Practice Disrupt
A Healthcare Transformation Podcast that provides insight and strategies on a wide variety of practice transformation and process improvement topics. Guests include primary care colleagues, practice management staff, and healthcare leaders. We will discuss overcoming barriers to change, process improvement ideas that may spark new ideas for your practice. Hear innovative ideas that practices are implementing to work smarter not harder to meet the demands of the new healthcare environment.
Practice Disrupt
Incorporating Advance Care Planning in the Primary Care Practice
In this episode we talk with Beverly Walters, RN a newly retired Special Projects Care Manager with Oakland Physician Network Services a physician organization in Oakland County Michigan. Bev devoted 10 years to making end of life planning an integral part of medical office practice. Bev shares her journey into implementation of Advance Care Planning (ACP) in the primary practice and the dedication to respecting patient's health care choices, including end of life care and honoring those choices. Bev highlights that the purpose of an ACP conversation is not to create a document, but for the clinician to get to know the patient and what matters most to them regarding their healthcare and future treatments the might affect them. The greatest benefit of the ACP is that it promotes important levels of communication.
In this episode Bev provides resources for practitioners that may be considering implementing Advance Care Planning in their practice:
Advance Care Planning in Everyday Clinical Practice- OPNS Video Series
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