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Scheduling Multiple LAcs in an Outpatient Functional Rehabilitation Model Clinic

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Scheduling Multiple LAcs in an Outpatient Functional Rehabilitation Model Clinic

Links last updated 2.2.2024

This is an Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar special session.

topics and keywords: team-based care model, team-based integrative pain management model, integrative health pain management team care model, coordinated team care, scheduling an interdisciplinary provider team, examples of what schedules look like; what a functional improvement outpatient integrative team care model looks like

Outline

  • What

  • When

  • Who should attend?

  • Topics covered in this session

  • How to register & submit your questions

  • Our guest speaker

  • Quick review

This event is tailored to hospital and healthcare system-based LAcs and their hospital sponsors/advocates.


Scheduling Multiple Professionals in an Interdisciplinary Outpatient Clinic Setting

The Hospital Handbook Project (HHP), a not-for-profit community resource project, is hosting this live session on Zoom.

When: Wednesday evening, May 19th, 2021

Start time: 8:30 pm Eastern, 7:30 pm Central, 6:30 pm Mountain, 5:30 pm Pacific

Topic: Scheduling Multiple Professionals in an Interdisciplinary Outpatient Clinic Setting

What a schedule looks like for two LAcs within an interdisciplinary clinic with a focus on team care and engaging and empowering patients by teaching self-care along with regular clinical care.

Setting: Outpatient Functional Rehabilitation Model Pain Management Clinic.


Format: Our guest speaker will present on this topic, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. This session is an episode of the HHP’s Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar series.

Our Goal for sharing this with the HHP Community

Share a snapshot of what schedules can look like for LAcs working in a team-based interdisciplinary model of care with a focus on patient engagement, empowerment, and functional improvement.

How to schedule 2 LAcs working professionally, full-time employees, who have the following in their position description:

  • Clinical care

  • Work as part of an interdisciplinary team of professionals

  • Functional rehabilitation (pain management) model with a focus on teaching patients tools for self-care

  • Focus on coordinated team care

Who Should Attend?

  • Any clinical program manager/medical director or acupuncturist interested in a snapshot of what interdisciplinary team-based care in an outpatient clinic looks like

  • This event is open to healthcare system acupuncturists, their program managers, and admin.

    • For the HHP, we define “healthcare system” or “hospital-based” as any work in a facility or organization that is accredited by or eligible for accreditation by The Joint Commission (TJC). TJC accredits federal and civilian healthcare programs and facilities in the U.S.

  • You must register to attend.

  • If you cannot attend and wish to submit questions for the Q&A, send in your questions via the registration form 24 hours before the event begins. Thank you.

  • Please submit all queries for discussion ahead of time via the registration page (Zoom link). The link expires after the event begins.


    Registration is Required
    Each person needs to pre-register for this event at the link/button below. Thank you.
    Zoom will send you information on how to connect to the session after you register. Zoom sends this info to the email you register with. If you don't receive the info within a few minutes, check your spam/junk folder. Also, it is possible you entered your email with an error. If that is the case, just register again and double-check that your email has no errors when you enter it. :)

This live (synchronous) virtual event has ended.

Want to access content from this session, such as recording(s), notes, etc.? Go to the Issues in Hospital-based Practice Webinar Series landing page for details. Or, send us a message via the “contact us” page.

Presentation of schedule visuals include the following elements

  • Daily huddle (short team meeting)

  • Weekly ECHO participation. ECHO is a unique telementoring hub & spokes model created by the University of New Mexico. Learn more about it in this HHP blog post and get the latest updates on the program (and how to connect to an ECHO) from UNM here.

  • Weekly meeting/mini rounds with an interdisciplinary team

  • Dept meeting(s)

  • Teaching self-care class (group of patients) in a group setting— (Tai Chi, etc)

  • Lunchtime/breaks, etc.

  • Patient visit schedule for two LAcs, outpatient setting, multiple patient rooms, with initial visits as well as return visits on the schedule


Meet Our Guest Speaker

Tara E Fernalld, DACM, MHA, LAc.

Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Master of Healthcare Administration, and Licensed Acupuncturist

Interdisciplinary Pain Management Clinic, Joint Base Lewis-McChord

photo of Tara Fernalld, DACM, MHA

photo of Tara Fernalld, DACM, MHA

Dr. Fernalld is trained in classical acupuncture & Chinese medicine. She received her master’s degree in classical acupuncture and Chinese medicine from the Swedish Institute of Health Sciences in the heart of New York City and went on to receive her doctorate in acupuncture from the Pacific College of Health Sciences.  She also has a master’s degree in healthcare administration. 

 

Quick Review of this Event

  • You must register to receive the Zoom “how to connect” link, et al. Please complete the registration form so we can better engage with you in the Q&A portion of the session.

  • This is scheduled as part of HHP’s hosted Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar series.

  • Any written notes or recordings created for this session, including recommended reading links and PDFs, will be made available through the

    • Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar series online resource

  • Interested in helping offset the outgoing costs of hosting this session?

    • support in cups of virtual coffee via the HHP website.

    • join the Community Discussion platform at Tier 2 (option added Feb 2024)

  • Thank you!

Thank you!

More on team-based care in the Community Discussion Platform.

The HHP’s Employment Practices Workgroup presented some of their work on the team-based care resource for healthcare system LAcs at the 2023 Society of Acupuncture Research conference.