This badge empowers learners to proactively address health disparities, ensuring all patients receive appropriate care. Education will include tools to identify and reduce barriers and improve trust within communities.
All activities below must be completed to earn the Population Health Champion badge.
Population-Based Health in Practice: Addressing Health-Related Social Needs (45 minutes)
In this educational discussion, national experts will discuss a new CMS pilot program that enables clinicians to use novel methods to address HRSN via Medicare resources. This approach, called “In Lieu of Services” (ILOS) uses Medicaid funds to pay for services that are not traditionally medical, but can potentially improve patient outcomes in a more cost-effective manner than traditional treatments. The program will also highlight the screening and assessment best practices and empathetic inquiry skills necessary to identify and address HRSN.
Equity and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Leaders in Addressing the Crisis (45 minutes)
This CMEOCast podcast will focus on the role of health systems in addressing structural racism and clinician/staff biases and how health systems administrators can integrate best practices to support patients and reduce disparities in care.
The Patient Journey: Eliminating Disparities at Every Step (120 minutes)
In this CME Outfitters webcast, expert faculty will discuss unconscious bias, racial and ethnic disparities, and health inequities and lay the foundation to implement real-world strategies and actionable steps for health care professionals (HCPs) and non-HCPs, including office, administrative, and support staff. This webcast will also integrate the patient perspective and allow learners to recognize how patients are impacted throughout their care and best practices that can improve care and outcomes for all.
Vaccines: Real-World Tactics to Address Health Inequities (45 minutes)
This CME Outfitters BriefCase will discuss the health care challenges of a racially diverse young mother and her 2-year-old child, and how to encourage vaccinations as preventative measures for both. Expert faculty will discuss potential barriers and hesitancies for this mother to vaccinate herself and her child, along with strategies to ameliorate disparities in vaccination rates.