Bringing challenging topics to humanity…
and humanity to challenging topics.
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On this page: .video, legislative testimony, audio, presentation titles, Windrum and agency speaker onesheets, testimonials
In General: Bart presents to both lay and professional audiences. Topics include how to advocate when hospitalized; a lay person’s transformation into patient advocacy; revisioning end of life in order to achieve the peaceful death 90% of us say we want; how to efficiently settle the family estate. Bart’s been recognized as a nationally contributing patient advocate by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Tell Bart about your upcoming event.
Employers: Are your sandwich-generation employees, or employees with elder parents needing assistance, distracted and/or distraught? Provide them understanding and tools for managing challenging, universal personal circumstances, so that they are better able to focus on their jobs. Bring Bart to your employees today.
Providers: Would you like to introduce or advance a patient-centered ethic at your institution? Provide your staff and associates the opportunity to hear from an informed citizen who’s morphed into a patient advocate who sees that patient-centered healthcare is about apportioning responsibility between patient-families and providers. Bring Bart to your institution today.
Video
Clips from Bart Windrum’s keynote presentation to Hospital Corporation of America interspersed with personal interviews:
- Bart Windrum Legislative Testimony before the joint Colorado Health and Human Services committee during the 208 Healthcare Reform Proposal Commission report
- 30 minute online conversation with Nat Couropmitree at Prosperity Lighthouse Radio. Living your passion as the subtext for making medical and end-of-life choices that reflect your true wishes.
- 1-hour online interview/mp3 at Coach-Lee48 Radio.
- 1/2-hour radio interview link at KGNU Radio Morning Magazine with host Kathryn Van Vuuren. Click here to download a .m3u audio file link. Open the mp3 link in your audio program, scroll to the 36:45 mark and play through to the end.
- 1-hour online interview at Artist First Radio with host Tony Kaye of Authors First
- 1-hour online interviewat Authors Audio Radio with host Jake D. Steele
Keynote and Workshop Topics (mix/match for lay and provider audiences)
- Cool, Calm, Collected: How to Advocate When Hospitalized
- From Lay Person to Patient Advocate: An Informed Citizen’s Story
- Manifesting the Resolve to Die in Peace—Why do We Buy Off-the-Shelf Dying?
- The Complete Do Not Resuscitate Conversation
- How to Efficiently Settle the Family Estate
Downloadable speaker onesheets
Bart Windrum speaker onesheet (pdf) Agency Windrum speaker onesheet (pdf)
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People who’ve heard Bart say:
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Bart Windrum’s talks were poignant, comprehensive, even-handed, and were extremely well-received by their respective audiences. Bart’s experience-based perspective and accessible style adds an important voice to the field of of end-of-life care reform. — Ronn Huff, Director, Center for Clinical Ethics, Hospital Corporation of America (Presentation Titles: Preventable Failures: End-of-Life Hospitalization from the Patient-Family Perspective • The Option to Die in PEACE—Patient Ethical Alternative Care Elective)
Bart’s presentation was informative, sensitive, and insightful, opening doors to new options for many participants. Bart shed light on the need for — and ramifications in the absence of — communication with loved ones and care providers as we approach, prepare for, and deal with the end of life. — Elinor Christiansen, President, Health Care for All Colorado Foundation (Presentation title: Access: Our Actions, Our Choices)
Bart Windrum’s presentation on hospital advocacy and end-of-life matters ranks among the best programs we’ve experienced. Bart clarifies vexing situations, offering us ideas and tools with which to affect our own futures. — Chet Myers, Rotary Clubs Program Chairman, Denver Colorado
