2024 Clinical Leadership Series: Shaping Tomorrow's Care: Innovative Models for Access, Efficiency, and Mental Health

November 12, 2024

Join fellow Chief Medical, Quality, and Nursing Officers for an insightful program addressing three key areas set to define the future of healthcare. Explore the Virtual Advanced Practice Practitioner (APP) Model to expand care access, reduce costs, and alleviate provider burnout, all while improving patient outcomes. Discover innovative strategies to optimize blood culture utilization, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and streamlining processes. Lastly, tackle the pervasive issue of perinatal mental health with a focus on early detection and integrated care. This is your opportunity to collaborate with executive leaders, exchange ideas, and drive actionable solutions that will redefine healthcare delivery.

Target Audience

  • Healthcare Quality Professionals
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:  

  • Understand how virtual APP models enhance care access, efficiency, and resource use.
  • Learn strategies to optimize blood culture use, reduce contamination, and improve antibiotic stewardship.
  • Explore multidisciplinary approaches to perinatal mental health focusing on early detection, personalized care, and stigma reduction.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
Course opens: 
11/12/2024
Course expires: 
01/11/2025
Event starts: 
11/12/2024 - 10:30am CST
Event ends: 
11/12/2024 - 11:30am CST

FACULTY & PLANNERS

Faculty

Andrea Fernandez, MD, MA, FACOG
Chief Medical Officer
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Elisabeth Stamaugh, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Madelaine Flynn, MBA, BSN, CIC, GAICD
Director of Infections Prevention and Health System
Epidemiology
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Nancy Prothero, MSN, CNM, PMHNP-BC PMH-C
Advanced Practice Provider - Manager OB/GYN Department
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

 

Planning Committee

Susan Chishimba, MSN, RN
Member Networks Director
Vizient, Inc. 

Hanna Lakew 
Network Manager
Vizient, Inc.

Donna McNutt, MS, RN
Sr. Member Networks Director
Vizient, Inc. 

Linnea Tolbert, MSN, RN
Sr. Network Director
Vizient, Inc.

Rick May, MD
Senior Principal, Quality Consulting
Vizient, Inc.

Gina Ebhardt
Senior Networks Manager
Vizient, Inc.

Samantha Gordon, MS
CE Programs Manager
Vizient, Inc.

Marilu Kelly, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHCP
Director, Continuing Education
Vizient, Inc. 

DISCLOSURE

As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.
 
Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.
 
Disclosure Statements
 
Relevant Financial Relationships 
Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
Elisabeth Stamaugh, MD, speaker for this educational activity, is adviser for Pfizer, Inc./AMGA.
All relevant financial relationships listed for these individual(s) have been mitigated.
All others in a position to control content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
Statement of Content Validity
 
Vizient, Inc. educational activities are intended to assist healthcare teams advance their professional responsibilities in accordance with the definition of continuing education. It is the policy of Vizient, Inc. to review and ensure that all content and recommendations for patient care within accredited CE is evidenced-based, based on current science and clinical reasoning while ensuring the content is fair and balanced. All recommendations must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Vizient, Inc. does not permit accredited continuing education if it advocates for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or if the education promotes recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.
 
FDA Off-Label Use
 
Faculty presenters are also expected to disclose any discussion of (1) off-label or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States.
 
Disclaimer
The education provided through this activity is for continuing education purposes only. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty/presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vizient, Inc.

 

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Designation Statement(s)

Nurses (CNE)

This activity is designated for 1.0 contacts hours.
 
Physicians (CME)
 
Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Healthcare Quality Professionals (CPHQ)
 
This activity is approved by NAHQ® for 1.0 CPHQ CE credits.
 
Other Healthcare Professionals (General CE Credit)
 
Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation.  Various state license boards and credentialing bodies accept certificates of participation from accredited CE activities to meet CE requirements for license renewals and re-certification. It is the responsibility of the participant to contact their state licensing board and/or certifying body for verification on credit eligibility reciprocity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 General CE - Attendance
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