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Continental breakfast and lunch provided. Please indicate any special dietary requirements when signing up for course.

This highly popular course is back by popular demand!
Practice Support Experts will guide you through a process to build required office manuals. You’ll leave the course ready to complete up-to-date OSHA, HIPAA and Employment manuals in your office. Bring a laptop or tablet – you’ll do the work on site.

General Information

HR/Employee Manual Course Description: 

Each year, new employment laws are passed and court decisions interpreting employment laws change the employment landscape. Yet, each year employers dust off their employee handbooks and hand the same old policies to new employees without often considering whether the contents are still legally compliant. While an employee manual itself isn’t legally required, there are over 10+ laws that require employers to have a written policies. Templates for manuals and policies are easy to find on the internet, but are you familiar with what policies you should have in place and if they’re California compliant?

Learning outcomes for the HR presentation:

Understand why a manual is important to your practice.
Know the elements necessary for compliance with state employment laws.
Review the CDA Sample Employee Manual template.
Understand how to develop practical and compliant policies for your practice.

Regulatory Compliance Manual Completion
2-hour
Qualifies for C.E. Credit – Core Course
Written documentation is required by Cal/OSHA for occupational safety, by the Department of Public Health for radiation safety and by state and local agencies for proper disposal of hazardous and medical wastes. This course walks participants through the regulatory requirements and completion of the Regulatory Compliance Manual which contains templates for the required written documentation. Note: Participants must downloaded all sections of the Regulatory Compliance Manual from the CDA Practice Support website to their respective laptop computers. Participants are expected to use laptops with the template already loaded and ready for use.

Creating HIPAA Policies and Procedures
2 hours
Qualifies for C.E. Credit – Core Course
HIPAA covered entities are required to have written HIPAA policies and procedures, conduct risk analysis and have risk management plans. Using the ADA Practical Guide to HIPAA Compliance and a CDA-provided template, participants will get hands-on experience developing their own policies and procedures. Instructions for conducting the required security risk analysis are included in this presentation. Note: participants must either purchase the ADA guide (dated 2013 or later).The full registration fee includes an e-book version of the necessary ADA HIPAA Guide. CDA will provide the template and miscellaneous forms to the component, which will then email the documents to registered participants. The CDA template customized the ADA material to include state-specific rules. Participants are expected to use laptops with the template already loaded and ready for use.

Michelle Corbo, PHR, PHRca

As one of the original Practice Support team members, Michelle is a practice analyst that knows a thing or two about its resources. She contributes regularly to the CDA Update, develops Practice Support resources for CDA’s website and speaks to dentistry audiences across California with a focus on best employment practices. Her expertise doesn’t stop there. Having earned two HR certifications, a strong background in private practice and more than 11 years of experience with CDA, she advises member dentists in the areas of employment practices and practice management.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships: None to disclose.

Teresa Pichay is a practice analyst with the California Dental Association. Her areas of expertise include compliance with Cal/OSHA, information privacy and security, radiation safety, Dental Practice Act, waste management and miscellaneous business regulations and laws. She holds a certificate in healthcare privacy compliance from the Health Care Compliance Association, and writes a monthly regulatory compliance column for the CDA Journal. She has lectured several times at CDA Presents and at component dental society meetings. She has worked for CDA since 1995, starting first with the Council on Dental Research and Developments, then moving on to Public Policy. Her current work with CDA Practice Support includes developing online compliance resources and providing guidance and information directly to members.  Prior to joining CDA, Ms. Pichay worked for other business and trade associations. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships: None to disclose.

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SDCDS is an ADA CERP Recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. SDCDS designates this activity for six (6) continuing education credits.