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Care Coordination, Disparities and Cultural Competency |
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Marilyn R. Gardner, RN, BS |
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Care Coordination within the medical home is a means to: decrease disparities and provide culturally responsive and competent care; gain an understanding of the concept of a medical home; care coordination as a service delivery model; and the care coordination team. The focus will be on the use of evidence-based guidelines and the importance of culturally competent risk-reduction education. Participants can use this model to create systems and changes in their organizations that move patients towards healthier outcomes.
This is a two-part workshop combined with: |
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Improving Colon Cancer Screening Rates at a Community Health Center for Economically Disadvantaged Individuals  |
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Anatomy of an Office Visit: Inside the Head of a Medical Provider |
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| P. Travis Harker MD, MPH |
Lisa Southwick PA-C, MPAS |
| Learn how a grant that offered free colonoscopies successfully changed the clinical culture so that every eligible individual was offered screening. Relying on less invasive and less costly screening tests empowered people to make good decisions, overcome fears about colon cancer screening, and increased screening rates. Utilizing a quality improvement framework helped the changes become institutionalized within the organization. |
This presentation will provide participants with increased confidence and clarity when negotiating a medical encounter. The presenter will explain what the provider is thinking and hopes to accomplish, the thought process used when deciding what to ask, what to examine, and what studies to order, differential diagnosis, a problem list, the tools used to organize thoughts and determine the treatment plan. We will finish with a brief exploration of treatment and the goals of patient education.
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Using GIS Mapping Technology to Illustrate Socio-Economic and Racial Disparities for Policy Change |
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You Want to Study Me? A Model for Creating Community Participatory Research Partnerships |
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Fred Ordoñez
Jamie Spears BA
Vianella Burgos BS |
Trinidad Tellez MD
Milagro Grullón MM
Linda Silka PhD |
| GIS* mapping technology can be a vital community assessment tool and a powerful catalyst to promote racial equity and healthy communities through public policy. Presenters will discuss their survey of eight Rhode Island cities retailers and the tobacco industry’s environmental influence and how this is helping pass laws and regulations in these communities. Learn how you can apply the process to your own issues.
*GIS software itself is expensive and one has to take a class on how to use it. We advise the workshop participant to partner with someone already proficient in the program. We will guide the workshop participant to resources and technical assistance. |
This collaboration used a “partnership approach” to research, created Guiding Documents including core principles for research partnerships, criteria for agreements, a process model, and a database of all research projects in Lawrence, Massachusetts to track the level of engagement. These have increased researcher and participant awareness. Local community organizations are aware of their right to full partnership and shared decision making as a necessity, and not a mere luxury, and have the tools to achieve it. |
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Older Latina Women, Marital Status, and Cancer Screening |
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Pre-Trial Services Unit (PTSU): Bridging Public Health and Public Safety |
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| Melanie Wasserman PhD, MPA |
Karol Silva MPH Candidate 2009 |
Unmarried middle-aged and older Latinas have lower rates of cancer screening than any other group defined by race, ethnicity, and marital status. CUIDATE (“Take Care!”) is a study to further clarify reasons for the association between marital status and cancer screening among middle-aged and older Latinas in Rhode Island. We will present recruitment methodology, approaches used to elicit narratives about barriers and care facilitators, study findings and emergent themes.
This is a two-part workshop combined with: |
This program has the potential to serve as a model that integrates public health and public safety. The workshop focus will be to demonstrate what PTSU does - its activity linking defendants with substance abuse and mental health treatment; provide a cost-avoidance estimate attributable to PTSU activity; develop a results-based data quality management framework; provide a strategic manual for PTSU and the justice system to become result-driven organization with a comprehensive performance measurement protocol. |
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Serving Culturally Diverse Seniors: A Partnership to Promote Change |
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Cathy Romeo AS, Grad Cert - Health & Human Services Management
Edna Smith RN, MEd |
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| This workshop describes a project to stimulate change at the local community level to eliminate health disparities. Strategies included increasing awareness of health disparities, improving cultural competence of senior service providers, including volunteers and other municipal employees, stimulating a commitment to eliminate health disparities at the community level. We will demonstrate an educational intervention used at participating community senior centers and discuss how the project was conceived and funded. |
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