Nursing Leadership in ACOs: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies
Please join us for this one-of-a-kind day-long symposium to address the important opportunities and challenges posed for registered nurses and APRNs in the creation and implementation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Co-hosted by the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, speakers include Dr. Kavita Patel, Barbara Safriet, Joyce Dubow, Nancy O'Rourke and experts from several successful nurse managed health centers and health systems who are negotiating contracts with ACOs in their communities. Experts will address how to maintain the APRN scope of practice in the presence of ACOs, as well as how to carve out and gain recognition of important roles for registered nurses within the various ACO models. Learn not only about multiple models of ACOs, but also how you can strategize to make them work for you, whether you are an APRN or an RN.
Plenary Sessions
- Consumer/Patient Expectations of an ACO -Joyce Dubow, AARP
- Unraveling the Mysteries of ACO Models - Dr. Kavita Patel, Brookings Institute
- Final ACO Rule: Implications for APRNs, RNs and Patients - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
- Developing and Implementing a Nursing Strategy for ACOs - Panel
Working Breakout Tracks
Track One: Maintaining APRN Scope of Practice in the Presence of ACOs. Join with Dr. Barbara Safriet (invited), Nancy O' Rourke, and a panel of experts in a working session to discuss and identify various models and strategies for creating and maintaining nurse-led ACOs, including APRNs' patients in ACOs for purposes of improved quality and shared savings, and in controlling risks posed by state statutes and rural communities
Track Two: Roles for RNs in ACOs: Leading the Implementation of Best Care for Patients. Join with a panel of experts to discuss reframing the roles of RNs to achieve the best outcomes for patients, including strategies for: marketing RNs as critical to ACOs' success; best utilization of RNs' skills and knowledge; liabilities and ethical dilemmas nurses will face as ACOs comply with regulatory requirements.
NAQC's mission is to Advance the highest quality, safety, and value of consumer-centered health care for all individuals-patients, their families, and their communities.
To achieve this aim, the NAQC will work to ensure that:
- Patients receive the right care at the right time by the right professional.
- Nurses actively advocate and are accountable for consumer-centered, high quality health care.
- Policymakers recognize the contributions of nurses in advancing consumer-centered, high quality health care.
The establishment of the NAQC is based on the assumption that only with a stronger, more unified nursing policy 'voice' will dramatic and sustainable achievements in quality and safety for the American public be achieved.
Click here to read NAQC's Strategic Roadmap
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