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Patient & Family Partner Program: Founding PFAC

Founding
Patient & Family Advisory Council

The Founding PFAC aims to provide insight and recommendations regarding the patient and caregiver experience at Stanford Health Care. This PFAC provides a forum for patient and family voices to be heard and represented in the design of patient care.

Accomplishments

  • Virtual Caregiver Program overview and feedback
  • Goals of Care and Advanced Care Planning with patient’s overview and feedback
  • Workplace violence overview and feedback
  • Patient satisfaction surveying changes
  • 300P Renewal overview and feedback
  • Visitor policy updates and feedback
  • MyHealth inpatient experience update and feedback
  • Hosted Disabilities PFAC at Medicine and the Muse storytelling workshop
  • Kept PFAC members engaged with fabulous Zoom holiday party
  • Members have remained current with Health Stream
  • High levels of attendance and engagement at meetings, despite the many challenges of the pandemic

Year Established
2009

Patient & Family Chair
Shahin Shabahang

Staff Advisor
Sarah Foad
Manager, Volunteer Resources and the Patient & Family Partner Program

Members
Patient & Family Partners
Mukund Acharya
Praveen Basaviah 
Kimberly Cashin
Elise Drakes
Lynn Fraher
Tom Guntly
Michael Moore
Jayant Phadke, MD
Louise Ryoo
Annamaria Smitherman

Staff
Reina Loyola

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