WVGS Annual Interdisciplinary Continuing Education Conference

This conference is planned for an interdisciplinary audience of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and hospital administrators.

Older adults living in West Virginia experience a high burden of chronic illness and disability, and have high rates of hospitalization. Unfortunately, time spent in the hospital setting can be quite perilous for older adults, and distressing for their families as well as for those who care for them. WVGS is committed to improving the health and health care of older adults throughout the state, and has chosen to focus this annual meeting on improving the care of older adults when in the hospital setting. We are thrilled to have Dr. Dorothy Baker from Yale University, Director of the HELP (Hospital Elder Life Program) National Dissemination Project as our keynote speaker. HELP is a volunteer driven intervention proven to reduce the morbidity and costs associated with delirium in hospitalized older adults, and one that is rapidly spreading across the country. All of the presentations in this meeting are intended both for clinicians and hospital administrators committed to providing the highest quality care possible for their older adult patients.

By the end of the conference participants will be able to:

• Describe common hazards of hospitalization for older persons.
• Describe a well-tested model for reducing the clinical impact and costs of delirium in the hospital setting.
• Develop a plan for implementation of HELP in their own hospital.
• Describe the true effect of advanced age upon surgical mortality.
• Confidently assess preoperative cardiac risk and its likely impact on surgical mortality.
• Use evidence-based recommendations to target your perioperative consultations on common thromboembolic, neuro-psychiatric, and renal perioperative complications.
• Describe the current evaluation and treatment guidelines of patients presenting to the emergency room with symptoms of acute stroke.
• Review the WVU/Ruby Model of the multidisciplinary stroke response team.
• Understand the issues and appropriate interventions involved in transitioning older patients from one care setting to another.

Accreditation:

The CAMC Health Education and Research
Institute’s CME program is accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor
continuing medical education for physicians. The CAMC
Health Education and Research Institute designates this
educational activity for a maximum of six AMA PRA
Category 1 Credits(s)TM. Physicians should only claim
credit commensurate with the extent of their participation
in the activity.

The CAMC Health Education and Research Institute is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the West Virginia Nurses Association.

The West Virginia Nurses Association is an accredited provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This program has been approved for six contact hours (#PO15-08-07674 WVBPN:01A).

The CAMC Health Education and Research Institute is an approved provider of continuing education by the West Virginia Board of Social Work Examiners. This program has been approved for six hours of social work credit. Approval number is 490045.

The CAMC Health Education and Research
Institute has been approved by the American Council on Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program has been approved for six contact hours under program approval number 554-999-07-050-L04-P.

This program anticipates being approved for 6 hours of AOA Category 2-A Credit pending approval by the AOA CCME.