RFP

Call for Participation

2016 Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care

Dates You Should Know

NEW Submission Deadline: May 13th, 2016

*Selection notifications will be made 4 weeks after the submission deadline

Conference Date: October 30-November 2, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois

Before you begin, please review this form in its entirety to ensure you have all the necessary information. Have questions?
Contact Lisa Donnarumma at [email protected] or 203-732-1377 or Sara Guastello at [email protected] or 203-732-7171.

Building on the Conference’s Content Rich Tradition: 2016 Content Guidelines

The Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care is unique among healthcare conferences.  It is highly specialized in nature in that we focus in on what it takes, from a very practical perspective, to deliver on the promise of patient-centered care.  Through this lens of patient-centered care, conference content includes a wide range of topics with broad appeal to diverse participants, including:

• Care redesign innovations from around the world – and across the care continuum -- that drive patient and family engagement and improve quality and safety
• Emerging patient-centered technologies
• Solutions for the financial and business challenges facing healthcare leaders today
• Research on how patient-centered approaches drive improved outcomes
• Best practices in building and maintaining positive workplace cultures
• Concrete and measurable ways to improve the patient experience
• Quality improvement strategies, structures and tactics that harness the power of the patient voice
• Health promotion strategies for improving population health
• And more!

Who Should Apply?

• Patients and family members, healthcare executives, frontline staff, researchers, physicians, architects and designers, educators, scientists, innovators and changemakers.
• Presenters from across the continuum of care (community hospitals, academic medical centers, ambulatory care centers, long-term care communities, hospices, home care, doctors’ offices, behavioral health facilities)

Benefits of Presenting

• All conference presenters receive a $50 registration discount. An additional $50 discount will be applied for all patient/family member presenters AND those co-presenting with a patient/family member.

• Be a part of what makes this conference great! Accomplished patient-centered care champions sharing their solutions for making healthcare better!

• Receive feedback on your practice or program. Presenting often triggers a dialogue and the exchange of ideas on your practice/program.

• Gain valuable professional experience in presenting and expand your professional portfolio.
  
  
• Receive recognition at the conference for your contribution.

About the Presenting Opportunities

We are currently seeking presentation proposals with content that focuses on the following areas:

Patient and Family Activation

Examples of past sessions within this content area:

• Embracing Technology to Empower Patients: Bedside Patient Tablet Innovation Enhances Patient Education and Experience
• Communicating with Empathy:  Skills and Tips to Improve the Patient and Family Experience
• Shared Decision Making: Creating a Better Experience for Patients and Providers
• Patient Engagement in the Primary Care Setting: Lessons from the Field
• Can a Person Focused Communication Strategy Improve Patient Safety and Quality?
• The Impact of a Planetree Implementation on Family Involvement and Culture of Safety in an ICU

Patient-Centered Performance Improvement and Co-Design

Examples of past sessions within this content area:

• Patients Help Chart the Course: Engaging Patients through a Patient and Family Advisory Council
• Are you Listening to Me?   Revising Policy from the Patient Perspective 
• A Patient Centered Approach to High Reliability Transformation
• Systems Approach to Pain Management Roadmap
• Using Planetree Principles and Recommendations in a Collaborative Initiative to Increase Natural Birth in Brazil

Staff Engagement

Examples of past sessions within this content area:

• Role Model Caring for the Caregiver: Teaching Healthy Balance
• Finding the Gem Within: Promoting Direct Caregivers to Leadership
• Acceptance and Commitment Training for Healthcare Professionals

Leadership Development

Examples of past sessions within this content area:

• Maintaining Focus in the Face of Competing Priorities
• The Doctor is LinkedIn - Leveraging the World’s Leading Professional Network
• Preparing New Physicians for the Future: A Patient-Centered Care Curriculum for Ongoing Education and Assessment

Healing Environment

Examples of past sessions within this content area:

• Patient-Centered Innovation in Healthcare Cuisine and Education
• Person-Centered Mental Health Facility Design: Is it Worth the Investment?
• Designing Loneliness Out of the Healthcare Experience

Community Engagement

Examples of past sessions within this content area:

• Pre-D Challenge: Reducing the Risk of Diabetes in the Community
• May the Force Be with You:  Spirituality Re-imagined
• Providing Pro Bono Physical Therapy via a Center for Clinical Education & Health Promotion
• Benefits of Community Collaboration When Designing Patient-Centered Healing Environments

For your consideration as you complete the registration form:

Proposal Selection Criteria

• Relevance to the mission of the conference
• Applicability to the conference audience
• Identification of practical solutions with tangible implementation takeaways that inspire and enable action
• The significance and magnitude of the results or outcomes likely to be attained by the proposed solution or practice
• The potential of the proposed solution or practice to be replicated, including its potential for implementation in a variety of settings
• Involvement of patients/family members in presentation*
• Topic/setting diversity
• Overall standing among similar proposals.

Additional Information

• Planetree reserves the right to edit submitted session titles and descriptions.
• Planetree may suggest a different format for your session, and may encourage joint presentations if multiple proposals are submitted on a similar topic.
• Presenters must register for the conference and are responsible for their own travel and associated costs.
• Audiovisual equipment for the sessions includes wireless high-speed internet access, 1 podium microphone, 1 LCD projector, 1 computer, and 1 screen. No other audiovisual equipment is provided unless otherwise agreed upon in advance.

* A $50 discount (in addition to the standard presenter discount) will be applied for all patient/family member presenters AND those co-presenting with a patient/family member.