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Introduction - Gordon Schiff
2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015)
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Health Leads - Rebecca Onie
2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015)
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Eerie Family Health - Lee Frances
2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015)
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Presentation of 16th Annual Donabedian Medical Care Quality Award to Rebecca Onie
Gordon Schiff, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015)
Dr. Schiff, Chair of Donabedian Award committee will present the award and the accomplishments of Rebecca Onie.
Chronic disease management and prevention Diversity and culture Public health or related public policy
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Caring for Societyâs Most Vulnerable: How the Radical Becomes Viable
Rebecca Onie, JD
HealthLeads, Boston, MA
2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015)
Health Leads is a organization that envisions a healthcare system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. Its mission is to catalyze this healthcare system by connecting patients with the basic resources they need to be healthy, and in doing so build leaders with the conviction and ability to champion quality care for all patients. The model deployed in the clinics where we operate physicians and other providers can prescribe food, heat, and other basic resources their patients need to be healthy, alongside prescriptions for medication. Patients then take those prescriptions to a Health Leads Desk in the clinic waiting room, where our college student Advocates work side-by-side with the patients to access community resources and public benefits. Health Leads enables healthcare providers to prescribe basic resources like food and heat just as they do medication and refer patients to our program just as they do any other specialty. We recruit and train college students— Health Leads Advocates – to fill these prescriptions by working side by side with patients to connect them with the basic resources they need to be healthy. The history and current activities of this unique program will be discussed
Chronic disease management and prevention Diversity and culture Public health or related public policy Social and behavioral sciences Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
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Community Health Centers: Responding to the quality and service challenges while expanding under the ACA
Lee Frances, MD
Erie Family Health Center, Chicago, IL
2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015)
Erie Family Health Center delivers high-quality, culturally-sensitive, bilingual health care to more than 53,000 medical patients and 9,500 dental patients. Our community-based health care centers are portals to high-quality care – and a higher quality of life – regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Since 1957, when the Erie Family Health Center was first established as a volunteer clinic by doctors from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, it has been our mission to consider health care a right, not a privilege. Today, Erie serves patients from 13 sites, including seven large primary care facilities (four with integrated, on-site dental care), five school-based health centers and the only freestanding comprehensive teen health provider in Chicagoland. Quality care has always been at the forefront of Eries mission and the ACA has provided new opportunities and challenges that will be discussed.
Chronic disease management and prevention Diversity and culture Public health or related public policy Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
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2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo (Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2015)