Census Release Shows America is More Diverse and More Multiracial Than Ever
Cindi Hobbes
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Survey Report Now Available
Free Relias Webinar July 27 — Rapid Fire Retention: 25 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 — 2:00 pm ET
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Retention is a significant challenge in healthcare organizations. It’s an enormous issue for post-acute organizations as they try to navigate dramatic changes in demand, care settings, and workforce readiness.
Join Relias and Cara Silletto, MBA, CSP, President & Chief Retention Officer at Magnet Culture Tuesday, July 27 at 2:00 pm ET for our live webinar, Rapid Fire Retention: 25 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover.
During this live session, Cara will share transferable best practices learned from various leaders, organizations, and industries including post-acute care. As a dynamic thought leader and sought-after speaker, Cara will help you:
- Discover how to improve the new-hire experience to reduce 30/60/90-day turnover;
- Learn ways to offer more creative advancement opportunities to get staff ready for the next level, even when promotions aren’t available; and
- Explore proven recognition and communication methods that retain staff longer.
Community Data Roundtable Quarterly Webinar: Visualizing Inequity; Planning for Value
Thursday, July 22, 2021 – 12:00 pm ET
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Society’s increased focus on issues of inequity and injustice dovetails well with current trends to create social service systems that are “value based.” Imagine if we built medicaid health systems that targeted communities historically marginalized from the healthcare system, or incentivized providers and payers to develop areas left undeveloped due to years of racially motivated neglect.
This quarter’s Community Data Roundtable will highlight how information that is already in the public domain can be harnessed to identify exactly where there are severe problems of inequity in our communities, and then discuss ways this information could be sewn into Value-Based Purchasing proposals.
Our featured guest is Shane Mofford, M.A., a health economist who consults with states to set up interactive data displays on an almost endless array of data that helps them see which communities are flourishing, and which are being left behind. We will highlight, in particular, the Pennsylvania Health Equity Analysis Tool (PA HEAT), which can pinpoint down to the census tract, all sorts of information about disparities regarding, health, housing, food, child care, and more.
Shane and I will look at my own neighborhood in Pittsburgh, and how legacies of injustice can be seen all around, and then discuss incentive models that could help drive intervention for the betterment of all
Please note that non-Pennsylvanians will also benefit from this presentation, because this exact same kind of analysis can be done in your state or province…and we’re hoping you’ll see the value of this work for all.
– Dan Warner, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Community Data Roundtable
Quarterly Community Data Roundtables
The quarterly Community Data Roundtables highlight innovative data work in community data, with a focus on behavioral health outcomes, child welfare, and juvenile justice. We highlight analytic approaches, software, and quality processes that optimize insights for action at the community level, advancing health, equity and justice. Participants in the Roundtable include administrators, data wonks and technical people, and anyone interested in learning what is most cutting edge in community-focused data across the globe.
Free Magellan Webinar: “Understanding and Overcoming Unique Issues for BIPOC Mental Health”
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 — 2:00 pm ET
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For black and indigenous people of color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month, Magellan is offering a free webinar with their medical directors, Dr. Rakel Beall-Wilkins, MD, MPH, psychiatrist, and Dr. Misty Tu, MD, psychiatrist, as they share their knowledge and tips to support BIPOC mental health and answer questions from the audience.
Course Description:
Impacts from the pandemic have disproportionately affected BIPOC groups, leading to increased stress and mental health concerns. While African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population, they make up 30% of COVID-19 cases and 33% of COVID-19 hospitalizations [1]. Data shows that COVID-19-related deaths among BIPOC groups are also disproportionately higher [1]. Among Hispanic adults during the pandemic, reports of increased or newly initiated substance use (SU) was 36.9%, compared to 14.3%–15.6% among all other respondents, symptoms of depression were reported 59% more frequently than by White individuals, and reports of suicidal thoughts/ideation were 4x higher than for African American and White individuals [2]. Among Asian Americans during the pandemic, 32% have reported fear over being threatened or physically attacked, 45% have reported at least one derogatory incident tied to racial or ethnic background, and 81% have reported a general concern that violence against them is increasing [3].
Historically, individuals in racial and ethnic minority groups are less likely to receive treatment for mental health or SU disorders [2]. Among people with any mental illness in 2015, 22% of Asian people and 31% of African American and Hispanic people received treatment, compared to 48% of White people [4].
Anatomy of a Health Conundrum: The Racial Gap in Vaccinations
Patient Selection and Neurosurgical Decision-Making to Treat Hypertonia in Children with CP
Patient Selection and Neurosurgical Decision-Making to Treat Hypertonia in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Who is a Good Candidate and Which Procedures are Helpful?
Thursday, August 5, 2021
1:00 pm–2:00 pm EDT, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm CDT
11:00 am–12:00 pm MDT, 10:00 am–11:00 am PDT
Dr. Marcie Ward, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Patrick Graupman, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Dr. Tim Feyma, Pediatric Neurology
Laura Area, PT, Pediatric Physical Therapy
Course Description:
Management of hypertonicity in children with cerebral palsy is multifaceted. Join us as this multi-disciplinary team from Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota discusses the neurosurgical options, considerations, and best practices for treatment of this condition.
Disclosures/Conflicts of Interest:
The presentation team are all employed by Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare and did not receive any compensation for this presentation. The team has no relevant financial disclosures.
Objectives: At the end of the session, the learner will:
- Describe the history of surgical rhizotomy and other surgical treatments which guide the application procedures in current clinical practice;
- Understand the importance of careful patient selection for surgical procedures based on patient and family goals, neuroanatomy principles, and the predictability of outcomes; and
- Identify atypical patient presentations that may benefit from selective dorsal rhizotomy and other procedures and discuss anticipated outcomes.
Audience: This webinar is intended for all members of the rehabilitation team, including medical staff, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, licensed psychologists, mental health professionals, and other interested professionals.
Level: Intermediate
Certificate of Attendance: Certificates of attendance are available for all attendees. No CEs are provided for this course.
Registration: Registration is complimentary for members of IPRC/RCPA. Registration fee for non-members is $179. Not a member yet? Consider joining today. Multiple registrations per organization are permitted.
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Training Opportunity: Serving Children with Medical Complexity / Medical Foster Care Providers
Free Virtual Course — Leadership: Creating Your Culture and Negotiating Across Diversity
Join Penn State on Thursday, July 8, 2021 for Leadership: Creating Your Culture and Negotiating Across Diversity, which will examine ways to establish your workplace culture and how to negotiate across a diverse group of people.
Register here for free today.
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