Quality Improvement Methods in Pediatric Palliative Care 9/22/2017

Friday, September 22, 2017, 1:00 PM - Sunday, September 24, 2017, 2:00 PM, Cincinnatia Children's Sabin Auditorium

The Pediatric Palliative and Comfort Care Team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is excited to announce that we will host a workshop entitled “Quality Improvement Methods in Pediatric Palliative Care” at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital from September 22-24, 2017.  The primary goal of the workshop is to teach QI methodology to pediatric palliative care providers; the secondary goal is to discuss the landscape of QI in healthcare and advance the field of QI in pediatric palliative care.

Topics of Discussion:

• Planning and implementation of quality improvement projects in your department
• How to use Key Driver Diagrams, Fishbone Diagrams, Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles
• Plotting your Data: Run charts and control charts
• Understanding variation in your data
• Tactics to motivate and engage your team to participate in sustained QI
• Who are we as a community and where are we going? QI in Pediatric Palliative Care

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Registration - $200
Registration LATE - $250 (September 1, 2017)

Physician:  Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Cincinnati Children’s designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Workers: Cincinnati Children’s Social Service is an approved provider of social work clock hours by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider number RSX069302). This conference is approved for 14 social work continued education clock hours. The Social Work Program Area:  Social work methods.

ABP MOC Part 2: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn 14 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to the ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.Cincinnati Children’s will upload all points earned January 1 – October 31 in the year in which they were earned. Points earned on or after November 1st will be uploaded to the ABP the following calendar year.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (14.00 hours), ABP MOC Part 2 (14.00 hours), CME - Non-Physician (Attendance) (14.00 hours), Social Work (M) (14.00 hours)

A limited number of discounted guest rooms have been reserved at the Kingsgate Marriott Conference Hotel (151 Goodman Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229) for this conference. Room rates are $139/night plus tax. Room reservations for the conference must be made by August 28, 2017 @ 5:00pm EST. To reserve a room, please call the Kingsgate Marriott at (888)720-1299 and ask for the Quality Improvement Methods Group at Kingsgate Marriott. To reserve a room online, click here.