Hospitalization can as serve a key educational opportunity. It was in this spirit that every hospital in America banned smoking a generation ago, helping patients and their families to quit. Like tobacco habits, food habits play major roles in the risk of cancer, heart disease, and other health conditions, and hospitals that model healthful food choices help their community stay healthy into the future. In 2017, the American Medical Association developed new hospital food guidelines, aiming to engage hospitals in the effort for better nutrition to fight cancer and cardiovascular disease. This webinar will outline the importance of these guidelines and practical steps for implementation.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the role of nutrition in disease prevention, management, and reversal
• Learn how menu changes can be made in the hospital setting
• Gain tools for effectively communicating the importance of nutrition to patients

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End-stage liver disease (ESLD) is a serious illness marked by significant morbidity and mortality, with a median survival of two years without liver transplantation. Many people first learn of their diagnosis during an acute index hospitalization for debilitating complications of liver failure, such as jaundice, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and variceal hemorrhage. Patients who survive this hospitalization are vulnerable—they often have limited prognostic understanding and face social stigma due to their liver disease. It is rare that they experience the engagement of palliative care.

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The 6th Annual National Hospitalist Conference on September 22-25, 2022 at the Hilton Austin is designed to provide attendees with the information and skills to improve the care of hospitalized patients. This conference has been accredited for up to 16 CME credits. The conference's focus is on the practical management of problems commonly encountered in hospital medicine. An emphasis will be placed on recent advances, up-to-date practices, and guidelines for inpatient care. This 4-day CME conference will provide attendees with AAFP Prescribed credits, AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, and ABIM MOC points.

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This session is designed to layout the place of Telehealth within rural health and introduce the model of Integrated Telehealth to leverage partnership among health plans, providers, home health agencies and adult day for home and community-based services. Session participants will learn about the current landscape of Telehealth, its hits and misses, pathways to strengthen Telehealth outcomes by deploying newer technology to bridge the digital divide, reduce no-shows, enhance early intervention and prevention, and therefore lower the rate of re-hospitalizations. Participants will also learn about the Dual-Model of Telehealth which is composed of a medical stream with remote patient monitoring, and a social stream with health and wellness engagement to improve social determinants of health.

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