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Do you coordinate patient and family advisory programs? Are you responsible to develop and sustain partnerships among health care professionals and patient and family advisors? This helpful webinar will provide best practices, tools and approaches used by staff liaisons to build successful patient- and family-centered programs. It will also highlight key components of well-established advisory programs and effective strategies utilized by individuals in this role to build partnerships between leaders, staff and clinicians, and diverse advisors.
The 8th Annual PFCC Conference will be held on March 12, 2018 at the California Endowment Center in Los Angeles, CA. Join us for an interactive day of shared learning about best practices in Person Family Centered Care. Learn from patients, families, peers and colleagues currently implementing PFCC practices across healthcare settings.
This webinar will highlight how to implement patient- and family-centered care in various mental health settings. Ways to engage people in the direct care experience and as quality improvement partners will be showcased. Practical tools and tips that help others build strong partnerships with those receiving mental health services and their families will be shared.
Join us as we continue the conversation on practice transformation and help participants learn:
1) The importance of physician engagement in quality improvement (the “why”)
2) To identify strategies to enhance physician engagement (the “what”)
3) To describe strategies to overcome challenges and barriers to truly have physicians lead quality improvement (“the how”)
Diane Stewart, Senior Director at PBGH’s California Quality Collaborative (CQC), will facilitate a robust discussion featuring guest speakers:
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Establishing a system to track and measure the process and outcomes of patient- and family-centered care is critical to creating and sustaining successful change in organizational culture. Providing this information in useful and compelling ways is important to assuring the support and commitment of senior executives and boards of trustees; it is also important to the work of patient and family advisory councils. Useful resources, dashboards, and other tools will be shared on this webinar.
Join PFCCpartners Monthly Workshop on October 27th at 12pm PST as we discuss Strategies to Sustaining Patient Family Engagement Efforts at your organization. We will review strategies to build both organization and Advisor investment and discuss the role of Advisors on organization committees. Finally, learn how to manage the successes of Advisor involvement and how to continue to grow their involvement and support the growth of your engagement efforts.
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One of the greatest challenges for providers is to discharge patients home safely and avoid re-hospitalization. One of the greatest challenges for the patients and families is to continue care safely at home. The purpose of this webinar is to examine how essential partnerships between patients, families, and staff can mitigate complications once the patient leaves the hospital.
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For many, change can be difficult. Whether due to poor communication, a shift in routine, or lack of understanding the benefits of doing something differently, resistance to change can slow or prevent progress. This webinar will help you think through strategies to overcome staff resistance to the cultural transformation and to adopting changes that are necessary for successful implementation of patient- and family-centered care.
Great Lakes Practice Transformation Network (GLPTN), Healthy Hearts in the Heartland (H3), and Vizient are pleased to welcome Michael McGee, MD, for a webinar on “Implementing an Enhanced Recovery Program for Surgery.”
Dr. McGee, a colorectal surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, will share his experiences carrying out a large-scale quality improvement program that included a strong patient engagement component. The program reduced wound infections after colorectal surgery by 50% and reduced readmissions by 40%.
Join us for the September Workshop to hear from Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center's Patient Family Advisory Council. Wray Ryback and Margaret High will join us to provide information on their Patient Family Advisors (PFA) and their participation in hospital committee structure including Palliative Care, Emergency Preparedness, Patient Satisfaction, ED Customer Service and Falls Task Force. They will share input from both PFA and Committee members regarding impact of PFA committee membership.
