Course Overview

California Association of Long Term Care Medicine (CALTCM) is proud to present our 36th Annual Meeting entitled, Creating a Culture of Patient Safety. This two-day conference highlights critical strategies to improve nursing home patient safety and provides techniques and tools for the interdisciplinary team to adapt to their own facility needs.

In addition, we will offer a Pre-Conference Workshop on INTERACT II, a proven process for reducing unnecessary transfers to the acute hospital, featuring renowned geriatrician, Dr. Joseph Ouslander, as faculty and facilitator. This intensive half-day program will be held on July 16 and provides an opportunity for nursing home leadership to learn practical strategies to reduce avoidable hospitalizations in a workshop environment. Participants will become familiar with a number of tools they can implement at their facility.

Highlights of Creating a Culture of Patient Safety include presentations on culture change and resident safety, patient safety program development, change of condition management and hospital transfers, End-of-life Care, medication safety, and medico-legal liability and risk reduction. Sessions will also include cultural and linguistic competency themes such as religion, language, and ethnicity.

Our faculty comprises a distinguished group of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacist, academicians, and other subject matter experts who will present topics highlighting new evidence-based care as well as care processes and procedures aimed at enhancing safe patient care practices in the long term care setting.

Please join CALTCM in Creating a Culture of Patient Safety in your facility.

Overall Learning Objectives

At the completion of this program participants should be able to:

• Identify common patient safety issues and provide evidenced-based facility approaches that can be adapted to individual facility issues;

• Improve pressure ulcer prevention and management across the settings of care;

• Introduce the CARE tool and models of palliative care in the LTC setting that will improve a facility’s ability to deliver safe and effective palliative care;

• Medication Safety best practices information will provide facilities opportunities for adverse event risk reduction and quality improvement; and

• Facilities will be able to identify strategies that improve patient care and documentation as well as recognize and reduce legal exposure.

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