About this Webinar Training

Integrating Change Management and Performance Improvement Into Your Organization's Health Equity Strategy

This course focuses on Building a Diverse Staff and Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Among Staff.  Organizational infrastructure, training and readiness is a common gap for organizations building their equity strategy. This curriculum package will outline assessment gaps, strategies and tools for building a strong equity training program and infrastructure.

What You Will Learn

After completing this learning path, participants will have an:

·         Overview of current-state recruiting and hiring gaps, with clear solutions for promoting diversity in recruitment and retention.

·         Describe how to identify inclusive, equitable, diverse and cultural humility gaps, with the strategies and tools to develop effective training and interventions for staff, leadership, committees or governance bodies.

·         Outline how to deliver highly impactful training to all employees on culturally and linguistically appropriate practices, reducing bias or promoting inclusion.

Who Should Attend

• Healthcare caregivers
• Employers
• Payers
• Providers
• Industry
• Decision-makers
• Purchasers
• Mid-level management

Faculty

Vanessa Guzman, ME, MS

Mrs. Guzman is an expert in health equity and population health strategies, including patient and physician engagement techniques, clinical reporting, health IT, quality management models, and CEO at SmartRise Health. With her personal story as a Latin American woman of color and diverse credentials in engineering, science, and coaching - Vanessa brings incomparable humility, authenticity, intellectual harmony, objectivity, enthusiasm, and commitment that inspire teams, participants, and facilitators to become part of the change they want to see.

With almost 20 years of industry experience and an approach centered around person-empowerment, she works closely with individuals, health systems, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), payers, and technology and community partners to promote equitable care. Her unique approach includes closely collaborating with physicians and hospitals to implement data-driven tools, payers, clinical infrastructures, pharmaceutical companies, and community partnerships to promote wellness and improve patient health outcomes, and a collaborative learning platform to promote health equity while integrating value-based care and change management concepts. The framework uses stakeholder engagement as a fundamental component to enable a culture of change while building the infrastructure necessary to drive change over time and evaluate the impact of activities focused on advancing equity, improvement in health outcomes, and quality of care. 

 Mrs. Guzman also served as the Associate Vice President at the Montefiore Health System (MHS), overseeing physician partnerships, community engagement, population health and quality improvement, clinical performance, and health information technology and reporting.

Her business model facilitates revenue and sponsorship opportunities toward, Created to Thrive, a foundation she formed to promote enrichment programs servings thousands of children, women, and homeless adults worldwide. Created to Thrive allows her true mission, coaching, and transformation experience to shine through her advisory, products, and services.

Ron Wyatt, MD
Founder and CEO, Advancing Health Equity

Dr. Ronald Wyatt is an accomplished consultant, internist, and recognized expert in patient safety, process improvement, and health equity. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and is the founder and President of Achieving Health Equity, LLC. Dr. Wyatt collaborates with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on developing health equity measures. He also co-chairs the American Telemedicine Association’s Disparities Committee.

Dr. Wyatt served as Medical Director at the Patient Safety Analysis Center for the Defense Health Agency/Military Health System in Falls Church, Virginia. Dr. Wyatt made history as the first Patient Safety Officer at The Joint Commission. His leadership roles have included Chief Science and Chief Medical Officer at the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Chief Quality Officer for the Cook County Health System, and Chief Patient Safety Officer for the Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar. Additionally, he was the inaugural Patient Safety Officer at MCIC Vermont, a risk retention group.

A trailblazer in the field of health equity, Dr. Wyatt was the inaugural co-chair of the IHI Equity Advisory Group and continues to serve as faculty for the IHI Pursuing Equity Initiative. Dr. Wyatt served a key role in the development of the Joint Commission Health Equity standards and the Equity National Patient Safety Goal. He is also a faculty member for the ACGME Equity Matters Collaborative and the Providence Health System Equity Fellowship. His contributions extend to the Scientific Advisory Panel and the Partnership for Quality Measurement, where he advises on principles of equity in quality measurement.

In academia, Dr. Wyatt is a credentialed instructor at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Health Professions and has served as co-course director for the Capstone Program at Northwestern University’s Master’s Degree in Patient Safety. He is a guest lecturer in Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine’s School of Public Health quality and patient safety program, as well as a guest lecturer in both the Johns Hopkins University Pre-med program and the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Doctor of Health Administration Program.

Dr. Wyatt holds an honorary Doctor of Medical Sciences from the Morehouse School of Medicine and earned his medical degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine. During his residency at St. Louis University Group of Hospitals, he became the first African American to serve as Chief Medical Resident. He also holds a master’s in health administration (Executive Format) from the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Health Professions.

Continuing Education

In support of improving patient care, the National Committee for Quality Assurance is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide Interprofessional Continuing Education for the healthcare team. 

This educational activity is approved for: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM.

This educational activity is approved for 1.0 nursing contact hours.*

This live course grants 2.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.  

* Please note – You must attend the entire program to be eligible for total number of contact hours.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing medical education activities and presenters at and planners for these activities disclose any relevant financial relationships either party might have with commercial companies whose products or services are discussed in educational presentations.

For sponsors, relevant financial relationships include large research grants, institutional agreements for joint initiatives, substantial gifts, or other relationships that benefit the institution.  For presenters or planning committee members, relevant financial relationships include the receipt of research grants from a commercial company, consultancies, honoraria, travel, or other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company; or having an immediate family member or partner with such a relationship.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:

Faculty:
Vanessa Guzman: 
Ron Wyatt: 

Additional Planning Committee Members:
Crissy Crittenden: