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The healthcare system is rapidly changing. Pressures to increase efficiencies, improve coordination across the care spectrum and lower costs are contributing to a rising epidemic of a burned-out healthcare workforce. A lack of truly meaningful patient-family engagement, and inconsistent improvement in quality across all settings are symptoms of a system moving away from the core of what matters most for those who chose healthcare as a calling and for those who we aim to heal.
The Schwartz Center’s Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference brings together clinicians, health system leaders and others who are committed to making compassion a priority in their organizations and communities. Participants will engage with colleagues from across the globe and experience immersive sessions that will leave them inspired, equipped with knowledge and skills and supported by new partners to create and sustain cultures of compassion.
TOPICS & THEMES
Built on the Compassionate Collaborative Care Framework, conference topics focus on advancing cultures of compassion, communication, interprofessional teamwork and interpersonal skills. Participants will learn to apply those techniques towards initiatives and strategies that achieve the quadruple aim of improving patient experience, population health and workforce well-being while lowering costs.
Conference Themes
- Workforce resilience, well-being and engagement
- Creating compassionate organizational cultures
- Compassionate responses to social challenges
- Communicating with patients, families and each other
- Engaging patients, families, and each other
- Compassion science and practice
Sample Session Topics
- The Institutional Effect of Schwartz Rounds
- Compassionate Care for Patients With Substance Use Disorders
- "It was a Normal Day, Until It Wasn't": A Study of Exposure to a Fatal Shooting in the Workplace
- Loneliness and the Mental Health Epidemic in America
- Caring and Advocating for Immigrant Patients in the Current Political Climate
- Technology's Role in Compassionate Care
- A Comprehensive Community Approach to Reducing Food Insecurity and Improving Health, One Zip Code at a Time
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE
This conference provides continuing education and community, focused on organizational culture change using strategies based on empathy, communication, interpersonal skills and interprofessional collaboration as well as networking opportunities for healthcare professionals across all medical specialties.
This conference is ideal for:
- Organizational leaders, directors and managers of healthcare professionals
- Practicing healthcare professionals and ethicists
- Patient and clinician experience officers and teams
- Quality and safety professionals and risk managers
- Health professional educators
- Human resources and employee assistance program professionals
- Spiritual care providers and chaplains
- Professional society leadership representatives
- Policy and public health representatives
2020 Speakers
Adeyoola Adeniji
Workflow Optimization Project Specialist, Partners HealthCare
Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA
Vice President, AHA Physician Alliance, American Hospital Association
Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Seanna-Kaye Denham, PhD
Patient Experience Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax, PhD
Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
Chris Herren
Former Professional Basketball Player, Author, Motivational Speaker and Wellness Advocate
Miriam Komaromy, MD, DFASAM, FACP
Medical Director, Grayken Center for Addiction
Boston Medical Center, Boston University
Beth A. Lown, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Métraux
CEO, Women Writers in Medicine
Daniel Nuzum, PhD, BCC
Healthcare Chaplain, Practical Theologian and Certified Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor and Educator, Cork University Hospital, Ireland
Angela Patterson, DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP
Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, CVS MinuteClinic
Vice President, CVS Health
Cynda Hylton Rushton PhD, RN, FAAN
Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics, Berman Institute of Bioethics/School of Nursing
Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University
J. Bryan Sexton, PhD
Director, Duke Center for Healthcare Safety & Quality
Agnes Therady, PhD, MSN, MBA, FACHE, NEA-BC, RN
Vice-President & Chief Nursing Officer, Franciscan Health
Barbara Vacarr, PhD
CEO, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
THE EXPERIENCE
At Compassion in Action, participants will roll up their sleeves, dig in and engage with visionary thinkers and doers to experience and learn how healthcare organizations around the world are improving quality, lowering costs and strengthening patients’ and providers’ experience using compassionate, collaborative care. Our vision is to form a powerful community where every Compassion in Action participant plays an integral role in sharing ideas, simulating new thinking and provoking the change that will better our healthcare system.
Through interactive experiential sessions with experts from diverse care settings and communities, this innovative conference will focus on fostering compassionate leaders across all professions and roles within healthcare. Participants will leave the conference having gained inspiration, knowledge/skills and partners to improve care quality and outcomes, patient experience and workforce well-being through compassion and collaboration.
Pre-Conference Activities
Lunch
General Session
Break
Workshops, Panels, Abstracts
Break
Workshops, Panels, Abstracts
Break
The River
Member Cocktail Reception
Corman IMPACT Honors Dinner
Registration and Breakfast
Welcome and Keynote
Break
Panels and Workshops
Break
Panels and Workshops
Lunch
Keynote Conversation
Keynote Conversation
Break
Workshops and Abstracts
Break
General Sesssion
Reception
Story Slam
Morning Wellness Activity
Registration and Breakfast
General Session
Break
Panels and Workshops
Break
Panels, Workshops and Abstracts
Lunch/Networking Time
Patient Story
General Sesssion
Break
Workshops and Abstracts
Break
Closing Remarks
Planning Committee
| Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA | Vice President, American Hospital Association |
| Rana Awdish, MD | Specialist in Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, Henry Ford Health System |
| Juliette Blount, NP | Nurse Practitioner/ Health Equity Speaker, Health Equity NP, LLC |
| Jeff Christie, LCSW, CEAP | Director, JPS Health Network, JPS/ACCLAIM Employee Assistance Program |
| Julie Collier, PhD | Director, Enterprise Resilience, Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford/Stanford Children’s Health |
| Sue Collier, MSN, RN, FABC | Vice President, Innovation and Clinical Excellence, North Carolina Healthcare Association |
| Laura Crooks, OTR, MHA | CEO, Yakima Children’s Village |
| Mary Tess Crotty, MA | Vice President, Quality, Genesis HealthCare |
| Linh B. Dang | NYC H+H, Senior Director of Arts in Medicine; NOAH Board Member, National Organization for Arts in Health |
| Kristen Demertzis, PhD, ABPP | Chief, Division of Neuropsychology, Southside Hospital; Director of Resident Mentorship, OB/GYN Department, Southside Hospital; Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell |
| James R. Doty, MD | Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Founder & Director, The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) |
| Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN | Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical and Nursing Officer, O'Neil Center/GetWellNetwork |
| Jon S. DuBois, MD | Clinical Associate, Harvard Medical School; Medical Director, Mass General Cancer Center at Emerson Hospital; Medical Director, Mass General Cancer Center at MVH and NCH; Clinical Staff, Mass General Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Martha (Meg) Gaines, JD, LL.M | Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School; Director, Center for Patient Partnerships |
| Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD, MPH | Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director of Professional and Academic Development, The Cambridge Health Alliance |
| Rev. Krista Gregory, MDiv, BCC | Director of The Center for Resiliency at Dell Children’s, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas |
| Sue Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN | Senior Advisor for Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| Shanna Hoffman, RN, MSN, AGCNS-BC | Director of Integrative Nursing, Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
| Kathy McGuinn, MSN, RN, CPHQ, FNAP | Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice Partnerships, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) |
| Sophia McIntyre, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP, CPE | Chief Medical Officer, Hudson River Healthcare, Inc.; 2016 Baldrige Executive Fellow |
| Denise Mohess, MD | Medical Director, Inova Geriatric Services; Physician Leader, The Schwartz Center Rounds |
| Louisa Nedkov | Manager, Kailo Employee Wellness Program, Halton Healthcare |
| Daniel Pomerantz, MD, MPH, FACP | Physician Leader for Schwartz Center Rounds; Director of Ambulatory Care, Director of Palliative Care, and Associate Program Director, Department of Medicine, Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital |
| Emelia Rogers, LICSW | Medical Social Worker, Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare |
| Ellen Rosendale, MSW, LCSW | Director of Family Services, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago |
| Lorraine Ryan, BSN, MPA, Esq. | Senior Vice President, Legal, Regulatory, and Professional Affairs, GNYHA |
| Rick L. Shifley, PhD | Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Arts & Sciences, MCPHS University |
| Cynthia D. Sweeney, DNP, MSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN CAPT, USNR, NC, Ret | Vice President for Nursing, The DAISY Foundation |
| Wendy Walters, LICSW | Clinical Ethics Consultant, UAB Hospital Clinical Ethics Program |
| Charlotte Yeh, MD, FACEP | Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services |
| Stephanie J. Adler Yuan, MS | Director of Education and Training |
| Michael Goldberg, MD | Scholar-in-Residence |
| Elizabeth Hickman | Chief Operating Officer |
| Beth Lown, MD | Chief Medical Officer |
| Kathy Scopin, BSN, PHN, RN | Membership Experience Advisor, West Region |
Schwartz Center National Business Members
Thank you to the Schwartz Center National Business Members for their year-round support of our mission and programs. Business members are not direct conference sponsors and have no influence on the content of the conference. Learn more about business membership.
Chairman Circle
Executive Circle
Leader Circle
American Hospital Association
Benchmark Senior Living
Genesis HealthCare
MedPro Group
Tufts Health Plan
The Schwartz Center is dedicated to putting compassion at the heart of healthcare.
Through national and international partnerships, the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare’s coalition of caregivers, patients, families and other leaders work together to make compassion a vital element in every aspect of healthcare. We provide innovative educational and training opportunities for caregivers that are supported by cutting-edge research in neuroscience and communication. We are dedicated to advancing policies that inspire and help healthcare organizations create an environment that fosters a culture of healing and well-being for patients and clinicians.
Established in 1995, the Schwartz Center, a leader in the movement to make compassion a vital element in every patient-caregiver interaction, was founded on the belief that greater compassion and more meaningful collaboration are fundamental to the kind of care clinicians want to deliver and patients want to receive.
The Schwartz Center is an independent, non-profit organization, with hundreds of healthcare members in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, supporting hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals each year. In partnership with the Point of Care Foundation, more than 190 hospitals, hospices and other healthcare organizations conduct the innovative Schwartz Rounds® program in the United Kingdom, which unites caregivers from a range of disciplines to share experiences, learn from each other and focus on the human dimension of medicine.
Schwartz Center members rely on programs, education and resources to support clinician well-being, enhance the quality of care, enable better outcomes and create a more positive and rewarding experience for all members of the care team, patients and their families. To help patients and family members acknowledge caregivers who epitomize the qualities of compassionate care the Schwartz Center established the Honor Your Caregiver program. Through its National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year® Award, the Center celebrates healthcare professionals who display extraordinary devotion and compassion in caring for patients and families.
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Location
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116
Nestled in one of downtown Boston’s most celebrated neighborhoods, The Westin Copley Place is just steps away from fine dining destinations and upscale stores in the popular Copley Place shopping mall and only moments from Boston Symphony Hall, Fenway Park and various other top attractions.
A limited number of discounted guest rooms are available at the Westin Copley; please book your room for our conference soon.
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