Lonely No More: Bedside Visit Programs

Being in a hospital can be frightening, painful, and oftentimes overwhelming for patients. But those without family members or friends to visit them may face the extra burden of loneliness. Loneliness has consequences that may be detrimental to a patient’s emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being which can negatively impact recovery time. Join this webinar to learn how two organizations, UChicago Medicine and Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, have utilized bedside visit programs to improve the patient experience.
Erica Luciano, Program Manager, Volunteer Services, UChicago Medicine
Kathleen McIntire, CAVS | Director, Volunteer Services | Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles
Non-members can purchase webinars at a cost of $49 each.
Related content
-
Quality & Clinical Excellence
Connection Call – Back to Basics: Five Priorities for Restoring Human-Centered Care
12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT – Join us for an engaging panel discussion with four contributors to the featured white paper, Reigniting the Human Experience: Strategies for Getting Back to Basics. Together, they’ll explore five focus areas essential to human-centered care, offering practical insights, real-world examples, and actionable strategies
Learn more -
Patient Family & Community Engagement
My Life, My Story and Life Recovery among Veterans with Substance Use Problems
The United States Veterans Health Administration My Life, My Story (MLMS) program is a patient-centered care intervention where veterans are interviewed about their life story and may grant permission to include it in their electronic health record (EHR). Our purpose was to focus on a sample of MLMS narratives from veterans with self-disclosed substance use
Learn more -
Patient Family & Community Engagement
Efficacy of a Communication Toolkit to Optimize Palliative Care Communication in the Surgical Intensive Unit
Data demonstrates patients benefit from the experience of specialty palliative care providers for advance care planning and prioritizing quality of life, regardless of diagnosis or stage of illness. Despite these benefits, many intensive care units (ICUs) show low utilization of palliative care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of a bedside
Learn more