NHPCO NewsLine Winter 2015 - (Page 27)

Learning Collaborative to Relieve Caregiver Fatigue and Improve Quality of Care Enrolling Now Samueli Institute and NHPCO are launching a nine-month learning collaborative in which participants will learn and share innovative strategies and best practices to improve quality of life for patients and their caregivers, relieve caregiver burden and fatigue, and reduce ER admissions due to pain, anxiety, or respiratory distress. Participants will join industry-leading organizations from across the nation and will be led by a team of experts through a change model perfected by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). This innovative effort to drive impactful change and prepare hospice and palliative care organizations for the future will begin in early 2016 and is actively enrolling participants now. The collaborative, entitled "Optimal Healing Environments," is focused on holistic, comprehensive hospice and palliative care delivered in the home environment and is geared toward preparing health care organizations for the potential spike in demand for services created by the aging baby boomer generation, who comprise more than 40 percent of the U.S. adult population. Participating organizations will be at the forefront of change as they collectively implement best practices in the home environment, such as specific pain relief measures that can be deployed by anyone. Additional improvements include addressing caregiver fatigue and burnout, reduction of pain, anxiety, dyspnea and helplessness; reducing ER admissions and associated costs; and pay-for-performance challenges. "In essence, from attending the collaborative, hospices can return their attention back to the roots of healing from which they began," explained NHPCO senior director of access and faculty/chair of the Samueli Institute collaborative Gwynn Sullivan, RN, MSN. The learning collaborative provides an incredible opportunity for hospice organizations to focus on how to implement practices that create optimal healing environments for the patients and their families they serve. The "Optimal Healing Environments" learning collaborative builds on more than a decade of Samueli Institute research into whole systems approaches to health, healing and well-being. "Making small changes can be challenging; achieving breakthroughs even more so, but there are factors that can lead to success," explained Samueli Institute President and CEO Wayne B. Jonas, MD. "Our Winter 2015 | NHPCO NewsLine 27

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NHPCO NewsLine Winter 2015

Issue Table of Contents
Management and Leadership Conference 2016 (display ad)
A Message From Don
Hospice Care in America: A Look at the Past Six Years
Hospice State Profiles (display ad)
ACHC Accreditation in your Field (display ad)
Simione Healthy Business Solutions (display ad)
Hospice Medical Director Certification
NHPCO Marketplace (display ad)
Helping You with Your Professional Development
Consolo Software for Hospice (display ad)
NHPCO 2016 Webinars (display ad)
We Honor Veterans 5th Anniversary
NHPCO Leadership through Comment Letters
Learning Collaborative to Relieve Caregiver Fatigue
ICU Toolkit form AHA
Volunteers Honored at CTC
Notes from NHPCO
2015 Creative Arts Contest
Member News
Life & Death Matters CE for Nursing Assistants (display ad)
Thanks to CTC 2015 Supporters
News From National Hospice Foundation
More from Moments of Life
Moments of Life T-shirt (display ad)
News From Global Partners in Care
Pay It Forward, GPIC (display ad)
NHPCO Career Center (display ad)
Links to Helpful Resources

NHPCO NewsLine Winter 2015