CHIME Fall CIO Forum
The Forum provides education programming, tailored specifically to meet the needs of chief information officers and other health care IT executives.
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Events for November 4, 2016
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National Home Care and Hospice Month
This month is the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) annual celebration of home care workers and and its efforts to raise awareness of the important role of home care in peoples’ lives.
Hospice / Palliative Care Month
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization promotes awareness and importance of end-of-life care.
Family Caregivers Month
This year’s theme is “Take Care to Give Care” promoting the need for caregivers to take care of themselves first.
Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month
The focus is on honoring a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer’s. Programs and events happening throughout the country.
NAS Opioid Meeting
A public workshop to discuss “strategies that can be taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and others to address the opioid epidemic while taking into account the needs of pain patients.”
The long view on lead: Covering the crisis from Flint and beyond
Public health historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, authors of “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children,” will offer their take on the nation’s long fight against lead poisoning and its devastating health impact.
Reporters will gain a better understanding about how the environment impacts the health struggles of various communities as well as how those health struggles have been tackled over time, particularly when it comes to children, race and equality.
The webcast will help provide context and ideas for those covering environmental health, public health or specific readership areas.
Note: This webcast is for AHCJ members, so you will need to have your login and password to participate.
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