Establishing and Maintaining Collaborative Settings of Care: Supporting Clinical and Operational Leadership Through COVID-19 and Beyond

Wednesday, August 17

8:30 a.m. — Registration

9:30 a.m. — Welcome

9:45 a.m. — Update for Hospitals

Paula F. Nickelson
Acting Director
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Jefferson City, Mo.

10 a.m. — Workplace Violence Prevention in the Health Care Environment

Todd Miller, CPP, CHPA
System Director of Security
SSM Health
Des Peres, Mo.

Workplace violence continues to trend upward in the health care space, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This presentation examines how hospital staff can utilize situational awareness, physical positioning, notification means and methods, communication, and de-escalation techniques to mitigate workplace violence and reduce the risk of emotional or physical injury, as well as satisfy current regulatory standards.

Objectives

• • interpret the current workplace violence standards from The Joint Commission
  • utilize tools and documentation to successfully enact change within your organization to help reduce workplace violence
  • outline how location and physical environment will dictate what resources are available to prevent and/or assist in responding to or preventing a workplace violence incident
  • discuss how a change in daily personal behaviors and mindset can reduce the risk of workplace violence through physical positioning, communication to staff, event notification means/methods, de-escalation techniques, situational awareness, and actionable intelligence gleaned through documentation of workplace violence events and trends

11 a.m. — Energy Break

11:20 a.m. — Is it Called Burnout Anymore? And Other Questions About Meeting the Moment

Tiffany Christensen
Vice President of Experience Excellence
The Beryl Institute
Nashville, Tenn.

Tiffany Christensen was born with cystic fibrosis and has had significant medical interventions in her nearly 50 years of life. Despite the obvious challenges of living with chronic and terminal illnesses, she regards this as a gift and sees CF as her greatest teacher. Join us for this keynote session in which Christensen unpacks her experiences as a patient, alongside research from The Beryl Institute. In addition to sharing her personal journey, Christensen will explore today’s most burning topics, such as rebuilding trust, “systemic listening” and connecting to purpose amidst the ashes of health care.

Objectives

• • support the need and value for listening to patients in a variety of ways, including “systemic listening”
  • list approaches to motivate your health care workforce team members to engage in patient experience efforts in a new way and with fresh eyes

12:20 p.m. — Compass Honor

12:30 p.m. — Networking Lunch

1:30 p.m. — MHA Highlight

1:50 p.m. — Breakout Session I (Select Track I or Track II)

Track I: Intro of CISA Advisors and Threat Mitigation Services (Location: Grand Ballroom)

Thomas G. Miner, Jr.
Protective Security Advisor – Western Missouri District
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Kansas City, Mo.

Robert Graham
Cyber Security Advisor, Missouri State Coordinator
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Columbia, Mo.

This session includes an introduction to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its advisors, the current threat surface to infrastructure and the health care sector, CISA threat mitigators, programs, and services. It will be followed by open dialogue with the audience to address current concerns. CISA will address all questions in the forum or with an official follow-up response.

Objectives

• • review the current threat to the health care sector on both the cyber and physical spectrum
  • summarize best practices and services/mitigators to counter common threats to the health care sector

Track II: Maintaining Infection Control Practices During Chaos (Location: Excelsior/Empire/Saratoga meeting rooms)

Megan Dethloff, BSN, R.N., MPH, CIC
Regional Manager of Infection Prevention
SSM Health — St. Louis

Jo Micek, R.N., CIC
Infection Prevention Manager
Liberty Hospital

This breakout session will feature a panel of infection prevention professionals from Missouri hospitals that will share their experience of how they modified and continued infection control practices during COVID-19. The group also will highlight lessons learned and any resulting changes to policies or procedures. The panel will feature various perspectives, including that of a critical access hospital, a mid-sized hospital and a system.

Objectives

• • discuss how COVID-19 affected infection control practices and what modifications were made to facilitate pandemic response within the hospital
  • explore lessons learned and how these lessons can be implemented at your facility to improve infection control programs

2:35 p.m. — Energy Break

2:55 p.m. — Breakout Session II (Select Track I or Track II)

Track I: Ready for More Than Ebola: Applying All-Hazards Principles to Emerging Infectious Diseases (Location: Grand Ballroom)

Christopher Blank
Infection Prevention Consultant, Occupational Health & Emergency Preparedness
BJC HealthCare
St. Louis

Jason Campbell, CEM, MPA
Manager, Emergency Management & Continuity
BJC HealthCare & Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis

Emerging infectious disease core capabilities, including detection, isolation, notification, personal protection, waste management and operational coordination, are critical for health care organizations to provide safe patient care, protect stakeholders and serve their community. Developing and maintaining these capabilities requires effective cross-functional collaboration, diligent program administration and versatile resource management.

An innovative and efficient approach to developing a comprehensive EID program is to apply an emergency management all-hazards model. Structuring EID preparedness programs to fulfill these core capabilities allows for the development of a single and agile infectious disease readiness strategy.

This presentation describes Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s development of the “all-pathogens approach” to EID programming as Missouri’s designated Ebola Assessment Hospital. It will review how BJC HealthCare leveraged the strategy and planning infrastructure to implement a progressive, systemwide EID preparedness program, as well as the advantages that this approach demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic and recent monkeypox outbreak.

Objectives

• • define EID roles and capabilities required for front-line and assessment health care facilities
  • examine the emergency management all-hazards approach and how to apply the strategy for EID programming optimization
  • review interdisciplinary core capabilities needed for organizational EID readiness and success
  • evaluate tools and techniques for health care facilities to develop efficient and effective EID programs

Track II: Building and Infrastructure Impacts of COVID-19 (Location: Excelsior/Empire/Saratoga meeting rooms)

Mitchell Fuemmeler
Senior Project Manager
Nabholz Construction
Columbia, Mo.

Beau Digby
Project Manager
Nabholz Construction
Alexander, Ark.

Jeff Gattis
President, Midwest Region
Nabholz Construction
Olathe, Kan.

Doug Bonds
Project Executive
Nabholz Construction
Conway, Ark.

Safety and security in our health care environments presents many facility challenges to administrators and facilities managers during normal times. Add a pandemic or mass trauma event, and the protocols for how our facilities function are even more highlighted to ensure that the same level of safety and security is maintained.

Nabholz Construction will lead an open dialogue about how new protocols implemented during COVID-19 were met, as well as lessons learned for how spaces can be more flexible for future events. This discussion of health care environments presented from the design and construction perspective will help both administrators and facilities personnel assess how their facilities are set up to accommodate construction and maintenance needs while still maintaining the level of care required.

Objectives

• • maintaining operations and defining procedures for construction and health care occupants
  • designing and building flexible spaces for ever-changing environments

4 p.m. — Closing

4:15 p.m. — Adjournment 

4:30 p.m. — Social

Thursday, August 18

7 a.m. — Breakfast/Registration

8 a.m. — Welcome

8:15 a.m. — Team of Teams® in Improving Health Care Outcomes

Ted Delicath
Principal
McChrystal Group
Denver

The discussion will introduce the Team of Teams® methodology through the lens of health care challenges with a specific focus on acute challenges within the Missouri health care community. Focused on driving interaction, after a brief level-set of terms through relevant examples, the bulk of the dialogue will focus on how attendees can leverage Team of Teams® concepts within their current teams.

Objectives

• • outline the fundamentals of the Team of Teams® methodology
  • explain how to tailor specific Team of Teams® tools to current Missouri health care challenges
  • challenge current operating assumptions — e.g., when, why and how we meet with whom
  • practice cross-functional engagement amongst varied Missouri health care partners

9:30 a.m. — Energy Break

9:50 a.m. — Missouri Hospitals in Action: Response to Train Collision Mass Casualty Incident

Tom Jones, MBA, CHEP, LSSGB
Chief Information Officer/Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
John Fitzgibbon Memorial Hospital
Marshall, Mo.

Bob Patterson
Executive Director of Emergency Medical Services
Mercy EMS
Springfield, Mo.

Terry Brosemer
Director of Respiratory, Safety, Security and Emergency Management
Pershing Memorial Hospital
Brookfield, Mo.

Darya Kohls
Director of Support Services
Moberly Regional Medical Center

On June 27, 2022, an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump trump near Mendon, a rural community in northern Missouri. The accident resulted in four fatalities and more than 150 patients in at least 14 hospitals. The rural nature of this incident resulted in patients being transported over a wide geographic area in Missouri and presented challenges for patient reunification. During this presentation, two hospitals and one hospital-based EMS agency will share their agencies’ responses with a focus on lessons learned and opportunities for future responses from this mass casualty incident.

Objectives

• • assess the impact of a mass casualty incident on hospitals, including advanced warning, impact on the emergency department and other hospital operations, patient reunification, and recovery
  • explore lessons learned from a mass casualty incident
  • how to apply lessons learned at your facility to improve emergency operations plans and better prepare for mass casualty incident events
  • review the purpose and structure of EMS mutual aid and how it interacts with hospital response

10:50 a.m. — MHA Highlight

11:15 a.m. — Coping with COVID-19 While Taking Care of Ourselves

Jessi Gold, M.D., M.S.
Director of Wellness, Engagement and Outreach
Washington University
St. Louis

COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on our mental health, particularly on health care workers. But, we didn’t begin with a blank slate. This presentation will discuss the compounding effects of COVID-19 on our health care workforce and provide ways to identify mental health needs in yourself and others. It also will provide tangible techniques to help you cope.

Objectives

• • describe the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, specifically in health care workers
  • recognize warning signs and when to help yourself or a trainee/colleague in need
  • discuss strategies individuals can use to cope with their mental health

12:15 p.m. — Closing

12:30 p.m. — Adjournment

Todd D. Miller, CPP, CHPA, is the System Director of Security for the SSM Health — St. Louis Region, which consists of 11 hospitals across mid-Missouri, the greater St. Louis area and Southern Illinois. He holds a degree from Miami of Ohio in secondary education and served as a task force officer with the FBI St. Louis division Safe Streets Task Force before his employment with SSM Health. He transitioned from law enforcement in 2015 to the role of security manager for St. Mary’s Hospital in St. Louis before moving into his current role in 2018.

Miller is co-chair of the Greater St. Louis Healthcare Security Directors’ Association and a past contributor to the International Association of Healthcare Security and Safety Journal of Healthcare Protection Management. He speaks regularly around the country on such topics as street gang awareness in the health care environment, illicit narcotics identification and use indicators, how to mitigate the impact of civil unrest on facility operations, armed intruder response, situational awareness, and the value of video analytics in proactive security operations.

Tiffany Christensen, Vice President of Experience Excellence at The Beryl Institute, approaches her work from the perspective of a patient living with cystic fibrosis having undergone two double lung transplants and currently awaiting a kidney while on dialysis. Christensen is an Experience Professional, as well as a nationally recognized public speaker. She is the author of three books in the areas of exploring advocacy, end-of-life planning and partnership strategies in health care. After working as a professional patient advocate at Duke Hospital, Christensen worked at her state health care association, helping health care organizations of all shapes and sizes to operationalize partnership strategies and co-design techniques.

Today, Christensen specializes in workshops, keynotes and writings that serve as a bridge between the professional and patient /family experience. Using a combination of storytelling, research and data from The Beryl Institute and intentional audience engagement strategies, Christensen can “cut through the noise” to inspire and educate even in a virtual environment. Christensen possesses a rare perspective, one that is deeply grounded in compassion for both sides of the bed. She uses that perspective to help audiences find energy and purpose as they work to place the human experience in the center of health care.

Thomas G. Miner, Jr., serves as the Protective Security Advisor for Western Missouri. As a PSA, he directly contributes to the development of the national risk picture by assisting with the identification, assessment, monitoring and minimizing of risk to the nation’s critical infrastructure. He engages as a physical and technical security advisor with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial government mission partners and members of the private sector stakeholder communities. In this capacity, Miner serves as the critical infrastructure stakeholder’s link to Department of Homeland Security infrastructure protection resources, security and resiliency assessments, and training, as well as a vital link for information sharing in steady-state and during incident response.

Miner joined DHS in October of 2020 and has more than 26 years of experience in law enforcement, security, antiterrorism, infrastructure protection, emergency operations and enterprise risk management. He has an extensive background in working with and leading tactical, operational and strategic security and protection programs, and missions with foreign, federal, state and local organizations and agencies.

Before joining DHS, Miner served as senior security and protection consultant in the private industry. As a consultant, he assisted with developing and implementing complex risk reduction solutions with innovative programs, plans, systems and training designed to effectively mitigate evolving threats to critical resources and infrastructure. Before security consulting, Miner served in the United States Air Force as a career security forces officer. He served in a variety of operational, task force and major command levels, culminating as Chief of Security Forces and Antiterrorism for one of the departments of the Air Force’s major global commands.

Miner earned a Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, a master’s degree from The United States Army Command and General Staff College, and a master’s degree from The United States Air War College. Miner also is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy Session 243.

Robert Graham serves as a Cybersecurity Advisor and Cybersecurity Coordinator for Missouri. Currently based in Columbia, Mo., he supports the Department of Homeland Security’s mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. His programs coordinate cyber preparedness, risk mitigation and incident response. He provides cybersecurity resource briefings, assessments and incident response planning to the nation’s 16 critical infrastructure sectors and state, local, tribal and territorial government entities.

Before joining CISA, Graham worked for Southwestern Power Administration, one of four power marketing administrations under the Department of Energy. While at SWPA, Graham served as the Senior Information Security Officer, Acting Chief Information Security Officer, and a responsible subject matter expert for both supervisory control and data acquisition and operational technology systems for the North American Energy Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection requirements.

Graham spent 12 years on active duty with the United States Air Force supporting the National Emergency Airborne Command Post, the Strategic Air Command Airborne Command Post (Looking Glass) and the B-2 Stealth Bomber. In addition, Graham served as an Air Force technical training instructor for Aircraft Electrical Environmental Systems.

Megan Dethloff, BSN, R.N., MPH, CIC, currently is the St. Louis and Southern Illinois Regional Manager of Infection Prevention for SSM Health, covering 10 hospitals and multiple outpatient facilities. She has a background in microbiology and nursing, and she also has her Master of Public Health in epidemiology from Saint Louis University. She is certified in infection control and has been an infection preventionist since 2013. She is a member of her local Greater St. Louis APIC chapter where she has served in numerous roles, including as president.

Jo Micek, R.N., CIC, is the Infection Prevention Manager at Liberty Hospital and has had certification in infection prevention for 34 years. She has experience in acute care, long-term care, clinics and behavioral health. She also is a consultant, both nationally and internationally. Micek is a participant of the Association of Professionals in Infection Prevention at the chapter level, as well as nationally.

Christopher Blank is an Infection Preventionist for occupational health and emergency preparedness at BJC HealthCare in St. Louis. He received his Master of Public Health from Saint Louis University where his concentration was biosecurity, disaster preparedness and epidemiology.

At BJC, his responsibilities include policy development and coordination among infection prevention, occupational health and emergency preparedness departments to plan for and respond to emerging infectious diseases, including Ebola, novel respiratory illnesses and monkeypox.

BJC HealthCare employs about 30,000 people in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois with services that include acute care hospitals, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, and long-term care and hospice.

Jason Campbell, CEM, MPA, is a certified emergency manager with expertise in health care and hospital programming. In his current position as Manager of Emergency Management and Continuity at BJC Healthcare and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Campbell leads the development, implementation and refinement of enterprise disaster readiness and service resilience programs.

Campbell also serves as chair of the St. Louis regional health care subcommittee, providing leadership and innovation to solve complex industry challenges and advance emergency management capabilities within the health care sector.

Campbell has presented to the International Association of Emergency Managers, National Emerging Special Pathogens Training & Education Center, and Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare. His research on health care emergency management performance has been published in the Journal of Emergency Management.

Mitchell Fuemmeler is Senior Project Manager with Nabholz Construction in Columbia, Mo. He lives in Columbia and leads the Nabholz Columbia office and project teams throughout Missouri. Fuemmeler has spent the last 17 years focused on commercial construction and specializes in Design-Build & Healthcare Construction. He received his Bachelor of Science in construction management from the University of Central Missouri, has a DBIA® Design-Build Professional, LEED® AP BD+C, ASHE Healthcare Construction Certificate, and OSHA 30-hour. His health care experience includes a variety of projects from new ground-up hospitals to small renovations in existing health care environments. While not at work, his three young boys keep him and his wife Kendra busy at home.

Beau Digby leads the Nabholz team located on the Arkansas Children’s Hospital campus in Little Rock. Digby received his Bachelor of Science in civil and construction engineering from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2016 and immediately began his career at Nabholz. He has received the ASHE Healthcare Construction Certificate, ICRA-1 Certification and is a licensed Engineer Intern. Digby has been an integral part of hundreds of projects on the Arkansas Children’s campus, including various nursing unit renovations, main infrastructure improvements, an outdoor garden plaza, pharmacy renovation, Cath Lab – Hybrid OR, new MRI, new CT, OR renovations and countless maintenance-related projects. Outside of work, Digby and his wife Katelyn are preparing their home (and two dogs) for their first child, Austyn Kate Digby, to be born on Thanksgiving Day.

Jeff Gattis brings 20 years of commercial construction experience to his role as President of the Midwest Region of Nabholz Construction. He graduated from Arkansas Tech University in 2002 with a degree in business management and marketing. During his time at ATU, he spent his summers working on various construction projects as a laborer. Gattis joined Nabholz in 2006 as a project manager for the company’s Northwest Arkansas operation. He then was promoted to the position of project executive, where he oversaw numerous high-profile projects representing hundreds of millions of dollars of work for the company. Gattis is OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety and Health certificated, Green Advantage™ certified and Infection Control Risk Assessment trained. He also completed the Associated General Contractors of America Project Management Development Program and earned his ASHE Healthcare Construction Certification. He is passionate about volunteering his time to encourage students to consider careers in the skilled trades. Construction is deep-rooted in his family, as he is a 4th generation builder and proud to carry on that legacy.

Doug Bonds brings 28 years of commercial construction experience, primarily dedicated to health care, to his role as project executive of Nabholz Construction. He graduated from The University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly NLU) in 1994 with a degree in construction management. Bonds joined Nabholz in January 2016 as a senior project manager for the company’s Central Arkansas operation. He then was promoted to the position of project executive, where he currently oversees numerous health care projects for the company spanning multiple states. He has overseen high-profile health care projects in his career for clients, such as the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Washington Regional, Unity Health and Hospital Corporation of America. Bonds is OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety and Health Certified and is a Certified Healthcare Constructor by the American Hospital Association. He also completed and earned the Certificate of Management–Lean Construction from the Associated General Contractors of America.

Ted Delicath currently serves as an implementation principal, at McChrystal Group in Denver and is committed to serving clients through structuring and solving problems with them.

While at McChrystal Group, Delicath has supported tech, biomanufacturing and energy companies where he drafted and implemented new strategies, solved an array of problems, and reinvigorated cultures. His longest-running engagement concerned working with a Midwest state in responding to COVID-19. His team spent 12 months on the ground during the pandemic. Notably, Delicath assisted in drafting and executing the state’s vaccination rollout and supporting systems.

Before joining McChrystal Group, Delicath was a Mitchell Scholar and an Urban Leader Fellow. He also spent four years as a Ranger-qualified Infantry Officer in the US Army. He continues to serve in the Army Reserves as a Space Officer.

Delicath received his bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University with magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. He received his master’s degree in security and conflict from Dublin City University as a George S. Mitchell Scholar, finishing first in his class. In addition to being an Urban Leader Fellow, he also is a CORO Public Affairs Fellow and an AVG Venture Fellow. Currently, Delicath is pursuing his Executive MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

Tom Jones, MBA, CHEP, LSSGB, is the Chief Information Officer and Emergency Preparedness Coordinator at John Fitzgibbon Memorial Hospital in Marshall, Mo. Jones has been responding to disasters throughout his career, leading multiple hurricane responses, train derailments/disasters and hazardous chemical spills, as well as terrorist activities during 9/11. During his tenure at MCI/Verizon, he lead the first international hazmat team within the telecommunications industry and also led multiple emergency response teams, responding to hurricanes from Hugo in 1989 to Ike in 2008. During Katrina, Jones spent several months in New Orleans preparing for and responding to the devastation.

In 2011, Jones transitioned to health care and has worked on multiple emergencies along with the pandemic response. From preparedness to response, he continues to methodically work through each event to reach a successful outcome.

During the Amtrak event in Mendon, Mo., Jones worked closely with the Missouri Hospital Association, Mid America Regional Council and Fitzgibbon Hospital to help coordinate efforts and plan for patient care throughout our region.

Bob Patterson is the Executive Director for Mercy Emergency Medical Services. He oversees ground EMS operations in 18 counties throughout the Mercy system with a staff of more than 400 personnel. He is the chair of the Missouri Southwest Regional EMS Committee, a past president and current board member of the Missouri Ambulance Association, and an active member of the MHA Emergency Preparedness and Safety Advisory Committee. Patterson also leads the Missouri EMS Mutual Coordinator Project, which has evolved greatly since the Joplin tornado. He has more than 45 years of experience in emergency services in a variety of positions and system configurations, and he is a veteran of the United States Coast Guard.

Darya Kohls is the Director of Support Services at Moberly Regional Medical Center. Kohls has a Bachelor of Science from Western Illinois University with a major in food and nutrition and a minor in public health. She joined Moberly Regional Medical Center in 1983 as a clinical dietitian, becoming the Dietary Director in 1997. In 2001, Kohls was promoted to director of support services to work with plant operations, dietary, housekeeping, biomedical services and security departments. Her duties include being chairperson of the environment of care and emergency management committees and serving as the hospital’s safety officer.

Jessi Gold, M.D., M.S., is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Wellness, Engagement and Outreach in the department of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. She is a nationally recognized expert on health care workers’ mental health and burnout (particularly during the pandemic), college mental health, using social media and media for mental health advocacy, and the overlap between pop culture and mental health, including celebrity self-disclosure. She works clinically as an outpatient psychiatrist and sees faculty, staff, hospital employees and their dependents, particularly their college-aged kids. Dr. Gold also writes for the popular press and has been featured in, among others, The New York Times, The Atlantic, InStyle, The Washington Post, TIME and Self. Dr. Gold is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in anthropology, the Yale School of Medicine, and completed her residency training in adult psychiatry at Stanford University where she served as chief resident.

Participants must attend the program in its entirety and complete an evaluation to receive a certificate of completion and continuing education contact hours.
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Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AXIS Medical Education and the MHA Health Institute. AXIS Medical Education 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 health care team.

Credit Designation

Pharmacists —This application-based activity is approved for 7.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education JA4008106-9999-22-037-L04-P.

Nursing — AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for a maximum of 7.0 contact hours.

Learners are advised that accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.

Requirements for Credit:

• Attend/participate in the educational activity and review all course materials.
• Complete the CE Declaration form online by 11:59 p.m. ET on September 18, 2022. Instructions will be provided. If you do not enter the online portal by the above date, you will not be able to retrieve your statement of participation.
• Upon successful completion of the online form, your statement of completion will be presented to you to print. Pharmacists: your record will be automatically uploaded to CPEMonitor.

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AXIS Medical Education requires faculty, instructors, authors, planners, directors, managers, reviewers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all real or apparent conflicts of interest they may have with ineligible companies. An ineligible entity is any organization whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients. All relevant conflicts of interest are identified and mitigated prior to initiation of the planning phase for an activity. 

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Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of patient conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Other Continuing Education Credits Offered

ACHE Qualified Education Missouri Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (MO-ACHE) 6.5-hours of ACHE Qualified Education CreditsAs an independent chartered chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Missouri Chapter of ACHE is authorized to award a total of 6.5 hours of ACHE Qualified Education credits toward advancement or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program who wish to have it considered for ACHE Qualified Education credit should list their attendance when they apply to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification.

ASHE CECs Missouri Society for Healthcare Engineering (MOSHE)This program is pending approval by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) for 7.5 hours of Continuing Education Credit.

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