EBAN Experience 2011-2012
The inaugural collaborative, called the EBAN Experience™ that focused on multiple projects to reduce health disparities, ended in 2012. Key recommendations have been spread across our system of care and have informed the subsequent collaborative.
Each collaborative team utilized quality improvement methodologies to analyze data, set goals and test new ideas
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.
Each collaborative team utilized quality improvement methodologies to analyze data, set goals and test new ideas
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.