Beyond the Crisis: Strengthening Local Healthcare Response and Coordination

Beyond the Crisis: Strengthening Local Healthcare Response and Coordination

Wednesday, December 3 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Moderator:

John Ash, MHA, PhD, FACHE
Associate Professor, Misericordia University
Firefighter & EMT-Paramedic

Panelists:
Katherine Kemberling, MS, CHEP, NRP
Director of Emergency Management, Geisinger

Robert Carpenter, NRP, CP-C
Regional Director, Emergency Medical Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Gabriella Panzitta, RN, BSN, PHRN, TCRN, CEN, CFRN
Emergency Department Patient Care Coordinator
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City

Quality of care should not vary based on the patients’ socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, gender, or geographic background. Equity of care is a core principle of the healthcare management profession and is also an ethical and business imperative. This program will discuss the importance of ensuring that hospital and healthcare staff are educated on disparities to appropriately address the needs of patients from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds to provide equitable high-quality care to all.

Discussion Topics Include:

• Strengthening care delivery to vulnerable populations.
• Developing skills and cultural compentency to provide quality are to patients of diverse backgrounds.
• Barriers impacting access to equitable healthcare.
• Expanding leadership opportunities for ethnic minorities in health services management.
• The role of data-driven decision making in health equity.

Don’t miss this insightful discussion on the importance of eliminating healthcare disparities and providing equitable healthcare for all.

This program has been approved for 1.5 Virtual Interactive Education credit hours by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) .

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS IS A TWO-STEP REGISTRATION PROCESS!

1 - Thank you for visiting here to register via the ACHE of Eastern PA's EventBrite page.

2 - Upon completion of your EventBrite registration, you will be prompted to register through an ACHE registration link in order to access the ACHE Learning Management System (LMS). This LMS houses panel discussion materials and allows participants to access their live interactive events via Zoom. The ACHE LMS will record attendance, conduct evaluations, and report any earned Virtual Interactive Education credits.

Registering strictly through Eventbrite will not complete the registration process, and may result in the delay in accessing the LMS to participate in he online event and/or having the Virtual Interactive Education Credits posted to your ACHE profile.

REMINDER
In order to order to receive Virtual Interactive credit for this program, you must attend the session for the full 90 minutes. Virtual Interactive credits will automatically be posted to ACHE accounts within 2 weeks after the program ends.