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.
2007 Dates: January 18; February 15; April; June 21; July 19; August 16; September 20; October 18; November 15.
(See descriptions of ACHI's 2006 audio conferences.)
September 20, 2007
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Guidelines for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating
Shawn V LaFrance
Executive Director
Foundation for Healthy Communities
Concord, NHBeth Gustafson Wheeler, MS
Community Coordinator
Foundation for Healthy Communities
Concord, NHJoin us as Shawn LaFrance and Beth Wheeler of the Foundation for Healthy Communities in New Hampshire share new guidelines and a statewide public education campaign for reducing childhood obesity. The New Hampshire Childhood Obesity Expert Panel produced practical recommendations for communities to implement childhood obesity prevention strategies. The panel’s end product, “Preventing Childhood Obesity: Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Eating,” provides guidance for preventing obesity in multiple arenas, whether it’s at home, at the doctor’s office or in schools.
Additionally, learn about a complementary statewide public campaign called “5-2-1-0 Healthy NH” to raise awareness of and generate action on these daily guidelines for nutrition and physical activity, as well as the educational tools and resources made available for both clinicians and community organizations.
Mr. LaFrance and Ms. Wheeler will share how the guidelines can be adapted for your own community, discuss the process by which the expert panel produced the guidelines, and describe how they engaged the media to help implement the guidelines and promote their call to action.
Session participants will:
- Discuss and explore how to adapt and apply the guidelines to your community;
- Understand how a multi-disciplinary group of experts collaborated to produce a set of statewide recommendations;
- Learn how one state engaged the media as an active partner in a major health improvement campaign.
August 16, 2007
Evaluating Impact of Community-based Programs to Build Support
Maria R. Moreno, MPH
Health Services Researcher
Sutter Health Institute for Research and Education (SHIRE)
San Francisco, CASession leaders will walk through the evaluation process for Sacramento’s Cover the Kids, a large community-based program at Sutter Health Medical Center Sacramento. This case study will highlight the use of the Logic Model within the evaluation process – to better understand the program’s current activities, its short- and long-term goals and how each is measured.
Join this session to learn the importance of standardized data collection in demonstrating the outcomes and impact of a program. Techniques for cleaning, reviewing, and analyzing data to “tell your story” will be shared. Participants will learn how to use these findings to apply for funding, enhance community partnership opportunities and build leadership support. Session leaders will also discuss how to strategically implement impact-based program planning and evaluation across an organization.
Participants will:
- Learn how to apply the Logic Model to evaluate impact of a large community-based program.
- Understand the importance of data collection to increase funding and build program support.
- Learn how to implement impact-based program planning and evaluation across an organization.
July 19, 2007 - Co-Sponsored by VHA, Inc.
Community Benefit as a Business Strategy
Sherry L. Bright, MSPH
Vice President of Clinical & Performance Improvement
VHA Mountain States
Denver, COJoin us for an uncommon and uncommonly useful approach to community benefit.
The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award is the nation's highest award for quality and performance excellence for all sectors of our economy, including non-profit and governmental organizations. The criteria used for evaluating performance explicitly address both the approach an organization uses to identify and support its key communities and the results it achieves through that support. Furthermore, they link leadership and governance to action and results.
This session will explore the alignment between the Baldrige Criteria, community benefit reporting and organizational strategy and tactics designed to improve the health and well-being of local communities. You will learn a cross-walk and lexicon for dialogue about the strategic importance of community benefit to an organization's corporate health and well-being. Context will also be provided for assessing the impact of various tactical approaches to those who support investment in community benefit, in their efforts to speak from a business perspective to senior leaders.
Participants will:
- Gain an understanding of the relevance and value of Baldridge criteria for community benefit performance.
- Learn specific ways that community benefit programs can support a hospital's business strategy while also serving community needs.
- Hear examples of community benefit practices by Baldrige Award winners in health care .
June 21, 2007
Big Vision to Practical Action:
Community Engagement and Data Tools for Health Improvement Campaigns
Greg Vigdor
President
Washington Health Foundation
Seattle, WA
Significant population health challenges require both bold action and effective tools. Large community campaigns for health improvement are a challenge to organize and sustain – and even more of a challenge to demonstrate tangible impact.
Join us to learn how the Washington Health Foundation (WHF) created the largest civic engagement project for health in the history of Washington State – involving more than 800 organizations and business, over 200 schools, and 30,000 people – with innovative health challenges, public education messages, and public policy leadership.
View a demonstration of WHF's custom web tools that engage individuals in learning about and tracking their own personal weight, nutrition, water intake, sleep and miles logged. See how WHF's web tools educate and provide a personal space for people to record, better understand and change their health habits. And learn how your community can gain access at no charge to these tools for your own health improvement campaign.
Participants will:
- Learn the principles and steps with which the Washington Health Foundation assembled and ran a successful, state-wide health improvement campaign.
- Take a live tour of web-based tools for managing a health improvement campaign and engaging individual community members to track and improve health habits.
- Learn how your community can take advantage (at no charge) of WHF’s web tools and database for your own local campaign.
April 2007 -- Free Presentation Download
Breathing Easy in Class: A Hospital - School Partnership for Asthma Management
Jeff Byrne
Program Director, Asthma Center
St. John's Riverside Hospital
Yonkers, NY
During school year 1997-98, the Yonkers public schools reported an asthma rate 55% higher than the national average. In January 1998, the death of an elementary school child due to an asthma attack while playing basketball became the catalyst for a partnership between St. John's Riverside Hospital and the Yonkers Public Schools to improve school asthma care.
The program began in 1998, as part of the Yonkers Childhood Health Initiative, and has grown each year with just under 300 schools participating in 2004-05. It now provides referrals and more comprehensive care. After just one year, there was an 80% drop in students sent home and to the Emergency Department. Since then, they have maintained consistent, positive results. In November of 2002, the New York State Department of Health announced that the St. John's Riverside Hospital/Yonkers Schools Partnership for Asthma Management was being adopted as a model in a pilot program for school districts throughout New York State.
This presentation describes components of the program, including equipment donations and training school nurses to administer treatment. How to adapt this program for other communities is also addressed.
Download this presentation to:
- Understand factors that need to be addressed to effectively manage and treat children with asthma.
- Learn components of a successful hospital - school partnership and how it can be adapted in other communities.
Yonkers Childhood Health Initiative is a 2006 AHA NOVA Award winner.
Download the slides here. (1 MB)
February 15, 2007
Maximizing Community Benefit's Impact on Community Health
Ellie Zuehlke, MPH
Director, Community Benefit
Allina Hospitals & Clinics
Minneapolis, MNAllina Hospitals and Clinics has a long history of providing community benefit activities that promote health in its communities and contribute to fulfilling its mission. Over the last two years, Allina has made several changes to its community benefit program in an effort to maximize its positive impact on community health. These changes have resulted in the development of a board-level Community Benefit Committee, the creation of local Community Advisory Councils, and the addition of employees to build capacity for and to better organize the community benefit program.
This session will demonstrate the importance of program development as a means to achieving better outcomes. It will provide participants with practical tools to assist in the development of their own community benefit program, and the opportunity to learn from Allina’s journey of program enhancement.
Participants will:
- Understand how community benefit programs can be effectively integrated into the mission and vision of hospitals and health systems.
- Identify the relationships and resources needed to create, implement and sustain a community benefit program.
- Learn from planning, evaluation and reporting models used to target the health needs of a community.
January 18, 2007
Primary Care Access Network: Effective Public-Private Collaboration for the Underinsured
Maureen Kersmarki
Regional Director, Government & Public Affairs
Florida Hospital
Orlando, FL
Margaret Brennan
Program Administrator, Primary Care Access Network
Health Services Administrator, Orange County Government's Medical Services
Orlando, FLCome learn how a four year old public-private primary care network has made a dramatic difference in care for the uninsured in central Florida.
In Orange County, Florida in 1999, a substantial growth in the number of uninsured people and a surge in local hospitals' emergency department visits forced health care leaders to take action. Local government, primary health care centers, hospitals and community social services effectively joined forces to create the Primary Care Access Network (PCAN).
PCAN's works to improve the access, quality and coordination of health care services to the underinsured and uninsured populations of Orange County - and it has been very successful. Since its inception in 2002, PCAN has expanded from two to eleven full service medical clinics, increased enrollment from 5,000 to 69,000 patients, and provided an additional $4.3 million in donated care by volunteer medical providers. Its services include inpatient care; outpatient care, including pediatrics; family planning and maternity care; dental care; short-term recuperative care after hospitalization; behavioral care; and mental-health counseling, among others.
Join Maureen Kersmarki from Florida Hospital and Margaret Brennan from Orange County Government's Medical Services Division, as they share their story about an innovative and ambitious partnership increasing access to care.
Participants will:
- Learn how diverse public-private partnerships can create community change.
- Understand the role of institutionalization -- both public and private -- in program sustainability.
- Gain knowledge of effective strategies for a self-sustaining partnership.
- Learn creative ways to improve efficiencies and enhance patient satisfaction.
PCAN is a 2006 AHA NOVA Award winner.
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