Live Webinar
Tuesday, November 12, 2024; 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
This course focuses on Building a Diverse Staff and Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Among Staff.
About this Webinar Training
Advancing Health Equity Readiness Through Leadership Engagement, Education and Financial Models
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
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- 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
- Health plans
- Health systems
- Hospitals
- Managed behavioral healthcare organizations
- Population health organizations
- Wellness organizations leveragers are the federal government, states and employers
Faculty
Vanessa Guzman, ME, MS, CEO
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
Whitney Haggerson, MHA
Whitney Haggerson, is Vice President of Health Equity and Medicaid at Providence. She works with leaders across the Providence enterprise to eliminate health inequities and better care for patients with Medicaid and those who are uninsured, by taking data-informed and evidence based approaches to meet the holistic needs of the individuals we serve.
Prior to Providence St. Joseph Health, Whitney consulted with large employer groups and health plans on ways to better leverage data to deliver personalized experiences that delight consumers and employees. A champion for female empowerment, Whitney cofounded PSJH’s first-ever Women’s Caregiver Resource Group to support gender equity at her workplace.
Outside of work, Whitney serves as the Board Chair for Boyer Children’s Clinic, a Seattle based non-profit that provides early intervention for children with neuromuscular disorders or developmental delays. Whitney holds an MHA from the University of Washington and received her undergraduate degree in Business Management from Arizona State University.
A Northern California native, Whitney has grown to love the Pacific Northwest, in all its fleece-y glory. She and her husband spend their free time chasing their young daughter and senior Labrador retriever all around Seattle.
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 CreditTM.
This educational activity is approved for 1.0 nursing contact hour.*
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:
Whitney Haggerson:
Additional Planning Committee Members:
Crissy Crittenden:
Here is the course outline:
1. Resources |
2. Zoom
Nov 12 2pm .. 3pm
This course focuses on Building a Diverse Staff and Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Among Staff. |
3. Evaluation |
4. Attestation |
Completion
The following certificates are awarded when the course is completed:
CCE Other Certificate | |
Certificate of Attendance | |
Nursing Certificate | |
Physician Certificate |