Background

With funding from the Lucile Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Boston Children’s Hospital, we are pleased to offer a series of webinars over the next year titled, “The Road to Hospital Discharge Success for Children with Medical Complexity.” The webinars will be centered on specific aspects of pediatric discharge care that matter for children with medical complexity. Our hope that is that the webinars will help equip clinicians of all kinds, practicing across the care continuum, with cutting-edge knowledge and resources that can optimize discharge care. For the webinars, we have invited national experts in discharge care, from both pediatric and adult medicine, as well as frontline clinicians who are making improvements in discharge care, to present their work and experience via lecture and Q&A.  

Topics

Some of the webinar topics will include:
  • Standardizing pediatric discharge care (locally and nationally)
  • Reducing hospital readmissions
  • Setting discharge goals and criteria
  • Anticipating and planning ahead to arrange discharge needs
  • Assessing patient and parent readiness when planning for discharge
  • Fostering high-quality communication among providers, patients, and families
  • Evaluating family discharge education techniques and maximizing their effectiveness
  • Identifying and accounting for socioeconomic and home/community factors when planning for discharge 

Registration

Registration for the lectures is completely free. However, registration for each lecture is limited to 100 participants. For more information on upcoming lectures, please click here.

Goals

In hosting this webinar series, our goals are:
  1. To spark enthusiasm for optimizing hospital discharge care for children with medical complexity
  2. To help increase awareness of the awesome, on-going discharge work for these children in hospitals and their surrounding communities throughout the U.S., and;
  3. To provide a road map on how to maximize the health and safety of children with medical complexity when leaving the hospital.

Format

The format of each lecture will vary based on the content presented. Generally, all lectures will last 90 minutes, include some sort of presentation, panelist discussion, and Q&A session, and be followed-up with complete with access to any resources or tools discussed. 

Additional Information

This page will be periodically updated to add additional lectures to the series, as well as include past lecture audio recordings and materials. For questions or concerns, please contact Kevin Blaine at kevin.blaine@childrens.harvard.edu. 

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