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| 8:00 a.m. |
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Registration
Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30 a.m. |
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LEAD-OFF HITTER
Welcome
Penny Milanovich, RN, MSN, MBA, FACHE
President
UPMC/Jefferson Regional Home Health
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| 8:45 a.m. |
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LINE DRIVE
Heart Care and New Technologies
Douglas Heusey, MBA
Program Administrator Cardiovascular Services
UPMC Passavant Hospital
- Brief History of Heart Care
- Emerging Heart Care technologies
- Wellness and Prevention: The future of Heart Care
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| 9:45 a.m. |
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TIME OUT |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
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BASES LOADED
Managing Challenging Behaviors
Terri Priestley, RN, BSN, MSN
Specialty Clinician, Behavioral Health
UPMC/Jefferson Regional Home Health
- The learner will identify 3 negative behaviors that may occur with placement.
- The learner will identify 3 strategies to manage challenging behaviors.
- The learner will identify 3 tools that may be useful for assessing negative behavior.
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| 11:00 a.m. |
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COVERING ALL BASES
Acute and Post-Acute Communication
Sharon Mackall, RN, BSN
Director, Care Management
UPMC Mercy
- Overview of Value Based Purchasing
- Associate Value Based Purchasing to Acute and Post Acute Care Provider Communications
- Share Mercy's CHF Pathway – Data collection and review, team development, tools and roll out, outcomes post change
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| 12:00 p.m. |
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CONCESSION STAND: Lunch |
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| 1:00 p.m. |
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HITTING A GRAND SLAM
Enhancing Communication with Residents
Rita Punjabi, DO
Improvement Specialist
Press Ganey Associates
- HHCAHPS Understanding the data and Public Reporting
- Challenges Home Health faces in working with their patients
- Enhancing communication with your patients
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| 2:00 p.m. |
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STRIKING OUT
High Sodium and Effects on Heart Failure
Linda Evans, BSEd, MS, RD, LDN
Nutritionist
UPMC/Jefferson Regional Home Health
- Identify the relationship between salt intake and heart failure exacerbations which may result in re-hospitalization
- Name 4 food items that are over 1500 (mgs.) milligrams of sodium per serving
- Identify high sodium food choices often served by Institutions that may exacerbate Heart Failure resulting in re-hospitalization
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| 3:00 p.m. |
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SEVENTH INNING STRETCH |
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| 3:15 p.m. |
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HITTING A HOME RUN
Reducing Hospital Readmissions
Tami Minnier, RN, MSN, FACHE
Chief Quality Officer
UPMC
- Review the current legislative landscape regarding hospital readmissions
- Present why reducing readmissions is so difficult
- Share strategies for achieving our own readmission goals at UPMC
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| 4:15 p.m. |
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GAME OVER! |
