The conference features four optional pre-conference workshop sessions that go into depth on specific topics, focus on skill development and tools, and include interaction and dialogue.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, March 14, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Registration:
Participation in pre-conference workshops requires advance registration, and session size is limited.
Elizabeth (Beth) Ireton
Director, Premier PACT Collaborative
Premier, Inc.
Session Description:
This advanced workshop will draw from the experience of the Premier Healthcare Alliance in designing and running learning collaboratives for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and apply that knowledge to an examination of the potential connections to community health interventions.
The session will include an overview of ACOs, with particular attention to elements of their design such as patient-centeredness, population health data management, health homes, care coordination, preventive health quality measures, and use of supportive community resources. These and other factors will be examined to:
provide a practical foundation for understanding ACOs and related health system reforms as they relate to population health improvement;
illustrate specific ways in which community health-oriented strategies and programs can be of value in an ACO model; and
provide workshop participants with the knowledge and rationales vital to positioning their community health initiatives as contributors to achieving the goals of ACOs specifically, and health system reform more broadly.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will learn how to:
apply lessons learned from 100 accountable care readiness assessments to implications for community-focused health improvement strategies;
identify opportunities for community health strategies and practices to contribute meaningfully to the goals and objectives of Accountable Care Organizations;
examine the rationale for applying ACO-type partnerships to a number of target "markets" or populations other than Medicare, and describe the benefits of creating each partnership.
Manoj Pawar, MD
Vice President, Clinical Operations & Physician Leadership Development Catholic Health Initiatives
Session Description:
Many of the most significant health improvement accomplishments require levels of teamwork across organizations that can exceed the levels often observed within organizations. Groups and teams usually develop in fairly similar ways; most start by tackling easy wins, building confidence and trust. Inevitably some conflict emerges. High performing teams have a way to work through it, while the rest either dissolve or revert to superficial relationships.
This session is designed for experienced leaders and facilitators who are interested in elevating their group's or team's performance to new levels. The interactive workshop will use presentation, exercises, sample tools and group discussion to increase capacity to productively address and resolve certain adversarial situations. It will focus on:
the natural evolution of teams and how to support their development;
identifying and addressing “accidental adversaries” (where the action of one partner is seen as undermining the success of another), and the ensuing relationship breakdown;
increasing the systems thinking capacity of the team to address health improvement issues by building short term momentum toward a long term vision; and
increasing the capacity for a team's learning and reflection, by engaging in simple practices that apply process improvement methods to the team's functioning.
The workshop will allow participants to work on specific group-dynamic situations where they see room for improvement, increase their connection to innovative peers, and take home specific tools and practices to integrate into their leadership roles.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will learn how to:
recognize and diagnose accidentally adversarial situations - where those with espoused shared goals have problematic relationships;
develop strategies for avoiding and protocols for addressing accidentally adversarial situations;
integrate a simple systems thinking protocol into diagnostic and strategy discussions; and
use "after action/before action" reviews as a strategy for increasing the effectiveness of health improvement teams.
Introduction to Community Health Needs Assessment Guides and Tools
James Burdine
Professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Health Center for Community Health Development
School of Rural Public Health
Texas A&M Health Science Center
This introductory workshop is intended for organizations and community health partnerships beginning to think about and plan for a community health needs assessment (CHNA), especially if they are new to the activity or have not recently completed one. While CHNA is gaining new prominence due to non-profit hospitals' ACA requirements, public health department accreditation and other factors, there is a deep base of experience, guides and tools already in the field.
The session will draw from the resources of multiple organizations and perspectives, sharing processes and resources, as well as case example discussions. It will illustrate typical steps in a CHNA process, and share tools and suggested approaches for designing and conducting an assessment (from preparation to data collection to priority-setting and more).
It will also address moving from assessment to the creation of implementation strategies and related plans, and related assessment topics including: valuable skill sets to have on your team; tips for being an informed consumer of assessment consulting and data collection services; planning and budgeting; and the value and potential roles of community partners.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will:
understand typical steps in a community health assessment process, and considerations for customizing the approach to meet your needs;
possess insight into effective, practical ways to plan and conduct an assessment, alone or with community partners;
be able to identify secondary data sources and primary data collection methods, as well as to articulate activities after data collection, including priority-setting, reporting and communications; and
be able to identify and use several readily-available assessment guides and tools.
Achieving and demonstrating tangible outcomes from community health strategies and interventions is a constant goal and a growing need. Having a process and tools to help plan, execute and evaluate programs in a way that supports a results-orientation is highly valuable, both for health organizations and the communities they serve.
Join this workshop for a hands-on introduction to Results-Based Accountability (RBA), a disciplined way of thinking and taking action that you can use to improve the performance of program initiatives ("performance accountability") and the health and well-being of the people and the communities you serve ("population accountability"). RBA starts with ends and works backward, step by step, towards the means to achieve them. It is a process that relies on the effective use of data, establishing a "common language" among your team to describe a few basic ideas, and a suite of tools and steps to focus on achieving and demonstrating results.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will learn how to:
establish results and indicators of community well-being;
use results to drive decision making and budgeting;
identify performance measures for programs, agencies, and service systems;
use performance measures to improve performance; and
link program accountability to cross-community efforts.
