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Engaging Patients & Families in Designing Care

Patient and Family Engagement: An Unwavering Commitment to Partnership

by Arundi Venkayya • September 29, 2016 • 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series of conversations with leaders in patient engagement. EngagingPatients.org recently spoke with Rachel Biblow, senior director of patient and family services at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). CHOP was named a winner of the Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement earlier this year. Rachel […]

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Arundi Venkayya Arundi Venkayya is marketing and public relations manager for Taylor Healthcare, curator of EngagingPatients.org and administrator of the Sherman Award program which recognizes excellence in patient and family engagement. Before joining Taylor Healthcare, Arundi was an editor at the Dayton Daily News and served as public relations manager for Dayton Children's Hospital.

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CHOP’s Winning Strategy includes Patient and Family Voices in Total Project Design

by Amy Kratchman • June 2, 2016 • 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Patient and Family Engagement Team and Outpatient Services Leadership was named 2016 John Q. Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement winner for their Buerger Center project that included patient and family voices in the total project design: Start to finish. CHOP paid special attention to the […]

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Amy Kratchman Amy Kratchman has been working with clinicians and researchers since 2008 as a family representative. She is the mother of three children with special healthcare needs. As a Family Consultant at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Amy co-leads numerous Family-Centered Care initiatives. She collaborates with senior hospital leaders and staff to ensure that the institution’s operating plan and programmatic goals are responsive to the needs of children and families. Amy co-leads Family Partners, an innovative program developed and implemented at CHOP to maximize the meaningful engagement of families in all aspects of the pediatric healthcare delivery system. Engaging parents and youth in research is a major focus of this work. Amy is a co-investigator on a PCORI Pilot grant and co-investigator and family lead on the PCORI-funded National Pediatric Learning Health System (PEDSnet). She is the Family Advisor for the Developmental Behavioral Pediatric Research Network and the CHOP Autism Treatment Network. She recently served on PCORI’s Patient Engagement Advisory Panel. She serves in various capacities on national boards and advisory councils to advance family engagement in pediatric health outcomes research. She also is a member of CHOP’s Patient and Family Care Council (PFAC) and co-chairs special interest PFACs.

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