National Quality Partners (NQP): Strategies for Change—A Collaborative Journey to Transform Advanced Illness Care
November 15, 2016 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET
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Join NQF’s National Quality Partners (NQP) for the launch of Strategies for Change – A Collaborative Journey to Transform Advanced Illness Care, a national call to action to make person-centered care the standard of advanced illness care. The launch webinar takes place Tuesday, November 15, 2:00-3:30pm ET.
NQP’s issue brief seeks to expand the concept of advanced illness care beyond traditional healthcare settings and to engage patients, families, and communities as true partners in care planning. Members of NQP’s Advanced Illness Care Action Team—a group of 25 experts from the public and private sectors, including patients, care providers, nurses, and spiritual advisors—led the development of the issue brief.
Action Team members will delve into six key preferences of person-centered advanced illness care and provide examples of organizations that make person-centered care a hallmark of their services and programs. Speakers include:
- Helen Darling, MA, Interim President and CEO, National Quality Forum
- David Longnecker, MD, Chief Clinical Innovations Officer, The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- Susan Frampton, PhD, President, Planetree
- Lisa Freeman, Executive Director, Connecticut Center for Patient Safety
- Sally Welsh, MS, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Executive Officer, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
- Amy Melnick, MPA, Executive Director, National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care
- Lois Cross, MSN, RN, ACM, Chair, Public Policy Committee, American Case Management Association
- Mark Dann, Federal Affairs Director, Compassion & Choices
- Richard Zorza, JD, Patient and Family Caregiver Council Member, Johns Hopkins Medicine Oncology, and Founder, Self-Represented Litigation Network
The discussion will focus on measurement opportunities, successes and how all stakeholders can galvanize national action to transform advanced illness care.
Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented a rule to reimburse physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and others for engaging in advance care planning and end-of-life care discussions with patients. The issue brief encourages healthcare professionals to have these conversations and helps bridge medical care, social services, and community supports to form a safety net for individuals with advanced illness, their families, and caregivers.
Please register for the webinar to join us in this national movement to effect serious, transformational change in the practice of and approach to advanced illness care. Follow us @NatQualityForum and use the hashtag #advancedillness to join the conversation.
NQP's Advanced Illness Care initiative is supported with funding from The Retirement Research Foundation and Compassus.
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