The EBAN Experience is a team-based collaborative that focuses on improving health disparities through community dialogue, experiential education and quality improvement projects. The initiative connects with communities served by HealthPartners clinics, hospitals and health plans; trains teams to address community health issues; and provides participants with the tools and infrastructure needed to generate solutions to transform care delivery and reduce disparities in care.
The collaborative is a year-long endeavor, with nine teams learning quality improvement methods and applying them to issues affecting the health of local communities. The teams include community members. The teams began work in March 2011, with the first of four quarterly meetings. At the end of the collaborative each team will present their progress in improving a health issue at a final celebration of the initiative.
Screenplays about patients in the Latino/a, Hmong, African American, and Somali cultures will serve as springboards for discussion. The screenplays are written by playwrights from the featured culture, who are enagaged in community conversations about health issues, to bring to life barriers to care, perceptions and misperceptions, and cultural traditions affecting health.
The EBAN Experience is a partnership of many organizations in Minneapolis-St Paul, supported in-part by a grant from the Pfizer Medical Education Group.
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.
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