Education

A Look Back: Adapting to Change in an Ever Changing Environment During the Historical COVID-19 National Health Emergency

Webinar Date: Wednesday, June 24, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET

Presented By: Wendy Albertson, RN, CCM, CCDS – VP Case Management and CDI, Vibra Rehabilitation Division, Vibra Healthcare and Kim Pickerel, RN, CRRN – VP Rehabilitation Clinical Operations, Vibra Rehabilitation Division, Vibra Healthcare

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Session Description: The session will look back 60 days and discuss necessary adaptations Vibra Healthcare made in response to the Covid 19 National Health Emergency. We will address the fluidity required as it relates to policy and process change, clinical and administrative operations, and the culture swing in response to the Covid 19 Emergency.  From corporate leadership to care at the bedside, the session will discuss Vibra Healthcare’s forward thinking approach to navigating our acute Rehabilitation Hospitals through unchartered waters.

At the end of this presentation, particpants should be able to: 

  • Describe Leadership’s role in an ever changing, fluid environment – mitigating chaos and promotion of heightened communication during emergency
  • Support facility level operators to meet the needs of patients, employees and communities – Reinforcing the “Thank you”  - being “The Calm”
  • Discuss like process changes among audience and response to every changing rules, i.e., CMS waivers

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Pricing

AMRPA webinars include a live presentation over the telephone or VoIP (audio over the computer), with accompanying handouts online. They provide the educational value of a conference session, without the hassle and expense of travel. A live webinar also provides the opportunity to interact with the presenter during the question and answer period.

Your registration fee for a live webinar includes one web connection, one audio connection*, one PDF of the slide presentation (when provided by presenter), and one evaluation for continuing education credits. Login information is unique to the registration and not to be shared. 

 

Members

Non-Members

Live Webinar

$100

$150

Live Webinar + Recordings

$125

$175

You may purchase a recording-only version of each webinar once the recording is available thirty (30) days after the live event. Recordings are only eligible for Continuing Education Credit through ACCME and ANCC only. Available Recordings can be found here.

Learner Notification

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support
No commercial support was received for this educational activity.
Acknowledgement of In-Kind Commercial Support
No in-kind commercial support was received for this educational activity.

Satisfactory completion 
Participants must complete an evaluation to receive a certificate of completion.  Your chosen sessions must be attended in their entirety.  Partial credit of individual sessions is not available. If you are seeking continuing education credit for a specialty not listed below, it is your responsibility to contact your licensing/certification board to determine course eligibility for your board requirement.   

Physicians/Nurses
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMPRA).  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statement – Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians and 1.0 contact hours for nurses. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  


All CME activities must adhere to the ACCME’s content validation requirements. If/when any specific recommendations involving clinical medicine in a CME activity are made, they must be based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients. All scientific research referred to, reported or used in CME in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis. In addition, all CME presentations must avoid commercial bias.  All presenters must use the required disclosure slide that names any financial relationships or discussion of unlabeled/investigational uses of a medicine or device. 

Health Care Executives:  AMRPA is authorized to award 1.0 hours of pre-approved ACHE Qualified Education credit for this program toward advancement, or recertification, in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program who wish to have the continuing education hours applied toward ACHE Qualified Education credit must self-report their participation. To self-report, participants must log into their MyACHE account and select “My Education Credit” to log hours earned.

The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.:  This webinar has been approved for 0.1 AOTA CEU. (1 contact hour)The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. AMRPA is approved AOTA Provider #6595.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Healthcare Executives, Occupational Therapists and Physical Therapists
Educational Level: All levels
AOTA Classification Code: Category 3 Professional Issues

As part of the American Occupational Therapy Association’s (AOTA) Approved Provider renewal process, AOTA is requesting that participants of this course complete a short online survey about your continuing education experience with our organization as an AOTA Approved Provider.

Completing this survey will also enter you into a quarterly drawing for a $100 voucher
for AOTA publications or CE. To access the survey go to http://www.aota.org/appsurvey.

Objectives - After attending this program you should be able to:

  • Identify inpatient rehab referral barriers to post-acute settings
  • Identify an efficient pre-admission process to facilitate post-acute admissions and optimize the patient experience
  • Discuss strategies to reduce readmission

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest

The following table of disclosure information is provided to learners and contains the relevant financial relationships that each individual in a position to control the content disclosed to Amedco.  All of these relationships were treated as a conflict of interest, and have been resolved.  (C7 SCS 6.1-­‐6.2, 6.5)
All individuals in a position to control the content of CE are listed below.

Last Name           First Name           Disclosure

Hein                     Melanie               Nothing to disclose

Lundgren             Holly                    Nothing to disclose

Lew                      Kirsten                 Nothing to disclose

Pickerel               Kim                      Nothing to disclose

Albertson           Wendy                   Nothing to disclose

Instructor Financial and Nonfinancial Disclosure Statements can be found at the Registration links. 


Cancellation Policy

Cancellations will be accepted up to two business days prior to a webinar. Registrants who cancel within that time will receive a refund, minus a $10 service fee. Cancellations received after that time will not be refunded. In the event that an AMRPA webinar is cancelled, participants will be contacted by email immediately and allowed the option to receive a full refund or transfer their registration fee to a future AMRPA event.


CME Live Activity Overview 
To be eligible for documentation of CME credit, physicians must attend the entire live webinar and complete an evaluation form. All physician attendees will be contacted after the live webinar with CME evaluation information. 

Accommodations
If you require special assistance to register for an event or access online content, please contact Holly Lundgren ([email protected] or 1-847-686-2347) at AMRPA Headquarters to inform us of your special needs. 

Grievance Policy
AMRPA will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of program participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be responsibility of the Education Director in consultation with the Education Chair and clinical director from committee. 

We do our best to anticipate problems and, when they do present themselves, will attempt to alleviate complaints as quickly as possible. When a complaint, either verbally or written, is received, the following guidelines are followed with respect to achieving resolution:

(1)    Complaints relative to a speaker or workshop leader, contents of instructional materials being presented, or an individual educational style being utilized, the individual voicing disapproval is requested to place his/her comments in writing. An AMRPA representative will convey these comments to the speaker, assuring the confidentiality of the grieved individual.

(2)    If the complaint concerns a continuing education activity, its content, level of presentation, or facilities in which the event is being held, the representative in charge will attempt to resolve the matter as expeditiously as possible. If the offered resolution (resolutions offered may include, but not be limited to partial/full refund of registration fees paid; credit toward future event) not satisfactory to the individual filing the complaint, then further action may be taken as follows.

(3)    The individual is requested to place his/her complaint in writing to the attention of the Education Director, American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association, One Parkview Plaza, Suite 800, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 USA. The complaint is then reviewed by the Education Director in consultation with the Clinical Director and Education Advisor. A written response will be issued within 30 days of receipt of the written complaint.