2008 Calendar of Events

September 2008

For more information on these and other events listed, please contact info@empirequality.org

Health Care Holidays:

Monthly:

Healthy Aging® Month; National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month; Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month; Prostate Cancer Awareness Month; Reye's Syndrome Awareness Month; National Sickle Cell Awareness Month; Childhood Cancer Month

 

Weekly and Daily: 

September 15 - 23 - Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week

September 21 - 27 - National Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration

September 13 - National Celiac Disease Awareness Day

September 21 - World Alzheimer's Day

September 28 - World Heart Day

• International Federation on Ageing: 9th Global Conference on Ageing and Expo Ageing & Design

Thursday, September 4-7, 2008; Montreal, Canada

 

 

• World Health Care Congress: 3rd Annual Leadership Summit

Sunday, September 14 – 16, 2008; Las Vegas, NV

 

 

• Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development and the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute CME Conference: Intensive Update with Board Review in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Sunday, September 14-17, 2008. Baruch College, New York, NY.

 

 

• Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM): Billing and Coding for Palliative Care Consultations – Getting Paid for What You Do

* Audio Conference *

Wednesday, September 17, 2008. (1:30-2:30 Pm (EST)). 

 

 

• National Association of Professional Care Managers’ Annual Conference: Mental Illness and the Older Client – A Challenge for Geriatric Care Managers

Thursday, September 18, 2007. New York, NY.

 

 

• AAHSA: Driving Organizational Change with Results that Last

* Web Conference *
Wednesday, September 24, 2008; (1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. EDT)


 

• Person-Centered Transitions Of Care: Challenges And Successes For Discharge Planning Across The Continuum

September 24, 2008;  Albany, NY; (8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)

 

 

• Wesley Enhanced Living Foundation Presents “The Aging Revolution II”
  Thursday, September 25, 2008; Philadelphia, Pa.
  

 

• Advancing Excellence Webinar On Staff Stability

* Web Conference *

Thursday, September 25, 2008; (2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST; Call - in Begins at 1:45 P.M. EST)  

 

 

• Empire Quality Partnership: Achieving Goals III: Resident Satisfaction
  

  * Audio Conference *

Friday, September 26, 2008; (10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)
HANDOUTS:  Agenda

Improving Customer Service Satisfaction Processes (Deborah J. Urbank, LNHA)

Resident  Satisfaction (Wes Hale)

(For more information and/or to register for the Empire Quality Partnership Audio Conference, please contact info@empirequality.org)

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