Southwestern Vermont Health Care Organizes Accountable Communities Conference
BENNINGTON, Vt. — Southwestern Vermont Health Care, with program support from the Vermont Health Care Innovation Project, will present a regional health care conference on building accountable communities in this era of health care reform.
The conference, Leading Health Care Reform by Building Accountable Communities, is appropriate for health professionals from all backgrounds and for members of the community who are interested in improving health care. It begins with a networking reception 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, at Harriman’s Restaurant at Mount Snow in West Dover, Vt. The following day, Sept. 20, features a full program of lectures and roundtables from regional health care experts at the Grand Summit Resort Hotel and Conference Center at Mount Snow.
The purpose of the conference is to bring the entire range of health care professionals and community partners together to discuss evidence on the development of accountable care communities that support population health, network and share information.
The informative program features Mary D. Naylor, the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and director of the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. For the past two decades, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve the quality of care, decrease unnecessary hospitalizations and reduce health care costs for vulnerable community-based older adults. The Transitional Care Program at SVHC was founded based on Naylor’s research.
Plenary presentations will be made by Kevin C. Stone, project specialist for Accountable Care Organization Development and Regional Services at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Heidi A. Klein, Public Health Director of Planning and Health Care Quality for the Vermont Department of Health. In addition, Gay Landstrom, executive vice president and chief nursing officer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and interim chief executive officer of Mount Ascutney Hospital, will conduct a panel presentation about accountable care organization success stories.
Participants will receive an electronic tool box, which shares lessons learned and tips regarding how to move forward with healthcare reform innovations.
Conference partners include SVHC, the Vermont Health Care Innovation Project, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock. The conference received support from Rutland Regional Medical Center, Southern Vermont College, and Vermont Technical College.
Early bird registration is $175 and ends Aug. 15. Advanced registration is $225 and ends Sept. 16. After that date, participants may register onsite for $249. Registrants can register online.
Abstracts are being sought for inclusion in a poster display at this conference. The purpose of the poster display is to share successful projects that have made a difference in attendees’ organizations and that could be replicated at other health care facilities.
In addition, the conference is approved for 4.25 nursing credit hours by the Vermont State Nurses Association's Committee on Education, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
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