Sustaining Success: Strategies for Maintaining and Advancing Your Palliative Care Program

Description

As your palliative care program matures, this final webinar equips you with strategies for long-term viability and continuous improvement. Learn readmission management, data collection and analysis, revisiting needs assessments, outcomes tracking, metric monitoring, program certification (CHAP, Joint Comm, ACHC, etc.), and addressing lifecycle and maturity considerations. Gain knowledge and tools to maintain sustainability, foster improvement, and ensure high-quality patient care. For those who would like to continue the conversation on this content, please plan to attend the Palliative Care Office Hours on August 9 from noon – 1 p.m. ET.

Learning Outcomes:

• • • Explore best practices for managing hospital readmissions, a critical factor in sustaining the success of your palliative care program.
    • Discover the importance of collecting and analyzing program data, and how to leverage this information to drive informed decision-making, identify areas for improvement, and demonstrate the value of your palliative care services.
    • Understand the value of periodically revisiting your initial needs assessment to ensure your program continues to meet the evolving needs of your patient population and community.
    • Learn how to effectively track and monitor key outcomes and metrics, enabling you to measure the success of the program’s, identify areas for optimization, and make data-driven decisions.

Faculty:

The faculty and planners for this educational event have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Danielle DiGennaro, MSN, ARNP-BC, ACHPN | Agrace HospiceCare

Danielle earned a master’s degree in nursing from Duke University, Durham, N.C., with a clinical focus in cardiology and palliative care, and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

Initially working in HF and transplant, she quickly worried what happened to the patients without advanced therapy options that were discharged home. Upon a cross-country move, she started working for Sutter Health in northern CA in Palliative Care. While at Sutter, she helped grow a new site for an outpatient palliative care clinic and home visits. During that time, she helped cover overnight call shifts for a small non-profit hospice. Another move brought Danielle to northcentral Florida, working at both a rural non-profit hospice and an academic medical center. With that hospice, she helped develop both an in and outpatient palliative care service. At the academic medical center, she saw patients in an embedded oncology practice and helped launch an embedded heart failure clinic.

Her most recent move has been to the midwest, with another large rural hospice company, as the director of their Supportive Care (palliative care) dept.

Lisa VanderWel, LMSW | Corewell Health West

Lisa VanderWel is the executive director of the Hospice and Palliative Care Division of Corewell Health in Michigan. Lisa has extensive experience, both clinical and administrative, in her 34 year career in hospice and palliative care. Starting out as a hospice social worker at the bedside, she then moved on to help start the hospice program at Spectrum Health back in 2006. Through the years she has worked to grow this small start-up hospice into a full continuum of services for patients with serious illness including a robust hospice program, an inpatient hospice unit, and an extensive palliative care program. A complete interdisciplinary team provides palliative care in a continuum of settings, inpatient at the Corewell Health hospitals, in patients homes through a large home palliative care program and through several clinic settings, namely for patients with cancer and advance heart failure. Lisa lives in the Grand Rapids area, is enjoying life with her husband of 37 years Randy, with their three adult children and their spouses and her newest loves: grandsons Kayden and Redmond.

Available Credits for this webinar:
After participating in the live webinar, participants must pay the CE/CME fee and complete an evaluation to receive their selected CE credit. To earn social work credit, participants must also complete a 10-question post-test with a 70 percent passing score. Credit hours and availability are subject to change.

• • • 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    • 1 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit
    • 1 Nurse Contact Hours
    • 1 Social Work credi

For full accreditation statements and credit information, please visit the Palliative Care Webinar Miniseries page.

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