NYSPFP is pleased to announce Readmission Reduction Through Partnerships with Patients and Families, five regional, in-person conferences to be held at various locations throughout New York State. These events will focus on helping your hospital reduce the likelihood of readmission by giving your staff the tools to help facilitate a successful discharge plan with patients and care partners.

NYSPFP is organizing these conferences across the state to recognize and promote the emerging practice of integrating care partners, along with the patient, into the discharge planning process. Patient and care partner engagement is shown to reduce health care costs and resource utilization, improve patient experience, and prevent readmissions. The conferences will focus on strengthening discharge systems, processes, and practices with the patient, family, and care partners at the center of

Please join NYSPFP for the Ventilator-Associated Event (VAE) and Delirium in-person conferences, Operationalizing Prevention Strategies in the ICU. The conference will focus on strategies to implement the "ABCDEF bundle" in the intensive care unit (ICU), with a review of how to operationalize the American College of Chest Physicians and American Thoracic Society’s "Guidelines for Discontinuing Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU" and the Society of Critical Care Medicine's "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit" (PAD guidelines).

Continuing Medical Education Credits
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Medica