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The Transformative Power of Health Coaching: A Pathway to Health and Wellness

Learn How Health Coaching Provides an Answer to Modern Healthcare Dilemmas

About the Webinar Program Objectives Webinar Will Answer These Questions Speakers Who Should Attend Purchase Options Continuing Education Questions About URAC

Attend from your desktop or conference room. Invite your whole team to attend!   Rates:  $329 per location, unlimited viewers per location (special rate available for solo practitioners and the military). Please call 301-354-1769 for promo code for a price reduction if you qualify.  Each registration comes with access to the archived version of the program and the materials until December 31, 2012. Continuing Professional Education: This program is approved for 1.5 contact hour for  nurses, social workers and, certfied case managers,

In the United States, premature death and disability results mainly from chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, injury, emphysema, COPD, and arthritis. Many of these illnesses have been linked to habitual, and sometimes harmful, ways of living. Today, it is know that morbidity and premature mortality could be reduced if individuals practiced certain preventive health behaviors.

Today, healthcare professionals, consumers, community leaders, and policy makers are all struggling to understand the interactions between health and behavior and how they can use that knowledge to find ways to improve the health status of individuals and populations. Health and behavior are related in myriad ways, yet those interactions are neither simple nor straightforward.

Health coaching is one of the tools case managers and professionals who work in the medical home, managed care organizations, home health and other point-of-care locations are utilizing to help patients adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors that prevent and control diseases. Yet, traditionally healthcare care professionals are not formally trained to coach.

Join us on June 26, 2012, to understand the science and practice of health and wellness coaching as well as the competencies and the outcomes that can be generated when coaching is incorporated as part of care coordination by the healthcare team. We will make sure we have time for questions so make sure you bring your questions for our expert panel.

 

About the Webinar

Knowing the risks and changing behaviors is not an easy for people. Given the wide acknowledgment that cigarette smoking is linked to a variety of deadly diseases, for example, why do people start smoking? And given equally convincing evidence connecting excess weight with cardiovascular disease and other health problems, why are so many people far above their optimal weight? Does such unhealthy behavior indicate a simple lack of willpower or does it go deeper?

Today, there are a number of interventions that healthcare professionals can incorporate into their practice to help consumers modify behavior or personal relationships to improve health. One of these interventions is healthcare coaching as it brings all of the tools together to assist patients in meeting their goals.

Health coaching is the practice of health education and health promotion within a coaching context to enhance the well-being of individuals and to facilitate the achievement of their health-related goals. Health coaching effectively motivates behavior change through a structured, supportive partnership between the participant and the coach. The coach helps the participant to clarify goals and provides insight into goal achievement through inquiry, collaboration, and personal discovery.

Understanding the science behind the practice and knowing how to work coaching into practice is new for most members of the care coordination team, especially frontline professionals in the patient centered health care home, telephonic case management, home health care, community health centers and other points of care where patients and families transition through.

Health coaching holds great promise as medical practices transform to be patient- and family-centered. Using this approach may be the key to enhancing outcomes such as reduced exacerbations, emergent care use, and acute care hospitalization, all of which will improve care quality while reducing the overall cost of healthcare.

Care coordination is an essential function of the case management process, so it is logical that case managers will have a critical role in the new models such as the patient centered health care home. To be effective, it will be important that case managers understand the goals and work to ensure they are up to date clinically and professionally and be able to demonstrate the value they bring to the practice.

Program Objectives

• Explore the practice of health and wellness coaching.
• Understand the core competencies needed to be an effective health and wellness coach.
• Discuss how health and wellness coaching can help change behavior, improve wellness and reduce healthcare costs.

Our Webinar Will Answer These Questions

• What is the science and practice behind health and wellness coaching?
• What is the role of the health and wellness coach in medical home?
• What are the qualifications and competencies for the health and wellness coach?
• How can collaboration be enhanced when health and wellness coaching is in place between the medical home team?
• What are the outcomes that can be achieved by incorporating coaching into the medical home?
• How is patient engagement enhanced through effective health and wellness coaching?
• How can understanding the patient’s goals and what motivates them to change behaviors to improve health and better manage chronic conditions?

 

Faculty

Heidi Duskey, ACC, CHFS Health Coach, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Heidi joined Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates as the company’s first Health Coach in 2008, after a 15-year tenure in the fitness industry. Her transition into coaching was sparked by a keen interest in human behavior and learning, and today she helps clients adopt sustainable, healthy behaviors that result in weight loss, chronic disease management, smoking cessation, and stress management. She has trained with Wellcoaches and the Coaches Training Institute, has served on the Wellcoaches faculty, and is currently credentialed by the International Coaches Federation. Heidi has presented to a variety of professional and public audiences, including the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and the Massachusetts Health Council. Her articles on communication and behavior change have appeared in leading fitness journals, and she was a contributing author to the American College of Sports Medicine’s Resources for the Personal Trainer, 3rd edition, published in 2010. Contact: Heidi_Duskey@vmed.org

Margaret Moore, Founder & CEO Wellcoaches Corporation and Co-Director Institute of Coaching McLean Hospital, affiliate of Harvard Medical School Margaret Moore, also known as Coach Meg, is a 17-year veteran of the biotechnology industry in the UK, Canada, US, and France. In 2000, she shifted to prevention and well-being and founded Wellcoaches Corporation - strategic partner of the American College of Sports Medicine, now a standard-bearer for professional coaches in healthcare and wellness having trained more than 6,000 health professionals as health and wellness coaches in 32 countries. Margaret is co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the annual Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference offered by Harvard Medical School. She co-leads the National Consortium for Credentialing of Health & Wellness Coaches, a consortium of 73 organizations which is developing a national certification, training and education standards, and a collaborative coaching research agenda. She is the lead author of the first coaching textbook in healthcare, the Coaching Psychology Manual published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, and co-authored a Harvard Health Book titled Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, translating the neuroscience of brain organization into self-coaching tools, published by Harlequin. She publishes blogs at Psychology Today and Huffington Post and tweets @coachmeg. www.coachmeg.com www.wellcoaches.com www.instituteofcoaching.org

Moderator:  Anne Llewellyn RN-BC, MS, BHSA, CCM, CRRN  Editor in Chief, Case Management Products  Dorland Health, a division of Access Intelligence

 

Who Should Attend

Behavioral Health Counselors Case/Care Managers Clinical Nurses Disability management specialist Nurses Nurse Practitioners Managed Care Directors

Medical Assistance Pharmacists Physicians Physician Assistances Practice Management Professionals Patient Centered Medical Home Consultants Social Workers

Purchase Options

• $329 per location, unlimited viewing per location (a special rate is available for solo practitioners and the military. Please call 301-354-1769 for promo code for a price reduction if you qualify.
• Live Webinar Registration – $329 (per-site fee)
• Webinar Recording on CD-ROM – $329
• Live Webinar and CD-ROM – $379

About URAC

URAC has developed its Patient Centered Health Care Home (PCHCH) programs to educate and guide health care practices, and their sponsoring health plans, insurers and pilot programs through transformation into truly patient-centered health care homes. Learn more »

Continuing Professional Education

Nurses: This program is approved for 1.5 contact hours for nurses by Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES). As an APA approved provider, CES programs are accepted by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Every state Board of Nursing accepts ANCC approved programs except California and Iowa. However, CES is also an approved Continuing Education Provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, (Provider Number CEP 15567) which is also accepted by the Iowa Board of Nursing

Certified Case Managers: This program is approved for 1.5 contact hours for case managers through the Commission for Case Manager Certification.

Social Workers: This program is approved for 1.5 CE hours for Social Workers. Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is approved as a provider for Social Work Continuing Education (ACE Provider #1117) by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB, 400 South Ridge Parkway, Ste B, Culpepper, VA 22701) www.aswb.org. ASWB Approval Period: 10/6/09-10/5/12.

 

Questions?

For questions regarding the Webinar or to register by phone, contact Hope Kabik at 301-354-1769.

For content questions regarding this Webinar, contact Anne Llewellyn at 954-254-2950 or email allewellyn@dorlandhealth.com.

*Dorland Health does not offer any refunds for the webinar.  All sales are final.

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How Does the Webinar Work?

The live audio is delivered to your location over the telephone or your computer speakers. The Power-Point presentations are presented over the Internet and are available to print out before the program. This is like a talk-radio program with visuals on the Web. You and your team will be able to have a live Q&A with all the speakers.

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