Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference

Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference is organized by The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and will be held from Sep 08 - 10, 2019 at The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Who Should Participate:
This conference focuses on organizational culture change using strategies based on empathy, effective communication, interpersonal skills and interprofessional collaboration.

This conference is ideal for:
• Organizational leaders, directors and managers of healthcare professionals
• Practicing healthcare professionals and ethicists
• Patient and clinician experience officers and teams
• Quality and safety professionals and risk managers
• Health professional educators
• Human resources and employee assistance program professionals
• Spiritual care providers and chaplains
• Professional society leadership representatives
• Policy and public health representatives
• Nurses
• Pharmacists

Credits:
Carolinas HealthCare System/Charlotte AHEC designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

This Live Activity fulfills the requirement for 1.60 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), representing 16.0 Contact Hours.

Themes & Topics:
Built on the Compassionate Collaborative Care Framework, conference topics focus on advancing cultures of compassion, communication, interprofessional teamwork and interpersonal skills. Participants will learn to apply those techniques towards initiatives and strategies that achieve the quadruple aim of improving patient experience, population health and workforce well-being while lowering costs.

Conference Themes:
• Workforce resilience, well-being and engagement
• Creating compassionate organizational cultures
• Compassionate responses to social challenges
• Communicating with patients, families and each other
• Engaging patients, families and their communities to support health
• Compassion science and practice

Objectives:
• Describe the behaviors and values that demonstrate compassionate collaborative care.
• Describe organizational initiatives that facilitate the demonstration of compassionate collaborative care.
• Describe strategies to address challenges and barriers that impede CCC.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.