Valarie is a nationally recognized advisor and educator within home health, specializing in OASIS education. Valarie has spent the past 20 years in the home care industry in a variety of roles, from frontline patient care as a physical therapist to leadership in clinical education and operations. She has a passion for helping agencies and individual clinicians simplify the complex nature of home care data collection to provide a clear path for using assessment data to provide efficient, patient-focused care to those in need, within the comfort of their home environments. Valarie has specialized in educating clinicians of all disciplines in OASIS, best practice patient care strategies, documentation, utilization, and regulatory compliance. She holds advanced certifications in OASIS, coding, and case management. As an experienced physical therapist and a subject matter expert in OASIS, she has a strong understanding and perspective on how to efficiently assess and translate patient status and functional ability in the home to the OASIS accurately which affects all aspects of agency health.