17th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 18-20, 2018 • Denver, CO
3/20/2018 | 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | Reducing Loss to Follow-up Due to Planning and Timing | Agate A-C
Reducing Loss to Follow-up Due to Planning and Timing
The success of collaborations to improve the state Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program is highly dependent on education, motivation, and most of all relationships. Despite challenges with funding, staffing and competing initiatives significant program improvement can occur when the timing is right and there are shared commitments. Between 2013 and 2016, Illinois reduced loss-to-follow-up from 78% to 37%. The successes were the results of deliberate quality improvement activities, ideal timing and collaborating relationships. Illinois participated in several projects which lead to sustainable programmatic improvements. The projects included:
1. referring to local (community based) local health departments to conduct follow-up calls to families, drive by visits to families, and follow-up documentation from providers;
2. completing an automated data exchange with Healthcare and Family Service (Medicaid);
3. implementing a web-based data reporting system; and
4. implementing hospital reporting audits.
Each activity has led to future ideas of sustainability and spread that support the EHDI program’s mission and vision. Stakeholders and resources needed for each of the 4 activities will be discussion. Also, data will be reviewed related to quality improvement cycles and sustainability. Finally, the impact of collaborations and data on changes to legislation will be highlighted.
- the learner will understand the importance of collaborating with the state Medicaid program
- The learner will understand the benefits of collaborating with community health deparatments
- the learner will learn 3 opportunities for promoting program quality through audits
Presentation:
15805_8068GingerMullin.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
15805_8068GingerMullin.docx
Presenters/Authors
Ginger Mullin
(), Illinois Department of Public Health, ginger.mullin@illinois.gov;
Dr. Ginger Mullin has a Bachelor’s degree Communication Disorders. She also holds a Master’s and Doctoral degree in Audiology. She has worked in pediatric audiology and the EHDI system since 1995 and became Illinois’ EHDI coordinator in 2005. During that time she has been the principal investigator for both the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grants/ cooperative agreements. She has received specific training in pediatrics, public health, data management and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). As the EHDI Coordinator, Dr. Mullin has worked at the state and national level to promote newborn hearing screening, audiology diagnostics, targeted intervention, family-to-family support, stakeholder education and ongoing surveillance through age 3. She has presented regionally and nationally on pediatric assessment, amplification, the EHDI system of care, and partnering with families She has been part of the leadership teams for the Newborn Hearing Screening Training Curriculum (NHSTC), EHDI-PALS, Virtual Site Visit Project (VSV), as well as the national EHDI Meeting. She has severed in many capacities, including the President for the Directors of Speech and Hearing Programs in State Health and Welfare Agencies. She is the co-leader of EHDI Chats a national forum for EHDI Coordinators to meet monthly and share seamlessly while stealing shamelessly from one another to enhance state programs. She has been nominated several time for the Antonio Maxon Award at the National EHDI Meeting and received the Seaver Vision Award. Dr. Mullin was also a key leader for the EHDI and GBYS program which received the Generating Real Action by Cultivating Engagement (GRACE) Award from Expecting Health and Baby’s First Test. Dr. Mullin sits on the Illinois Universal Newborn Screening Advisory Committee and the Illinois Interagency Council on Early Intervention to guide work for children with low-incidence sensory disabilities.
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Samantha Raymond
(), Illinois Department of Public Health, samantha.raymond@illinois.gov;
Samantha holds a bachelor's degree in English. She currently attends the University of Illinois at Springfield where she is pursued her master in Public Administration. She was awarded a Graduate Public Service Internship with the Illinois Department of Public Health from 2017-2019. Samantha works in the EHDI Program focusing on quality assurance and quality improvement.
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Alexandra Scherba
(), Illinois Department of Public Health, EHDI Program, Alexandra.Sharp@Illinois.gov;
Alexandra has two bachelor degrees from Loyola University Chicago. Her first degree was a BBA in Management and International Business while her second was a BS in Biology. Alexandra currently attends the University of Illinois at Springfield where she is pursuing her joint master in Public Health and Public Administration. She was awarded a Graduate Public Service Internship with the Illinois Department of Public Health where Alexandra works in the EHDI Program focusing on quality assurance and quality improvement.
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