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.
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4 events,The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization promotes awareness and importance of end-of-life care. This year’s theme is “Take Care to Give Care” promoting the need for caregivers to take care of themselves first. The focus is on honoring a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer’s. Programs and events happening throughout the country. |
5 events,The New Jewish Home’s 14th annual Palliative Care Conference, Being Comfortable with Life and Death: Effective Models of Advance Care Planning and Medical Orders, will explore the most recent models in training clinicians in and reimbursement for end of life conversations. With an estimated 50% of Americans over 85 suffering from dementia, elderly patients’ ability to make decisions has become one of the most important issues in geriatric care today. |
1 event,The workshop, held by the Institute of Medicine, will cover a wide range of violence directed toward children (including maltreatment), women and youth as well as the role alcohol can play. |
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1 event,This two-day event in Chicago features a range of speakers, including National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, St. Joseph Mercy Health System President and CEO Rob Casalou and American Hospital Association President and CEO Rick Pollack. Representatives from Humana, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Feeding America and several universities also present. |
3 events,The event, being planned by America’s Health Insurance Plans, will provide insight into the future of health technology, including infrastructure, mhealth, wearables and more. Since 2001, individuals interested in sharing and learning emerging trends in surveillance research and practice have found the ISDS Annual Conference a unique forum to advance their knowledge in the discipline of disease surveillance. |
5 events,The three-day event includes sessions on a host of issues, from substance-abused infants and the impact of home visitation to trauma and family dynamics. Post-traumatic stress expert Bessel van der Kolk of Boston University Medical Center and Eric Rasmussen, and early childhood music expert at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, are among the plenary speakers. This election brings with it significant changes, likely more sweeping than we’ve experienced in our careers, if not lifetimes. The new administration is likely to roll back provisions of the ACA and redefine the role of government in health, creating uncertainty but perhaps also opportunities. The National Association of Health Data Organizations predicts that state health care data programs will play a key role in the system transformation, but that states and data agencies should prepare to respond to a dynamic, and even chaotic, environment. Panelists will discuss a range of oral health topics featured in the December Health Affairs including the cost of care, access to services, oral health under Medicare and Medicaid and dental workforce issues. |
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1 event,The 8th annual Connected Health Conference (formerly the mHealth Summit), provides the global platform for leadership, innovation and opportunity to achieve our new and ambitious vision of personal connected health for all. Hosted by the Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), the Connected Health Conference was renamed in 2015 to reflect an increasingly consumer-centered, technology-enabled and collaborative approach to improving health, and builds on the success of the mHealth Summit. |
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3 events,The Public Health National Center for Innovations holds a webinar to discuss examples from two health departments “working to transform communities such that ZIP codes do not dictate health outcomes” with officials from the Minnesota Department of Health and the Harris County Public Health in Texas. The Alliance for Health Reform, with funding from Ascension, hosts “Investing in a Healthier America: The Role of Social Determinants,” a panel discussion on aligning medical funding to address other factors that can impact health such as housing, nutrition, criminal justice, and other social determinants. |
3 events,The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) will release its annual Hunger and Homelessness Report, featuring results from 39 cities from across the country. The report includes results from a broad array of America’s major urban centers and underscores the fact that despite the economic recovery, the majority of study cities in 2016 had rates of homelessness higher than the national rate of homelessness. Survey results also show a small increase in requests for emergency food assistance in the participating cities. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) holds a teleconference to discuss findings from its 2016 Monitoring the Future survey conducted by the University of Michigan. |
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All journalists interested in health care reporting are welcome, and we’ll be inviting some special guests who have helped many of us over the course of the year. |
1 event,Last day to enroll in or change ACA plans to be covered starting Jan. 1, 2017. |
1 event,Consumer Union’s Healthcare Value Hub will host a discussion on the president-elect’s health care plan, a likely timetable, and potential barriers to enactment and implementation. |
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2 events,Reporting requirements begin for the new system, with reporting from this year setting the basis of the 2019 payment adjustment. |
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