2026 ACA Winter Conference Long Beach CA_Program Book

both individual and organizational strategies for cultivating hope, with an emphasis on leadership and cultural practices that strengthen resilience across. Learning Objectives: • Define hopeful thinking, including its components of goal setting, overcoming obstacles and sustaining motivation. • Apply hope-based strategies to mitigate the negative effects of trauma and enhance the well-being of correctional personnel. • Identify organizational practices that foster hope and resilience, including leadership modeling, peer support initiatives and workplace culture strategies. Moderator: Stephanie E. Freeman , M.A., Senior Director of Workforce Management, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina Speakers: Stephanie E. Freeman , M.A., Senior Director of Workforce Management, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina; Janis Wilson , MSW, LCSW, Western Region Clinical Services Manager, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina Innovative and Advanced Wound Care Therapy in the Correctional Health Environment [CE|CME|CERP] Room 103 C Primary Community of Focus: Adult Corrections Overview: This workshop presents Advanced Wound Care provided to patients in the correctional health environment. This presentation will describe how Centurion of Florida has created a one-of-a-kind statewide wound care program to provide streamlined specialized wound care services and products to the Florida Department of Corrections. This presentation will describe how the program works, our innovative techniques, exemplary practices to enhance continuous quality improvement and show actual real patient outcomes from the program. The presentation also gives educational points to provide quality, safe and effective treatment while having excellent outcomes.

Learning Objectives: • Our statewide wound care service is used to streamline advanced wound care orders, products and direction to provide better patient outcomes to our healthcare providers. • Understanding wound healing and significant deviations such as infection in the correctional setting that impede wound care outcomes for patients. This objective will be covered to describe our program processes to educate and assist providers. • The importance of appropriate wound assessment and proper dressing selection. We will highlight the importance of these topics and explain the direct relationship of how this will affect the patient’s outcome of the wound care provided. Moderator: Ramon Bassa , M.D., CCHP, Regional Medical Director Centurion Health of Florida, Lake Butler, Florida Speakers: Ramon Bassa , M.D., CCHP, Regional Medical Director Centurion Health of Florida, Lake Butler, Florida; Deric Paynter , RN, WCC, WSOC, Statewide Wound Care Nurse Specialist, Centurion Health of Florida, Lake Butler, Florida; Kasey Paynter , RN, WCC, WSOC, Outpatient Wound Care Nurse Specialist, Centurion Health of Florida, Lake Butler, Florida DON’T FORGET TO VISIT THE SPONSORING BOOTHS IN THE EXHIBIT HALL TO GET YOUR TICKET STAMPED FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A UNITED AIRLINES GIFT CARD AND A 6-NIGHT STAY AT ANY OMNI HOTEL!

WORKSHOPS Saturday, Feb. 7 ▼ 12:15–1:45 p.m.

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