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<h5>May 2, 2023</h5>
<h2>Best Practices Framework for Culturally Sensitive Care</h2>
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The WSMA Foundation is launching a program to share best practices on assuring high-quality and culturally sensitive care for specific conditions that disproportionately affect diverse communities.
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With the assistance of our health equity consultant, Edwin Lindo, JD, we are developing a framework that can be applied to three specific conditions-maternal mortality, endometrial cancer early detection, and colon cancer screening and early detection. Recognizing that there are more examples, the framework can be developed or shared as a model for other conditions as well.
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This work is ongoing, but to date, two documents outlining the framework are available, for maternal mortality and endometrial cancer. Find these resources at wsma.org, under Resources, Health Equity, then <a href="[@]wsma/resources/health-equity/inclusive-language-and-health-equity-resources/wsma/resources/health-equity/inclusive-language-and-health-equity-resources.aspx?hkey=83eb54d8-4418-4e6a-b657-2de2fdfebd83">Inclusive Language and Health Equity Resources</a>.
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For more information about this work, contact Monica Salgaonkar at <a href="mailto:monica@wsma.org">monica@wsma.org</a>.
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| health-equity-m-and-m-series-continues | Health Equity M&M Series Continues | Thrive | Shared_Content/News/thrive/2023/may-june/health-equity-m-and-m-series-continues | <div class="col-md-12">
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<h5>May 2, 2023</h5>
<h2>Health Equity M&amp;M Series Continues</h2>
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By popular demand, the WSMA's <a href="https://wsma.org/wsma/resources/health-equity/health-equity-m-and-m-webinar-series.aspx">Health Equity M&amp;M webinars</a>&nbsp;led by Edwin Lindo, JD, are continuing. Think "morbidity and mortality," but with a focus on health equity: These discussions provide a framework for recognizing and examining our biases and identifying the ways systemic racism exists within our organizations. Attendees learn to think critically and identify when to advocate for patients from historically marginalized communities to help ensure they receive the highest quality clinical care.
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Health equity M&amp;Ms foster a space conducive to building a community of professionals focused on achieving health equity, allowing for discussions of charged but necessary topics. "The question about whether our actions are perpetuating systemic harm is such an important one," noted one attendee. "I will ask this when reviewing cases and even in the moment during interactions."
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<em>"Health equity M&amp;Ms provide opportunities for rich conversations amongst peers about how to advance health equity in your practice and organization."</em> - Edwin Lindo, JD
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WSMA's heath equity M&amp;M sessions are exclusively for WSMA members, offered for free as a member benefit. If you haven't yet joined these discussions, we encourage you to do so (registration is available on our <a href="[@]wsma/education/upcoming_webinars/wsma/education/upcoming_webinars/Upcoming_Webinars.aspx?hkey=b760d6bd-1833-412d-b681-babf251792a8">Upcoming Webinars</a> page). You are also encouraged to submit a patient case to discuss at an upcoming session. Rest assured that all case submissions are CQIP and HIPAA compliant.
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Prof. Lindo is WSMA's health equity consultant, and also assistant dean of social and health justice in the Office of Healthcare Equity, an associate teaching professor in the department of family medicine, and an adjunct associate teaching professor in the department of bioethics and humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine.&nbsp;</p>
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<h5>May 2, 2023</h5>
<h2>Transitions for Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest </h2>
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Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest launched in 2015 as a philanthropically funded joint initiative co-sponsored by the WSMA Foundation and the Washington State Hospital Association. The initiative's efforts focused on the vision that everyone in the Pacific Northwest would receive care that honors their values, goals, and preferences at the end of life.
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To that end, the health care community generously donated $5.6 million to support the initiative. Through good stewardship of the funds, what was originally budgeted to last seven years lasted nine years and will reach through the end of 2023.
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The goal of the initiative was to embed expertise and resources within organizations so that they could independently run advance care planning programs for their local communities. Much has been accomplished in this work since 2015.
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While Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest is in the process of transitioning to a new phase, both the WSMA Foundation and WSHA remain steadfast in our support of facilitating advance care planning and improving end-of-life care.
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This year, Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest is making two key changes:
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<li>Shifting from a philanthropically funded model to a fee-for-service model.</li>
<li>Narrowing the focus to primarily deliver Serious Illness Conversation Guide trainings.</li>
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Currently, Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest's priorities include working on basic advance care planning and goals-of-care conversations, as well as serving as a convener and advocate. Looking ahead, expect to see some changes in each of those three areas.
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The website, <a href="http://www.honoringchoicespnw.org/">www.honoringchoicespnw.org</a>, will continue to serve as a repository of resources and the place to register for Serious Illness Conversation Guide trainings. The learning management system, available exclusively to partner organizations, will remain in place and will be built out further to support self-service.
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Attendees from partner organizations can continue to register for the Serious Illness Conversation Guide trainings. For the remainder of the year, attendees from partner organizations can register for the SICG trainings at a subsidized registration fee. To find out more, email <a href="mailto:info@honoringchoicespnw.org">info@honoringchoicespnw.org</a>.
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<h3>Learn More about Inequities in Care</h3>
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For more information about the work of the Washington Serious Illness Care Coalition, <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/component-page?hasValidToken=false&amp;clusterId=us06&amp;action=play&amp;filePlayId=&amp;componentName=recording-register&amp;meetingId=NklDb4oQYlMAN792Sw4kgH2ZEev40A4AKn7fF-WfU9rPr2e9RUslRwULqGaROJyU.KvxyoMbtnrEjSFEv&amp;originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FIvtH1l39Id0kQ4uDdQ_jqfhB3jTcEzz-xujRAwxR5wEQuI4wBM_MjbjPqlisXgzP.L398nQbpwU_1cVlX%3FstartTime%3D1651257392000">view the on-demand webinar on Recognizing Inequities in Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care</a>. The webinar features Edwin Lindo, JD as the keynote speaker, in addition to a panel including:
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<li>Mabel Bodell, MD, nephrologist/transplant nephrologist, clinical assistant professor, department of medicine, University of Washington, Seattle; medical director, acute dialysis unit, Confluence Health, Wenatchee.</li>
<li>Raleigh Bowden, MD, director, Okanogan Palliative Care Initiative, Okanogan; Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, 2019-2022.</li>
<li>Eze Oluo, projects manager, Permanente Medicine, Seattle; member, BIPOC Health Careers Ecosystem.</li>
<li>Moderator: Devyani Chandran, PhD, director, Palliative Care Institute; associate professor, health and community studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham.</li>
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