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CHAMP Program Funders
CHAMP is funded in part with generous support from Atlantic Philanthropies and the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Presentations
Below are a number of presentations related to CHAMP and its home care programs, courses and key topics.
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Presentations about CHAMP
CHAMP: Overview and Results
This presentation describes the CHAMP Geriatric Medication Management course and the results achieved by the inaugural graduating class from the course.
Be a CHAMP at Geriatric Medication Management
This presentation describes CHAMP's Geriatric Medication Management course and its success in helping agencies make significant improvements in important medication-related processes and patient outcomes.
CHAMP's Geriatric Medication Management Course
This presentation describes the results achieved by the first two groups of participants in CHAMP's Geriatric Medication Management courses, including statistically significant improvement in quality measures related to medication management.
Promoting Evidence-Based Excellence in Geriatric Homecare
This presentation describes CHAMP and Framework, projects that yielded homecare-specific recommendations and interventions resulting in significant improvements in medication and pain management outcomes.
Presentations about Framework
Establishing a National Framework for Geriatric Home Care Practice
A presentation describing the process of developing a framework for practice that will shape the delivery of home health care for older adults.
Getting It Right: Promoting Excellence in Geriatric Home Care
A presentation describing specific gaps in home care practice and what approaches for quality improvement are the best fit for the home care industry and individual agencies.
Advanced Illness Management Presentations
Establishing an Advanced Illness Management (AIM) Model in Community Based Setting
A presentation about the implementation of the Visiting Nurse Service of NY (VNSNY) Advanced Illness Management (AIM) model in the community setting.
Improving Access to Home-Based Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Chronic Illness
A presentation about a multi-faceted intervention, the Advanced Illness Management (AIM) Project, whose goal was to improve access to home-based palliative care for home health patients with an advanced illness.
Incorporating Palliative Care Principles into Home Care
This presentation describes the basic components of palliative care and highlights various methods to incorporate palliative care into non-hospice home care.
Care Coordination Presentations
Promising Models of Care Coordination for Beneficiaries with Chronic Illness
A presentation that describes key distinguishing features of proven care coordination/management interventions for chronic conditions. It was given during a symposium at the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging, Linking the Social and Medical Models through Care Coordination in the Aging Network.
Chronic Pain Presentations
Pain Hurts!
This presentation by CHAMP's faculty lead describes the impact that uncontrolled patient pain has on patients and homecare agencies. It discusses pain management strategies and provides a list of helpful tools and resources for pain management.
Cognitive Function Presentations
Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Identification and Clinical Implications
This presentation provides background information about the different types of cognitive impairment: Dementia, Delirium and Alzheimer's Disease. It also provides clinicians with ways to identify and address cognitive impairment in home health patients.
Health Literacy Presentations
Health Literacy 101: Defining the Problem and What We Can Do About It
This presentation from the North Carolina Program on Health Literacy provides an overview of the prevalence of low literacy, health outcomes associated with it, and practical interventions to decrease health disparities associated with low literacy.
Home Care Workforce Presentations
Retooling Home Health Care for an Aging America
This presentation gives an overview of the findings from the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans and the implications of the report's findings for the home care workforce.
Quality Improvement Presentations
Small Tests of Change: Using PDSA Cycles to Drive Improvement
A presentation by CHAMP Faculty introducing the Model for Improvement - a successful model for accelerating improvements in care processes and outcomes.
Best Practices in Quality Improvement: Building a high quality home care agency
This presentation by CHAMP Faculty offers a brief introduction to the key dimensions of quality for home care agencies and highlights specific strategies to assess and improve quality.
Teambuilding Presentations
Managing Conflict within Your Team: Strategies for Success
A presentation by CHAMP Faculty describing several strategies for managing team conflict. Includes the potential advantages and challenges to the use of each approach.
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Transitions Presentations
Best Practice Intervention Practice: Transitional Care Coordination
This presentation offers a summary of content from HHQI's Best Practice Intervention Package (BPIP) on Transitional Care Coordination released during the first home health quality campaign. It includes a summary of the Four Pillars of the Care Transitions Model adapted for the home health setting. (Also see the BPIP for Transitional Care Coordination on the Tools page)
Nurse Practitioners and Advances in the Science of Transitions
A live audio recording of a presentation by M. Brian Bixby, MSN, CRNP, at the 2009 VNSNY CHOICE celebration of Nurse Practitioners Week. It provides an overview of the lessons learned from testing the Quality Cost Model of Advanced Practice Nursing Transitional Care. [Please note: if slides do not advance automatically, please click the forward arrow to continue.]
Transitions of Care
An informational slide deck from the National Transitions of Care Coalition that provides an overview of how poor transitions of care impact healthcare delivery and what can be done to improve the challenges.
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