It is the person speaking who is the judge of how well they have been heard. When a person feels heard, the door is open for partnership toward change and growth. In this workshop, participants will review and practice the motivational interviewing skills of accurate empathy, reflective listening, and affirmations. Speaker: Rafael Martinez, Author, LCSW, […]
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Housing instability, employment, and other social determinants of health intersect to create barriers to achieving health equity for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. This session will address the needs of and considerations for TGD patients experiencing homelessness. Speakers: Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, Director of the Division of Education and Training, Fenway Institute Session Materials:
Hennepin County Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) located in the upper Midwest. The health center’s patient population faces some of the greatest disparities in health within the community. Over the past two years, HCH has worked to improve how clinical quality data and patient health measures are
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Colorado Coalition for the Homeless has been on a path to Zero Suicide for the past several years. The Coalition’s belief that equal access to risk assessment is at the heart of their implementation process and guides all they do. Based in quality assurance, their process was developed from the beginning with analysis, reporting, and
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This session will highlight the process taken by Hennepin County Health Care for the Homeless as they built their viral hepatitis program. The presentation will illustrate the current HCV barriers to care clients experience, how the team overcome those barriers, and how they collaborate to successfully advocate for sheltered and unsheltered clients to obtain HCV
Learn about a Medi-Cal plan’s approach to centering the experience of its members experiencing homelessness through strategic investments and program implementation in partnership with the local continuum of care and community-based organizations. Learn how these investments increase opportunities for unhoused members to provide feedback on programs and receive a variety of new services to support
While data is something the western medical model has been built upon, it hasn’t necessarily been equitable. This session will focus on how to apply an equity lens to the data that we collect as well as discuss what data we should be looking at, why and how do we collect this data in a
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Health care visits supplemented with tele transmission of auscultation, ear, throat, and skin examinations were implemented in a busy large scale metro mobile and fixed clinic primary care service. There will be discussion of user experience, and patient acceptability, satisfaction, and preferences. Speakers: Donna Persaud, Medical Director, Parkland Health; Sara Galvez, Practice Operations Manager, Parkland
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