Description: According to RWJF, “Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.” Equity, one of the six domains of quality, has lingered behind the other domains in improvement efforts until recent years. Health and health care disparities have been present and well documented for years, however, there has been no significant reduction in overall disparities in care. This session will focus on integrating an equitable lens and framework into your QI projects to ensure that you are playing an active role in reducing health and healthcare disparities.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation the participant will be able to:
• Describe health and healthcare equity and how racism influences it
• Apply improvement methodology to reducing disparities
• Define measures for disparities
• Stratify data to achieve health equity
• Use a 5-step framework for measuring health equity
Session Facilitators:
Tyneshia Harris, MSHS, LSSGB is an Enterprise Improvement Advisor in the Center for Healthcare Quality and Analytics (CHQA) at CHOP, specializing in performance and process improvement and change management. She is also an adjunct instructor for the School of Medicine at the George Washington University for the Health Care Quality Program. Tyneshia has a Master of Science in Healthcare Quality from The George Washington University and is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt professional. Her primary role at CHOP is now leading the improvement efforts to support the new Center for Health Equity at CHOP as well as co-directing the Improvement Education Program at CHOP.
Tommy Ferrari, MPHc is an Improvement Advisor Intern with CHOP’s Center for Healthcare quality and Analytics as part of his graduate program. He has assisted on a number of quality improvement and patient safety projects. He is a second year MPH student at Drexel University the Health Management and Policy Department and a Health Economics minor. Tommy previously graduated from University of Scranton in 2018 and spent 2 years serving with AmeriCorps in Philadelphia prior to his time at Drexel.
Cost: FREE for 2021 PAHQ members & $25 for non-members
Register here: https://pahq-winter-2021.eventbrite.com
Attending this presentation is worth 1 CPHQ CE credit. Webinar fees go toward the fees incurred to offer credits.