Susan M. Grant, MS, RN, NEA
Chief Nursing Officer
Emory Healthcare
When Susan Mitchell Grant became the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Emory Healthcare (EHC) in the fall of 2006, she brought her vision—for partnerships and collaboration with patients, families, and professionals—that cuts across disciplines, departments, and settings. Susan, who reports to John T. Fox, CEO of the health system, is responsible for the nursing practice throughout Emory Healthcare, including inpatient care at four hospitals as well as the outpatient clinics. She serves as the Acting Dean, as well as Associate Dean for Clinical Leadership, at Emory University, Nell Hodgson School of Nursing.
The Institute for Family-Centered Care is proud to issue a Call for Papers for The 4th International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 17-19, 2009. All abstracts must be submitted online by September 28, 2008.
The Process: You will need to register your email address in order to submit an abstract. Once registered, you will receive full instructions via email. (If you are unable to submit online, please contact us at 301-652-0281.)
Submission Guidelines: Abstracts must be submitted online by September 28, 2008. Read Submission Guidelines
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In 1999, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) established the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation which seeks to advance medical professionalism and physician leadership in quality assessment and improvement. The 2008 ABIM Foundation's Invitational Summer Forum, "From Rhetoric to Reality: Achieving Patient-Centered Care" was designed to promote dialogue and decision-making among health care leaders to address barriers to, and innovations in, achieving patient-centered care.
Goals of the 2008 forum included:
- Developing a consensus on the meaning and definition of patient-centered care, including the role of patients and families;
- Identifying affordable and sustainable systems needed to support patient-centered care;
- Recommending how practices and training sites can embrace and adopt the principles of patient-centered care to improve care, particularly for the underserved and disadvantaged populations; and
- Identifying how organizations can advance patient-centered care.
Bev Johnson, CEO and President of the Institute for Family-Centered Care, was among the health care leaders invited to participate. The Foundation also invited eight patient and family advisors to share both their real-life care experiences as patients and family members of patients as well as their insights about how to improve our health care system. Five of these patient and family advisors—Mollie Atkinson, Win Hodges, Greg Lipsky, Margaret Murphy, Karen Tate—have also presented at meetings convened by the Institute for Family-Centered Care. The presence and participation of patient and family advisors and leaders provided a compelling context for the issues discussed.
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