17th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 18-20, 2018 • Denver, CO
| EHDI Data Management: Are EI Resources Properly Located?
EHDI Data Management: Are EI Resources Properly Located?
Implementation and operation of any efficient system requires a fundamental understanding of where resources are required and how to best allocate those resources. Being a common birth defect in Virginia, with an average of 160 cases per year, childhood hearing loss is a defect that requires time-sensitive sequential steps to best manage children with this disease. The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program is a national program designed to screen children within 1 month of birth, diagnose within 3 months of birth and have children enrolled in Early Intervention within 6 months of birth. While all three time-sensitive goals are important, this project is focused on Early Intervention (EI). Early Intervention is important for numerous reasons and is best utilized when it is properly located. Population density is usually a good tool to use when deciding to establish a brick and mortar location, but for hearing loss, why not establish in an area most influenced by the actual caseloads for hearing loss based on a historical record.
A more useful tool to determine where to establish EI services is through the determination of the geographic mean for specific CCC or Care Connection for Children regions in Virginia. The CCC geographic mean location will be tracked over a ten-year span. For each geographic mean, 5 mile radii circles will be drawn to scale. After mapping the geographic means, EI facilities will be mapped as well. EI facilities will be counted within each geometric mean radii to understand how well placed each facility may be when it comes to location.
This information will be useful in understanding where and how to best plan for the construction of more EI facilities in the state within each CCC region.
- Understanding where the CCC region specific hearing loss geographic means are?
- Why EI is important?
- What can be done to improve EI accessibility for children with hearing loss?
Presentation:
15805_8041ColinBenusa.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Colin Benusa
(), Virginia Department of Health , colin.benusa@vdh.virginia.gov;
I am a B.A. graduate from the University of Virginia. During my last year at the University of Virginia, I successfully completed and became a nationally certified paramedic. In August 2015, I began a MPH program at Virginia Commonwealth University and completed my MPH program May 2017. During the second year of my MPH program I was a part time intern at the Virginia Department of Health. After graduation I started as the full time Newborn Screening Epidemiologist at VDH.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.