President's MessagePosted: January 3, 2024 First and foremost, on behalf of the officers and staff of APTA Home Health, I would like to wish all of our readers a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. APTA Home Health has several new and exciting projects coming your way in the first couple months of the year. First, the anxiously awaited fourth edition of The Guide to Physical Therapy Practice in the Home is coming in the next six weeks. This seminal publication on the nuts and bolts of how physical therapy is and should be done in the home environment has been a core work of APTA Home Health for longer than I have been a member. This new edition will help foster contemporary practice and delivery of physical therapy in the home. In addition to a free digital download for all APTA Home Health members, we will be providing printed copies to all fifty-one state boards, the three Medicare Administrative Contractors that process home health claims, and several of the nationwide private insurers. But wait—there’s more! We have heard your call for podcasts on a consistent basis. Be on the lookout for the reboot of our podcast series later this month, hosted and produced for APTA Home Health by our friend and colleague Chris Chimenti. That brings us to CSM. It is coming soon! I hope to see you in Boston, MA, beginning February 14, 2024. We will kick off CSM with a new twist on an old favorite. While you may not see the customary Meet and Greet in its usual spot on Wednesday evening in the official CSM schedule, IT IS STILL HAPPENING from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM on Wednesday, February 14. It will be off-site at the Harpoon Beer Hall at 306 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210. There will be free-flowing beer and pretzels. Yes, free! It is less expensive to move off site and provide free refreshments than to hold our traditional event on-site. Everyone wins! On another CSM-related note, our business meeting will remain on-site at the Westin Seaport Hotel on Friday, February 16, at 6:30 PM. This will be a cocktail hour with cash bar rather than the traditional dinner. I promise that I will move the meeting along smartly so that you can enjoy dinner at one of the many nearby establishments in Boston’s Seaport District (what I used to know as Southie when I went to school at BU thirty or so years ago). Well, that’s a pretty exciting first six weeks of 2024, but there is also a West Coast (Los Angeles) ACHH Live course in February, and a pending one in April in Annville, PA (Harrisburg/Lebanon area). Did you know that ACHH Live now has no prerequisites? You can take it at any point that you find convenient in your ACHH journey, or you can take it as a stand-alone CE offering to get 15 high-quality LIVE CE hours. Hope to see you at CSM in Boston! Sincerely, Phil Goldsmith |