Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency - Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Equity Action Lab

Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Equity Action Lab

12/26/23 • 29 min

Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency

Our focus on reducing disparities led to a partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. A gap in care with our Somali patient population was discovered after reviewing numbers for colorectal and breast cancer screenings, pediatric immunizations and diabetes.

In the Season 4 finale, two HealthPartners colleagues, family nurse practitioner Munira MaalimIsaq and senior project manager Greg Fedio, share how the Equity Action Lab project, or what they and participants called "Open Faces," helped assess and better understand the gaps and determine steps for changes.

"Off the Charts" returns June 11.

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

Guests: Munira MaalimIsaq, FNP; and Greg Fedio

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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

"Off the Charts" returns June 11.

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

Guests: Munira MaalimIsaq, FNP; and Greg Fedio

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

Family Cancer Gene Discovered with myGenetics

HealthPartners created myGenetics, a community health research program in partnership with Helix, because DNA can tell people about their health and may hold the key to understanding certain health risk factors.

Deenya Craig, a HealthPartners patient with a family history of cancer, started having irregular mammograms in her mid-30s and knew DNA testing existed. Through myGenetics, she found out she carries the BRCA2 gene mutation that brings a greater risk of breast and ovarian cancers. She’s now a health advocate and encouraged her family to get checked.

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

Guest: Deenya Craig

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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

Next Episode

Minneapolis Schools Heal and Transform Through Grief and Trauma

Growing Through Grief is a school-based grief support and crisis management program supported by the Park Nicollet Foundation that provides children with peer support groups, individual counseling, and death-related crisis response after they’ve experienced the loss of a loved one.

Nicole Barnes, Growing Through Grief program manager, and Judy Brown, Minneapolis Public Schools mental health manager, outline the prevalence of childhood bereavement and share the C.A.R.E.S. (community, awareness, resiliency, empathy and strength) support group model. The episode will highlight how the partnership between health care and education systems brings additional resources to schools that share education and renewal practices with students that bring hope and healing.

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

Guests: Nicole Barnes and Judy Brown

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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