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Complex Medical Conditions in Children: Utilizing Personalized Treatments and Addressing Health Disparities
Activity description
Social determinants of health (SDoH), which include such factors as health care access, education level, social environment, and income, play a strong role in individuals’ physical and mental well-being, influence the development of chronic disease states and impact both short- and long-term health outcomes. Children with rare and complex medical conditions (CMC) and poorer SDoH face fundamental challenges and disparities in health, including decreased access to quality health care (often leading to delayed diagnoses and treatment), inadequate access to culturally appropriate care and a lack of suitable social and support services.
This activity will focus on the connection between SDoH and how they may impact access to care, treatment and health outcomes for children with rare and CMC. Learners will be provided with strategies and resources that can address these negative effects. The importance of access to personalized care that they require to live their healthiest lives will be addressed.
Provided by
This activity is provided by Optum Health Education and UnitedHealthcare.
Commercial support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
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Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of case managers, counselors, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physicians, PAs, psychologists, social workers, therapists and other health care professionals who care for the pediatric population.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the impact SDoH have on the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of children with CMC.
- Address the importance of access to personalized care that children with rare and CMC require to live their healthiest lives.
- Identify practices and strategies that the interprofessional health care team may employ to address negative SDoH.
- State resources available to champion equitable change for children with CMC.
Presenter
Dennis Z. K
uo, MD, MHS
Associate Professor
Chief, Division of General Pediatrics
University at Buffalo
Interim Chief, Division of Developmental Pediatrics & Rehabilitation
Buffalo, NY
About the presenter
Dr. Dennis Z. Kuo received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his pediatrics residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. Dr. Kuo spent several years as a physician in a general pediatrics practice before completing a general academic pediatrics fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Master of Health Science at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His clinical and research interests include children with complex medical needs, the patient-centered medical home and health care system transformation.
Activity planners
Robin K. Blitz, MD
Medical Director
Special Needs Initiative / Complex Health Solutions
UnitedHealthcare
Sarah Chart, RN
Vice President
OptumHealth Education
Rebecca Gleason, RN, CCM
Activity Manager
OptumHealth Education
Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, OptumHealth Education (OHE) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. OHE ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.
The activity faculty or planners have no financial relationships to disclose.
Method for calculating CE credit
CE credit was calculated by the complexity of content.
Accreditation statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Optum Health Education and UnitedHealthcare. Optum Health Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Credit designation statements
This activity was planned by and for the health care team, and learners will receive 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Nurses
The participant will be awarded up to 1.00 contact hour(s) of credit for attendance and completion of supplemental materials.
Nurse practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists/Pharmacy technicians
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hour ([0.10] CEU) in states that recognize ACPE.
Attending the full program will earn 1.00 contact hour.
Unique Activity Number(s): JA0007123-9999-21-025-H04-P/T
Physicians
Optum Health Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PAs
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Case managers
The Commission for Case Manager Certification has approved this program for a maximum of 1.00 clock hours for Certified Case Managers (CCM).
Psychologists
Optum Health Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Optum Health Education maintains responsibility for this program. 1.00 CE hour.
Social workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Optum Health Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. OptumHealth Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 enduring continuing education credits.
Counselors and/or marriage and family therapists
CA: The Board of Behavioral Sciences has deferred CE course approvals to APA and ASWB for its licensees. See those approvals under Psychologists and Social Workers.
Other States: If your state is not specifically listed, nearly all state Counselor and MFT boards accept either APA or ASWB approval, or are reciprocal with other state licensing board approvals, such as those listed below. Check with your board to be sure.
Attendance
A certificate of attendance will be provided to learners upon completion of activity requirements, enabling participants to register with licensing boards or associations that have not been preapproved for credits. To apply for credit types not listed above, participants should use the procedure established by the specific organization from which they wish to obtain credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacists
- 1.00 ACPE - Pharmacy Technicians
- 1.00 AMA - Physicians
- 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
- 1.00 APA - Psychologists
- 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
- 1.00 CCMC - General - Case Managers
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