Hot Topic Symposia

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health

Public Health

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety

Session Type: Hot Topic Symposia

An institutional, cross-condition learning network approach to the pursuit of excellent and equitable child health outcomes

Saturday, April 29, 2023

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Location: Convention Center: 202 B

CE: Live CME: 1.50

Selected By: APA
Co-sponsored By: AAP, PHM

Chair(s)

Ndidi Unaka, MD, MEd

Associate Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Disclosure(s):

Ndidi Unaka, MD, MEd: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session

Description: Longstanding societal ills - including racism in all its forms - perpetuate child health inequities. To eliminate these gaps, health systems must pursue equity in partnership with communities and identify ways in which to act and learn quickly. In this session, we will discuss an institutional effort to achieve excellent and equitable health outcomes across pediatric conditions. This effort, called the Health Equity Network (HEN), seeks to identify and act on upstream key drivers of equity with strategies that generalize across clinical areas and conditions.
Clinical teams (e.g., those addressing asthma, depression, diabetes, neonatal health) commit to measurably close equity gaps on key outcomes that align with our institution’s strategic plan. Teams participate in longitudinal cross-condition learning activities with one another and with community partners. SMART aims focus on eliminating disparities in outcomes by race, ethnicity, and/or socioeconomic status.
Together, clinical teams focus on 5 key drivers: 1) accountability for equity; 2) capability to provide the right care at the right time and place and in the right way; 3) enhanced positive and addressed negative social determinants of health; 4) effective connections between medical and social care providers; and 5) trusted relationships between providers, patients, and their families.
We will describe our use of quality improvement (QI), advanced analytics, and co-production to create, and grow, a cross-condition learning network within an academic children’s hospital. Each core team employs QI support, actionable data, and community engagement specialists to support testing of targeted interventions based on shared theory and drivers.

Learning Objectives:

Consider the role health systems can play in the pursuit of population health equity
Understand how quality improvement and learning network, advanced analytic, and co-production methods can accelerate health equity
Delineate tangible next steps supportive of development, scale, and spread of community-connected, networked approaches to population health equity

Presentations:

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM ET

Health equity as an institutional priority: a history
Speaker: Robert S. Kahn, MD MPH (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM ET

Pursuing population health inside the hospital: example efforts from HEN teams
Speaker: Emily R. Miller, MD, MS, FAAP (she/her/hers) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM ET

Pursuing population health inside the hospital: example efforts from HEN teams
Speaker: Nana-Hawa Yayah Jones, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
11:45 AM – 12:05 PM ET

Bridging hospital-based activities with community partners
Speaker: Ndidi Unaka, MD, MEd – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
12:05 PM – 12:20 PM ET

Moving toward scale: building capability for durable, long-term population health
Speaker: Andrew F. Beck, MD MPH (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center