Kathleen Moisio – March 10, 2015
Kathleen Moisio
Innovative Educational Partnerships: A Pathway to Transformational Care that can Optimize the Health and Well-being of Communities
March 10, 2015
11:00am – 12:00pm
NA167
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Please join Kathleen Moisio to learn about the inspiring six-year journey of one innovative educational partnership and its immense impact on the community and its collaborators (students and faculty from PLU School of Nursing, interdisciplinary health professionals from partnering organizations, and community-based funders). Kathleen will present highlights of her work as coordinator of the Comprehensive Gerontologic Education Partnership (CGEP) at Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing in Tacoma, Washington. This type of work, she believes, represents only the beginning of what is possible for similar-spirited innovative educational partnerships in the coming years. CGEP was launched through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Northwest Health Foundation “Partners in Nursing” grant program.
From 2008-2014, Kathleen Moisio coordinated the Comprehensive Gerontologic Education Partnership (CGEP) at Pacific Lutheran University’s (PLU’s) School of Nursing in Tacoma, Washington. CGEP was launched through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Northwest Health Foundation “Partners in Nursing” grant program and became the model for an expanded community partnership that Kathleen currently facilitates called Together We Care.
Together We Care is a cohesive network of 50+ community partners dedicated to achieving outstanding coordination across all care settings for individuals experiencing chronic illness in Pierce County, Washington. Together We Care was envisioned and launched in concert with the Pierce County Responsive Care Coordination Program, which partnered PLU School of Nursing with six hospitals from the two local health systems and the Area Agency on Aging through a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Community-based Care Transition Program award. Kathleen has also served in a dual role as a clinical assistant professor for PLU’s School of Nursing and is currently slated to complete her doctoral program in Adult/Gerontological Nursing at Rush University in May 2015.
The focus of Kathleen’s dissertation research is the application of person-centered care to improve health outcomes for hospitalized persons living with dementia (PLWD). The broader program of research for this work includes educating and supporting interdisciplinary health professionals in the provision of person-centered approaches with PLWD in order to achieve optimal care and coordination across settings; avoid hospitalization where possible; and assure seamless transitions and care when hospitalization is necessary.
Kathleen is a graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Nursing in Seattle and also holds a degree in education from PLU in Tacoma, Washington. For the past 18 years, Kathleen has been committed to quality care and services for older and disabled adults with chronic illness in community-based settings. She has worked in adult day health and in-home settings; managed and developed statewide programs; provided education and consultation to family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and case managers across the state; facilitated support groups for family caregivers; and written, advocated, and lobbied in support of individuals with dementia and their families.
