Wednesday, August 22, 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:
Gerri Lamb, PhD, FAAN, RN, is well known in care coordination circles. Her extensive experience spans practice and research in care coordination and case management. She has worked with numerous national professional and quality organizations on their care coordination initiatives.
Throughout the 90s Dr. Lamb was part of the ground-breaking work on community-based nurse case management at St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. While at St. Mary’s she led their national Medicare demonstration of community case management under capitated financing – which she notes foreshadowed many of the care coordination models we see today. Dr. Lamb was a founding member of the Case Management Certification Commission and the first scientist to receive the Case Manager of the Year award from the Case Management Society of America. She and her team of nurse scientists and system engineers were members of the first cohort in the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study nursing care coordination activities in the hospital. Most recently, Dr. Lamb served as co-chair of both of the National Quality Forum’s Steering Committees on care coordination.
Moderator:
Sarah Humme, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, is the Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Operating Officer at Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, TX.
Dr. Humme’s professional experience covers a broad range of nursing leadership positions, including Senior Nursing Leadership positions in Critical Care, Perioperative, and Medical Surgical Nursing. The majority of her experiences prior to moving to San Antonio in 2004 are in the Northeast region. She has been actively involved as a Magnet Recognition Program Appraiser and Team Leader since 2003.
Dr. Humme holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Northeastern University and a Master of Science in Nursing from Yale University. She received a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in Executive Leadership from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX in May, 2012.