Optimizing Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care

Optimizing Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care is a seminar dedicated to strategies, best practices, and guidance to transition pediatric patients to adult care.

Optimizing Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care provides strategies, best practices, and guidance to:

• Identify adult care providers and successfully transfer patients with rare or complex health care needs
• Assess and improve the efficacy of your current transition processes
• Tailor transition strategies to patient age, disease type, and physical/ intellectual capability
• Develop transition policies to support your specific practice needs
• Significantly improve inter-practice care coordination
• Approach reimbursement
• Ensure up-to-date, portable, and accessible medical summaries
• Build your transition team, processes, and consultation program
• Innovate transition processes with telehealth and social media
• Optimize care coordination and inter-practice communication
• Assess patient readiness for adult care
• Time patient transitions for the best outcomes
• Ensure adherence
• Teach self-care and self-management
• Promote medical and educational self-advocacy
• Address sexual health and fertility with young adults
• Strengthen family engagement
• Provide care for college students
• Screen for high-risk behaviors
• Help patients maximize their independence

Who should Attend

Physicians, NPs and PAs from:

• Pediatrics
• Internal Medicine
• Family Medicine
• Medicine-Pediatrics
• Pediatric Subspecialties
• Medical Specialties and Subspecialties

Also, psychologists, social workers, and counselors who support young adults and their families