2016 Symposium

Home and Community Based Care:
A Symposium for Health Professionals and Community Members

Overview

This symposium is designed for health professionals and community members to learn more about the forces shaping health care delivery and to discover how home and community based care models are changing. The symposium and discussion will provoke new perspectives on, and frameworks for, home- and community-based care across the life span. Attendees will learn with and from leaders in health care policy, education, practice, and delivery systems, along with health care practitioners and community members. 

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify forces shifting delivery of health care services along the continuum from acute and long-term care to the home and community
2. Distinguish the principles of transitional and coordinated care and how they support patients throughout the continuum of care 
3. Describe developments within home-based care such as the complexity of patient care needs, the variety of disorders managed in a home setting, the growth of informational technology, and the impact of these issues on patient care management and outcomes 

Continuing Education for Nurses

Nurses can receive six contact hours upon successful completion of this educational activity. Successful completion is demonstrated by attending the entire symposium and submitting a completed program evaluation and verification of attendance form. Partial credit is not provided. Participants will receive a continuing education (CE) certificate via email from the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) within two to four weeks after submitting their request for CE along with required documents. All requests for CE must be received within 90 days of the conference.

UMSON is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Continuing Education for Social Workers

Professional Education is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for 6 Category I continuing education units.

Agenda

Click here to download the case studies that will be used at the symposium.

Registration

Registration fees include all program materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and CE for nurses. (Licensed RNs who are full-time students pay an extra $30 for CE.)

Fees

Full-time Students & Medical Residents: $20                         

Individual: $65