Accessibility in Health Care and Beyond

11/11/24 • 29 min

Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency

As the director of web and mobile digital accessibility at HealthPartners, Steve Sawczyn leads a team dedicated to making health care simple and accessible for everyone. Steve, who is blind, has used his own experiences to inspire his team’s accessibility work and says he has learned to challenge what people say is impossible.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Steve Sawczyn

Steve and the web and mobile digital accessibility team can be reached at [email protected].

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Steve Sawczyn

Steve and the web and mobile digital accessibility team can be reached at [email protected].

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

Got an idea? Have thoughts to share? We want to hear from you. Email us at [email protected].

Previous Episode

How Bystander CPR Improves the Odds of Survival

Statistics show that women and communities of color are less likely to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation after cardiac arrest. Dr. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is the emergency medical services director at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and co-founder of Akoma United, an organization with the mission to save lives, especially in communities of color, and goal to empower everyday people to use CPR. She shares why it's important and reminds us that there’s no liability when doing CPR.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Dr. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Next Episode

What to Know About Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Stewardship

Maxx Enzmann and Zack Nelson, infectious diseases pharmacists and members of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) at HealthPartners, tell us the top three things everyone should know about antibiotics, what’s misunderstood about them and share how the ASP uses equity as its guiding principle.

HealthPartners Antimicrobial Stewardship Program page (only accessible to HealthPartners colleagues)

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Jimmy Bellamy

Guests: Maxx Enzmann, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP; and Zack Nelson, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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