Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Patients with chronic conditions often need care from numerous healthcare professionals across multiple settings of care. These patients often transition between hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, primary provider offices, and home to obtain the care and services they need. Studies show that such transitions jeopardize patient safety and quality of care, stemming from incomplete or inaccurate transitions and uncoordinated care. The challenge is to improve transitions and care coordination to reduce preventable readmissions and other inefficiencies that contribute to escalating costs. The two-part webinar series will address Coordination and Transitions of Care, an ISRN Research Priority and emerging topic of research, which affects every patient that is hospitalized in our nation’s healthcare system.
Featured Presenter:
Mary D. Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN, is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since 1989, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve the quality of care, decrease unnecessary hospitalizations, and reduce health care costs for vulnerable community-based elders. Dr. Naylor is also the National Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program, Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, aimed at generating, disseminating, and translating research to understand how nurses contribute to quality patient care. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine in 2005. She also is a member of the RAND Health Board, the National Quality Forum Board of Directors and the immediate past-chair of the Board of the Long-Term Quality Alliance. She was appointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in 2010.
Moderator:
Carole White, PhD, RN, completed her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University. She was appointed Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio in 2010. Her research focus is focused on optimizing outcomes for stroke survivors and their family caregivers, including management of post-stroke depression, secondary stroke prevention, and quality of life. She is currently funded to examine the incidence of readmissions after stroke along with its determinants, particularly as related to health care delivery processes and support for self-management following discharge. Dr. White is also undertaking research to develop and evaluate the use of health technologies to support self-management and monitoring after stroke. Dr. White teaches in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program in the School of Nursing.