Register Now to Attend
the Culture Change Symposium
Free Regional Events Will Be Held Throughout Florida for
Long Term Care Professionals in June 2007. Topics featured (all locations)
will include:
- Culture Change 101
- Making
the Business Case for Culture Change
- Person-Directed Care in the First
Year of Implementation
- Individualized Dining
- Community Life (a.k.a. "Activities")
These FREE events are sponsored with funding from the Florida Agency
for Health Care Administration to be held at the following locations:
- Tuesday, June 12th — Holiday
Inn, Fort Lauderdale Airport, Hollywood (EVENT PAST)
- Wednesday, June 13th — Holiday
Inn, Altamonte Springs, Orlando
(EVENT PAST)
- Thursday, June 14th — Radisson
Bay Harbor Hotel, Tampa - (EVENT PAST)
- Thursday, June 21st — Park
Plaza, Tallahassee
(Click on Hotels above
for location and information)
Click Here
to Register Online
Session Descriptions
Culture Change 101 — This session offers insight into the theory, practice
and implementation of Person-Directed Care initiatives including Individualized
/Restraint Free Care, Resident-Directed Care, the Eden Alternative, and the
Regenerative Community. Also included is a discussion about how to implement
Culture Change practices in a regulatory environment. The session concludes
with a multimedia presentation exploring the best practices of Culture Change,
and includes photography from homes considered to be advanced and early adopters
of Person-Directed Care.
Making the Business Case for Culture Change — This
session is designed to answer questions including "Why should we adopt
this change?" "How much
can it cost?" "How will it affect the bottom line clinically and
operationally?"
"Will the state and Federal surveyors support it?" and finally, "How
will it affect our presence in the market?" Outcomes with regard to survey,
human resources, admissions and payor mix will also be discussed.
Person-Directed Care in the First Year of Implementation — In this session
participants will learn some of the key strategies behind the first year of
Culture Change implementation. Concepts focused on educating the entire nursing
home community including resident interviews, employee orientation, buddy-systems
and how to communicate Culture Change to families will be discussed. An overview
of the Institute for Caregiver Education's Indicators Survey, which offers
an introspective look at an organization's "readiness for change" will also
be discussed.
Fine Dining — This session will introduce the processes and outcomes
of transforming institutional dining to a fine dining experience. A variety
of
approaches will be discussed including fine dining, family-style dining, buffet
dining and steam table dining. Clinical impacts on weight gain, wound management,
socialization and activity will be introduced. Finally, how to implement these
best practices without additional PPD dollars will be discussed.
Community Life and Life Histories — This
session will introduce the concept of a "Community Life" program designed to
transform the activities
department into a vital and life affirming team. Participants will discover
through facilitated discussion how the current role of activities can be transformed
to address personal, emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual fulfillment
for both residents and team members. Life Histories are introduced to assist
participants in the process of building relationships and creating community
through the value of knowing each person.
Registration at each day's event begins at 7:30
a.m. with the first session starting at 8:30 a.m. A light breakfast and buffet
lunch are included.
This program has been submitted to leading national accrediting bodies for
Administrators, Social Workers, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses
& Therapeutic Recreation Directors.
Click here to download a printable brochure
and registration form with full
Symposium details (requires Adobe Reader). For
more information, please call (717) 263-7766.
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