Melody
Kloepfer,
B.S., B.S.R.T.
Presenter
Nova Southeastern University
Mrs. Kloepfer has been a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance since 2015 and a certified group fitness instructor since 2018. As a yoga teacher, she had the privilege of teaching yoga to students with muscular sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and other disorders and diseases. Teaching yoga helped her realize her love of helping people with chronic diseases and physiological disorders. Respiratory therapy permits her the opportunity to combine her soft skills and love of the cardiopulmonary system, science, and biology to help others. The patient family-engaged care research compliments Mrs. Kloepfer’s interest in the provision of compassionate healthcare services.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Seminar Description: The patient and family-engaged care (PFEC) model is considered to be best practice by healthcare policymakers and researchers and supports the Quadruple Aim. This model calls for collaboration between patients and families with healthcare professionals recognizing their critical stakeholder perspectives. The landmark National Academy of Medicine reports, Crossing the Quality Chasm and To Err is Human documented unprecedented medical errors across the US healthcare system and spearheaded the move to PFEC. Since that time, academicians and health policymakers recognized the…