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JUNE 29, 2022
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LUNCH N' LEARN WEBINAR:
"IDENTIFYING THE ROLE OF THE TRANSITIONS OF CARE PHARMACIST"
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PRESENTED BY:
SARA PANELLA, PHARMD, BCPS MANAGER OF PHARMACY AMBULATORY CARE, POPULATION HEALTH AND TRANSITIONS OF CARE CLINICAL PHARMACY ENTERPRISE
Charles Page, PharmD, RPh
Summary: Medication-related adverse events (AEs) in general practice represent an important cause of morbidity and are thought to cause between 10% and 30% of all hospital admissions in older patients.(National Library of Medicine). Part of the answer resolving this problem is better engagement of pharmacists within the interdisciplinary care team in support of better transitions and care coordination. Pharmacists have a significant role in working with providers, patients and their identified family caregiver. Taking a medication assessment, incorporating those findings into a medication care plan and providing education and coordination is a commitment transitions of care pharmacists are making every day. This presentation will discuss that role and discuss 10 key pharmacists’ principles developed by the NTOCC TOC Pharmacists Task Force that support a safer and more positive patient journey.
Objectives:
Review the gaps and barriers related to poor transitions of care specific to medication management
List the tasks related to Medication Management Services
Discuss the reimbursement issues for pharmacists related to transitions of care interventions
Speakers: Dr. Sara M. Panella, PharmD, BCPS is currently the Manager of Pharmacy Ambulatory Care, Population Health and Transitions of Care Clinical Pharmacy Services for Baptist Health Enterprise, Baptist Health South Florida, in Miami Lakes, Florida. Dr. Panella obtained her Doctor of Pharmacy from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy (EMSOP), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2008. After graduation, she completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital followed by a PGY-2 Specialty Pharmacy Residency in Drug Information at Robert Wood Johns University Hospital/EMSOP.
She started her career in TOC at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD and has since developed TOC programs there as well as at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, FL. Dr. Panella has also held academic positions at EMSOP as a Clinical Assistant Professor and at Nova Southeastern University as an Assistant Professor, and has also been a previous Residency Program Director for a PGY-2 in Transitions of Care.
Dr. Charles Page, PharmD, RPh has been the Director of Pharmacy at Geer Village Senior Living in Canaan, CT for 19 years. Dr. Page obtained his BS in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut in 1993 and completed his Pharmacy Doctorate in 2001 at Creighton University.
Dr. Page started his career in community pharmacy, then spent 4 years in home infusion pharmacy before landing in long term care. His unique practice setting on the campus of an elder care community offers numerous opportunities for engagement with fellow staff in transitions of care for the patients he serves, and he sees this role as a good platform to spread the word about the importance of greater pharmacist involvement in care transitions.
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Presented By:
Cheri A. Lattimer, RN, BSN – Executive Director, NTOCC
James Lett, M.D., C.M.D.-R., Medical Director
Session Summary:
Improving transitions of care for providers, patients and their identified family caregivers is an issue the healthcare industry continues to address. Multiple healthcare leaders have developed and implemented key models and interventions. Yet there is no one accepted model which all healthcare professionals embrace.
NTOCC recently revised the 2011 “NTOCC Care Transitions Bundle; 7 Essential Intervention Categories.” This session will look at those updates and discuss why these important considerations may help us meet today’s healthcare issues around transitions and care coordination.
The Care Transitions Bundle is a guide of considerations to bring additional safety, efficacy and quality in transitions provided to healthcare leaders, professionals, and organizations. It is designed to help assess and evaluate interventions in developing and implementing programs, resources and tools for improving transitions of care.
Learning Objectives:
Review the complicated process of managing transitions of care.
Discuss each of the following intervention categories:
Medication management & services
Transition planning
Patient & identified family caregiver engagement & education
Information transfer
Follow-up care
Healthcare provider engagement & share accountability across the healthcare continuum
Physical health, mental health & substance use disorder, social determinants of the health triune
Assess the implementation of the Care Transitions Bundle to the various care settings in the continuum
Bio’s:
Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN, serves as the Executive Director for the National Transitions of Care Coalition (NTOCC) and
President/CEO of Integrity Advocacy & Management. Her leadership in quality improvement, case management, care coordination, and transitions of care is known on the national and international landscape. She is affiliated with various professional organizations and maintains active roles on several national boards and committees including URAC’s Health Standards Committee, CMS Caregiver Workgroup, CMS Advisory Committee for Education and Outreach, and ABQAURP Board of Directors & CME Committee.
James Lett, M.D., C.M.D.-R., Medical Director
Dr. Lett is certified by the American Board of Family Practice with a Certificate in Added Qualifications in Geriatrics and is a Certified Medical Director Retired (CMD-R).
He is a past president in 2003-2004 of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA), served as a member of the CMS workgroup to revise F-Tag 329: Unnecessary Drugs, chaired a joint national effort that created a long-term care medication toolkit for patient safety, chaired a national workgroup to create a Clinical Practice Guideline for Care Transitions in the Long-Term Care Continuum, serves on the National Quality Forum Workgroup on Post-Acute Care and as a member of the workgroup consulting with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on patient harm in the long-term care continuum (SNF, IRF & LTACH).
He serves as President, Board of Directors for the National Transitions of Care Coalition (NTOCC), has spoken nationally and authored multiple articles on this.
He was Senior Medical Director for Quality for Lumetra, the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for California, until assuming the role of Chief Medical Officer of Long-Term Care for the California Prison Health Care Services in 2008. From 2011-2013 he was Medical Director/Vice President of Medical Services at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, a multi-level service provider for more than 1,000 elders in Rockville, MD.
Dr. Lett recently retired as Medical/Clinical Director of Avar Consulting, Inc, in Rockville, MD working on CMS contracts, and headed their project on patient safety.
*This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) and the National Transitions of Care Coalition (NTOCC). ABQAURP is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABQAURP is an approved provider of continuing education for nurses. This activity is designated for 1.0 contact hours through the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # 50-94.