The Geisinger's Continuing Education (CE) serves the educational needs of the integrated health care delivery system. This includes every entity of the system, all hospitals, clinic sites, research centers, educational programs, population health and insurance operations. CE also serves affiliated hospitals, community physicians, educators, other affiliated healthcare team members, patients, and patients' families.
The Purpose of Geisinger CE is to:
- Disseminate evidence-based clinical knowledge to improve the safety and quality of the care delivered by the health care team.
- Teach skills to improve and promote the safety and quality of health care delivery and to enhance the patient experience and patient outcomes.
- Support Geisinger and the community providers, as well as other health care team members in their interprofessional roles by providing opportunities for enhancement of patient care, communication, teaching, leadership, management and teamwork.
- Provide lecture series, workshops, enduring materials and other conferences.
Expected outcomes of our program include demonstration of:
- Improved team member skills and strategies, leading to improved patient outcomes and quality of the care delivered.
- Increased employee and community engagement.
- More effective faculty development.
- Promotion and enhancement of interprofessional education, collaborative practice and team performance.
- Enhanced patient experience.