The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted childhood immunization rates and primary care utilization in addition to fracturing community trust in the healthcare system. Most recent data from the Minnesota Department of Health shows that about 60% of Minnesota children between 24-35 months received all vaccinations in the childhood immunization series, while the Healthy People 2030 goal is a 90% coverage rate. In Minnesota’s most populous county, Hennepin County, vaccinations have yet to fully rebound to pre-pandemic levels; the disparities are particularly stark for certain racial and ethnic communities. Assessing this post-pandemic landscape, staff of the Hennepin Healthcare Pediatric Mobile Unit team partnered with six local grassroots community organizations to surface grassroots dynamics that led to the dip in primary care engagement and to develop a forward-looking vision for the Mobile Unit’s role in boosting pediatric primary care access. Iterations of trust, access, and education characterized the qualitative feedback from both community assessment interviews and quantitative information from surveying Mobile Health clinics’ patient families. This methodology, grounded in grassroots experience, achieved the dual goals of strengthening community partnerships in addition to detailing clear, measurable, and locally-specific interventions for the mobile unit to ameliorate the gaps in pediatric primary care as well as continually improve its role as a member of the healthcare landscape. To achieve this, Mobile Unit staff created a working group with three interprofessional health science graduate students from the University of Minnesota.
This Lightning Talk will focus on how fostering and respecting community relationships can be a key methodological approach for healthcare systems to identify local causative factors reflected in epidemiological data and enhance healthcare experience and value. Speakers will also identify specific ways in which such institutional humility charts a course through the complex post-pandemic landscape and positions unique care models, such as mobile units, to respond to gaps in primary care utilization and improve population health. The talk will end with a call to action for members of healthcare organizations to center community partnerships as a core to their methodological methods for improving patient care. By the end of this session, attendees will have learned 1) how healthcare institutions and healthcare workers can identify then develop a comprehensive response to local social determinants, 2) how to design and implement such an initiative with mindfulness of potential barriers, and 3) how surfacing data in such a manner is an effective approach for boosting patient engagement and patient care.
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (National Center OICPD). The National Center OICPD is 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.
As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
The National Center OICPD (JA#: 4008105) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs).
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with their participation.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.
Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.
Athletic Trainers: This program is eligible for Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Learners can claim CE credit by completing the Daily Evaluation.
