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Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward
with Patient- and Family-Centered Care
An Intensive Training Seminar
Partnerships for Quality & Safety
This seminar provides three and a half days of comprehensive and practical sessions designed to help administrative leaders, physicians, nurses and other clinical staff, and patients and families advisors become effective agents for patient- and family-centered change in their institutions. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to begin to transform health care within community organizations, hospitals, ambulatory care settings, and community practices health systems to address the challenges and recommendations discussed in the Institute of Medicine's report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century and more recently, the National Priorities Partners report, National Goals and Priorities: Aligning Our Efforts to Transform America's Healthcare.
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Webinars
The Institute for Family-Centered Care offers webinars on a variety of topics. Webinars are generally an hour and a half, and include presentations by Institute faculty members, followed by the opportunity for participants to ask questions and discuss the topic. The Institute's webinars offer an economical way to enhance your organization's understanding and practice of patient- and family-centered care. Pay for one call-in line and convene a group in one room to participate on that line. For more intensive training opportunities, check out the Institute's Intensive Training Seminars, described below.
Who should attend the webinars?
Health care administrators, hospital directors, and program coordinators charged with implementing patient- and family-centered initiatives, and patient and family members who want to improve quality and safety.
Each webinar will offer a variety of resources and tools.
Learn more about our webinars and register.
The International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care
The 4th International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care, August 17-19, 2009, showcased innovative programs dedicated to collaboration among health professionals, patients, and families. The conference provided opportunities to address emerging issues in patient- and family-centered care, both at the systems and individual levels. It included presentations from hospitals, primary care, specialty ambulatory settings, community based programs, public health and mental health agencies, patient- and family-led organizations, schools of medicine, nursing, and other health and helping professions. The conference featured a variety of formal and informal meetings, including plenary sessions, concurrent breakouts, round table discussions, workshops, a video theatre, and poster presentations.
Check out our Conference page for more details!
Past Conference:
The 4th International Conference on
Patient- and Family-Centered Care
August 17-19, 2009
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Conference was presented with leadership support from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.