PFCCpartners Funfetti Recipe

Hello everyone,

Can we talk about cake? I mean, who doesn’t like cake? Cake can be beautiful, cake can be delicious, and cake can be both. Hopefully you never have to choose. And yet often, it seems more effort is put into decorating the cake than what’s going on inside.

I’m talking about cake today not to make you hungry, but as a metaphor for PFCCpartners’ vision to incorporate patient family partners into all levels of healthcare organizations. The last few years have seen a positive trend of healthcare organizations recognizing the need to incorporate individuals and communities, yet without doing so in a meaningful and pervasive way.

Our goal is to ensure that patient and family voices are not sprinkled onto a cake after it is baked. Rather, those voices should be baked throughout - to make a cake that tastes just as good as it looks. And what kind of cake do you know exactly what you’re going to find inside just by looking at it? A Funfetti cake, of course!

PFCCpartners’ “Funfetti” cake recipe for Patient Family Engagement:

Mix together:

1 c. - Convening a Diverse Community of Patient Family Partners

1 c. - Facilitating Inclusive Engagement and Equitable Decision Making

1 c. - Building Program/Organizational Leadership and Staff Engagement

Stir in the Sprinkles: Patients, Family Caregivers, and Community Members

• Engagement Support – Identify, prepare, and debrief with Advisors as they engage across different project activities.

• Community Building - Relationships within the community are nurtured with one-to-one coaching, an online peer community, and is directed by a Patient/Family Advisory Council.

• Skills Development – Elevate Advisor skills for their role and opportunity.

For further reading on incorporating community engagement into the heart of health and healthcare programs, policies, and outcomes, see the National Academy of Medicine article below.

Cheers!

Stephen Hoy
PFCCpartners, Chief Operations Officer