Educational Audio and Web Conferences
The Association for Community Health Improvement offers educational audio and web conferences. These sessions address a range of topics, including: population health improvement and chronic disease prevention, access to care, community benefit, collaborative strategies, outcomes measurement, and evaluation.2006 Dates: February 2; April 20; May 18; June 15; July 20; August 17; August 24; September 21; October 17; November 16.
(See descriptions of ACHI's 2005 audio conferences.)
November 16, 2006
Parish and Community Outreach Nursing:
Lessons from 10 Years of Growth and Service
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Deborah Ziebarth |
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Lori Cronin |
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Hanneke Deeken |
Join us to hear 2006 AHA NOVA Award winner ProHealth Care share its health outreach initiatives, and particularly how their parish and community outreach nursing program has grown from two nurses to 20 to meet the needs of a diverse and changing community.
Community benefit outreach manager Deborah Ziebarth will lead an introduction to Wisconsin-based ProHealth’s community benefit programs, and then focus on the details outcomes of the Parish Nurse and Community Health Outreach Nurse Programs that serve 17 congregations, three food pantries, four homeless shelters, two community meal sites, eight public schools, four low-income housing sites, and two community centers.
Participants will learn how the program has expanded and adapted its focus to meet the needs of a growing Hispanic population, including the creation and value of the Hispanic Community Health Resource Center and Waukesha Hispanic Collaborative Network.
ProHealth Care is a 2006 AHA NOVA Award winner.
October 17, 2006
Chicago's Comprehensive Youth Obesity Prevention Collaborative
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Kathy Christoffel, MD, MPH |
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Matt Longjohn, MD, MPH |
The session was free thanks to CDC funding of HRET’s Youth Obesity Learning Collaborative, of which COMP/CLOCC is a member.
Download here: presentation slides (300 KB) and audio recording (8 MB).
Join us to learn about Chicago's comprehensive, community-based youth obesity prevention network. The Center on Obesity Management and Prevention (COMP) at Children's Memorial Hospital and the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) work hand-in-hand to address childhood obesity prevention through health promotion, social marketing, legislative policy development, health care, research and more. This inclusive undertaking involves a vast and active partnership of health care, schools, business, community groups and government, and has a number of tangible successes under its belt.
Katherine Christoffel, MD, MPH, Director, COMP and Matt Longjohn, MD, MPH, Executive Director of CLOCC of Children's Memorial Hospital will tell the story of this vital effort's origin and current priorities, highlight specific programs, and answer questions about adapting their work in your community.
September 21, 2006
Policies and Procedures to Strengthen Community Benefit Accountability
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James West President and CEO Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Whittier, CA |
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Nancy Whyte Director, Senior and Volunteer Services Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital |
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital (Whittier, California) has undertaken an extensive review and revision of its community benefit policies, to increase accountability and to align hospital governance, management and operations for delivering optimal benefit to its local community. Learn how this community hospital developed and implemented policies as part of its leadership in the Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit demonstration project.
Chief Executive Officer Jim West will discuss his rationale for re-focusing the hospital's community benefit efforts through organizational policy development, share the strategies he put into action to engage both the Board of Trustees and senior management in the process, and the results he expects the effort will yield. Community Health Manager Nancy Whyte will detail the steps taken to effectively update existing policies and create new ones, as well as how the initiative has changed her role in the hospital and in the community.
August 24, 2006
Introduction to a Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefits
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Linda DeWolf President VHA Health Foundation Irving, TX |
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Julie Trocchio Senior Director Catholic Health Association Washington, DC |
A Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit, published by the Catholic Health Association in cooperation with VHA, Inc. is the comprehensive, newly-released update of the widely used 1989 Guide.
This audio conference will set the framework for why a systematic approach to planning and reporting community benefit is critically important in light of public scrutiny of not-for-profit health care organizations and escalating community need. It will present guidelines from the new book, developed through the experience of community benefit leaders throughout the country.
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the mission, policy and accountability imperatives for building effective and sustainable community benefit programs.
- Carry out the basic steps of developing policies, building a program infrastructure, planning, tracking and evaluating community benefit programs and activities.
- Identify what counts as a community benefit and how to effectively tell the community benefit story.
- Use the Guide in helping to plan and report their own community benefit activities.
August 17, 2006
Trust Counts Now: Hospitals and Their Communities
| John King CEO, Legacy Health Systems (Portland, Oregon), 1991-1999 Formerly chair of the American Hospital Association's Board of Trustees and of Health Forum Currently a nationally recognized health care consultant and chair of AHA's Services, Inc. |
Strong public trust is key to a successful future for every hospital, and every hospital has to work to maintain and strengthen that bond with its community.
To help hospitals succeed in this arena, the American Hospital Association's Board of Trustees turned to their respected colleague and nationally recognized leader John King, to assess forces and factors affecting public trust, to tap into hospital leaders across the country for their candid views on issues of public trust, and to look for creative models of community connections.
His report, Trust Counts Now, is a straight-from-the-shoulder, sometimes jolting analysis of what the public and hospital leaders are worried about, what some hospitals are doing about it, and how others can and should follow. The case study models featured in this report demonstrate how these hospitals have hardwired public trust and confidence into their mission, strategic planning and everyday work through the very organizational model that holds them together. Join us for what promises to be a riveting presentation and discussion.
July 20, 2006
YMCAs and Hospitals: Successful Collaborations for Healthier Communities
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Katie Clarke Adamson Director of Health Partnerships and Policy YMCA of the USA Washington, DC |
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Linda Shyavitz President and CEO Sturdy Memorial Hospital Attleboro, MA |
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Duane German Executive Director YMCA of Attleboro Attleboro, MA |
As health care providers, hospitals are natural collaborators with YMCAs for fitness and wellness programs. The rising costs of health care and an ever-increasing emphasis on prevention are driving forces behind this phenomenon. According to a YMCA study, there were nearly 900 YMCAs in some type of collaboration with a hospital in 2003, a number that is growing annually for good reasons.
Join this session for a discussion of trends in hospital and YMCA working relationships and joint ventures - including forms of program collaboration, sharing of existing facilities, and joint construction and operation of new facilities. Learn what specific benefits hospitals and YMCAs have derived and delivered to their communities, and gain an introduction to guidelines for exploring and establishing a collaboration in your own community.
June 15, 2006
Operation Access: Providing Donated Outpatient Surgery to Uninsured People
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Benjamin Aune Executive Director Operation Access San Francisco, CA |
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Mary Gregory Director of Programs Operation Access San Francisco, CA |
Register to learn how Operation Access (www.operationaccess.org) serves uninsured individuals who do not have the means to pay for outpatient surgery. With over 350 medical volunteers, seventeen participating hospitals and sixty referring clinics, Operation Access is able to provide a much-needed service that is usually left out of “access to care” conversations.
Operation Access serves the working poor, the majority employed in service sector jobs that do not offer health benefits, and last year provided donated outpatient surgical care to nearly 370 people. This unique program succeeds on the commitment of volunteer medical professionals and donated hospital services. Interpreter services are also provided at no cost for non English-speaking patients. This former AHA NOVA Award recipient has proven its sustainability, serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993.
May 18, 2006
Dental Care Access and Prevention Strategies for Underserved Populations
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Peter Milgrom, DDS Professor of Dental Public Health Sciences Director, Northwest/Alaska Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities University of Washington |
Join us for an hour of creative and practical approaches to improving both access to dental care and the prevention of dental health problems among the underserved and uninsured. Dr. Peter Milgrom will share examples and lessons from projects affiliated with the NIH/NIDCR-funded Northwest/Alaska Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities.
Progress integrating dental health care into pediatric and migrant farm worker medical settings, cross-generational prevention by working with pregnant women, outreach to help establish community dental partnerships, and racial/ethnic diversification of the dental health workforce will be among the approaches discussed. Wise use of resources that focuses on systems change will be the unifying theme of this enlightening session.
April 20, 2006
Acts of Charity: Charity Care Strategies for Hospitals in a Changing Landscape
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Reatha Clark Partner Healthcare Industry Group PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
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Benjamin Isgur Assistant Director Health Research Institute PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
Hospital charity care provides millions of the uninsured with free care, but courts, government regulators and community leaders are now questioning how much value society derives from this community benefit. This audio conference, presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, examines the developing charity care issue, discusses key findings and recommendations, and provides strategies for succeeding in this evolving environment.
Based in part on survey responses from 100 hospital financial executives and in-depth interviews with top health care leaders, this session will illustrate hospitals' charity care practices and policies, while also discussing the broader landscape and its challenges to financing and providing health care to all.
February 2, 2006
Guide to Community Preventive Services: An Evidence-based Health Improvement Tool For Supporting Effective Prevention Choices
| Peter A. Briss, MD, MPH Captain, U.S. Public Health Service Chief, Community Guide Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Join us for an overview of and practical introduction to the CDC's Guide to Community Preventive Services. Hospitals, public health departments, community health centers and community-based coalitions all can benefit by employing this evidence-based tool for making a real difference in health promotion and disease prevention in communities and health care systems across a range of community health topics from diabetes to tobacco use, and from physical activity to the socio-cultural factors that affect health.
Learn how the Guide was created from research findings, who is using it to guide program and policy decisions at the local level, and how you can help improve your community's health by turning to it for effective interventions and preventive strategies. Learn how to navigate the web-based tool, and discuss case studies where it has been employed with positive impact.
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