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• WiHPCA Quarterly DQA Meeting

  • When
    January 27, 2026
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    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  REGISTER TODAY: WiHPCA Quarterly Meeting with the Division of Quality Assurance

  Scheduled for

  Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026

  Don’t miss out on WiHPCA’s next meeting with the WI Department of Health Services’ Division of Quality Assurance (DQA), which is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan 27 at 10am. The meeting will be held virtually and is open to all WiHPCA members and hospice professionals across Wisconsin. 

  The purpose of the DQA meetings is to create an opportunity for hospice and palliative care professionals to build and maintain a strong working relationship with a key state regulatory agency that oversees our industry. For members who have not had an opportunity to attend previous meetings, they provide members with valuable regulatory information and updates, as well as a unique chance to engage DQA staff, ask questions, and request guidance. If you would like to submit a question to DQA staff in advance, please CLICK HERE. 

  DQA MEETING DETAILS:

  • When:  Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026 - 10-11am CT
  • Where:  Virtual meeting - Zoom

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• WiHPCA Webinar - Solid Foundations: Strengthening Hospice Eligibility

  • When
    February 17, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  WiHPCA Webinar Series - Solid Foundations: Strengthening Hospice Eligibility

  Tuesday, February 17, 2026 

  11:00am - 12:00pm CT via Zoom

  
  

  Session Description:

  This session explores foundational principles and best practices for establishing and documenting hospice eligibility, including strategies to address evolving trends in the reasons auditors give for denying claims. Because auditors increasingly look beyond the physician narrative and face-to-face documentation in denying claims, this session is helpful to anyone who documents in the medical record or is involved in audits. Participants will gain insights into the critical role of clinical judgment, effective documentation strategies, and the importance of synthesizing medical findings to support terminal prognosis.
  

  
  

  Meet Our Presenters:

  Dr. Scott A. Paxton, DO

  Medical Director

  Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice

  
  

  Board Certified in Family Practice and Hospice and Palliative Medicine

  Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Minor in Anthropology from Michigan State University

  Doctor of Osteopathy, University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health

  Josi Wergin, JD, FASHRM

  Healthcare Attorney

  Husch Blackwell

  

  As a healthcare regulatory attorney, Josi helps healthcare organizations proactively evaluate and optimize their compliance with statutes, regulations, and standards. When regulatory challenges arise, she represents clients before government agencies. Before becoming an attorney, she worked in healthcare risk management for 17 years—experience that makes her particularly adept at understanding clinical and operational issues, managing complexity, and balancing risks and opportunities. Josi is a Fellow of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management.

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• Caring for a Harmful Parent Through Their Serious Illness or the End of Life

  • When
    March 18, 2026
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  This talk will explore the first-hand experiences of adult children who were harmed by a parent in childhood who are caring for that parent through serious illness or the end of life. Themes of obligation, ambivalence, re-traumatization, and resilience will be explored. Trauma-informed techniques that hospice and palliative care professionals can employ to work with families with a history of harm will be discussed.

  
  

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Recognize the motivations for an adult child survivor to participate in caregiving for a parent who was harmful.

  2. Describe the experience of adult child survivors caring for a parent who was harmful, including re-traumatization activators and opportunities for post-traumatic growth.

  3. Summarize the trauma informed approaches healthcare professionals can use in their work when there is a history of harm in the family.

  
  

  Meet Our Presenter:

  Jaime Goldberg, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a Clinical Assistant Professor focused on health and aging at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also completed her PhD in May 2023. Jaime earned her MSW from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.

  Jaime has dedicated her career to the fields of aging and palliative care. During her clinical career, Jaime was a social work specialist for the Cedars-Sinai Supportive Care Medicine team and palliative care social worker for the Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation service. She was a member of the core faculty for the Palliative Care Fellowship Program at both hospitals. 

  Jaime previously taught in the University of Maryland-Baltimore Online Master of Science Program in Palliative Care at California State University-Long Beach School of Social Work. She has been invited to speak and teach locally, nationally, and internationally about aging, palliative care, and hospice topics, and has co-authored several articles and book chapters.

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