Description: Join us on Thursday, November 7th from 9am to 12:15 pm PT for the Social Need and Health Equity Summit, hosted by the Foundation for Health Care Quality and Bree Collaborative. Building upon last year's development of four pivotal reports—Advancing Health Equity, Social Need Screening, Social Need Intervention, and Storing and Sharing Data—this webinar will delve into practical implementations and strategies for promoting health equity. Discover how organizations across Washington are applying these guidelines, from enhancing social need screening practices to implementing effective interventions and advancing data collection like SOGI data. Gain insights on new updates around these topics. Explore how to foster sustained change within our health ecosystem, aiming to align strategies that ensure equitable health outcomes for all communities.

CME: Individuals who attend the live webinar event are eligible to receive a maximum of 3.25 CME credits. CME credits are at no cost. 

Plenary Presentation: Health Justice by Edwin Lindo, JD

Associate Teaching Professor, Edwin Lindo, has embarked on the journey to ask and explore the hard questions of Race & Racism within the institutions of Medicine and Law, and how they inform society more broadly. Edwin brings the interdisciplinary study of Critical Race Theory, Lat Crit, and community organizing to Medicine and Law so we can better learn how Racism detrimentally affects our health, our learning, our teaching, and justice. As faculty in the Department of Family Medicine, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities and at Morehouse School of Medicine, Edwin has published, taught, and developed curriculum on Critical Race Theory and Medicine; and provides student and faculty development around the issues of race and equity in medical education, patient care, and research. Most recently, Edwin has become Appointed Faculty for the Weitzman Institute, a nationally recognized research and education organization. Professor Lindo currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Social and Health Justice within the Office of Healthcare Equity at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His research and scholarship have focused on the history of racialized medicine, race & racism within medicine, social justice, social movements, and decolonized pedagogies for critical education. Edwin is also the creator and host of The Praxis Podcast – a podcast focused on addressing racism within medicine in all its forms. Lastly, he is an internationally recognized speaker and thinker on these critical issues. Estell (his partner and wife) and Edwin founded and curated Estelita’s Library, a Social Justice Community Library & Bookstore dedicated to the goal of bringing truth and justice to communities through decentralized knowledge and decolonized spaces. Their books cover topics of justice, liberation, identity, race & racism, economic and political theory, and anything else that guides us in understanding our world through a critical lens. You can find them at EstelitasLibrary.org. Estelita’s Library is named after their 3 year old, Estella.

Presentations:

• Social Need Screening & Interventions Panel speakers ICHS and Jefferson Healthcare
• An ACH referral pathway: Connecting clients from the hospital to the community Panel by Peace Health, SWACH and WAGAP
• Strengthening SOGI data collection to improve client outcomes Panel by MultiCare, UnitedHealthcare Group and WSHA
• Care Coordination Updates by Michael Garrett 

Learning objectives:

1. Apply health justice principles in their work and organizational practices to promote equity in healthcare.
2. Identify successful case studies from organizations across Washington that demonstrate real-world applications of the guidelines outlined in the reports.
3. Examine different data collection approaches, including SOGI data, and evaluate their impacts on health outcomes through various case studies.
4. Summarize recent updates to case management practices that enhance the delivery of health services.
5. Discuss evidence-based interventions that organizations can implement to effectively address social determinants of health and improve community outcomes.