About this Learning Activity

Population Health 301: Advanced - Statewide Lessons

Through this learning activity, participants will examine statewide applications that demonstrate a sound population health initiatives from strategy to implementation. This course as places an emphasis on practical approaches for monitoring initiatives and measuring their effectiveness. Through practical tools, case studies, and applied activities, participants will be equipped to design a population health strategy and define indicators of success for process and outcome measures.

What You Will Learn

Content Topics 

• Strategy Development
• Decision Making Criteria
• Measuring Effectiveness
• Ongoing Improvement

Learning Objectives 

By participating within this learning activity, learners will:

• Describe key elements of a comprehensive population health strategy
• Discuss remedies for to address limitations and constraints
• Define attributes an outcomes-aligned program monitoring plan
• Recognize practices for leveraging partners effectively

Learning Outcomes 

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

• Assess the current state of population health initiatives
• Recognize opportunities for refining a population health strategy
• Propose a practical set of performance indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of population health initiatives

Who Should Attend

• Clinicians, directors, managers, specialists, and coordinators who contribute to Population Health Initiatives
• Credentialing consultants, contractors, delegates, and vendors
• Professionals in compliance or risk management
• Professionals in quality assurance/improvement or performance measurement

Faculty

Lindsay Williams

Lindsay Williams joined the South Carolina Office of Rural Health in 2010. In this role, she is responsible for facilitating chronic disease management and patient-centered medical home (PCMH) recognition for rural health clinics, private fee-for-service providers, and hospital systems. Previously, she served SCORH as a billing specialist for four years. Prior to joining SCORH, she worked in medical records, billing, and as a referral coordinator for a rural primary care practice in Prosperity, SC. Lindsay received an associate’s degree in health information management and a certificate in medical record coding from Midlands Technical College. She has been certified through the American Health Information Management Associates (AHIMA) as a Registered Health Information Management Technician (RHIT) and Certified Coding Associate (CCA). Lindsay also received her Patient-Centered Medical Home Content Expert Certification from NCQA in 2018. 

LaShandal Pettaway-Brown

LaShandal Pettaway-Brown joined the South Carolina Office of Rural Health in 2015 as a practice transformation consultant. In this role, she provides facilitation support to clinics supported by SCORH’s Center for Practice Transformation. She also coordinates assistance to rural providers in support of oral health integration. Prior to joining SCORH, LaShandal served as a Quality Improvement Coordinator at The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence. LaShandal received Master in Business Administration and Master in Healthcare Administration degrees from Webster University. She earned a Bachelor of Science with specialization in Healthcare Administration from Austin Peay State University. LaShandal also received her Patient-Centered Medical Home Content Expert Certification from NCQA in 2018.

Continuing Education

This is a non AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM, ANA CNE, ACPE activity.

* 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:

Lindsay Williams: None
LaShandal Pettaway-Brown: None
Vince Pereira: None

Additional Planning Committee Members:

Tsveta Polhemus: None
Julie Pung: None
Zoya Shabbir: None

This program was developed in part by NCQA staff.