Post-conference recordings are available in the Tier 2 discussion platform. See subscription options, such as Tier 2 “big bundle” that include access to the Jan 2023 Inpatient Acupuncture conference materials (recordings + pdfs) at the community discussion platform landing page here: https://community.thehospitalhandbook.com/
Info below is updated post-conference. Last revised 7.3.2023.
This was the HHP’s first inpatient acupuncture virtual conference.
The HHP’s Inpatient Acupuncture Discussion Group helped organize and coordinate this event. CEU/PDA update 1/7/2023: 🎉9 PDAs for full event attendance are approved🎉 by NCCAOM. PDA categories include 6 AOM-Bio, 1 Safety, 1.5 Ethics, and 1 PE-CW. CEUs/PDAS are ONLY FOR LIVE ATTENDANCE ON THE JAN 2023 CONFERENCE DATE.
This time is ripe to tell the inpatient acupuncture story. This event is one way to help tell that story in an accessible format.
The themes of this event are:
How to set up an inpatient acupuncture program or service: lessons learned and wisdom shared
Identifying knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for working in this setting.
This event features speakers from across the U.S. who work in the inpatient acupuncture setting. It is a combination of individual sessions and speaker panels.
Goals and Objectives for the Live Event—what attendees may learn
Learn how others have set up inpatient acupuncture programs or service lines.
Identify barriers to working in this setting and learn how others have overcome some of them.
Learn some of the recommended knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for clinicians to work successfully in this setting.
Learn some basics of doing research in this setting (challenges, lessons learned, cautions)
Become aware of relevant federal health policy and how it affects patient access to care in the inpatient and outpatient setting in U.S. hospitals and healthcare systems. Health policies and laws can expand or limit patient access to care.
Review of inpatient acupuncture coding and documentation standards for the inpatient acupuncturist
This event is a much needed deeper dive into the inpatient integrative health program world, with a specific focus on acupuncturists in these programs. I presented very briefly on this topic with a panel at the Academic Consoritum’s International Integrative Medicine conference in May 2022. This Jan 2023 virtual event hosted by the HHP dives deep into all the major topics mentioned in that panel. This event has more time to dive into these topics in the live conference. And, we’ve extended our potential discussion time by creating an automatic entrance into the conference discussion group (asynchronous) for all who buy tickets for the conference. For more about the short panel at the May 2022 Academic Consortium conference, click on the button below.
Event Schedule
Times are U.S. Pacific (West Coast) time. Please adjust to your local time.
0800-Introduction & welcome. speaker: Megan Kingsley Gale, MSAOM, Director (volunteer), The Hospital Handbook Project (HHP) for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors.
0900-The Allina Inpatient Model, Enduring the Winter. speaker team: Zena Kocher and Paul Magee. Allina Health, Minnesota.
1000-How a Retrospective Study was Born at the Mother Baby Center: An Acupuncture Anecdote. speaker Zena Kocher, Allina Health
1100-Acupuncture and the CABG patient at Cleveland Clinic. speaker: Megan Scott
1130-Acupuncture/acupressure for inpatient psychiatric patients and those with high suicidal ideation in a teaching hospital. speaker: Scott Phelps, UC Irvine
1215-lunch break
1300-Inpatient acupuncture coding and billing/reimbursement models. speaker: Timothy Suh, multiple healthcare systems, Chicago, Illinois
1400-The inpatient pediatric acupuncture program at Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). speaker: Ruth McCarty, CHOC, California. See her “preview” video here. This is a 10-minute mini-interview about Dr. McCarty’s family-centered work at CHOC.
1500-Inpatient pediatric acupuncture panel. panelists: Ruth McCarty of CHOC (southern California), Risi Idiokitas of Children’s National (D.C.), and Karen Villaneuva of UCSF Benioff (northern California)
1600-Inpatient acupuncture research panel. panelists: Zena Kocher (Allina Health, Minnesota), Megan Scott (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio), Scott Phelps (UC Irvine, California), and Risi Idiokitas (Children’s National, Washington DC).
1700-Speaker Discussion of Challenges and Solutions to Improve Patient Access to Care. all available speakers.
1730-1800-Closing remarks and review of resources
Submissions for conference sessions and panels closed on November 15th, 2022.
The live conference was January 21st, 2023.
Conference materials, including 🎥recordings🎥 of some sessions, are available on the HHP community discussion platform.
This conference (& 🏘️ post-conference space☕🍵) is for sharing about your inpatient acupuncture program🏥, whether or not you are a speaker. We have a unique discussion group set up with this conference. When you purchase access to the conference materials, you will enter the discussion group. Follow your attending “onboarding” posts to learn how you can best post about your program in the discussion group and network with speakers and conference attendees.
Joining the conference discussion space is a great way to join the conversation, learn, and grow!
Announcement slide for the 2023 Inpatient Acupuncture Conference hosted by the Hospital Handbook Project (HHP) for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors. The HHP is the home of the healthcare system-based acupuncturist community network. www.thehospitalhandbook.com
Goals of the HHP’s Inpatient Acupuncture Conference
Goal(s) of the conference:
Host a live virtual conference highlighting inpatient acupuncture work in the U.S.
Presentations + community discussion
Host discussion space before and during the conference (asynchronous platform).
The HHP inpatient conference event committee (all volunteers) used the pre-conference discussion space(s) to prep speakers and potential attendees with the premise for the conference, the issues threaded throughout the conference sessions, and prompt community discussion about important topics in this setting.
Post-conference, we created an HHP-hosted “Inpatient Acupuncture Program” online resource where we can store recordings and materials from the live virtual conference.
If the conference meets its funding goals, the hope is to be able to add to this resource over time as we highlight more inpatient acupuncture work in the future.
Post-conference update. The conference fell significantly short of meeting its funding goals. We are applying for grants, etc, to help. Also, the recordings and other post-conference materials are available via a monthly or yearly subscription price on the community platform to help with outgoing hosting costs.
Themes of the 2023 Inpatient Acupuncture conference
How to set up an inpatient acupuncture program/or service: lessons learned, and wisdom shared
Identifying knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for working in this setting. (Minimum required versus recommended to thrive/be successful)
Problems this conference aims to solve or pain points being addressed
The common questions from the inpatient acupuncture community:
How do I/can my program start an inpatient service?
How do I/can we collect meaningful metrics in this setting?
How do I/can we/my organization financially support this program?
What does inpatient acupuncture billing look like? –
How does Medicare coverage of LAc services affect this work?
What are the KSAs recommended to be successful in this setting?
How do I train to work in this setting? Are their internships? Residencies? Certifications?
What does research in this setting look like? How do you get it started? What are the barriers or successes?
What SOPs do I need in place for inpatient service that are different than what I have for outpatient service? What do I need to consider?
What are the data reporting and metrics collection best practices in this setting? What are some helpful ways to convey those data to hospital admin?
Categories for individual sessions, group sessions, and panels
Unique models for the inpatient setting and an acupuncture service
Inpatient acupuncture coding and documentation and reimbursement models: identified barriers, workarounds, and wisdom shared
Pediatric inpatient work
Lessons learned in how to set up research and metrics tracking in the inpatient setting
How and why are the mission of this conference, its content, and its discussions important?
Well, sharing the inpatient acupuncture story and healthcare system-based acupuncturist work is of particular interest in the health policy realm for the acupuncturist and integrative health professions and the healthcare system at large, The timing is critical because of these related topics:
patient access to acupuncturist care (non-drug, non-opioid). When available in the inpatient setting, research has shown access to care to be a cost-saving to the system; it decreased hospital readmission rates, and decreased adverse effects of conventional care when working as part of the patient's healthcare team,
identifying barriers to access (the SSA's recognized providers list--Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal plans and how that affects this work),
identifying what work needs to be done to overcome barriers to patient care access and
identifying what the current workarounds and innovations are while we work on the solutions to hurdle the barriers (hence, the session on coding and documentation, lessons learned and KSA identification threads, a panel specific to pediatric work in Children’s hospitals and a panel specific to research work in the inpatient setting.)
Who should attend?
Intended/potential audience
The audience for the conference and its post-conference materials, including the ongoing inpatient acupuncture discussion space and online resource the HHP is creating around it, are:
The intended audience for this conference is mostly healthcare system-based LAcs, their program directors (MDs, NPs, MPH, etc.), and those hospitals and directors who want to set up inpatient acupuncture services and want to see examples of how it is done in different systems, with different patient populations, the reimbursement or payment or philanthropic models, the metrics tracking and data, the patient stories, and the barriers.
However, the intended audience (live event and future audience who watches recordings of presentations or access other asynchronous material that gets created with content from this event, like blog articles) is also
Current and future inpatient LAc clinicians
Current and future inpatient acupuncture/integrative health service managers and program directors
Hospital admin
Hospital/healthcare system human resources (KSAs and writing position descriptions for advanced work who want to understand what advanced work looks like from those who are doing it)
Health policy advocates, innovators, thinkers, and philanthropists
Are you or your organization interested in sponsoring this event?
Please contact the HHP via our Sponsors page.
