Healthy Beginnings Conference

April 4, 2025
This is a live educational activity.  Attending the Healthy Beginnings Conference can give you new ideas, help refine your existing concepts and enhance your mind of resources, programs, and education to benefit your role as a Healthy Beginnings Coordinator. This is also an opportunity to meet leaders and strengthen your professional network connections with other Healthy Beginnings Coordinators from other Health Systems. You will gain insights and benefit from perspectives and fresh ideas from keynote speakers. 

Target Audience

This activity is designed for nurses, nurse practitioners and social workers.  

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

  • discuss the importance of assessing for food insecurity
  • discuss the importance of referral and workflow to enroll patients in WIC
  • identify risk of use of marijuana in pregnancy
  • describe the benefits of RSV vaccine in the pregnant mother

Refund Policy

A full refund will be given for any cancellations received up to one week prior to the course.  No refunds for no-shows. 
 

Course Cancellation Policy

In the unusual circumstance that this course is cancelled, you will be called and/or emailed, and any tuition fees received would be refunded in full.  Geisinger is not responsible for any airfare, hotel or other costs incurred.
 

Attendance

Attendance will be recorded within three to four days of the conclusion of the activity.  Credit will display on your continuing education transcript once the activity evaluation is completed.  
    Course summary
    Available credit: 
    • 5.00 ANCC
    • 5.00 Participation Credit
    Course opens: 
    01/10/2025
    Course expires: 
    04/18/2025
    Event starts: 
    04/04/2025 - 7:30am EDT
    Event ends: 
    04/04/2025 - 5:00pm EDT
    Cost:
    $100.00
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    Schedule 

    7:30 am
    Registration/Continental Breakfast
     
    8:30 am
    Welcome & Introductions
    Andrea Wary, RN, MEd, MSN
     
    8:45 am
    Joint Decisions: The Debate over Marijuana Use in Pregnancy and Lactation
    Michele Neff-Bulger, DO, FAAP, FACOP
     
    9:45 am
    Food is Medicine Relies on Community: Healthy Beginnings, Neighborly, and WIC
    Lisa Bailey-Davis, DEd, RD and Kelsey Brandt
     
    10:45 am
    It Takes a Village: The Importance of Collaboration for the Healthy Beginnings Patient
    Robin Yetter, ASN, RN
     
    11:45 am
    Luncheon (will be provided)
     
    12:30 pm
    Early Head Start at SUMMIT: A Home-Visiting Classroom-Based Program Focused on the Social Determinants of Health for Families
    Shawna Meiser, MA, Gwen Kline, MM and Doug Bertanzetti
     
    1:30 pm
    Healthy Beginnings Social Work
    Michaela McGee, LSW and Nellie Riveria, MSW
     
    2:30 pm
    Nutrition Break
     
    NON-Credited Lecture
    3:00 pm
    Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine Recommendation for Maternal Immunization: Considerations for Health Care Providers/Systems
    Sunday Rivers, PhD, MBA, Vaccines Field Medical Director, US Medical Affairs - Pfizer, Inc. and Blair Capitano, PharmD, Vaccines Field Medical Director, US Medical Affairs - Pfizer, Inc.
     
    3:45 pm
    Evaluations/Adjournment
     
    *Topics/Speakers are subject to change. 
    Henry Hood Center for Health Research
    100 North Academy Avenue
    Danville, PA
    United States

    There is no parking at the Henry Hood Center for Health Research. Visitors will need to park in the visitor parking lots and take shuttle bus to the Henry Hood Center for Health Research. You will need to inform the shuttle bus driver that you need to be dropped off at the Henry Hood Center for Health Research.

    You may use valet parking at your own expense if you chose not to park in the visitor parking lots.

    Guest Faculty

    Doug Bertanzetti
    Executive Director
    SUMMIT Early Learning 
     
    Kelsey Brandt
    Nutrition Education Coordinator
    FHCCP
     
    Gwen Kline, MM
    Early Head Start Home-Based Coordinator for Union, Snyder, Mifflin Counties
    SUMMIT Early Learning
     
    Michaela McGee, LSW
    Central Region Women's Social Worker 
     
    Shawna Meiser, MA
    Head Start/Early Head Start Director for Union, Snyder, Mifflin Counties
    SUMMIT Early Learning
     
    Nellie Rivera, MSW
    Northeastern PA Social Worker 

    Geisinger Faculty

    Lisa Bailey-Davis, DEd, RD
    Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
    Geisinger College of Health Sciences
     
    Jill Benner, ASN, RN
    Registered Nurse Healthy Beginnings
    OB/GYN Geisinger Lewistown
     
    Michele Neff-Bulger, DO, FAAP, FACOP
    Director, Pediatrics Newborn Nursery
    Central Region GMC
     
    Robin Yetter, ASN, RN
    Activity Director
    Program Coordinator Healthy Beginnings
    OB/GYN Geisinger Lewistown
     
    Andrea Wary, RN, MEd, MSN
    VP Cancer and Women and Children's 
    Pediatric Support Services GMC

    Content Disclosure

    The faculty has attested that their presentations and/or content are HIPAA compliant.  
     
    Individuals in a position to control educational content for this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. 
     
    CE Committee Members/Content Reviewer(s) have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests. 
     
    *Any/All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.  

    Accreditation 

    In support of improving patient care, Geisinger College of Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

     

     

     

     

    Credit Designation 

    Geisinger College of Health Sciences designates this live activity for 5 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity. 

    Disclosure Policy 

    Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing education activity sponsored by Geisinger College of Health Sciences must disclose to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s). 

    Commercial Support

    None

    Available Credit

    • 5.00 ANCC
    • 5.00 Participation Credit

    Price

    Cost:
    $100.00
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