|
Day 1
|
|
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
|
|
1:00 pm -
1:15 pm
|
|
|
1:15 pm -
2:00 pm
|
|
|
2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
|
Medicare Perspective: What is the Future of End of Life Care |
- How is Medicare taking care of end of life patients and how can other industries draw from that success
- Discuss the focus on quality of care and what this means for all the stakeholders involved
- Will Medicare payments be altered for terminally ill patients and to balance costs with quality of care
|
|
Rhonda Randall, DO
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
UnitedHealthcare Medicare and Retirement Services
|
|
|
Nancy K. Williams, BSN, MS, RN, PHN
Senior Director, Advanced Illness Program
UnitedHealthcare Medicare and Retirement Services
|
|
|
|
|
2:45 pm -
3:00 pm
|
|
|
3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
|
Concurrent Tracks
|
How Personalized Care for Different Patient Types to Improve Patient Care and Strengthen Ethical Consciousness |
- Realize differences in the end of life process between children vs. adult illnesses
- How do patient’s needs differ depending on different patient types
- What ethical consideration to consider when it comes to treating end of life patients
- Review the controversy between Catholicism and end of life efforts for terminally ill patients
- Are the current medical policies in place to the benefit of patients?
|
|
|
Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Nursing and Pediatrics
Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics;
Program Director, Harriet Lane Compassionate Care
Johns Hopkins University
|
|
|
|
|
|
Through a Mother’s Eyes: A Consumer Perspective on the Effectiveness of Policies and Processes |
- Hear a real life experience of how consumers navigate the end of life process
- What are the consumer needs and how can this perspective help shift the delivery care model
- Analyze policies from a consumer angle to determine if it has the right initiative to benefit patient care
|
|
|
Dianne Gray
President
Hospice and Healthcare Communications
Bereaved Mother
International Hospice and Palliative Care Advocate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4:00 pm -
4:45 pm
|
Kokua Mau Case Study: How Community Initiatives Help Improve the Overall Process |
- Hear how Kokua Mau successfully integrated major stake holders in their Hawaiian community to mutually work out solutions for end of life care
- See first hand how partnerships between parties involved has provided better care and cost savings for providers, patients, payers, etc.
- Learn how they initiated their program and how to do something similar in your communities
|
|
Melissa Bojorquez, MSW, MBA
HMSA, Integrated Case Management Services, Supervisor
Kokua Mau – Hawaii
|
|
|
|
|
4:45 pm -
5:00 pm
|
|
|
5:00 pm -
6:00 pm
|
|
|
|
