Embassy Suites Downtown Portland
October 13, 2011 – October 15, 2011
 | Preparing Providers for Health Care Reform: October 13-15, 2011 | Thanks to all who attended |
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Patients expect physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals to talk to one another and work together effectively. Team can be defined as a group of people with complementary skills organized to work together cooperatively and interdependently to achieve a common goal for which they are mutually accountable.
Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 paved the way for bringing health care coverage to millions of previously uninsured Americans. The aging of the baby boomer generation coupled with increasing longevity signals the beginning of a health care system that will be obligated to bear an enormous disease burden for several decades. To make rhetoric reality, systems changes proposed to increase the feasibility of success include new financial incentives that reward care coordination and chronic disease management, greater emphasis on preventive and primary care, patient-centered medical homes, accountable care organizations, and major improvements in care transitions and hospital readmission rates that will be closely monitored. Survival will be impossible without teamwork.
More comprehensive training and increased sub-specialization in all of the health care professions have already blurred the boundaries between members of the health care team. Expertise is no longer discipline specific or hierarchical. The potential benefits of these changes include greater flexibility in who assumes leadership roles, more mutual reliance, and more widely distributed accountability. But…Are we preparing our next generation of health care professionals to function optimally as members of a multi-faceted transdisciplinary team?
The conference goal is to turn the 10 tips into 12 or even 20 before the last speaker takes a bow. With your help, we can do it!
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- Pose these questions, participate in hands-on train-the-trainer think tanks, and formulate a plan for meeting the challenge of the new health care paradigm at your home institution.
- Seize the opportunity for self-reflection on interprofessional team-based learning and practice and to problem solve ways to enhance team building among your colleagues.
- Return home inspired, energized, and part of a group practitioners and teachers committed to preparing the next generation of providers to leverage TEAM for excellent health care.
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Our outstanding faculty includes DeWitt Baldwin, Jr MD Scholar-in-Residence ACGME; Jan Carline, PhD University of Washington; Jillian Catalanotti, MD, MPH George Washington University; P. Ann Coleman, EdD, RN University of St. Thomas; Frederic Hafferty, PhD Mayo Clinic; Larry Mauksch, MEd University of Washington; and John Rogers, MD, MPH, MEd Baylor.
See you there..
Conference Co-Chairs:
O.J. Sahler, MD & Joan Englehart, BSN, RN, MSEd, Ph.D-C