Picker Institute Educational Agenda

Picker Institute sponsors educational workshops, summit meetings, the Picker Lectures and the Picker Awards to further its mission of advancing and implementing patient-centered care.

 

The Picker Patient Experience Series

Picker’s educational workshops are an essential component of the institute’s mission to educate the healthcare industry and the general public to the benefits of patient-centered care. Picker sponsors workshops at national and international conferences convened by healthcare organizations like Planetree, Pioneer Network, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, ISQua and others.

 

The Picker Patient Experience Series at Planetree 2011

Picker Institute sponsored several educational workshops at Planetree’s
annual conference from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 in Nashville, Tenn.

In “Patient Safety 101,” Heather Frazier Silvious, MBA, CPHQ, director of Quality/Regulatory Affairs at Warren Memorial Hospital–Valley Health in Front Royal, Va., took a close look at some of the patient safety systems that are in place to protect against medical errors that kill more than 98,000 people annually.

Click here to see Ms. Frazier Silvious’s presentation.

The Picker Patient Experience Series at Pioneer Network 2011

At the Pioneer Network annual conference in August 2011 in St. Charles, Mo., Picker Institute sponsored several presentations.

“Activating Person-Centered Practices Across the Continuum of Care,” with Heidi Gil, Continuing Care Director, Planetree, and Michael Lepore, Director of Quality, Research and Evaluation, Planetree

Click here to see the PowerPoint presentation.

 

The Picker Lectures

The Picker  Lecture is delivered annually by a Picker Award winner at one or more of the conferences at which Picker Institute is present.

2011
 Jennie Chin Hansen, 2011 Picker Award for Excellence in Long-Term Care

2010
Dr. Atul Gawande, 2010 Picker Award for Excellence

 

Karen Schoeneman, CMS, 2010 Picker Award for Excellence in Long-Term Care:
Click here to hear Karen Schoeneman discuss the need for culture change in long-term care.

2009
Dr. Bill Thomas, 2009 Picker Award for Excellence in Long-Term Care:
Click here to see Dr. Thomas’s Picker Lecture, “Caring is the Heart of Community.”

2008
Jim Conway, IHI, 2008 Picker Award for Excellence:
Click here to see Mr. Conway’s Picker Lecture.

2007
Dr. Karen Davis, 2007 Picker Award for Excellence
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare  Quality and
Research, Organizational Picker Award for Excellence

 

Long-Term Care Leadership Summit

The 2010 Long-Term Care Leadership Summit on Oct. 5,
2010, brought together leaders in the field of long-term care to talk about implementing
and advancing culture change. Speakers included Dr. Bill Thomas (“The Picker
Report on Aging in America with Dr. Bill Thomas”), David Farrell and Barbara
Frank (“Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care”) and others. The
highlight of the summit was the release of the Long-Term Care Improvement Guide, a partner to the very successful Patient-Centered Care Improvement Guide
published by Picker and Planetree in 2008, a compendium of best-practices
innovations and approaches for initiating and sustaining a resident-centered,
relationship-centered culture change in long-term care.