Aligning Policy and People

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Why the Time is Right to Transform Advanced Care

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Description

This conference was the inaugural event of the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy, a collaboration between the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The event featured policymakers, thought leaders, family caregivers, clinicians, consumer advocates, and others working to identify the timely, practical, and actionable opportunities to transform care for people with advanced illness nearing end-of-life.

Agenda

9:20am, Welcome and Overview of Collaboration

9:30am, Serving People, Not Just Patients: Living with an Advanced Illness and Navigating the Health System

9:45am, Why the Time is Right: State and National Perspectives on Building a Movement

10:30am, Community Engagement: How Healthcare Reform Is Refocusing Attention on Communities as Partners In Education and Care Delivery

11:15am, Break

11:25am, Care Models: Transitioning to a Population Health Approach

12:10pm, Remarks on Health Policy Reform

12:20pm, Emerging Federal Health Policy Opportunities

12:55pm, Closing Remarks

1:00 – 2:00pm, Networking Lunch Reception

Learn More

The Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy is a collaboration between C-TAC and the Petrie-Flom Center focused on development and spread of effective person-centered models of advanced illness care through interdisciplinary analysis of important health law and policy issues. For more information, visit our website.

For more on the need for reforms in health policy to address advanced illness and end-of-life care, check out C-TAC’s report, “Person-Centered Advanced Illness Care across the Continuum.”