile macro environment.
Todd Houghton
President & CEO
Homewatch CareGivers/Authority Brands
Susan Lloyd
President & CEO
Delaware Hospice
Jeff Shaner
CEO
Aveanna Healthcare
Mark Slobodien
VP Government Affairs
VITAS Healthcare
Stacey Smith
VP Public Affairs
AccentCare
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 - 8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 - 8:35 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.
Tim Bateman
(Moderator)
Managing Director
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
Matthew Chance
CEO
HarmonyCares
David Jackson
CEO
Choice Health at Home
8:35 - 8:45 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.
Kris Novak
Managing Director, Home Health, Home Care & Hospice
The Braff Group
8:45 - 9:20 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.
Kris Novak
(Moderator)
Managing Director, Home Health, Home Care & Hospice
The Braff Group
Jon Fradin
EVP Corporate Development
HouseWorks
Fred Johnson
President & CEO
Team Select Home Care
Rich Johnson
President & CEO
ViaQuest
9:20 - 9:45 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.
Tim Bateman
(Moderator)
Managing Director
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
Catherine Hamel
EVP & President
Gilchrist
Skelly Wingard
CEO
By the Bay Health
9:45 - 10:00 am | General Session
The Seven Keys to Back Office Advantage
The back office – overlooked by some organizations – is a distinct source of advantage for others in our space. Lincoln will present the findings from a study of back-office practices demonstrating the keys to lowering the unit processing cost of care. 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.
Tim Bateman
(Facilitator)
Managing Director
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
10:00 - 10:45 am
Wellness Break
10:45 - 11:45 am | Concurrent Sessions
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 for profitable operations.
Peter Bresler
(Moderator)
Principal Advisor
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
Jonathan Henderson
Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions Co-Chair/Innovation Department Chair, Polsinelli
Jerre van den Bent
Founder & CEO
THERAPY 2000
Devin Woodley
VP Managed Care Contracting & B2B Sales, VNS Health
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.
Hank Ross
(Moderator)
Executive Advisor
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
Betsy Hansen
Senior Advisor
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
Ryan Beres
SVP Health Solutions
CINQCARE
Kush Das
CEO
Ennoble Care
Brent Nash
Chief Development Officer
Elara Caring
Kristen Yntema
President & CEO
AuthoraCare Collective
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.
Right at Home: Forging Commercial Partnerships with Higher Ed
Brady Schwab
Chief Growth Officer
Duke HomeCare & Hospice: The Risk/Reward Equation in Infusion Compounding
Cooper Linton
Associate VP
Premier Home Health Care Services: Consolidating Corporate & Back Office Expenses for Operating Leverage
Marsha Ramos
President
Vynca: Tech-enabled Palliative Care for Contracting with MA
Darren Schulte, MD
CEO
PurposeCare: Building a Coordinated System of Care for Dual Eligibles
Rich Keller
CEO
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.
2:15 - 3:30 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.
2:15 - 3:30 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?
2:15 - 3:30 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
Coastal Campfire 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
The Final Frontier of Accountability
As our businesses grow, expanding workforces must ultimately share the complex drive for value dictated by an expanding set of upstream payers, partners, and other customers across a wide range of desired measures. This session lays out the core components of connecting the dots from the front lines all the way up to your upstream partners to drive alignment and deliver maximum value.
Ariana Klitzner
Lead Consultant
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
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 health system, physician-led ACO, and private duty consumer representatives will outline their must-have outcomes. The session will also share examples of partnerships built on shared outcome goals.
Jennifer Sheets
(Facilitator)
Executive Advisor
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
Rajiv Patel, MD
CEO
Bluestone Physician Services
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
Geoffry Abraskin
President, Hospice Division Amedisys
Tarrah Lowry
COO
Empath Health
Joe Monsour
CEO
Allegiance Healthcare Home Health, Hospice & Palliative Care
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.
Ariana Klitzner
(Moderator)
Lead Consultant
Home Care 100 Intelligence Group
Emily Kraeter
SVP Human Resources
TheKey
Jacqueline Lopez-Devine
Chief Clinical Officer
Gentiva
