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This event is 4:00 pm EASTERN TIME (3:00 pm Central, 2:00 pm Mountain, 1:00 pm Pacific).

Healthcare staff are under more strain than ever before. Providing live therapeutic music (LTM) for staff can help reduce burnout and attrition. Learn how to approach healthcare administrators to get paid to be part of the remedy for their suffering staff. Come away from this interactive webinar with scripted templates for phone calls, emails, and interview questions that can be easily adapted to your specific client and situation. Find out how to apply the therapeutic music principles that you know and have used for patients on staff instead. Topics include:

• Who to approach to fund or coordinate LTM for staff? Understanding the different points of entry in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

• Background is important: Learning everything you can about your hospital or healthcare provider.

• The billion-dollar question: "How is the pandemic affecting your staff?"

• Developing the tools for your pitch:

  • Email templates to get appropriate attention.

  • What to say on the phone.

  • Updating the "elevator speech" you already use for patient LTM.

  • How to respond to potential objections.

• Possible funding solutions for your hospital or nursing facility.

• Applying the principles of LTM to staff.

Open to anyone. CMPs and graduates of other therapeutic music training programs earn 2.5 continuing education units (CEUs).

Your instructors:
Chuck Beckman, CMP, and Executive Director of Strings of Mercy, has been providing Live Therapeutic Music (LTM) for hospital and hospice patients since 2010 and is currently the Therapeutic Music Program Coordinator at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Georgia. Chuck is also the Executive Director of Strings of Mercy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity that works to raise awareness of LTM and helps develop sustainable therapeutic music programs for healthcare facilities. He also serves on the Board of Directors of MHTP, where he chairs the Development Committee.

Karen Peterson, CMP, has been employed at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey since 2012. She provides LTM at the bedside of patients, from ICU to emergency to hospice. Stemming from pandemic restrictions in early 2020, she has received additional funding to play for staff throughout the hospital.

Important notices you agree to:

1. Webinar registration form and payment must be received by MHTP at least 7 days prior to each webinar.

2. I will set up a free Zoom account for the webinar (Facilitator will send instructions).

3. I must complete the class evaluation form at the end of the webinar to receive all take-home information.

Cancellation: If MHTP cancels this webinar because of too few participants or any other reason, all participants will be notified via email and will receive a full refund. If a participant must cancel, that participant should immediately notify MHTP. If a participant cancels more than one week in advance of the first workshop, a full refund will be given. If a participant cancels less than one week in advance (after 4:00pm EST October 16), no refund will be given.