The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard is a 100-item tool to help employers assess the extent to which they have implemented evidence-based health promotion interventions at their worksites. It addresses domains like nutrition, physical activity, and chronic disease prevention. The tool was developed by the CDC in collaboration with experts and validated through field testing. Employers can use their scores on the tool to identify gaps and priorities for improving their worksite wellness programs over time. The CDC provides resources and technical assistance to help employers implement strategies suggested by their ScoreCard results.
Objectives
1.Understand the importance of measurement in driving improvement
2.Introduce Patient Safety Metrics: a cloud-based tool for data collection and performance monitoring.
3.Demonstrate new auditing tools designed to reduce the burden of measurement
4.Outline the application of Patient Safety Metrics beyond Safer Healthcare Now!
Purpose of the Call:
Change is challenging and getting staff clinicians and physicians to participate in quality improvement initiatives is often a struggle. Understanding the clinical perspective and developing effective change strategies can help.
By the end of this session participants will:
•understand why it is often difficult to engage with clinicians and physicians
•learn how to assess their change strategies for adoptability
•gain experience with the Highly Adoptable Improvement Model and Toolkit
Watch the webinar http://bit.ly/1A0mxOR
Quality improvement is integral to the practice of medicine. Sometimes, QI strays over into clinical research. This presentation provides an overview of the intersection between QI and research
Impact.Tech "Statistical Literacy for Deep Tech"Impact.Tech
Understanding how to effectively discuss and interpret statistics and scientific data is incredibly important for both investors and founders. This seminar is meant to arm investors with basic statistical literacy when deciding to partner with a company during due diligence. It is also meant to help founders understand how investors assess statistics and scientific data. Increasing literacy and comfort with scientific terminology among the broader community will enable investors to better communicate with and support these founders.
Using life science case studies, this seminar will communicate in clear terms some of the most important measurements and tests applied by deep tech start-ups, such as: sensitivity vs specificity, false positive vs negative rate, prospective vs retrospective studies, multiple hypothesis corrections, regression and other basic statistical models (p-value, t-test, etc).
This seminar will be produced and presented by Noel Jee, a Principal at Illumina Ventures with a focus in therapeutics and diagnostics. Prior to joining the fund, Noel worked at L.E.K. Consulting as a management consultant specializing in the life sciences. He has consulted on strategy engagements for companies in the pharmaceuticals, biotech, and diagnostics industries. He obtained a dual B.S. degree from the University of Maryland College Park, and his PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from the University of California San Francisco.
Objectives
1.Understand the importance of measurement in driving improvement
2.Introduce Patient Safety Metrics: a cloud-based tool for data collection and performance monitoring.
3.Demonstrate new auditing tools designed to reduce the burden of measurement
4.Outline the application of Patient Safety Metrics beyond Safer Healthcare Now!
Purpose of the Call:
Change is challenging and getting staff clinicians and physicians to participate in quality improvement initiatives is often a struggle. Understanding the clinical perspective and developing effective change strategies can help.
By the end of this session participants will:
•understand why it is often difficult to engage with clinicians and physicians
•learn how to assess their change strategies for adoptability
•gain experience with the Highly Adoptable Improvement Model and Toolkit
Watch the webinar http://bit.ly/1A0mxOR
Quality improvement is integral to the practice of medicine. Sometimes, QI strays over into clinical research. This presentation provides an overview of the intersection between QI and research
Impact.Tech "Statistical Literacy for Deep Tech"Impact.Tech
Understanding how to effectively discuss and interpret statistics and scientific data is incredibly important for both investors and founders. This seminar is meant to arm investors with basic statistical literacy when deciding to partner with a company during due diligence. It is also meant to help founders understand how investors assess statistics and scientific data. Increasing literacy and comfort with scientific terminology among the broader community will enable investors to better communicate with and support these founders.
Using life science case studies, this seminar will communicate in clear terms some of the most important measurements and tests applied by deep tech start-ups, such as: sensitivity vs specificity, false positive vs negative rate, prospective vs retrospective studies, multiple hypothesis corrections, regression and other basic statistical models (p-value, t-test, etc).
This seminar will be produced and presented by Noel Jee, a Principal at Illumina Ventures with a focus in therapeutics and diagnostics. Prior to joining the fund, Noel worked at L.E.K. Consulting as a management consultant specializing in the life sciences. He has consulted on strategy engagements for companies in the pharmaceuticals, biotech, and diagnostics industries. He obtained a dual B.S. degree from the University of Maryland College Park, and his PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from the University of California San Francisco.
Presentation given at the Foundation's Jan. 26, 2011 Research and Policy Forum by David Swieskowski, MD, MBA and Kelly Taylor, RN, MSN, CCM from Mercy Clinics in Des Moines, IA.
Purpose of the Call:
•Recap of aggregated MedRec audit month data that identifies potential opportunities for improvement
•Review quality improvement concepts as it relates to measuring for quality improvement
•Hear how Horizon Health team (NB) is using their data to improve MedRec processes
•Receive a tutorial on how to access your MedRec Quality Score run charts in Patient Safety Metrics.
WATCH: http://bit.ly/1EVcREL
How to commission for improving health outcomes: an introduction to choosing ...The King's Fund
This slide set is the first of two looking at how commissioners can make the best use of measurement to support commissioning for improved outcomes.
The slides introduce general concepts about approaches to measurement in health care, the uses of structure, process and outcome indicators, and how to achieve a good mix of indicators for commissioning.
EHR Safety - Identifying and Mitigating Health IT-related Risks (Webinar Slides)Modern Healthcare
About the Webinar
The federal government has spent tens of billions of dollars getting providers to install EHR systems-all in the hopes of making care more efficient, safe and cost-effective. But EHRs can introduce their own safety risks, whether from confusing displays, excessive alerts or a range of other factors. This hourlong webinar will explore where we are now on health IT-related safety and what you can do to mitigate hazards in your own organization.
You can learn more about this event:
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150908/WEBINAR/309099998/webinar-ehr-safety-identifying-and-mitigating-health-it-related-risks
Purpose of the Call:
•Review the results of the Canadian MedRec Audit Month 2015
•Discuss lessons learned from the audit month – strengths and areas for improvement
•Gather ideas about how to improve the quality of MedRec at admission
This presentation by the Bureau of Health Information to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians looks at using clinical outcome data to improve patient care.
It examines:
Why measure and report on performance?
- Accountability and quality improvement
What is performance really?
- It is not a measure of what the system is, it is a measure of how well the system does
Whose performance is it anyway?
- Attributing results to providers, units or sectors requires a careful assessment
Predicting Hospital Readmission Using CascadingCascading
Michael Covert will examine how Healthcare Providers are finding ways to use Big Data analytics to reduce readmission rates and improve operational efficiency while complying with regulatory mandates.
Caring for Patients with Pain is a Team SportCHC Connecticut
Health Centers are called upon to help patients with both acute and chronic pain.. Our desire to help patients with pain often exceeds our skill set and resources. Health Centers across the country have been stepping up to become better educated and trained in this complex area of clinical practice. One thing we’ve learned is that it requires the whole team to be successful. In this webinar we will look at the contribution of each member of the expanded care team in addressing needs of patients with chronic pain, and the strategies that support their work.
Using case problems, this webinar will give attendees real-world examples of workplace wellness situations and help attendees learn from those situations so that they can design and implement a compliant wellness program. Through case problems, attendees will review compliance mistakes concerning HIPAA, ACA, GINA, ADA, FLSA, data privacy and tax laws. Participants will learn how to use those laws to build a better workplace wellness program.
Learning Objectives:
* Understand how to apply laws to specific factual situations.
* Identify red flags in certain common workplace wellness practices.
* Learn the basics of HIPAA, ACA, GINA, ADA, FLSA, data privacy and tax laws as those laws relate to workplace wellness programs.
Presentation given at the Foundation's Jan. 26, 2011 Research and Policy Forum by David Swieskowski, MD, MBA and Kelly Taylor, RN, MSN, CCM from Mercy Clinics in Des Moines, IA.
Purpose of the Call:
•Recap of aggregated MedRec audit month data that identifies potential opportunities for improvement
•Review quality improvement concepts as it relates to measuring for quality improvement
•Hear how Horizon Health team (NB) is using their data to improve MedRec processes
•Receive a tutorial on how to access your MedRec Quality Score run charts in Patient Safety Metrics.
WATCH: http://bit.ly/1EVcREL
How to commission for improving health outcomes: an introduction to choosing ...The King's Fund
This slide set is the first of two looking at how commissioners can make the best use of measurement to support commissioning for improved outcomes.
The slides introduce general concepts about approaches to measurement in health care, the uses of structure, process and outcome indicators, and how to achieve a good mix of indicators for commissioning.
EHR Safety - Identifying and Mitigating Health IT-related Risks (Webinar Slides)Modern Healthcare
About the Webinar
The federal government has spent tens of billions of dollars getting providers to install EHR systems-all in the hopes of making care more efficient, safe and cost-effective. But EHRs can introduce their own safety risks, whether from confusing displays, excessive alerts or a range of other factors. This hourlong webinar will explore where we are now on health IT-related safety and what you can do to mitigate hazards in your own organization.
You can learn more about this event:
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150908/WEBINAR/309099998/webinar-ehr-safety-identifying-and-mitigating-health-it-related-risks
Purpose of the Call:
•Review the results of the Canadian MedRec Audit Month 2015
•Discuss lessons learned from the audit month – strengths and areas for improvement
•Gather ideas about how to improve the quality of MedRec at admission
This presentation by the Bureau of Health Information to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians looks at using clinical outcome data to improve patient care.
It examines:
Why measure and report on performance?
- Accountability and quality improvement
What is performance really?
- It is not a measure of what the system is, it is a measure of how well the system does
Whose performance is it anyway?
- Attributing results to providers, units or sectors requires a careful assessment
Predicting Hospital Readmission Using CascadingCascading
Michael Covert will examine how Healthcare Providers are finding ways to use Big Data analytics to reduce readmission rates and improve operational efficiency while complying with regulatory mandates.
Caring for Patients with Pain is a Team SportCHC Connecticut
Health Centers are called upon to help patients with both acute and chronic pain.. Our desire to help patients with pain often exceeds our skill set and resources. Health Centers across the country have been stepping up to become better educated and trained in this complex area of clinical practice. One thing we’ve learned is that it requires the whole team to be successful. In this webinar we will look at the contribution of each member of the expanded care team in addressing needs of patients with chronic pain, and the strategies that support their work.
Using case problems, this webinar will give attendees real-world examples of workplace wellness situations and help attendees learn from those situations so that they can design and implement a compliant wellness program. Through case problems, attendees will review compliance mistakes concerning HIPAA, ACA, GINA, ADA, FLSA, data privacy and tax laws. Participants will learn how to use those laws to build a better workplace wellness program.
Learning Objectives:
* Understand how to apply laws to specific factual situations.
* Identify red flags in certain common workplace wellness practices.
* Learn the basics of HIPAA, ACA, GINA, ADA, FLSA, data privacy and tax laws as those laws relate to workplace wellness programs.
Shannon Polly will lead a webinar on teaching tangible techniques and exercises that help people cultivate presence. The hour-long webinar will also include information on what science is telling us about presence. Shannon Polly brings both her expertise as a professional actor, playwright and Broadway producer and her background in positive psychology as a teacher, facilitator and coach to this somatic approach to well-being and thriving.
“It’s a common myth that you either have ‘executive presence’ – that essence that helps you to command a room – or you don’t”, says Polly, “but that is simply not true. As an actor, I know there are tricks and techniques, and as a Positive Psychology Expert, I also know that how you carry yourself physically has a big impact.”
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PREPARATION
Consider the hospital-acquired conditions that are not reimbursed for under Medicare/Medicaid. Among these conditions are specific safety issues such as infections, falls, medication errors, and other safety concerns that could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines. Hospital Safety Score, an independent nonprofit organization, uses national performance measures to determine the safety score for hospitals in the United States. The Hospital Safety Score Web site and other online resources provide hospital safety scores to the public.
Read the scenario below:
Scenario
As the manager of a unit, you have been advised by the patient safety office of an alarming increase in the hospital safety score for your unit. This is a very serious public relations matter because patient safety data is public information. It is also a financial crisis because the organization stands to lose a significant amount of reimbursement money from Medicare and Medicaid unless the source of the problem can be identified and corrected. You are required to submit a safety score improvement plan to the organization's leadership and the patient safety office.
Select a specific patient safety goal that has been identified by an organization, or one that is widely regarded in the nursing profession as relevant to quality patient care delivery, such as patient falls, infection rates, catheter-induced urinary infections, IV infections, et cetera.
DELIVERABLE: SAFETY SCORE IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Develop a 3–5 page safety score improvement plan.
Identify the health care setting and nursing unit of your choice
in the title of the mitigation plan. For example, "Safety Score Improvement Plan for XYZ Rehabilitation Center."
You may choose to use information on a patient safety issue for the organization in which you currently work, or search for information from a setting you are familiar with, perhaps from your clinical work.
Demonstrate systems theory and systems thinking as you develop your recommendations.
Organize your report with these headings:
Study of Factors
Identify a patient safety issue.
Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving the needed changes.
Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect a safety issue.
Recommendations
Recommend an evidence-based strategy to improve the safety issue.
Explain a strategy to collect information about the safety concern.
How would you determine the sources of the problem?
Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes.
What quality indicators will you use?
How will you monitor outcomes?
Will policies or procedures need to be changed?
Will nursing staff need training?
What tools will you need to do this?
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and in-te ...
HR's Strategic Shift - How to Leverage HR Technology to Drive Results for You...Healthcare Software Hub
With dramatic changes in the workforce, healthcare laws, and compliance, the role and responsibility of Human Resources in a hospital is shifting dramatically from "administrative data provider" to a "strategic partner.” The key driver of this transformation is emerging technology that enables HR leaders impact strategy that drives effectiveness and helps achieve organizational results.
Escalating healthcare costs, heightened awareness of medical errors, and a higher-than-ever number of insured Americans have drawn attention to the need for quality improvement in US healthcare. Today, many efforts around patient outcomes and safety, care coordination, efficiency, and cost-cutting are underway and care redesign initiatives are being evaluated to guide future healthcare quality improvements. The following tips may aid you in your healthcare improvement efforts.
Webinar on Quality Improvement Strategies in a Team-Based Care Environment CHC Connecticut
Building a quality improvement (QI) infrastructure within team-based care is an organizational strategy that will establish a culture of continuous improvement across departments and improve quality in all domains of performance. Many positions in primary care now require QI training as part of employees' professional development.
Our expert faculty discuss tools you can use to build and implement a QI infrastructure within your team-based setting to improve patient care.
Panelists:
• Deb Ward, RN, Senior Quality Improvement Manager, Community Health Center, Inc.
• Kathleen Thies, PhD, RN, Consultant, Researcher, Weitzman Institute
Assessment 2
Quality Improvement Proposal
Overview:
Write a quality improvement proposal, 5–7 pages in length, that provides your recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT to include quality metrics that will help the organization qualify as an accountable care organization.
Health care has undergone a transformation since the release of the Institute of Medicine's 2000 report
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.
The report highlighted medical errors as a contributing factor leading to poor patient outcomes. The Institute of Medicine challenged organizations to implement evidence-based performance improvement strategies in order to improve patient quality and safety. Multiple governmental and regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), vowed to strengthen and improve incentives for participation, safety, quality, and efficiency in accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Health information technology (HIT) performs an essential role in improving health outcomes of individuals, the community, and populations. Health organizations, consumer advocacy groups, and regulatory committees have made a commitment to explore current and future opportunities that HIT offers to continue momentum to meet the Institute of Medicine's goal of improving safety and quality.
Understanding HIT is important to improving individual, community, and population access to health care and health information. HIT enables quick and easy access to information for both patients and providers. Accessible information has been shown to improve the patient care experience and reduce redundancies, thereby reducing health care costs.
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to make recommendations for expanding a hospital's HIT in ways that will help the hospital qualify as an ACO.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data.
Recommend ways to expand an organization's HIT to include quality metrics.
Identify potential problems that can arise with data gathering systems and outputs.
Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice.
Describe the main focus of information gathering in health care and how it contributes to guiding the development of organizational practice.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.
Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Reference
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NTTAP Webinar Series - April 13, 2023: Quality Improvement Strategies in a Te...CHC Connecticut
Join us for a webinar on quality improvement in team-based care!
Building a quality improvement (QI) infrastructure within team-based care is an organizational strategy that will establish a culture of continuous improvement across departments and improve quality in all domains of performance.
Participants will learn about:
• QI infrastructure
• Facilitating QI committees
• Coach training within health centers
Faculty will also provide an example of how trained coaches use QI tools to test and implement changes within an organization.
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HS410 Unit 6: Quality Management - Discussion
Discussion
This is a graded Discussion
. Please refer to the Discussion Board Grading Rubric in Course Home / Grading Rubrics.
Respond to all of the following questions and be sure to respond to two of your other classmates’ postings:
1.
What are the steps in the quality improvement model and how is benchmarking involved?
2. What are the stages in which data quality errors found in a health record most commonly occur?
3. What is the definition of risk management?
4. What are the parts of an effective risk management program?
5. What is utilization review and why is it important in healthcare?
6. What is the process of utilization review?
Please paper should be 400-500 words and in an essay format, strictly on topic, original with real scholar references to support your answers.
NO PHARGIARISM PLEASE!
This is the Chapter reading for this assignment:
Read Chapter 7 in
Today’s Health Information Management
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INTRODUCTION
Quality health care “means doing the right thing at the right time, in the right way, for the right person, and getting the best possible results.”1 The term quality, by definition, can mean excellence, status, or grade; thus, it can be measured and quantified. The patient, and perhaps the patient's family, may interpret quality health care differently from the way that health care providers interpret it. Therefore, it is important to determine—if possible—what is “right” and what is “wrong” with regard to quality health care. The study and analysis of health care are important to maintain a level of quality that is satisfactory to all parties involved. As a result of the current focus on patient safety, and in an attempt to reduce deaths and complications, providing the best quality health care while maintaining cost controls has become a challenge to all involved. Current quality initiatives are multifaceted and include government-directed, private sectorsupported, and consumer-driven projects.
This chapter explores the historical development of health care quality including a review of the important pioneers and the tools they developed. Their work has been studied, refined, and widely used in a variety of applications related to performance-improvement activities. Risk management is discussed, with emphasis on the importance of coordination with quality activities. The evolution of utilization management is also reviewed, with a focus on its relationship to quality management.
In addition, this chapter explores current trends in data collection and storage, and their application to improvements in quality care and patient safety. Current events are identified that influence and provide direction to legislative support and funding. This chapter also provides multiple tips and tools for both personal and institutional use.
DATA QUALITY
Data quality refers to the high grade, superiority, or excellence of data. Data quality is intertwined with the concept of.
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Place matters for health! A growing body of research over the last several decades has shown the connections between place and health. From obesity and chronic disease to depression, social isolation, or increased exposure to environmental toxins and pollutants, a person’s zip code can be a more reliable determinant of health than their genetic code.
In 2016, Project for Public Spaces compiled a report of peer-reviewed research that found key factors linking pubic spaces and peoples’ health. And public spaces are more than just parks and plazas – our streets represent the largest area of public space a community has!
This webinar will introduce participants to the placemaking process, the research behind the findings linking place and health, and how to envision streets as places – not just their function in transporting people and goods, but the vital role they play in animating the social and economic life of communities.
Looking for a healthier investment strategy? A new study by The Health Project (THP) finds that a portfolio of stock in companies that have won the prestigious C. Everett Koop National Health Award -- recognizing effective workplace health promotion programs -- has significantly outperformed the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Index over the past 14 years. Since 2000, investing in Koop Award winners would have produced more than double the returns of the S&P 500, according to the new research led by THP President and CEO Dr. Ron Goetzel. Tune in to this webinar to hear more about this and related studies.
This webinar will discuss the prevalence of pre-diabetes and it’s contributing factors and the initial efforts to translate the National Diabetes Prevention Program to public health. We will also look at new approaches to providing interventions.
Learning objectives:
Scope and scale of pre-diabetes and what factors contribute to it.
Review initial efforts to translate the DPP to public health.
New approaches to providing interventions.
About The Presenter
Dr. Marrero received a B.A. (1974), M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine. He joined the IU School of Medicine in 1984 and became the J.O. Ritchey Professor of Medicine in 2004. He was a member of the Diabetes Research & Training Center and served as Director of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Division. He is currently the Director of the Diabetes Translational Research Center. Dr. Marrero is an expert in the field of clinical trails in diabetes and translation research which moves scientific advances obtained in clinical trails into the public health sector. He helped design the Diabetes Prevention Program and the TRIAD study, which evaluated strategies to improve diabetes care delivery in managed care settings. His research interests include strategies for promoting diabetes prevention, care settings, improving diabetes care practices used by primary care providers, and the use of technology to facilitate care and education. Dr. Marrero was twice awarded the Allene Von Son Award for Diabetes Patient Education Tools by the American Association of Diabetes Educators, nominated to Who’s Who in Medicine and Health care in 2000, served as Associate Editor for Diabetes Care (1997-2002) and is currently the Associate Editor for Diabetes Forecast. He was selected as Alumni of the Year for University of California Irvine in 2006 and The Outstanding Educator in Diabetes in 2008 by the American Diabetes Association. He is the current President of the American Diabetes Association.
John Weaver, Psy.D. is a Licensed Psychologist who received his Doctor of Psychology degree from the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology. He also has a Master of Science degree in Clinical Psychology from Marquette University and a Master of Divinity degree from St. Francis School of Pastoral Ministry.
CDC will provide an overview of their WorkLife Wellness Office services and describe how they used the HealthLead accreditation process to provide a framework to assess the comprehensiveness of their new office and existing programs and processes. Also, how the scoring of framework identified strengths and weaknesses and how the assessment plan of action is used for future strategic planning to drive new connections, data sources, and programmatic gaps as they strive to achieve HealthLead Silver. CDC will share specific examples of what was required and shared as part of the HealthLead audit during the presentation.
The way you communicate, and what you communicate, shapes how your employees feel about working there. Yet organizations often fail to prioritize corporate communication, to the detriment of their entire workplace culture.
Regular communication with employees sends the message that you value them as whole people. And consistent, meaningful communication can strengthen the employee-employer relationship. And when that relationship is strong, everyone wins: the employees, the employer, and the customers, clients, or patients.
You’ll come away from this webinar with immediately-useful tips and insider tricks from our 30+ years of experience producing engaging employee communications and leave with a blueprint of how to produce your own communications, or evaluate a vendor’s options, plus creative options.
We are reminded of the risk of workplace violence every time we hear of a tragic shooting on the news. As wellness professionals, we often have a broad contact with individuals who are struggling and with the structures of organizations that can have an influence on whether those individuals get help or act out their anger and frustration. In this session we will look at risk factors that can be identified to indicate that an individual needs additional assessment and help and at the organizational structures that can be implemented to reduce the risk of violence in your workplace. It is important that, as wellness professionals, we look at how to address this extreme form of unhealthy behavior.
Wellness is who we are, not what we do. As Oklahoma State University’s Chief Wellness Officer, Dr. Suzy Harrington shares a comprehensive, evidence based, wellness strategy model, driving America’s Healthiest Campus®. This model is transferrable to any setting to strategize the collaboration and vision for students, employees, and in the communities in which we live, learn, work, play, and pray. In addition to the model, Dr. Harrington will share the foundational structures that must be in place to support a sustainable culture of wellness.
Have you ever wondered why it is that even people who desperately want to adopt healthier lifestyles don’t stick with them once their initial burst of motivation fades? This provocative webinar will discuss the surprising reasons this is true and also showcase a new science-based paradigm to motivate healthy behavior so it is maintained over time. Dr. Michelle Segar will explain why logic-based reasons for behavior change (e.g., better heath, disease prevention, etc.) keep people stuck in cycles of starting and stopping but not behavioral sustainability. Using story and science, she will describe an easy-to-adopt, novel approach to promoting health, wellness, and fitness behaviors that leading organizations are starting to adopt. Attendees will leave this webinar with a more strategic way to communicate about and promote the sustainable behavior necessary for achieving improved health and well-being.
This webinar will discuss the major federal laws that impact workplace wellness program design, including the Affordable Care Act/HIPAA Nondiscrimination rules on the use of financial incentives, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), federal tax laws as well as recent EEOC action such as the proposed ADA rules and lawsuits against Honeywell, Flambeau and Orion Energy Systems. Through case examples, the speaker will explain how each of these laws interact with one another, who enforces these laws, what to expect in terms of future guidance, and how health promotion professionals can use these laws as tools in designing more effective and inclusive workplace wellness programs.
Are you looking to refresh your current workplace wellness program or have you thought about starting a workplace wellness program and don't know where to begin? Check out Workplace Wellness 2.0. In 60 minutes, you'll learn the 10 easy steps to create an inexpensive, community-based, volunteer-managed, thriving wellness initiative. Hope Health's managing editor, Jen Cronin, will walk you through the effective strategy based on the custom publisher's 30-plus years of working with hundreds of organizations and their workplace wellness efforts.
Learning Objectives:
How to begin a new program, or add new life to an existing wellness program, with the Workplace Wellness 2.0 concepts
How to take advantage of inexpensive, free and readily available resources to power your wellness program
How to create a program WITH employees vs. FOR employees.
About The Presenter
Jen Cronin
Managing Editor
Hope Health
An avid runner and foodie, Jen's goal is to help others embrace — and enjoy — a healthful lifestyle by creating inspiring, engaging, and fun content that focuses on simple ways people can take care of their mind, body, and spirit. Jen has more than 18 years of writing, editing, and communications project management experience. She has worked as a health reporter, a public relations specialist at a major medical school, and a marketing communications consultant for a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate before coming to HOPE Health in 2009.
Samantha Harden discuss provides an overview of the RE_AIM framework which evaluates the effectiveness of interventions based on the following five dimensions:
Reach into the target population
Effectiveness or efficacy
Adoption by target settings, institutions and staff
Implementation - consistency and cost of delivery of intervention
Maintenance of intervention effects in individuals and settings over time.
We will also practice using RE-AIM in planning, implementation, and evaluation and share resources available on RE-AIM.org.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the five RE-AIM dimensions
2. Practice using RE-AIM for planning, implementation, and evaluation
3. Explore available resources found at RE-AIM.org
Simply applying knowledge we have reliably in hand, we could prevent fully 80% of all chronic disease and premature death in modernized and modernizing countries. Standing between us and that prize is an obstacle course of competing claims, false promises, and profit-driven, pop culture nonsense. The case will be made for True Health Coalition to rally diverse voices to the cause of using what we know, even as we pursue what we do not. The challenges, operations, and promise of the endeavor will be discussed.
A historical journey into the origin of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as a concept developed by Mayer & Salovey and later Daniel Goleman. A futuristic trek revealing the application of Emotional Intelligence via 8 EQ Competencies developed by the International EQ Organization, Six Seconds.
Most approaches to mindfulness are geared toward the individual level and not the social or community level to which traditional mindfulness methods were targeted. It is not only about our own personal growth but the enlightenment of the community as a whole. We are never separate. And this insight is fundamental for any effective wellbeing effort (workplace or otherwise). This experiential webinar will feature a cursory overview of mindfulness (definition, measurement, practices) and participants will be invited to complete introspective surveys about their own mindfulness to help ground the social conversation for the webinar. We will then contemplate seven different ways in which wellness champions can show up in a mindful way within the social context (community or sangha) of their work setting. These are listed below. Participants will be invited to self-assess their capacity for each and given tools to continue developing each.
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Mindful Champion, Mindful Workplace with Dr. Joel Bennett and Lindsay Simone
Demonstration of the CDC Worksite Health Scorecard with Jason Lang and Dyann Matson Kaufman
1. The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard:
An Organizational Health Assessment
Tool
Jason E. Lang, MPH, MS
Division of Population Health
Dyann M. Matson Koffman, DrPH, MPH
Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Health Promotion Live
October 26th, 2012
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2. The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard
Why develop the CDC-Health
ScoreCard (HSC)?
What is it?
Who should use it?
How was it developed?
How was is validated?
What did we learn?
Next Steps?
How do you use the CDC-HSC?
3. Why develop the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard?
The United States is facing an unparalleled health
epidemic, driven largely by chronic diseases
Chronic diseases represent 75 percent of the nation’s
$2.2 trillion medical care costs
American businesses’ competitiveness threatened due to lost
productivity and unsustainable health care costs
A wellness program aimed at keeping employees
healthy is a key long term human asset management
strategy
4. Why develop the CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard?
Comprehensive worksite health promotion program
Evidence-based individual risk reduction programs
Environmental supports for healthy behaviors
Policy and wellness activities
Only 6.9 percent of employers offer a comprehensive
worksite health promotion program
Linnan L, et al. Results of the 2004 National Worksite Health Promotion Survey.
Am J Public Health 2008;98(8):1.
Few validated worksite tools that adequately measure
a comprehensive worksite health promotion program
5. The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard (HSC)
A 100 item tool designed to help employers assess the
extent to which they have implemented evidence-based
health promotion interventions in their worksites to
prevent heart disease, stroke, and related chronic
conditions.
Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/worksite_scorecard.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion
http://www.cdc.gov/nationalhealthyworksite
6. The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard (HSC)
Assesses best practice health promotion interventions
(policies, programs, environmental supports)
Organizational supports High blood pressure
Tobacco control High cholesterol
Nutrition Diabetes
Physical activity Signs and symptoms of
Weight management heart attack and stroke
Stress management Emergency response to
Depression heart attack and stroke
7. What does the CDC-HSC look like?
~100 Yes/No Questions
8. Who can use the CDC-HSC tool?
Employers, human resource managers, health benefit
managers, health education staff, occupational nurses,
medical directors, wellness directors, or others
responsible for worksite health promotion to:
Help employees adopt healthy lifestyles
Establish benchmarks and track improvements over time
Integrate efforts with business objectives
State health departments can use the tool to:
Assist employers and business coalitions to establish healthier
workplaces
Monitor worksite practices
Establish best practice benchmarks and track improvements in
worksite health promotion programs over time
9. How was the CDC-HSC developed?
The CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
developed the HSC in collaboration with:
Emory University, Institute for Health and Productivity
Studies
Dr. Ron Goetzel, Dr. Enid Chung Roemer, and staff
Research Triangle Institute
CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion Workplace Workgroup
An expert panel of federal, state, academic, and private
sector representatives
10. Developing the CDC-HSC
Examined existing worksite inventories and resources
Identified reliable and valid questions from the Heart
Check and Heart Check Lite assessment tools
Identified new domains and questions to add from
other surveys
Pre-tested the tool to help ensure that it was clear, easy
to understand, and simple to complete (cognitive test)
9 employers in 2008
9 employers in 2010
70+ worksite health promotion practitioners nationwide in 2010
11. Developing the CDC-HSC (cont.)
Revised the HSC tool based on employer feedback
Weighted each question based on level of:
Scientific evidence (1-4)
Impact on intended health behavior (1-3)
Summed the scores and adjusted/ assigned value:
1=good, 2=better, and 3=best evidence/impact.
For example, promotion of stair use got a “Strong-4” rating on
strength of evidence and a “Large-3” on impact to increase
physical activity by more than 3 percentage points. This question
gets an adjusted score of 3 for “best evidence/impact”
12. Developing the CDC-HSC (cont.)
Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/docs/HSC_Score_Method.pdf
Description of the Rating
System
How impact scores and
weights were assigned
How final score was
derived for each question
Citations and references
13. HSC Employer Recruitment
Recruited employer participants nationwide through
State HDSP Programs,
National Business Coalition on Health
National Safety Council
Goal: 30 organizations for each employer size worksite
Very small -- 10-99
Small -- 100-249
Medium -- 250-749
Large -- 750+
14. How was the CDC-HSC Validated?
Field tested the tool for validity, reliability, and
feasibility of adopting the tool’s interventions
93 worksites in 2011
24 very small, 13 small, 16 medium, and 40 large
Conducted inter-rater reliability and content & face
validity
93 employers (2 respondents per site completed online survey)
20 employers (random sample from the 93) participated in
telephone interviews
9 employers (random sample from the 93) participated in site visits
15. What did we learn?
Employers like the HSC and reported that most
interventions are feasible to adopt
There is a linear relationship between employer size
and number of interventions in place (215 max score)
Average HSC Scores for Study Sample
99 Employer Size
112 Groups
Very small: 10–99
129 Small: 100–249
153 Medium: 250–749
129 Large: 750+
0 50 100 150 200
Very small Small Medium Large All Employers
16. Next Steps
Using HSC as the main organizational assessment tool
in CDC National Healthy Worksite Program
Submitting peer-reviewed manuscript
Developing an online application to use the HSC
Continuing Dissemination
Developing New Module; available in 2013
17. New Module Development
Three new modules to be tested as part of the CDC
National Healthy Worksite Program (NHWP)
Lactation Support - 6 questions
Occupational Health and Safety – 10 questions
Vaccine Preventable Diseases - 6 questions
Additional questions on community resources and
partnerships (not scored)
Testing will follow the same validation procedures as
the original modules
19. How Do You Use the CDC-HSC?
1. Complete the Health ScoreCard using the instructions
(page 8)
Gather a small team of individuals representing different
organizational units,
e.g., Human Resources, Health Benefits, Occupational Health,
Worksite Wellness Committee
Answer “yes” or “no” for each question on the tool.
Answer all questions consistent with practices and programs
that are current or have been in place within the last 12
months
If you are a large organization with multiple worksites,
complete this tool for each worksite separately
20. How Do You Use the CDC-HSC? (cont.)
2. Tally your score for each topic, e.g., hypertension (page 9)
3. Review your scores and use them as a planning tool and
to identify potential gaps in your worksite program
4. Identify which of your priority strategies are feasible for
implementation in the short-term and long-term
Determine which of these strategies are relevant, feasible, and
consistent with your organization and employee needs
Identify the highest impact strategies not currently in place at your
worksite.
Use this information to develop an Annual Worksite Health
Improvement Plan and Budget
22. How Do You Use the CDC-HSC? (cont.)
5. Consult the Resource Links section
6. Contact your State Health Department for technical
assistance with your worksite program
http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/organizations/
index.htm
http://www.chronicdisease.org/membership/members-
directory
7. Use benchmarking to demonstrate progress over time
Complete the survey annually to document and report progress
8. Inform and educate employees and management about
the status and progress of your organization’s health
promotion program
23. The CDC Worksite Health ScoreCard
http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/worksite_scorecard.htm
25. Resources
A Purchaser’s Guide to Clinical Preventive Services
Developed by CDC, the
Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
(AHRQ), and the National
Business Group on Health
(NBGH)
Recommended clinical
preventive services for
health benefits design
Targeted to all health
care purchasers (public
and private)
28. Resources
Successful Business Strategies to Prevent Heart Disease
and Stroke Toolkit
Provides information on
recommended preventive health
benefits and services and
worksite health promotion
interventions
Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pub
s/employers_toolkit.htm
29. Resources
National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) Business Health
Strategy Workgroup (BHS) Goals and Partners
To increase awareness of the
benefits of quality diabetes care
among employers, benefits
managers and managed care
decision makers
To provide employers, health
plans and employees with tools
and information for incorporating
diabetes education programs into
the workplace
To promote the value of investing
in prevention
www.ndep.nih.gov www.Diabetesatwork.org
30. Contact Information
Dyann M. Matson Koffman, DrPH, MPH, CHES
Health Scientist
Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Email: dfm1@cdc.gov
Jason E. Lang, MPH, MS
Team Lead, Workplace Health Programs
Division of Population Health
Email: bzl0@cdc.gov
31. Thank You!
For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333
Telephone, 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348
E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov Web: www.cdc.gov
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official
position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention