Objectives
The 2008 Dr. Loren Roth UPMC Quality and Patient Safety Symposium: An Extraordinary Experience Every Time has been designed to provide health care clinicians, executives, managers, and board members with an overview of theory and best practices related to quality and patient safety.
Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
- explain how patient-focused care can have a dramatic, positive impact on treatment outcomes and patient perceptions
- demonstrate how support structures can provide space for relationship building and reflective practices that support a healthy work environment
- describe how every employee can help to improve the patient care experience in his or her organization
- articulate the safety benefits of adopting a patient-centered perspective in the delivery of health care services
Who should attend
Board members, health care executives, managers, physicians, nurses, all other health care health professionals, and
front-line staff.
Continuing education credit
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other health care professionals are awarded 0.7 continuing education units (CEU's) which are equal to 7 contact hours.
This continuing nursing education activity has been approved for 7 contact hours by the UPMC Provider Unit of the PA State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. To receive contact hours, the participant must sign in and
attend the full program.