19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
3/10/2020 | 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM | No more Lost to Documentation – What made these states successful? | Chicago B
No more Lost to Documentation – What made these states successful?
Since the 90s the US has managed to overcome the insurmountable task of making sure newborns received a hearing screening prior to discharge. But we continue to struggle with ensuring all babies who need further services receive them. There will always be a subset of babies lost to follow-up for various reasons such as parental choice and relocation of the family. What is occurring that we can do something about is the lost to documentation rate. It is believed that many of our babies classified as lost to follow-up actually have received follow-up services but it is undocumented. We struggle to monitor and assess the performance of EHDI programs because we just don’t know the follow-up results. Some states do succeed in obtaining the collaboration and cooperation needed from their follow-up providers? Here are two states both similar in that they have five to six bordering states. But different in that one has small land area and dense population while the other has larger land area and about half the population. Both unique in why they are successful and their current challenges. Both have low rates of lost to documentation. While some babies are still lost to follow-up they are not lost to documentation. Learn what it took to get there, what it takes to maintain success, and their ongoing challenges. Learn how Iowa and Maryland have been successful at making sure newborns and their families are offered the services to which they are entitled. Every state is unique. Is there something Iowa and Maryland did that you can incorporate into your program to further decrease the number of babies who are lost to documentation?
- Describe why audiologists in MD are compelled to report their results?
- Describe why follow-up providers in IA are compelled to report their results?
- Identify the similarity between how MD and IA provide their care coordination.
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Presenters/Authors
Tanya Green
(), State of Maryland, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, tanya.green@maryland.gov;
Tanya D. Green, M.S., CCC-A is the Program Chief of the Maryland Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, within the Office for Genetics and People with Special Health Care Needs at the Maryland Department of Health. The Program works to ensure that babies born in Maryland receive the newborn hearing screening and appropriate follow-up. She has worked as an educational audiologist and as a clinical audiologist in hospital, university and private practice settings.
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Tammy O'Hollearn
(), Iowa Department of Public Health, tammy.ohollearn@idph.iowa.gov;
Tammy O'Hollearn has been the EHDI Director for Iowa for the last 15 years. She has worked at the Iowa Department of Public Health since 2001. Ms. O’Hollearn provides administrative oversight, budget management, oversees surveillance of the newborn hearing screening and follow-up data base, as well facilitates the day-to-day management of activities to meet program goals. Ms. O’Hollearn works with many stakeholders in the community that assists Iowa EHDI in meeting program goals and strengthen the system of care for Deaf or hard-of-hearing infants. She directs data design, collection, program analyses and evaluation of the EHDI SOC. She serves on many state and national committees and facilitates the Iowa EHDI Advisory Committee. Tammy received a Link Associates Dorothy Schwartz Award in 1993 and ISHA Outstanding Service Award in 2009 and in 2016, the Iowa EHDI program received the EHDI Website of the Year Award.
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Wendy Welsh
(), OZ Systems, wwelsh@ozsystems.com;
In 1997, I worked on the Sounds of Texas Project (the pilot study for universal newborn screening in the state of TX). As a pediatric audiologist I worked at the University of Texas at Dallas/Callier Center performing diagnostic assessments. I worked at OZ Systems once the Texas house bill was passed 20 years ago that mandated universal hearing screening and developed training materials to implement EHDI throughout the state. I went on to work at Biologic Systems where I worked closely with audiologists training them on diagnostic assessment. I worked in product management for both Biologic Systems and Otometrics with their electrophysiology and vestibular product lines. In 2017 I returned to OZ Systems with an interest in learning about all mandated newborn screenings (blood spot, heart and hearing) in product management and in 2018 became the Director of Marketing.
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• Receives Salary for Employment from OZ Systems.
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