Engaging Natural Supports to Improve Population Health: Leveraging Family Caregivers to Extend the Care Team into the Home
Thursday, November 09, 2023
1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
1 hour
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Overview:
By 2030, demographic shifts project that one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older. This dramatic increase in the aging population poses significant challenges, especially for healthcare systems already stretched thin. A crucial concern is the widening care gap when patients are discharged from hospitals and enter home-based care, where care is often provided by family members who are untrained in healthcare practices. This transition is fraught with risks, including poor management of chronic conditions and higher rates of hospital readmission and ED visits.
Addressing this care gap is more than a public health imperative—it's also an economic one. This is an opportunity not only to improve care, but to improve resource utilization, decrease returning ED visits, and extend the capabilities of your workforce as well. This webinar offers a timely and critical solution: the strategic inclusion of unpaid caregivers as vital extensions of healthcare teams. By doing so, we not only bridge the chasm of home-based care but also infuse healthcare organizations with a distinctive competitive advantage. In an industry where differentiation is key, the role of informal caregivers could be the decisive factor that sets your organization apart from your competitors.
Who Should Attend?
Healthcare providers, administrators, and insurance professionals will find invaluable insights in this webinar, focusing on turning caregivers into essential assets for population health management. Attendees will walk away with actionable strategies to effectively incorporate family caregivers into the healthcare model, thereby enhancing patient outcomes and establishing a competitive edge for their organizations.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the Care Gaps at Home: Examine the challenges associated with the transition from hospital to home, where the absence of professional healthcare can lead to poor outcomes.
- Incorporate Family Caregivers into Care Teams: Explore how to extend care into the home by bringing informal caregivers into the care team, offering invaluable support for chronic condition management and reducing emergency visits.
- Build Competitive Advantage through Caregiver Support: Uncover how investing in caregiver education and support can differentiate your health system in a crowded market.
Speakers:
Grace Hines
Former Corporate Vice President of Sentara Health, Retired
Grace Hines is an executive consultant advising healthcare organizations and businesses on topics ranging from population health initiatives to industry infrastructure. Grace had formerly been with Sentara Health for 40 years with the last role as the Corporate VP for System Integration. Her experiences include providing executive leadership for the Sentara Bundled Payment CMS initiative, being the President of the Sentara Clinically Integrated Network, participating in value-based contracts, and the President of the Sentara Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Grace had held positions that include hospital operations as Director of Radiology, Vice President of Operations for a community hospital, Vice President for Cardiac, Vascular and Transplant Services, and Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations. Grace began her healthcare career as a registered radiology technologist and she has earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Darci Henry
Care Coach, Trualta
Darci Henry is a licensed nursing home administrator with over 16 years of experience working in senior living communities and inpatient senior behavioral healthcare. Also certified as a therapeutic recreation specialist and a dementia practitioner, Darci is using her clinical experience to foster relationships with caregivers and providers to ensure they have access to pertinent resources, setting them up for success. Darci has a bachelor’s degree in recreational therapy with an emphasis in gerontology from Northwest Missouri State University. She is a northwest Missouri native and is connected to the community both professionally and personally.