2024 Reflection - W08 - Diversity, Health Equity and Inclusion Leaders - On Demand

The headlines are tough to read, but pushback means we are making progress — and now is the time to redouble our efforts on diversity, health equity and inclusion. Through Vizient®, you have access to an alliance of leading health systems working to ensure employees and patients can achieve their full potential and highest levels of health — so let’s compare and share!   

This year, your peer to peer session during the Vizient Connections Summit features six member organizations presenting success stories and lessons learned to inform, inspire and accelerate your organization’s improvement journey. Your executive colleagues will share strategies for building a diverse and inclusive workforce empowered to provide culturally appropriate care by measuring and addressing outcome disparities, assessing bias in population health risk models, fostering a culture of innovation and implementing robust interventions. All that’s missing is your voice and experience.

Target Audience

  • Healthcare Executives
  • Healthcare Quality Professionals
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Pharmacy Technicians
  • Physicians
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:  

  • Identify current organizational performance and opportunities in relation to the Diversity, Health Equity and Inclusion Maturity Model.  
  • Discuss the identification and reporting of disparities, including interventions to decrease readmissions in behavioral health patients.   
  • Examine how to assess for structural bias in population health risk models.
  • Describe how mentorship/sponsorship programs and dedicated resources focused on innovation and strategic action can improve organizational culture.  
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.50 ACHE
  • 3.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 3.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.50 ANCC
  • 3.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 3.50 General CE - Attendance
  • 3.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
Course opens: 
10/06/2024
Course expires: 
10/07/2025

FACULTY & PLANNERS

Faculty

LeeMichael McLean
Associate Vice President
Member Networks and Performance Improvement
 
Laura Hoffman, DNP, MSN, CPHQ
Senior PI Program Director
Vizient
 
Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS
Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer
IU Health
Indianapolis. Ind.
 
Bilwa Buchake, MPH
Director, Quality Analytics
Stanford Health Care
Stanford, Calif.
 
Alice Yan, PhD
Director, Health Equity Research
Stanford Health Care
Stanford, Calif.
 
Jenny Bernard, DNP, MSN, RN-BC, AGNP-BC
Director of Community Health Quality
Hackensack Meridian Health
Edison, NJ
 
Victor A. Carrillo, PhD, MPA, MBA
Senior Vice President & Associate Chief Quality Officer
Hackensack Meridian Health
Edison, NJ
 
Matthew Crase, BA
Lead Clinical Informaticist
UC Davis Health
Sacramento, Calif.
 
Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM
Chief of Population Health and Accountable Care
UC Davis Health
Sacramento, Calif.
 
Franklin Owusu, MBA, MPA
Administrator, Hospital Operations
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center 
Columbus, Ohio
 
Tracey Boggs, MBA
Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness Consultant
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center 
Columbus, Ohio
 
Wendy Parisi, MS
Senior Director, Health Equity
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
 
Jherell Drain, BA
Senior Communications Specialist
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
 
 
Planning Committee
 
Juli Hermanson, MPH, RDN, CPHQ (Course Director)
Senior Director 
Member Education 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Kathy Christensen, BS 
VP, Operations 
Member Networks 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Katie David, DNP, MS-HSM 
Senior Intelligence Director 
Member Networks 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Cheryl Jachna, BS 
Lead Education Programs Manager 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Marilu Kelly, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHCP 
Director 
Continuing Education 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
David Levine, MD 
Chief Medical Officer 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Lisa McClain, BS 
Networks Manager 
Member Education 
Vizient, Inc. 
 
Mike Oinonen, PharmD, MPH 
Vice President 
Pharmacy Networks 
Vizient, Inc. 
 

 

DISCLOSURE

As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.
 
Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.
 

Disclosure Statements

 

Relevant Financial Relationships

 

Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

 

Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS, speaker for this educational activity, is a Research Funding Recipient for Novartis and Cook Medical..

 

All relevant financial relationships listed for these individual(s) have been mitigated.

All others in a position to control content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 
 
Statement of Content Validity
 
Vizient, Inc. educational activities are intended to assist healthcare teams advance their professional responsibilities in accordance with the definition of continuing education. It is the policy of Vizient, Inc. to review and ensure that all content and recommendations for patient care within accredited CE is evidenced-based, based on current science and clinical reasoning while ensuring the content is fair and balanced. All recommendations must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Vizient, Inc. does not permit accredited continuing education if it advocates for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or if the education promotes recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.
 
FDA Off-Label Use
 
Faculty presenters are also expected to disclose any discussion of (1) off-label or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States.
 
Disclaimer
The education provided through this activity is for continuing education purposes only. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty/presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vizient, Inc.

 

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Designation Statement(s)
 
Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
This activity was planned by, and for, the healthcare team, and learners will receive 3.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
 
 
 
Nurses (CNE)
 
This activity is designated for 3.5 contacts hours.
 
Pharmacists (CPE)
 
Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.5 contact hours for Pharmacists.
 
Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-24-202-H04-P
 
Pharmacy Technicians (CPE)
 
Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.5 contact hours for Pharmacy Technicians.
 
Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-24-202-H04-T
 
Physicians (CME)
 
Vizient, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
 
By attending the Connections Summit offered by Vizient, Inc., participants may earn up to 3.5 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. 
 
Participants in this program who wish to have it considered for ACHE Qualifying Education hours should list their attendance when they apply to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification. Participants are responsible for maintaining a record of their ACHE Qualifying Education hours. To self-report, participants should log into their MyACHE account and select ACHE Qualifying Education Credit.
 
Healthcare Quality Professionals (CPHQ)
 
This activity is approved by NAHQ® for 3.5 CPHQ CE credits.
 
Other Healthcare Professionals (General CE Credit)
 
Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation.  Various state license boards and credentialing bodies accept certificates of participation from accredited CE activities to meet CE requirements for license renewals and re-certification. It is the responsibility of the participant to contact their state licensing board and/or certifying body for verification on credit eligibility reciprocity.

 

Available Credit

  • 3.50 ACHE
  • 3.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 3.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.50 ANCC
  • 3.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 3.50 General CE - Attendance
  • 3.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
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