Healthy Beginnings Conference

Danville, PA US
April 9, 2026
This is an in-person 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.  Other learner groups such as healthy beginnings coordinators and other professionals' benefit by learning about various resources and updated modalities that are available to assist the needs of the patients. 

Learning Objectives

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

  • discuss the importance of assessing transportation concerns
  • discuss the importance of referral and workflow to enroll patients in county transportation agencies
  • describe the benefits of transportation availability 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: 
    • 0.00 ANCC
    • 0.00 ASWB
    • 0.00 Participation Credit
    Course opens: 
    11/19/2025
    Course expires: 
    12/31/2026
    Event starts: 
    04/09/2026 - 7:30am EDT
    Event ends: 
    04/09/2026 - 5:00pm EDT
    Cost:
    $100.00
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    7:30 AM                     
    Registration and Continental Breakfast
     
    8:30 AM                     
    Welcome and Introductions
    Andrea Wary, RN, MEd, MSN
     
    8:45 AM                     
    Postpartum Birth Control and the Benefits and Choices of Each
    Brytanie Marshall, MD
     
    9:45 AM                     
    Public Transportation: Rabbit Transit Services Overview
    Hillary Griffie
     
    10:45 AM                   
    Free2BMom Program
    Valerie Andreoli, LSW, Megan Eck, LSW, and Roxann Murphy, CRS
     
    11:45 AM                   
    Luncheon will be provided
     
    12:30 PM                    
    GHP Dental Health Team 
    Kala Jean Denlinger, and Julie Bouselli-Delbridge
     
    1:30 PM                      
    Healthy Beginnings Dashboard and Missed Package Review
    Robin Yetter, RN, ASN
     
    2:00 PM                      
    Nutrition Break
     
    2:30 PM                      
    Yoga
    Jill Buchanan, CRNP 
     
    4:00 PM                      
    Evaluations/Adjournment

     

    *Topics and Speakers are subject to change. 

    Henry Hood Center for Health Research
    100 North Academy Avenue
    Danville, PA 17822
    United States

    All visitors to the Geisinger campus, please park in the patient parking lot. A shuttle bus will take you to the Henry Hood Center for Health Research, please notify the driver when boarding the bus of your final destination.

    Travel

    Henry Hood Center for Health Research is located on the Geisinger Campus in Danville, Pennsylvania (Montour County), Exit 224 on Interstate 80. Routes 11 and 54 also intersect in Danville.

    Guest Faculty

    Jill Buchanan, CRNP
    Speaker
    Certified Hypnobirthing Educator, Centre Wellness
    State College, PA
     
    Hillary Griffie
    Speaker 
    Marketing Communications, Rabbit Transit
    Hummelstown, PA
     

    Geisinger Faculty

    Valerie Andreoli, LSW
    Speaker
    Case Manager, Behavioral Health
     
    Jill Benner, RN
    Activity Planner 
    Registered Nurse, Healthy Beginnings, OB/GYN
     
    Julie Bouselli-Delbridge
    Speaker
    Public Health Dental Hygiene Practitioner
     
    Kala Jean Denlinger
    Speaker
    Public Health Dental Hygiene Practitioner
     
    Megan Eck, LSW
    Speaker
    Case Manager, Behavioral Health
     
    Brytanie Marshall, MD
    Speaker
    Physician, Obstetrics and Gynecology
     
    Roxann Murphy, CRS
    Speaker
    Certified Recovery Specialist
     
    Nellie Rivera, SW, MSW
    Activity Planner 
    Social Worker, OB/GYN
     
    Andrea Wary, RN, MEd, MSN
    Speaker
    VP, Cancer and Women and Children's
     
    Robin Yetter, ASN, RN
    Activity Director, Speaker
    Program Coordinator, Healthy Beginnings, OB/GYN

    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.  

    Credit hours to be determined. 

    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.

     

     

     

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Geisinger College of Health Sciences is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Worker Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive [NUMBER] [TYPE] continuing education credits. 

    Credit Designation 

    Geisinger College of Health Sciences designates this live activity for __ 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

    • 0.00 ANCC
    • 0.00 ASWB
    • 0.00 Participation Credit

    Price

    Cost:
    $100.00
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