Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward with Patient- and Family-Centered Care:
An Intensive Training Seminar Enhancing Quality and Safety
for Patients and Their Families
“Excellent! Of enormous value to all in the health care field.”
SEMINAR GOALS INCLUDE:
- Gain understanding of patient- and family-centered care.
- Explore examples of excellence and innovation in patient- and family-centered policy, program, practice, professional education, and facility design.
- Learn how to integrate patient- and family-centered concepts within a hospital's quality and safety agendas and public reporting of quality data.
- Create action plans for patient- and family-centered change; individualized for each institution.
“Very thorough and comprehensive. Most dedicated faculty I've ever experienced. Excellent Institute staff and faculty.”
WHAT MAKES THIS SEMINAR SO UNIQUE:
- Faculty review of pre-seminar hospital self-assessment.
- Individualized planning time with faculty.
- Take-home resources for hospital and facility presentations, orientation, and in-service sessions.
- Post seminar follow-up telephone technical assistance with Institute staff.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
We urge hospitals and health care systems to send an interdisciplinary team of participants that includes administrative leaders, physicians, nurses and other clinical staff, as well as patient and family leaders whose primary association with the hospital is as consumers of health services. This team also may include health care design professionals and other consultants working within the field.
SEMINAR RESOURCE NOTEBOOK:
All participants receive a Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward with Patient- and Family-Centered Care resource notebook and CD-ROM that provide useful, practical materials on patient- and family-centered care to facilitate the process of change in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other health care entities within health care systems. The materials in this notebook allow seminar attendees to immediately begin advancing and implementing the practice of patient- and family-centered care at their own facilities immediately upon return from the event. To buy a past Seminar Resource notebook CD-ROM click here.
Past Seminars:
March 3 - 6, 2008, Atlanta, GA
With leadership support from Emory Healthcare and Emory University School of Medicine.
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April 23 - 26, 2007, Portland, ME
With leadership support from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Maine Medical Center, MaineGeneral Health, and Eastern Maine Medical Center.
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October 22 - 25, 2006, Dearborn, MI
With Support from The University of Michigan Health System and additional support from HKS Architects, Inc.
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April 24 - 27, 2006, Miami, FL
With Leadership Support from Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial and Miami Children's Hospital
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October 30 - November 2, 2005, Oakbrook, IL
With Support from The Nathan Cummings Foundation
April 9 - 13, 2005, Houston, TX
With Support from Texas Children's Hospital
September 27 - 29, 2004, Augusta, GA
With Support from MCG Health System
April 22 - 25, 2004, Minneapolis, MN
With Support from Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota