
Welcome to the AAHCM 2025 Annual Meeting
AAHCM is the professional home for providers serving the Home- based Medical Care Community. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect and get connected!
The American Academy of Home Care Medicine (AAHCM) serves nearly 1,000 physicians, advanced practice professionals, social workers, related professionals, and agencies across the country committed to improving the care of patients in the home.
AAHCM operates on the vision of providing high-quality care in the home with dignity to all those in need and works tirelessly to make this goal a reality. The 2025 AAHCM Annual Conference, will be held in New Orleans, LA, October 16-18, with pre-conference sessions, October 16. More than 500 interdisciplinary leaders in Home-Based Medical Care are expected to attend, providing you an unmatched opportunity to demonstrate how your products and services will help them better care for their patients. This event will be even bigger and more immersive than ever, with ample opportunities for attendee engagement and networking
Keynote Speaker
Alexandra Drane
Co-founder & CEO of ARCHANGELS
Alexandra Drane Bio:
Alexandra Drane is co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS — a women-owned, public benefit corporation and omnichannel platform that engages and supports caregivers across all 50 states through partnerships with employers, consumer brands, health-plans/systems, communities, and states.
Alex previously co-founded other companies including Rebel Health, Eliza Corporation, and Engage with Grace (all-bootstrapped). She believes communities are the frontline of health, that caregivers are our country’s greatest asset, and that we need to expand the definition of health to include life.
Her board roles include the Joint Commission Resources Board of Directors, RAND Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board, Vice Chair of the Trustee Advisory Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and she is a founding member of the Board of Directors of C-TAC. She serves on Harvard Medical School’s Executive Council of the Division of Sleep Medicine, the Board of Advisors for Boston Children’s Hospital Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator, Lake Nona Impact Forum, OpenNotes Lab, and the Entrepreneurs Council for The United States of Care. She also spent 7 years as a Governor-appointed member of the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors for Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Alex’s honors include being named to the 1st ever Care100 list, a VNA Care Hero, a Top Women in Healthcare’s Entrepreneur of the Year, one of Disruptive Women in Health Care’s Women to Watch, one of Boston Globe’s Top 100 Women Leaders, and the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” She is also an inventor on numerous patents and has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, including publications with the CDC, the Journal of Affective Disorders, and NEJM Catalyst. She joined Prudential Financial as their national host and wellness expert for a national ad campaign “The State of US.”
Outside of healthcare, she enjoys car racing, fiercely loving on family, friends, neighbors (and sometimes even strangers – because what’s a stranger!?), and living into the joyful belief that ‘the adventure begins when it all goes wrong’ (Yvonne Chouinard).
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Program Tracks
Pre-Conference Sessions
October 16, 2025 - add-on (4) hour pre-conference sessions are available for additional registration. All sessions will be available for CME.
Leadership Training
This workshop will cover key topics surrounding leadership in today’s healthcare workforce. When building high performance teams, great leaders are considering the layers that affect group success. Healthcare professionals often excel when managing time, but not necessarily when it comes to managing energy. How are you considering burnout potential in the breakdown of responsibilities on your team? Alternatively, what builds your staff up? How do we factor in different individual motivations when working toward the common goal of serving our patients? In matrix, interdisciplinary teams, we must find strength in both our differences and similarities. As a leader, you want to consider challenges and strategies in the context of implicit bias, always keeping diversity, equity and inclusion at the forefront. By attending this workshop, you will challenge the assumptions you have about leadership, explore new strategies for management and supervision, and build confidence in your own authority.
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Onboarding: A Deep Dive into Onboarding Essentials for Providers and Staff
Effective onboarding significantly increases the longevity of new hires, which is key to the success of all types of practices, especially those serving very sick patients in their homes. This pivotal piece of practice management is often rushed through and not given the attention it deserves. In this session we will walk through the steps needed to ensure successful onboarding for everyone from front office staff to providers and will provide actionable intel for enhancing the process, meeting the needs of your team, and understanding where they are clinically.
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The VBC Playbook: Empowering VBC Success through a Digital-First, Data-First Approach?
Walk through how to evaluate and select the right ACO model—MSSP, ACO REACH, TEAMS, WISER, HN REACH, and more. From there, we’ll shift into real-world examples focused on scaling and operationalizing value-based care, incorporating both administrative and clinical end-user perspectives. We’ll explore how organizations are leveraging a digital-first, data-first approach to align care teams, drive performance, and build infrastructure that scales with the needs of complex populations.
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POCUS: Foundational Skills for Home Care Providers
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a diagnostic tool used by physicians at the bedside to look inside the human body in real time to help answer specific clinical questions and guide clinical therapy. This workshop is designed to teach the fundamentals of POCUS and the highest yield POCUS modalities for the home care provider- Jugular Venous Pulse, Lung, Bladder. Utilizing a small-group, hands-on format, attendees will practice ultrasound scanning to support the development of bedside image interpretation and acquisition skills. Learners will be practicing scanning on themselves. Please wear ultrasound amenable clothing (i.e. comfortable, practical, two-piece clothing that allows for easy and modest access to the parts of the neck, chest, lower abdomen)
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