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It serves a six-county area, primarily focusing on serving the underserved and uninsured population in Georgia. Grady is a 953-bed health system with 7,251 staff members. Recognizing a large demographic gap between their employee and patient populations, Grady’s leadership learned that the staff was interested in bridging that gap and in getting more local students engaged in health care careers.</p><h3><small>Development and Progression of the Teen Experience and Leadership Program</small></h3><p>Before the pandemic, Grady Health System already had a small teen volunteer program in which students gained exposure to careers in health care. When Senior Vice President and Inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer Yolanda Wimberly, M.D., joined Grady Health System, she recognized the keen inquisitiveness of the teenagers whom she cared for as a pediatrician and adolescent medicine physician. Impassioned by the curiosity rising from these teens and her deep commitment to education, Wimberly used her position at Grady to create the Teen Experience and Leadership Program (TELP). </p><p>Basing the development of the new initiative on an existing program allowed the TELP team to hit the ground running. Dr. Wimberly’s vision rapidly expanded the scope of the program to engage teen volunteers in clinical and non-clinical roles. With the blessing of Grady’s CEO, Wimberly first met with unit staff to learn about their work and to introduce them to her vision for the program. Grady has over 200 staff volunteers, so the program requires support from members and departments across the organization. Even from the beginning, the majority of units were enthused and wanted to participate. </p><p>The experience of months of careful planning provided a grounding in practicality. Wimberly was determined to ensure that contingencies were in place to forestall workforce shortages and avoid other challenges to staff participation that could deplete resources and weaken commitment. It is clear now and substantiated that TELP leadership will support participating units if issues arise. With knowledge of that assurance, the units are committed to providing an exceptional experience for the teens to learn what health care careers entail. </p><h3><small>Initial Success and Lessons Learned</small></h3><p>Grady began advertising the program with virtual meet and greets for high school students and their parents. TELP's pilot in 2022 saw 35 students participate, growing to 236 in 2023 from a pool of 400 applicants. </p><p>The program involves 42 hospital units available for rotation, including clinical and nonclinical units, such as human resources, finance and legal compliance, among others. Grady wanted to ensure that all students, regardless of their schedules, would be able to engage in the experience. TELP offers considerable flexibility in time commitment, with the minimum being eight hours every two weeks. Students choose from several shifts held seven days each week in order to accommodate students’ busy schedules with school, work, sports and other commitments. With the autonomy to structure their own experience, students select the number of shifts they attend and choose the units they want to experience from the wide variety offered. One student participated in 27 different units; other participants chose to attend the same unit every day.  </p><p>The large number of units participating ensures that the workload can be well distributed throughout the hospital, as well. The employees are excited to mentor the teens; that excitement is the fuel that propels TELP staff to continue innovating. </p><p>The surprising growth in the first year of the program was one of the biggest challenges for Grady. Despite a small marketing campaign in 2023, Grady received 433 applications and had to dismiss hundreds of potential participants. Nonetheless, even with the limited placements, the task of tracking the number of teenagers and assignments is significant. Soon after the first year began, Grady staff realized that they needed a dedicated liaison for each unit to coordinate the student experiences on a daily basis. </p><p>Many participants express interest in returning to TELP the next summer, which prompts the team to identify and develop ways to accommodate even more participants. The TELP team’s diligent measurement of the program’s progress is focused on tracking participants who pursue health care careers. The database of past TELP participants serves as a conduit to greater enrollment as the TELP staff continue to identify training and career opportunities that excite and shape the next generation of health professionals.<br> </p></div><div class="col-md-4"><a href="/system/files/media/file/2023/12/workforce-cs-grady-teens.pdf"><img src="/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-12/Grady-TELP.png" width="232" height="300" alt="Grady Health System Teen Experience and Leadership Program page 1." class="align-center"></a><p class="text-align-center"><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/system/files/media/file/2023/12/workforce-cs-grady-teens.pdf">Download Case Study</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div></div><p> </p><div><a href="https://soundcloud.com/advancinghealth" target="_blank" title="Advancing Health">Advancing Health</a> · <a href="https://player.captivate.fm/episode/25b139df-111d-41b6-a4cb-178c83db9c0f" title="Meeting Demand: Creating a New Pipeline of Health Care Workers">Meeting Demand: Creating a New Pipeline of Health Care Workers</a></div><p> </p><p>The health care field needs workers, and the demand will increase even more in the years to come. Grady Health System realized that accessing a key demographic could unlock solutions to these labor shortages. In this conversation, Grady Health System’s Yolanda Wimberly, M.D., senior vice president and chief health equity officer, and Felicia Mobley, Ph.D., director of health equity, discuss their new teen experience and leadership program, and how providing hands-on internships for local teens is helping to build its workforce pipeline for decades to come.</p><p class="text-align-center"><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/advancing-health-podcast/2023-12-08-meeting-demand-creating-new-pipeline-health-care-workers">Listen to the Podcast</a></p></div></div></div> Tue, 12 Dec 2023 08:27:22 -0600 Physician Leader /advancing-health-podcast/2022-06-17-equity-through-precision-heart-care-cleerly-inc-and-lee-health <p>Dr. Leon D. Caldwell, Senior Director, Health Equity Strategies and Innovation, in the Institute of Diversity and Health Equity at the AHA, sits down with Dr. James Min, CEO and Co-founder of AHA Associate, Cleerly, as well as Dr. Richard Chazal, Senior Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Heart & Vascular Institute at Lee Health System. Dr. Min and Dr. Chazal are at the forefront of a new population-based, precision heart care approach that is transforming the historical approach to cardiovascular care by treating the actual disease instead of symptoms. Together, they discuss how this new standard of care ultimately impacts health equity.</p> <hr /> <p></p> <div><a href="https://soundcloud.com/advancinghealth" target="_blank" title="Advancing Health">Advancing Health</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/advancinghealth/review3-cleerlypodcast-associates-advancinghealth" target="_blank" title="Equity Through Precision Heart Care with Cleerly, Inc. and Lee Health System">Equity Through Precision Heart Care with Cleerly, Inc. and Lee Health System</a></div> Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:16:54 -0500 Physician Leader /node/681884 <p>In 2018, the Alliance formed a Racial Equity Network (REN) of local and state systems and program leaders and advocates to inspire more engagement about best practices, data collection, and action steps at the systems level. The intent is to create a space in which leaders in the field can exchange ideas and advise the Alliance on practical approaches to addressing racial disparities.</p> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:57:45 -0600 Physician Leader /node/681881 <p>This report aims to strengthen community-driven efforts to achieve health equity by improving the online data tools that make health equity data readily available to them.</p> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:48:04 -0600 Physician Leader /node/681880 <p>The purpose of this tool is to ensure equity* by creating a lens through which each Healthy King County Coalition Workgroup better understands who is impacted by our policies and practices.</p> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:43:09 -0600 Physician Leader /node/681879 <h2>Lessons from Health Care Systems and Local Public Health Departments Working Together to Advance Community Health</h2> <p>Action report on local consortia in two regions delineating pragmatic steps to ensure effective, sustainable cross-sector partnerships.</p> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:38:16 -0600 Physician Leader /node/681877 <p>The Complex Care Startup Toolkit is a practical collection of guides, templates and other tools for new and developing complex care programs, regardless of setting, population or geography. With examples from programs and organizations across the U.S., the toolkit covers program design, program operations, data and process improvement, team and leadership development, community mapping and collaboration, and communication.</p> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:16:13 -0600 Physician Leader /node/681874 <p>This resource provides a step-by-step process for organizing and preparing, planning and prioritizing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating, and sustaining a primary care and public health partnership project.</p> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:07:16 -0600 Physician Leader <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>We want to welcome you as you take on another part of the Health Equity Transformation journey. Now that you have received your HETA profile, the fun work of organizational change begins. We have heard from many hospitals and health systems that the greatest challenge is moving forward beyond the proclamation that equity is essential to patient safety and equitable hospital organizations. We have developed this action planner tool to support you in moving across the transformation continuum.</p> <p>Once you have studied and discussed your profile, you will find the links to the appropriate levers that correspond with advancing to your next position on the continuum. As part of this process, you are invited to participate in a community of learners on the equity journey in hospitals and health care systems. Sharing your innovative policies and practices, learnings, questions and accomplishments are some of the features of the Equity Roadmap Journey Community.</p> <p>As your hospital travels across the continuum we have outlined primary deliverables of each position on the continuum below:</p> <p><img alt="Tranformation Continuum. Primary Deliverables: Exploring—Strategic Planning: Develop strategic plans. Committing—Implementation Planning: Develop implementation plan of strategy. Immersing—Leadership Accountability: CEO and management teams integrate learning DEI framework as Standard Operating Procedures. Affirming—Institutionalization: Policies and practices are assessed and monitored for sustaining DEI progress toward goals. 5. Transforming—Investing in the Community Ecosystem: Collaborate with a wide range of representative stakeholders to promote DEI in the communities hospital serves." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9e838e87-ac4c-4fd3-824a-36613b15c142" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/TAP-Transformation-Continuum_0.png" width="2875" height="824"></p> <p>Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This process is designed to support hospitals at every stage of the journey. Some hospitals are just beginning, developing a strategic plan and looking for data to collect, while others have institutionalized equity through policy and practice. Some are collaborating with a wide range of community stakeholders to advance health equity in their ecosystem. Regardless of your starting point, AHA invites you to use the Action Planners to mobilize your leadership, governing body, staff and community toward institutional change. Discover opportunities to change policy and practices that will institutionalize equity in your organization.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/system/files/media/file/2022/01/equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-transforming.pdf" target="_blank" title="Click here to download the complete Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Transforming Transformation Action Planner PDF."><img alt="Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance: Transforming Transformation Action Planner page 1." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="df3dddfa-37cd-4510-8271-6595c1473961" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Page-1-equity-roadmap-tap-diverse-leadership-transforming.png" width="3971" height="3069"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:35:13 -0600 Physician Leader