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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization presents…
Developing the Care Continuum:
Innovative Models to Meet the Unique Care Needs of Patients/Families
In collaboration with:
The National Association of Social Workers
The Center to Advance Palliative Care
Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts
The National PACE Association
August 5-7, 2010
The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
Note: The NASW 2010 Annual Practice Conference online registration has been closed. If you would like to register for this conference, registration will be available on site.
Developing the Care Continuum Conference (Digital version for print/email)
PDF available for download (PDF)
Every day in communities across the country individuals in the last years of life struggle with medical, personal care and related issues, often with little if any support from professionals. In a recent national survey of family caregivers, more than 25% of family caregivers indicated that they have challenges with care coordination.
While hospice and palliative care interdisciplinary care coordination is available in more communities and care settings than ever before, most people don’t have access to this specialized service until their last days or weeks or life.
As hospices and palliative care providers as well PACE, adult day, long-term care and other senior service providers, struggle to obtain adequate reimbursement to care for patients, partnering with other organizations, developing new care delivery models and creating other innovative business strategies can mean the difference between long-term survival of your organization.
NHPCO’s 2010 Conference, Developing the Care Continuum: Innovative Models to Meet the Unique Needs of Patients/Families, will examine innovative care delivery and coordination models, lessons learned from providers who have expanded services and strategies for making decisions to expand care.
This conference is ideal for providers interested in starting any or all of the following programs, either alone or in collaboration with other providers:
- “Up-stream” community-based, nursing home or hospital palliative care program
- Home and community waiver program
- PACE program
- Adult day care services
- Comprehensive pediatric program
- Care coordination services
Educational Program
Deadlines
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Early-Bird Registration
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January 15 – May 14, 2010
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Advanced Registration
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May 15 – July 30, 2010
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Onsite Registration
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after July 30, 2010
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Exhibits, Advertising, Sponsorship Opportunities - Sold out
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Call for Proposals is closed.
Conference Objectives:
NHPCO’s 2010 Conference, Developing the Care Continuum: Innovative Models to Meet the Unique Needs of Patients/Families, will provide opportunities for attendees to:
- Identify innovative approaches that expand hospice and palliative care service delivery;
- Develop new care delivery models to expand services to pre-hospice patients;
- Integrate the indispensible and essential components of hospice and palliative care into all care settings and delivery systems;
- Discuss regulatory issues that impact the provision of waiver, PACE and other non-Medicare Hospice Benefit models of care;
- Participate in the development and implementation of advocacy strategies to engage, influence and promote an expanded end-of-life care continuum;
- Develop business plans for expanded care delivery outside the Medicare Hospice Benefit.
NHPCO believes that hospice and palliative care is the answer to the end-of-life conundrum because we focus on alleviating suffering and empowering patient autonomy. Hospice and palliative care professionals:
- provide the highest quality of care AND saves the health care system money;
- honor wishes to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging treatment for some patients AND wishes to continue life-prolonging treatments in others; and
- nurture hope for a pain-free day, a last walk in the garden, a final sunset AND we provide evidence-based, holistic pain and symptom management.
We can and are inventing the future of the care continuum, one community at a time. Now is the time to expand the care continuum of providers who can meet the unique needs of patients and families traversing this continuum so that future health care reform talks turn to us instead of talking about us.
Who Should Attend?
Leadership, management and clinical care staff working in hospice, palliative care, the aging network and the broader healthcare continuum will comprise the audience for this conference, including all levels of staff at hospice and palliative care programs, hospitals, long-term care facilities, senior living communities, PACE programs, adult day service providers, Area Agencies on Aging, home health providers, care managers, and individual practitioners invested in meeting the care needs of people in the last years of life and their family caregivers. Attendees will include CEOs and executive directors, administrators, directors, clinical managers, clinicians, finance and development managers/coordinators, quality and performance improvement professionals, marketing and public relations managers/coordinators, educators, researchers, funders, policy makers, insurance providers and others interested in creating a new end-of-life care continuum.
Education Breakdown:
- Plenary Speakers
- Concurrent Sessions
- Special Events
- Conference presenters include:
- Health insurance plan professionals
- Disease management professionals
- Hospice leaders
- Hospital, community and nursing facility-based palliative care providers
- PACE providers
- Adult day care providers
- Senior service providers
- Caregiving organizations
- Market researchers/data analysts
- Researchers
- Academics
The Conference will Feature:
- Innovative Care Delivery Models
- Collaborative Partnerships with Care Partners and Payors
- Continuity of Care Across Care Settings and Providers
- Data Driven Decision Making
- An Ethics Framework for Program Development and Decision Making
- Regulations Impacting Service Delivery
- Diversified Reimbursement Sources
- And much more
Learn more and register today.
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