Payment Accelerator (Presented by CAPC)
This pre-conference session, hosted by the Center to Advance Palliative Care, takes the lessons learned from pioneering organizations to define key success factors for strong payer relationships.
Pre-Summit Kick Off: Honoring Essential Workers in Our Communities
Join your fellow attendees before the start of the 2020 Summit for a faith service honoring essential workers in our communities who have played a crucial role amid COVID-19.
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing the Model for Complex Illness Management (Presented by HCCI)
This pre-Summit session, hosted by the Home Centered Care Institute, focusing on the value and opportunities of bringing together home-based primary care and home-based palliative care
Reimagining Advance Care Planning
This Lab will be framed by experts on how they measure the impact of advance care planning in order to help you apply best practices to activities in your community.
Creating New Community Models
During this lab, experts will collaborate with attendees to identify new ways that we can expand new community models to improve serious illness care.
Public Engagement for All
This Lab will be framed by experts that serve difference audiences and will share their approaches to reach new audiences in order to help you apply best practices to activities in your community.
Reimagining Long-Term Care
Experts with differing points of view will discuss on the future of skilled nursing facilities, and the lab will serve as a space for attendees to identify policy options for future models.
Building Community with Caring and Practical Engagement
This session will explore needs related to serious illness care support in underserved communities and offer a firsthand look at findings and lessons learned from C-TAC’s Faith Leader Engagement Model of Care.
Recognizing and Supporting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers
This session will present findings from new research examining the needs of diverse family caregivers and strategies for supporting them.
Tackling Inequity in Health Through Community Health Worker Engagement
During this session, experts will share findings from a pilot project that aims to foster health equity by building relationships with community health workers.
Faith Leaders Partnering to Support Caregivers
Join this session to learn about the innovative strategies used to convene faith leaders in Buffalo and Detroit in order to provide vital support for caregivers.
Mind, Body and Soul: Clinical and Spiritual Care for Older Adults
This session will observe the importance of faith inclusion in patient’s care, particularly as it relates to older adults experiencing advanced illness amid COVID-19.
Exploring Conversations Between Patients and Clinicians Around Transitioning
During this session, attendees will share their own experiences and learn new strategies for creating a compassionate dialogue between clinicians and those living with serious illness.
Can We Talk? Putting People at the Heart of Health Care
Learn about an innovative communication skills-building initiative that helps patients, caregivers and providers have meaningful goals-of-care conversations.
The Grief of Poverty
Join this session to explore how small faith communities with minimal financial resources can support members navigating grief.
An Evidence-Based Approach to Public Messaging
This session will summarize lessons from research involving over 9,000 consumers about how health systems,…
2021 and Beyond: The Election’s Impact on Health Policy for Underserved Communities
This session will feature a panel of policy experts who are well connected in the political world, who will explore possibilities for public policy in whichever administration emerges from the presidential election.
No Person Left Behind: Making Sure the Telehealth Revolution Works for Those with Serious Illness
This session covers policy innovation around telehealth for those with serious illness and how it has changed the care delivery and payment landscape.
Advanced Illness Care in Long-Term Care Facilities: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 Pandemic has had its most tragic impact in our nation’s long-term care facilities, with disproportionate infection and death rates for both residents and staff. This panel will provide insights from resident advocates and providers.
State-Level Serious Illness Policy Innovation: Designing and Scaling Best-Practices During a Pandemic
Learn about current serious illness policy innovations on the state level and cutting-edge approaches to service of everyone with serious illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Caring for the Most Vulnerable Through Community Models
The COVID-19 pandemic and our country’s awakening around systemic injustices illustrate the need for more community care models. Learn about the latest models and the policy changes affecting them.
Comparing Outcomes of Collaborative Care Approaches for People with Depression
Join a panel of experts as they share strategies that can help us face healthcare inequities and support our work to ensure a high quality of life for everyone living with serious illness.
Examining Models to Boost Access to Palliative Care Through Provider Education
This session will examine innovative models for addressing a shortfall of palliative care providers by promoting primary palliative care education.
Meeting the Workforce Challenge in Care for People with Advanced Illness
This session will explore pressing workforce challenges facing advanced illness care and present a variety of current and developing solutions.
LGBTQ Patients and Families in Hospice and Palliative Care: Provider Experiences, Personal Reflections
This session will present recent research findings on disrespectful, inadequate, and abusive care experienced by…
Promise and Presumption: Implementing Lay Healthworkers in Historically Underserved Communities
This session will feature experts with experience in implementing lay healthworkers as members of cancer care teams. We will explore the lessons learned from this project, identify opportunities for positive disruption and examine the policy considerations relevant to this effort.