Date/Time/Location:
March 4, 2016
Registration: 8:30 AM
Program: 9:00 AM to Noon
ECRI Institute
5200 Butler Pike
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
March 11, 2016
Registration: 8:30 AM
Program: 9:00 AM to Noon
Healthcare Council of Western Pennsylvania
500 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15086
March 23, 2016
Registration: 9:30 AM
Program: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Philhaven Training and Community Center
283 South Butler Road
Lebanon, PA 17064
March 25, 2016
Registration: 8:30 AM
Program: 9:00 AM to Noon
Holiday Inn Wilkes-Barre East Mountain
600 Wild Flower Drive
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
Hospital Health Systems Association of Pennsylvania
4750 Lindle Road
Harrisburg, PA 17111
Health Literacy Program
The Patient Safety Authority would like to invite you to attend a program on health literacy. We will look at the scope of the problem and strategies for improvement.
- Define health literacy
- Describe the scope and implications of the health literacy problem in the US and PA
- Identify the barriers faced by both patients and clinicians in addressing low health literacy
- Provide strategies to enhance health literacy
- Nurses
- Educators
- Social Service Staff
- Case Managers
- Patient Safety Officers
- Risk Managers
- Leadership Staff
- Marketing Staff
- Communication staff