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Creating a Culture of Quality, Compassion and Partnership. A Pathway to Excellence.

Your mission should you choose to accept it: make quality, compassion and partnership systematized, achievable and repeatable – in all settings across your organization. With a structured performance framework, this is NOT mission impossible! This session introduces the Person-Centered Care Certification Program, an evidence-based operational framework for establishing the systems and processes necessary to sustain culture change across your organization.  Participants will be introduced to the five drivers of excellence in person-centered care as a way of understanding, in real terms, what it takes to make person-centered care into an actionable strategy that can be tailored to the needs and strengths of any organization.

The Essentials of Person-Centered Care Creating a Culture of Quality, Compassion and Partnership. A Pathway to Excellence.

You’ve heard why person-centered care is a centerpiece of the national strategy to improve healthcare quality.  But have you learned HOW TO make it happen in your organization? Learn the fundamentals of what it takes in concrete and actionable steps to be person-centered from the organization that wrote the book on it. In this session, Planetree faculty impart real world solutions for:

The Brave New World of Patient Engagement

The empowerment and engagement of patients and families in the design and coordination of health care services at the levels of policy, organization and direct delivery has become a centerpiece of current healthcare improvement efforts. Guidelines and legislation supporting, and in some instances mandating, explicit and meaningful involvement of patients and families is accelerating internationally, through efforts of organizations including the World Health Organization, Planetree International, and many regional and local healthcare quality organizations. Efforts such as the CMS Partnership for Patients, Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) have pioneered new practical approaches to improving and measuring patient experience. In addition, consumer healthcare trends and innovations in personalized technologies are creating a brave new world in which patients and their families are becoming more involved in creating healthcare of the future. This session will highlight how these trends are improving safety, quality and the patient experience of care.

Consumer Trends in an Age of Empowerment

The patient and family engagement movement has empowered individuals as captains of their own healthcare teams. Patients, in turn, are looking to their healthcare providers to accommodate their preferences and address their demands for greater cost transparency, convenience and access.

This program challenges attendees to consider whether their healthcare organization is poised to meet these needs of increasingly informed and engaged consumers. The session explores the challenges inherent in transitioning from a business to business model to a consumer model of delivering healthcare.

Business As Usual No Longer an Option

Improved patient outcomes and better health care value are the driving forces behind health care reform efforts. Through a review of current literature, outcomes data and organizational case studies, this presentation provides an in-depth look at how person-centered care is a fundamental strategy for achieving these aims. Indeed, no longer can person-centered care be considering something that is “nice” to do. It is now nothing less than a quality and business imperative. This presentation will present the evidence substantiating a fair return on the investment of time, energy and financial resources to implement person-centered care in terms of improvements in a number of clinical and operational benefits. These include patient and staff satisfaction, patient safety outcomes, cost of care, and length of stay. With an emphasis on their impact on the bottom-line, specific topics covered include strategies to engage patients and families in shared decision-making, partnering with community stakeholders to improve population health and driving measurable improvements in the patient and staff experience.

Show Me the Evidence! The Evidence Base for Patient and Family Engaged Care

The case for patient and family engagement (PFE) has been built largely on anecdotal evidence, documented professional practice, and small scale tests of change. More comprehensive evaluative studies of PFE have been hindered by the sporadic nature of current activity and the range and complexity of the issues. But this is no longer the case. The case for patient and family engagement has never been stronger. There is now compelling scientific evidence that delivering healthcare within a culture of patient and family engagement creates better results: better health, better care, better culture and lower costs. Learn more how these scientific findings are paving the way for the adoption of a range of patient and family engagement approaches.

Sustaining and Enhancing your Established Patient and Family Partnership Council

For an organization to be genuinely person-centered, direct input from patients and families about what is most important to them about their care and how best a healthcare provider can satisfy those needs, preferences and expectations is paramount. This talk guides participants through the process of implementing a vital, vibrant and effective patient and family partnership council and integrating their voice into continuous quality improvement initiatives that can drive improved outcomes for the organization.

Care Partners: The Epitome of Family Engagement

Family transcends discrete episodes of care and settings, which positions them to become that elusive source of continuity so lacking in our fragmented health care system. But, too often, family caregivers are relegated to the role of bystanders once a patient is hospitalized. This talk examines the role that family plays on the healthcare team, and dissects the missed opportunities for delivering high quality, high value care when families are onlookers versus active participants in care planning, coordination, and management.

After the Luster Wears Off: Practical Tips for Keeping Your Person-Centered Journey on Track

Your organization’s journey to person centered excellence is not a straight path. It will be filled with peaks and valleys. While getting started can be challenging, oftentimes euphoria and early excitement can carry you through the early stages. Come join us for a session that offers ideas, suggestions, and examples of what to do after that initial effort, when the luster wears off, and the bigger obstacles are in your way.

Person-Centered Care Made Personal: Everyone is a Caregiver

Each of us is committed to providing care and services that are centric to each person. But how does this noble effort impact the individuals providing care and service?

Join us for a celebratory look at all the persons in person-centered care!