The EBAN Experience is a team-based collaborative that focuses on improving health disparities through community dialogue, experiential education and quality improvement projects. Developed by the HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research in 2011, the initiative fostered relationships with communities served by HealthPartners clinics, hospitals and health plans, training teams to address community health issues and provide participants with the tools and infrastructure needed to generate solutions to transform care delivery and reduce disparities in care.
The inaugural collaborative was a year-long endeavor, with nine teams learning quality improvement methods and applying them to issues affecting the health of local communities. The teams included community members and health professionals. The teams began work in March 2011, with the first of four quarterly meetings. The initiative concluded with each team presenting their clinical improvement opportunity, the actions that they took and the outcomes. HealthPartners is spreading the findings of the EBAN teams across the health system.
Screenplays about patients in the Latino/a, Hmong, African American, and Somali cultures served as springboards for discussion. The screenplays were written by playwrights from the featured culture, who engaged in community conversations about health issues, to bring to life barriers to care, perceptions and misperceptions, and cultural traditions affecting health.
This EBAN Experience was a partnership of many organizations in Minneapolis-St Paul, supported in-part by a grant from Pfizer's office of Independent Grants for Learning & Change. Partners included Mixed Blood Theatre, Twin Cities Public Television, Rainbow Research, HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics, Regions Hospital, HealthPartners Health Plan and the diverse communities we serve.
The inaugural collaborative was a year-long endeavor, with nine teams learning quality improvement methods and applying them to issues affecting the health of local communities. The teams included community members and health professionals. The teams began work in March 2011, with the first of four quarterly meetings. The initiative concluded with each team presenting their clinical improvement opportunity, the actions that they took and the outcomes. HealthPartners is spreading the findings of the EBAN teams across the health system.
Screenplays about patients in the Latino/a, Hmong, African American, and Somali cultures served as springboards for discussion. The screenplays were written by playwrights from the featured culture, who engaged in community conversations about health issues, to bring to life barriers to care, perceptions and misperceptions, and cultural traditions affecting health.
This EBAN Experience was a partnership of many organizations in Minneapolis-St Paul, supported in-part by a grant from Pfizer's office of Independent Grants for Learning & Change. Partners included Mixed Blood Theatre, Twin Cities Public Television, Rainbow Research, HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics, Regions Hospital, HealthPartners Health Plan and the diverse communities we serve.
What does EBAN stand for?
EBAN is a symbol from the Asanti people of Ghana. It represents security, safety and trust. It was chosen as the symbol of the EBAN experience to represent the coming together of cultures to improve the health of all.
EBAN is a symbol from the Asanti people of Ghana. It represents security, safety and trust. It was chosen as the symbol of the EBAN experience to represent the coming together of cultures to improve the health of all.
