The recent dramatic rise of hospice fraud in California has denied many patients high-quality end-of-life care. Overbilling and other unethical practices by disreputable hospice providers impact the reputations and bottom lines of healthcare systems. Our presentation will provide tips for recognizing fraudulent hospice providers and ways to prevent hospice fraud within your organization. We will share information on the hospice industry’s best practices to enhance your organization’s quality and financial metrics. We will also provide an overview of the successful, accountable, and collaborative relationship that UC San Diego Health and The Elizabeth Hospice have built around hospice services.
Suicidality – patients in acute crisis who have attempted suicide or are a danger to self – has seen record increases over the past decade and is now a major condition seen in emergency departments across the nation. One study showed that ED suicidality cases have increased over 400% in just a ten-year period! With this heightened importance has come strict oversight from survey agencies.
Now that ORs are moving back up to speed, there is an opportunity to NOT get back into old unsafe practice habits. This may be the time to tweak culture and apply a high reliability mindset to the review of OR surgical item management practices with a goal to act and count differently.
Cyber-attacks against hospitals and health systems have increased dramatically with the onset of the pandemic as nation state and criminal cyber adversaries have targeted healthcare organizations with a record number of hacks. These attacks involve the theft of massive amounts of patient data and medical research. Most concerning, high impact ransomware attacks have struck hospitals and health systems at an alarming rate, causing significant disruption and delay of healthcare delivery, and risking patient safety.
Join John Riggi, National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk for the American Hospital Association and former FBI Cyber senior executive, as he provides his unique national and international perspective on the latest cyber threats, including those arising from geopolitical tensions and how best to best prepare for, respond to and recover from them. He will also discuss the latest cyber legislative and policy developments. As John always says, “This presentation is designed not to scare, but make aware, so we can prepare.”
Transitions of Care (TOC) pharmacists work closely with patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers to optimize medication use and ensure medications are affordable for patients at discharge, facilitating seamless patient transitions between healthcare settings.
An important part of this process includes medication reconciliation, both at admission and at discharge. A complete and accurate medication reconciliation not only provides patients with the appropriate medications during admission but also expediates appropriate medications at discharge.
Understanding and implementing the key elements to complete successful medication reconciliation and other transitions of care processes will help reduce hospital length of stay, readmissions, mediation errors, and healthcare costs.
Substance use disorders are sometimes seen as challenging to manage, especially in the hospital setting. However, with the right processes and systems in place, hospitals play a critical role in improving care and outcomes for people with substance use disorders.
Physician and nurse burnout is a hospital workforce challenge with effects that ripple throughout institutions. For decades, Nature Sacred has, together with researchers and hospitals, honed a solution that relies on biophilic intervention as a means to build resilient, high-performing teams; and to foster a culture and community of healing.
During this session, Nature Sacred CEO Alden Stoner will lead a presentation on how and why biophilic interventions in the form of healing green spaces can serve as a vital and integral piece of health care institutions’ approach to addressing burnout and stress. And, for the first time, we will show the potential economic impact of this kind of green investment. Attendees will hear about Nature Sacred’ s approach and experience creating hospital green spaces using evidence-driven design and about their methodology that itself engages hospital staff.
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is on the rise in the United States. Many patients with OUD also require opioids for the control of pain, and, due to developing tolerance, doses are higher than average. Posing a safety risk. This presentation will introduce the audience to multimodal analgesic strategies that incorporate treatment for OUD.
This session will navigate a human centered approach to violence prevention. We will explore Workplace Violence Prevention interventions including practical approaches to workforce wellness, continuous monitoring systems and skill building. We will share our experience and current initiatives to reduce the impact of violence in healthcare to spark conversation and share ideas you can apply in your workplace.
Your sepsis “program is perfectly designed to get the results it gets” (Batalden, n.d.). Let that sink in for a moment, and then ask yourself, “Is my organization getting the results our patients deserve?” If you are like the sepsis leaders at Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California, the answer is “No. We will not stop learning and growing until we achieve our goal of helping people to live their fullest lives.”
During this presentation, Dr. Russell, Denise and Michael will present the foundation of the regional sepsis program and the recent changes. They will discuss the nuances of designing a technology-enabled sepsis pathway and how it impacts sepsis bundle performance.
