McLean Hosting Continuing Education Lecture & Dinner for Healthcare Professionals: Heart Failure Diagnosis and Treatment

McLean is pleased to present this continuing education to promote teamwork to best support those living with heart failure. Join McLean’s Living with Heart Failure Team for a lecture by Dr. Jason Ryan, co-director of the UConn Heart Failure Center. Enjoy a complimentary buffet dinner while learning how working as a team can make a difference in your patient’s quality of life.

Visit www.McLeanCare.org and click on news for the flyer. This free educational opportunity is for healthcare professionals in the hospital, home care, skilled nursing, primary care, and outpatient settings. Dr. Ryan’s lecture will provide an in-depth picture of congestive heart failure, with a focus on heart failure quality and outcomes and reducing heart failure readmissions.

McLean’s Living with Heart Failure Program is designed to help patients better understand and manage symptoms, reduce risks for re-hospitalization, and improve quality of life. McLean has a team of nurses, physical and occupational therapists, nutritionists and social workers who work with patients in McLean’s Post-Acute Center after a hospitalization, and with patients living in their homes with McLean Home Care & Hospice and at the McLean Outpatient Center.

This program has been approved for 1.25 Nursing Contact Hours for attendance of the entire program and completion of evaluation.  John Dempsey is an approved provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the CT. Nurses Assoc. The speaker has no financial interest/arrangement that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of his presentation. The speaker will not be discussing the use of a product or drug outside manufacturers’ recommendations. This CNE activity has not received any commercial support.