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SUMMARY:Advancing Access & Equity: Serving DeafBlind Patients in Medical Settings
DESCRIPTION:This event is from 2024 – To see information on our 2025 event\, please go to https://deafhhs.org/event/what-to-do-when-your-patient-is-deafblind/ \n  \nAdvancing Access & Equity: Serving DeafBlind Patients in Medical Settings\nFriday\, June 21\, 2024\n8:00 AM – 1:00 PM\nMary Free Bed Professional Building\, 350 Lafayette Ave SE\, Grand Rapids\, MI 49503 \nRegistration Fee: $90/ticket (includes a boxed lunch) – $90 is earlybird registration pricing. The ticket price will increase to $110 after 5/30/24. Registration closes 6/11/24. \n*Registration is now closed* \n(If you are registering for a ticket from an event sponsor\, please contact Erica Chapin – echapin@deafhhs.org) \nPresenter: Jill Gaus\, ADN\, DeafBlind Professional \nThe workshop will educate medical providers on DeafBlindness and how to effectively and respectfully serve patients so that they have equitable access to health. DeafBlind individuals face many barriers while receiving medical services. By educating medical professionals on how to best serve the community\, we hope to minimize these barriers. \nLearning Objectives\n• Define DeafBlind and recognize the vast range of vision and hearing loss and how that impacts communication needs.\n• Identify accommodation methods for DeafBlind and how to ensure effective communication using these methods.\n• Recognize the legal and ethical obligations to provide effective communication to DeafBlind patients.\n• Observe and practice appropriate ways to approach\, communicate with\, and provide sighted guide to DeafBlind patients.\n• Address the roles and responsibilities of the different members of the care team. \nTarget Audience\nPhysicians\, Residents/Fellows\, Physician Assistants\, Pharmacists\, Pharmacy Technicians\, Nurses/APRNs\, Psychologists\, Social Workers\, Dietitians (RD/DTR)\, Physical Therapists\, Occupational Therapists \nCE Credit Information (Provided by Corewell Health East [Beaumont])\nIn support of improving patient care\, this activity has been planned and implemented by Beaumont Health\, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services\, and Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired. Beaumont Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)\, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)\, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)\, to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. \n\n  \nMedicine CME: Beaumont Health designates this live activity or enduring material for a maximum of 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.\nNursing CE: Beaumont Health designates this activity for a maximum of 4.5 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.\nPharmacy CE: Beaumont Health designates this activity for 4.5 ACPE contact hours for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.\nSocial Work CE: As a Jointly Accredited Organization\, Beaumont Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations\, not individual courses\, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 4.5 continuing education credits. \nDietetic CPEU: \n\n  \n  \n  \nCancellation Policy – 50% refund if cancelled by May 24\, 2024. After May 24 no refund will be given. D&HHS reserves the right to cancel at any time with a full refund. \nQuestions?\nEvent Questions: Erica Chapin\, echapin@deafhhs.org\nCME Questions: Jessica Rice\, Jessica.Rice@corewellhealth.org or CHEcme@corewellhealth.org
URL:https://deafhhs.org/event/advancing-access-equity-serving-deafblind-patients-in-medical-settings/
LOCATION:Mary Free Bed Professional Building\, 350 Lafayette Ave SE\, Grand Rapids\, MI\, 49503\, United States
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