Sara Guastello
Senior Vice President, Division of Person-Centered Care Standards
Planetree International
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Track
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Patient and Family Engagement in Action: Shared Decision Making
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Sharing is Caring:
Growth, Inspiration, Innovation, and beyond
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A Delicate Balance: Lessons Learned from Maintaining a Safe Care Environment that Welcomes Family Caregivers
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Beyond the Care
Setting: Promoting Healthy Communities
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Sara Guastello is a Senior Vice President with Planetree International where she heads up the Division of Person-Centered Care Standards. With Planetree since 2004, Sara has provided leadership in developing the Person-Centered Care Certification Program, recognized internationally as the gold standard in person-centered care. Sara is a frequent writer, speaker and invited subject matter expert on person-centered care. In 2020, as part of a global Pop-Up Coalition to Preserve Family Presence, she co-authored the Guidelines for Preserving Family Presence in Challenging Times. In 2017, she co-authored the National Academy of Medicine discussion paper Harnessing Evidence and Experience to Change Culture: Guiding Framework for Patient and Family Engaged Care. In 2019, she served as a subject matter expert on Joint Commission International’s Standards Advisory Panel, and in 2020, was named to the National Quality Partners Action Team to Co-Design Patient-Centered Health Systems.
