ACHI's webinars address a range of topics, including: population health improvement and chronic disease prevention, access to care, community benefit programs and reporting, community health assessment, collaborative strategies, and outcomes measurement and evaluation.
2013 Dates: | February 21 | April 18 | May 9 | June 4 | Additional dates to be announced
2012 Dates: February 16 | May 17 | July 12 | August 16 | September 20 | October 3 | October 18 | December 5
Time (unless otherwise noted *): 11:00-12:00 (Pacific Time); 12:00-1:00 (MT); 1:00-2:00 (CT); 2:00-3:00 (ET)
Registration Fee: $49 (members) | $89 (non-members)
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June 4, 2013
Collective Impact Strategies to Achieve Systemic and Sustainable Health Improvement – Part 2
Lalitha Vaidyanathan
Managing Director
FSG
Learning Objectives:
1. Recap of Collective Impact basic concepts (for audiences new to the topic and those with limited understanding)
2. Application of Collective Impact especially to address upstream community health issues
3. Gaining deeper understanding of implementation through collective impact community health examplesNo single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to primary and preventive health care services, health promotion and health protection. Achieving meaningful impact on these issues requires systems level change and needs to involve a range of cross-sector organizations. While cross-sector collaborations are not new, effective cross-sector collaborations that have achieved meaningful, systems-level impact at scale are not common.
For five years, FSG has researched nearly three dozen examples effective cross-sector collaborations across the globe. This research culminated in the development of the collective impact framework which essentially captures the key principles that make collaborations effective.
In this webinar, FSG will share how collective impact can be helpful in addressing community health issues using two specific examples. The first example involves addressing asthma prevention while the second example involves addressing obesity. Through these examples, participants will have the chance to understand in depth, how hospitals, public health institutions, safety net organizations, philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, the local community and corporations (pharmaceutical, medical device, health insurance) have worked collaboratively to address these issues.
Registration is now available.
May 9, 2013
Maximizing the Value of Community Benefit through Collective Impact and Technology
The epidemic of chronic disease is making unreimbursed costs a serious burden for many hospitals. At the same time the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and other forces are requiring hospitals to put more emphasis on population health. By shifting from reactive charity care to proactive investments in collaborative health improvement, hospitals can multiply their community benefit in ways that better meet the health needs in the community, enhance the work of community partners and decrease the cost of uncompensated or undercompensated care for the hospitals. Everyone wins.
Many organizations and communities are pursuing the idea of "collective impact" (in contrast to the more typical “isolated impact”) to be able to meet rising needs with constrained resources. But that is challenging to accomplish. This webinar will show how hospitals can support promising practices that enhance collective impact. It will also cover how “digital backbone” technologies can make collective impact more affordable and sustainable than approaches that depend heavily on staff and generous funders to coordinate and align the efforts of a community coalition.This webinar will be posted shortly.
April 18, 2013
Impacting School Health Policy: An Effective, Data-informed Partnership
Participate in this session to learn how an urban school district and a pediatric hospital’s mobile health unit partnered to assess school district obesity rates, informed the development of school health and wellness policies, and inspired a community-building agency to provide healthy lifestyle programs.
Presenters from St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the Normandy School District will share how the mobile health unit’s assessment of students’ body mass index, coupled with guidance from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and policy recommendations made to the school district’s health and wellness committee, resulted in the implementation of new health and wellness goals. These included: increasing recess time; increasing physical education time; creating a health education curriculum; increasing physical activity in before and after-school programming; and working with outside food sources to supply lower calorie beverages and food options.
The session will discuss strategies for getting school district leadership involved in community health programming, utilizing existing resources in the community to address chronic health issues and the importance and use of data in motivating community partner.
This webinar will be posted shortly
Participate in this webinar to learn how Children’s National Medical Center and the District of Columbia Department of Health collaborated to open a satellite emergency department in an historically medically underserved area, and subsequently worked to reduce emergency department utilization and connect patients with more appropriate care sources for non-emergent conditions.
December 5, 2012
Creating Synergy between Hospitals and Public Health on Community Health Assessments: Case Example from a National Demonstration(Webinar and recording made possible by project funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
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Tim Callahan
Director of Health
Norwalk Health Department
Norwalk, CT
Mary Franco
Vice President, Public Affairs
Norwalk Hospital
Norwalk, CT
Lauren Shirey
Senior Program Manager
National Association of County and City Health Officials
Washington, DCIn a strained economic environment, local health departments (LHDs) and non-profit hospitals are uniquely positioned to collaboratively undertake community health improvement processes to strategically identify and address how limited resources can have the most impact on community health improvement.
The highlight of the session will be the story of one community whose LHD and non-profit hospital are co-leading a community health improvement process that produced a community health needs assessment (CHNA) and implementation and community health improvement plan (CHIP) that positions the LHD to fulfill its accreditation requirements and to substantially help the non-profit hospital meet its CHNA requirement. Participants will hear first-hand from hospital and LHD leaders about how they completed their CHNA, how they created a CHIP, how they are taking action, and the methods they are employing to ensure the process truly meets each organization's requirements.
The speakers will highlight how this community is meaningfully engaging community members and partners, addressing the social determinants of health, employing a quality improvement tool, and how they have worked with state partners to assist other communities. Participants will leave the session with practical examples and lessons, as well as resources available to assist participants in employing a similar model in their own communities, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project in which this community has taken part.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe how a local health department and non-profit hospital can collaborate to conduct a health improvement process that yields a community health needs assessment (CHNA) and implementation and improvement plan that positions each entity to fulfill its respective requirements.
- Discuss complementary roles that the health department and non-profit hospital can each play to create and implement an improvement strategy based on the CHNA findings.
- Highlight CHNA resources from a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded national demonstration program.
Certified Health Education Specialists: This session carries one continuing education contact hour with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, principally related to Areas of Responsibility 1 and 2. ACHI's Multiple Event Provider number is MEP3728, and this is event 01008. After registering, the confirmation message you receive will contain instructions for documenting your participation.
October 18, 2012
Engaging Influential Community Institutions in Health Improvement:
The Impact of Innovative Local "Accreditation" Initiatives
Robin McClave, MS, CHES
Director of Community Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention
Healthy Howard, Inc.
Columbia, MDCurrent research demonstrates that one's health status is significantly influenced by the environment, culture and community that comprise an individual's life. Optimal health status, therefore, is more likely to be achieved when these social determinants support and encourage wellness by increasing opportunities for active living and healthy eating.
Healthy Howard, Inc. (HHI) began in 2007 as an initiative to make Howard County, Maryland the healthiest place for residents to live, learn, work and play. As one part of its comprehensive model, HHI created an innovative voluntary local accreditation program that identifies criteria and benchmarks for schools, restaurants, workplaces and childcare sites to be recognized as healthy. Local recreation resources participate, as well, in a non-accreditation format. Through their continued participation and commitment, these organizations contribute to the community's culture of wellness, learn how to be proactive in promoting health, and gain recognition of their positive role.
Through the accreditation program and a suite of complimentary initiatives, HHI has established mutually beneficial partnerships to build a community infrastructure that provides programs and resources that engage residents in healthy activities and choices, integrated into their daily lives. The effort enables a spectrum of community-based organizations to coordinate strategies encompassing a variety of approaches to physical activity, nutrition and overall well-being, and is making progress in making the healthy choice the default choice.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify influential community institutions/organizations that will support an integrated approach to healthy eating and active living;
- Describe a voluntary local “accreditation” program to engage, mobilize and recognize influential organizations;
- Discuss the evaluation of program effectiveness and the feedback loop to modify and improve the program's components; and
- Initiate policy change at the organizational level with ideas and implications for county-wide implementation.
Certified Health Education Specialists: This session carries one continuing education contact hour with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, principally related to Competencies 5.5 and 7.2 - 7.5. ACHI's Multiple Event Provider number is MEP3728, and this is event 01007. After registering, the confirmation message you receive will contain instructions for documenting your participation.
October 3, 2012
Introduction to Community Commons and CHNA.org: Free Learning Platforms for Data and Assessments to Help Create Healthier Communities
This recording is available to ACHI members who are logged into the web site. For log-in assistance, visit here or write to communityhlth@aha.org.
Tyler Norris, MDiv.
Vice President, Total Health Partnerships
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, CA
(Read Tyler's bio)
Christopher Fulcher, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
(Read Christopher's bio)
Roxanne Medina-Fulcher, JD
Chief Operating Officer
Institute for People, Place and Possibility
Columbia, MO
(Read Roxanne's bio)This session will introduce and demonstrate two online resources - developed by numerous national and local partners - created as free public offerings to support social, health and economic well-being.
The Community Commons is an interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for civic leaders across sectors, and for participants in place-based initiatives across the US, working to create healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. Among other resources, the site provides over 7,000 GIS data layers, allowing users to construct maps and visualizations. The Commons also includes searchable profiles of community initiatives and networks, and peer learning forums.
CHNA.org is a free web-based platform designed to assist critical access hospitals, non-profit organizations, state and local health departments, and other organizations seeking to better understand the needs and assets of their communities -- to make measurable improvements in community health and well-being. The site provides resources to help:
- bring a broad array of publically available data into one site, to support community members in understanding the realities of their communities, and to inform robust civic discourse;
- engage diverse community stakeholders in creating effective local/regional intervention and investment strategies for improving community health and well-being; and
- conduct quality Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA).
Learning Objectives:
- How to use the Community Commons to access social determinants of health data, make GIS maps to inform and advance local strategies, connect with other leaders across the healthy communities movement, and engage in peer learning.
- How to use CHNA.org to help assess, inform, make, and track measurable improvements in community health and well-being.
- How to engage with the national networks and resources of Advancing the Movement and partners to inform wise policy and investment strategies.
September 20, 2012
Certified Health Education Specialists: A Valuable Resource in Hospitals' Community Health Work Force
Melissa Rehrig, MPH, MCHES
Communication Director
National Commission for Health Education Credentialing
Whitehall, PA
(Read Melissa's bio)
Nancy Clifton-Hawkins, MPH, MCHES, CLE
Principal Consultant
Clifton-Hawkins and Associates Public Health Consulting
Brea, CA
(Read Nancy's bio)This session will introduce the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) credential, and discuss ways in which these professionals can help non-profit hospitals develop and sustain effective community health and community benefit programming. Employing CHES - or supporting existing staff to gain applicable new skills by pursuing the credential -- is one approach to community health workforce development at a time when hospitals are increasingly called on to demonstrate the value of their community programs.
CHES-certified individuals are trained in the Seven Areas of Responsibility for Health Education Specialists. For example, CHES are trained in needs assessment, program planning and implementation, and evaluation and research. Certified individuals also possess numerous competencies and sub-competencies verified in the field of health education. Some of these include advocacy, partnership development, training, and management and administration. Lastly, CHES are qualified to coordinate a variety of vital programs for patients, staff and the neighboring community. Based on the priorities of one's organization, a CHES can support population health improvement with programs focusing on effectively reducing health risks, preventing and managing diseases, and identifying community health education needs. All of these skills sets can assist in community benefit program success.
In addition to conveying CHES-certified professionals' skill sets and value, the presenters will share how the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) can assist community benefit programs in seeking a CHES to support programming. Also, NCHEC can provide information on how current staff can seek the nationally recognized certification.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Introduce the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) credential, including its knowledge and skill sets;
- Explain at least two ways a non-profit hospital can benefit by hiring CHES (or supporting staff to pursue the credential) to staff community health and community benefit programs;
- Identify at least three core functions that CHES can accomplish to strengthen community health programs at non-profit hospitals; and
- Develop strategies that integrate CHES into a non-profit hospital's community health and community benefit departmental structure and functions.
Certified Health Education Specialists: This session carries one continuing education contact hour with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, principally related to Competency 7.6. ACHI's Multiple Event Provider number is MEP3728, and this is event 01006. After registering, the confirmation message you receive will contain instructions for documenting your participation.
August 16, 2012
Demonstrating the Highly Positive Return on Investment of a Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
Patricia Carabellese
Program Operations Manager
Spectrum Health
Grand Rapids, MI
(Read Patty's bio)
Mark Lubberts
Program Supervisor
Spectrum Health
Grand Rapids, MI
(Read Mark's bio)Responding to a need of the community, Spectrum Health Healthier Communities developed a self-management solution for underserved populations diagnosed with chronic disease. This program has produced a substantial, positive return on investment together with significant improvements in the health of program participants.
The Core Health Program was designed to improve the long-term health of those who do not have adequate access to health care services. It serves as a model of care which has shown that it improves the clinical and behavioral outcomes of vulnerable populations, while simultaneously reducing costs through better use of health care services and resources. The heart of the program is an innovative RN/CHW team approach for home visitation.
The outcomes have been extraordinary:
- Emergency Department utilization rates for diabetic patients were reduced from 17.4% to 7.1%, and inpatient admission rates went from 5.4% to 4.1%;
- Heart failure patients had a reduction of 35.8% in hospital admissions and a 29.6% reduction in emergency room admissions; and
- The total cost savings in ED visits and inpatient admissions avoided was approximately $1.4 million.
The presenters will illustrate how the use of evaluations and practice tools is critical to the success of the Core Health Program. Practice tools used in this work include a business plan, evaluation plan, clinical dashboards, and a business financial matrix.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Learn how evidence-based programming works to improve clincial and behavioral outcomes;
- Develop and implement practice tools and evaluation practices to measure return on investment; and
- Define and report outcomes that are meaningful to patients, physicians, and the community.
Certified Health Education Specialists: This session carries one continuing education contact hour with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, specifically related to Competencies 1.4, 1.7, 2.3, 3.1 and 4.1. ACHI's Multiple Event Provider number is MEP3728, and this is event 01005. After registering, the confirmation message you receive will contain instructions for documenting your participation.
Registration for this session is now closed.
July 12, 2012
Engaging Staff and Trustees in Linking Community Assessment to Action: One Hospital's Journey
Robert Smoot
Vice President, Mission Integration
Good Samaritan Hospital
Kearney, NE
Denise Zwiener
Executive Director
Buffalo County Community Partners
Kearney, NE
(Read Denise's bio)As hospitals complete community health needs assessments, the next step for many is crafting an implementation strategy to address identified needs. This session will present the evolution of Good Samaritan Hospital's approach to community assessment, and to setting priorities and making program decisions informed by assessment findings.
As a longstanding member of local healthy communities organization Buffalo County Community Partners, the hospital has participated in collaborative community health needs assessments since 1995. Over time, the hospital's use of these data has evolved from setting policies for donations to community programs, to annual Community Benefit Committee review of goals and priorities, and approval of the hospital's community health initiatives. Now, Good Samaritan is expanding its Community Benefit Committee, using it to help assess the community benefit budget in relation to priority needs, and adjusting programs and resource allocations to ensure alignment.
Join us as Good Samaritan's Vice President of Mission and Buffalo County Community Partners' Executive Director share how they assess community needs and work together on priorities, and the hospital's journey in using assessment information to help guide its community health investments.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will:
- Understand how and why the hospital participates in a wider, collaborative community health needs assessment;
- Be able to describe the different ways in which the hospital has used assessment findings to help guide its community health improvement programs; and
- Be knowledgeable about how the hospital's Community Benefit Committee participates in the process.
Certified Health Education Specialists: This session carries one continuing education contact hour with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, specifically related to Competencies 1.1, 1.7, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1 and 5.2. ACHI's Multiple Event Provider number is MEP3728, and this is event 01004. After registering, the confirmation message you receive will contain instructions for documenting your participation.
May 17, 2012
A Performance Measurement System for Your Community Mission: The "Report to Leadership"
M. Laurie Cammisa, JD
Vice President for Child Advocacy
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA
(Read Laurie's bio)Children's Hospital Boston believes it is important for hospitals to provide information to the public about how they are actually improving the health of the community and achieving social impact, and has created a performance measurement system to do just that. This session will present Children's Hospital Boston's system and illustrate how to develop and implement one.
The hospital's Office of Child Advocacy (OCA) created the system, called the "Report to Leadership," which serves as both a data-driven means to carry out the hospital's community mission more effectively, and as a report card to hospital leadership and to the public. The Report to Leadership contains a dashboard for the OCA's role of stewarding the hospital's community mission, and individual Program Dashboards which measure the progress of community health initiatives in implementing a strategic approach to programming.
In taking a strategic approach to community health programs, this model views these initiatives in core investment areas as a portfolio of programs. It measures the value and social impact of programs, brings increased rigor and structure to the programs, creates a fair and transparent system for allocating limited hospital resources, and supports the hospital's efforts to respond to the changing health care environment (including building population health management capacity).
Join this session to learn how Children's Hospital Boston designed this system, the common elements it requires of community programs, criteria used for measuring social impact, and how a "program evolution checklist" aids in evaluation and decision-making.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- state the value of a performance measurement system for community health programs;
- develop systems for tracking performance in stewarding a hospital's community mission
- develop a strategic approach to community health programming; and
- measure the effectiveness of specific initiatives in a hospital's local community
Certified Health Education Specialists: This session carries one continuing education contact hour with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, specifically related to Competencies 2.3, 3.2, 5.3, and Area of Responsibility 4. ACHI's Multiple Event Provider number is MEP3728, and this is event 01003. After registering, the confirmation message you receive will contain instructions for documenting your participation.
February 16, 2012
Assessing Community Health Needs: A Regional, Multi-System Approach
Judith Warren, MPH
Executive Director
Health Care Access Now
Cincinnati, OH
(Read Judith's bio)
Stephanie Marshall, MS, MBA
CHNA Project Manager
Health Care Access Now
(Read Stephanie's bio)
Kathy Lordo, MPA
Assistant Health Commissioner
Hamilton County General Health District
Cincinnati, OH
(Read Kathy's bio)In this case example session, presenters will describe their collaborative work to conduct a nine-county community health needs assessment based on a locally-developed model, A.I.M. (Ask. Inform. Make a Difference) for Better Health. A.I.M. for Better Health provides an opportunity for hospitals, public health departments, and community health organizations to conduct a comprehensive and broad-based assessment of the population's health needs, and to improve health status.
Supported by engaged funding partners (including the Greater Cincinnati Health Council (hospital association), Hamilton County Public Health, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation), the assessment has strengthened partnerships to develop strategic programs addressing unmet health needs of several under-represented sub-populations.
Presenters will describe the assessment methodology, including their approach to secondary data analysis and primary data collection using community-based participatory research techniques. Preliminary findings will be highlighted, along with a discussion of how participating organizations will pursue a shared implementation plan.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will have learned:
- the steps used in developing and administering a four-tiered community health needs assessment;
- the various aspects of collecting, analyzing, and reporting primary and secondary data on both regional and county levels;
- strategies for engaging multiple hospitals, public health agencies and funders to form a community health assessment collaborative; and
- use of mapping tools to display and archive data for community use.
Certified Health Education Specialists: This session carries one continuing education contact hour with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, specifically related to Competencies 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. ACHI's Multiple Event Provider number is MEP3728, and this is event 01001. After registering, the confirmation message you receive will contain instructions for documenting your participation.
