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Pioneer Network and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are collaborating to offer this special online symposium to focus specifically on culture change and dining. Originally developed as a day-long event in Baltimore, the February mid-Atlantic storms forced a cancellation of the symposium.

After a solid two years of preparation, including the gathering of some of the most sought-after minds in culture change and dining, Pioneer Network feels the information is too rich to be lost to Mother Nature's whims. The result is a dynamic learning experience within these pages, featuring a comprehensive background paper, keynote remarks and presentations by nine national experts offered as individual webinars with accompanying papers, including:

• A background paper prepared by Carmen S. Bowman, MSH, Regulator turned Educator, Edu-Catering: Catering Education for Compliance and Culture Change, which sets the historical framework for this symposium.  We encourage you to read this paper in preparation for the webinars and symposium experience. Download Background Paper;
• Presentation by Judah Ronch, PhD, Interim Dean of the Erickson School, regarding the powerful link between Dining and Memory;
• National experts, including Linda Bump, MPH, RD, LNHA, registered dietitian and licensed nursing home administrator, presenting on critical issues regarding food, dining and self-directed living;
  
• Clinicians addressing barriers and solutions through the lens of their profession. Included are Matt Wayne, MD, CMD, Medical Director of University Hospitals Senior Services and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio and Karyn Leible, MD, CMD, Chief Clinical Officer for Pinon Management and Vice President for the American Medical Directors Association, focusing  on role of physicians while Denise Hyde, PharmD, RP, Consultant Pharmacist and Community Builder Eden Alternative, raises key issues pertaining to the role the pharmacist;
• Linda Handy, MS, RD, Owner of Handy Dietary Consulting, exploring potential regulatory and survey issues related to food and dining innovations;
• Outcomes of Choice in Dining by Robin Remsburg, PhD, GCNS, FAAN, Director of the School of Nursing and Associate Dean for the College of Health and Human Serives at George Mason University.
• Presentations by Glenda Lewis, MSPH, from the Food and Drug Administration on the national Food Code and Nimalie Stone, MD, MS of the Center for Disease Control on the CDC infection control guidelines; and
• Finding presented by Rosanna Bertrand, PhD, and  Sandra Simmons, PhD, members of the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) research team from their Study of Paid Feeding Assistant Programs.

As we promised, this symposium is another historic opportunity to be heard – and CMS is listening. Immediately following each webinar presentation, you will be able to offer to comments, ask questions and provide solutions and suggestions as you complete the survey form.

Click on Enter the Symposium to access Creating Home in the Nursing Home II: A National Online Symposium on Culture Change and the Food and Dining Requirements. If you were previously registered for the symposium, use your COUPON CODE to view the webinars an unlimited number of times until June 15, 2010. (If you need your coupon code, please contact Christie.Dobson@PioneerNetwork.net.) It's Not Too Late!  If you were not previously registered, you may still participate. The fee for all the webinars is $175, or they may be purchased individually for $30 per webinar. Click on Enter the Symposium, and then select any of the webinar buttons to make the transaction. The webinars may be viewed an unlimited number of times for a period of 60 days. Special thanks to The Picker Institute for underwriting the complete set of original symposium papers which we are offering as no-cost downloads for the benefit of the entire long-term care community, and the betterment of the quality of life of elders nation-wide. Thank You!