CALTCM Annual Meeting July 17-18, 2010 At The Omni Los Angeles Hotel
at California Plaza
California
Association of Long Term Care Medicine (CALTCM) presents its 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, CALTCM 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.
The
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.