Mano y Corazón is an innovative, interprofessional conference organized by a Texas State Senator to bring together various health care professionals. It aims to enhance interactions between professionals from different institutions, including private hospitals, safety net hospitals, academic institutions, and public health. Over multiple annual conferences and sessions, it has addressed topics like ACOs, human trafficking, and community resiliency through practitioner-driven content. The conferences have no references to institutional titles, include research from different disciplines, and provide opportunities for unstructured interaction to help transcend barriers between professionals.

1. Interprofessional Health Education:
Mano y Corazón
Corinne Chacón
Managing Founder of Mano y Corazón
& Former District Director
Senator Jose Rodriguez, 29th Senatorial District,Texas
March 28, 2015
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2. What is Mano y Corazón?
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 Innovative
 Interprofessional
 Practitioner-driven
 Annual conference or
in-depth sessions
 Enhanced interactions

3. Innovative mechanism for
reinforcing Health Care Transformation
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 Organized by Senator Jose
Rodriguez in conjunction with the
Senate District 29 Health Care
Advisory Committee
 A powerful spectrum of health
care professionals serving as
volunteer citizen advisors
Senator José Rodríguez

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 Co-organizers
 Fiscal Agent
 Accreditation Partners
Interprofessional audience
•MDs and PhDs
•Doctors of Nursing Practice
•Advance Practice RNs
•Licensed Professional Counselors
•SocialWorkers
•Community Health Educators
•Community HealthWorkers (Certificates of Attendance)

5. Practitioner-driven content
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 Four pillars of community resiliency
 Mano y Corazón format = timely,
interprofessional topics
 Senator’s leadership opens doors to
resources

6. Trans-institutional
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 Multiple audiences
 Private hospitals
 Regional anchor safety net hospital
 Community service providers
 Academic institutions (medical and nursing)
 Public health system

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2012 Mano y Corazón Highlight
Senator José Rodríguez with Keynote Speaker
Don Berwick, MD, former CMS Administrator

8. Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy
& Clinical Practice -- ACOTopics Panel
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 Hospital-Physician Clinical & Economic Integration
 Primary Care Perspective & ACOs
 Diagnostic Services & ACOs
 Pharmacotherapy & ACOs
 Specialty Services & ACOs
 Informatics & ACOs
 ACO Design

9. 2014 Mano y Corazón Highlight
HumanTrafficking: What Health Care Professionals
Must Know
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 “Studies suggest that up to 50% of sex
trafficking victims in the USA seek medical
attention while in their trafficking situation,
yet it is unclear how the healthcare system
responds to the needs of victims of sex
trafficking.”
 DOJ, FBI, DHS & DOL
 Trauma-informed care
An International Comparative Public Health Analysis of Sex Trafficking
of Women and Girls in Eight Cities: Achieving a More Effective Health
Sector Response. Authors: Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, Roy Ahn,
Elaine J. Alpert,Elizabeth Cafferty, Anita McGahan, Timothy P. Williams,
Judith Palmer Castor, Nadya Wolferstan, Genevieve Purcell, and
Thomas F. Burke. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York
Academy of Medicine, Vol. 90, No. 6. doi:10.1007/s11524-013-9837-4

10. An annual conference
or in-depth sessions
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 2012 Mano y Corazón Binational Conference of
Multicultural Health Care Solutions
 2013 Mano y Corazón Conference of
Multicultural Health Care Solutions
 2014 Mano y Corazón Speaker Series
Mano y Corazón
MULTICULTURALHEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS
SPEAKER SERIES 2014

11. Enhanced Interactions
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Daily interactions by care provider type:
 Nurses - 7 patients per day
 Therapists - 8 persons daily
 Hospice – 10-15 persons daily
 Physicians – 32-40 patients
 Promotoras – 5 homes visited

12. Impact
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 Final quarter of 2013 = 45,540
 Total for 2014 = 311,910
 First quarter of 2015 = 184,320
 Total interactions enhanced by MyC = 541,770
 New networks and organizational relationships
created
 Health care professionals drawn into policy arena

13. Relax the structure,
just enough
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 No institutional reference or titles
on name badges
 Provide research papers from other
disciplines
 Include many opportunities for
unstructured interacting

14. TRANSCENDENCE
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……. of silos
……. of disciplines
……. of mindsets
……. of expectations

15. TRANSCENDENCE
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