Mass General Brigham Webinar: Ensuring Equity in the Response to COVID-19

  • Tuesday, May 19, noon - 1:30 pm EST
  • Featuring experts from our system, this webinar will be broadcast to a national audience.
  • Use this link to join from 12-1:30 EST, no pre-registration required.
  • This webinar will be recorded for those who are unable to attend

PRESS RELEASE:
Contact: Surie Johnson
Phone: (617) 724-7658
Email: stjohnson@partners.org
Website: http://healthcare.partners.org/streaming/Live/PHS/QSV/2020.05.19_COVID-19EquityLiveEvent.html

BOSTON, MA, USA -- EMPLOYEE BENEFIT UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- MAY 15, 2020: Mass General Brigham launched a system-wide COVID-19 effort to ensure that all patient, employee and community-related efforts have equity as a foundational component. Convened in early March, the Equity and Community Health COVID Response Team developed multiple workstreams focused on ensuring:

  • Communications to patients and employees are in multiple languages and accessible to patients with disabilities
  • Interactions have the capacity to meet the needs of diverse and multilingual population
  • Deploying multilingual caregivers across the system to meet the needs of limited-English proficient patients and employees
  • Working in partnership with local communities, develop clinical and community responses to the disparities and social determinants of health that have led to and are exacerbated by COVID-19

Please join us to learn more about how these workstreams were created, key initiatives that were developed and important lessons learned. This session will focus on sharing practical, actionable strategies and lessons learned from a large health care system-wide effort and cover multiple issues the team has managed over the last few months.

WEBINAR AGENDA
WELCOME, OPENING REMARKS AND BACKGROUND
CLINICAL
NATIONAL, STATE AND SYSTEM DATA
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
VP and Chief Equity Inclusion Officer, Mass General Hospital
Thomas Sequist, MD
Chief Patient Experience and Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners Healthcare)
MAKING THE SYSTEM ACCESSIBLE FOR PATIENTS WITH LANGUAGE BARRIERS
Lee Schwamm, MD
VP of Virtual Care, Mass General Brigham, Director of TeleHealth, Mass General Hospital
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH
Director of the Disparities Solutions Center, Mass General Hospital
Esteban Barreto, PhD
Director of Evaluation, MGH Equity and Inclusion, Mass General Hospital
LEVERAGING YOUR BILINGUAL WORKFORCE TO MEET CLINICAL COVID NEEDS
Elena Olson, JD
Executive Director, Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Mass General Hospital
Angela Maina
Director of Compliance, North Shore Medical Center
MAKING THE SYSTEM ACCESSIBLE FOR PATIENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Oswald Mondejar, Sr.
VP, Mission and Advocacy, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Cheri Blauwet, MD
Director of Disability Access and Awareness, Brigham and Woman's Hospital
Zary Amirhosseini, M.Ed
Disability Program Manager, Mass General Hospital
KEEPING THE WORKFORCE UPDATED ON COVID AND POLICY CHANGES
Sarah Wilkie, MS
Project Manager, Mass General Brigham
Natalie Johnson, MPH
Administrative Director, MGH Equity and Inclusion, Mass General Hospital
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUMMIT AND OTHER LOCAL EVENTS
Dani Monroe, MS
Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Mass General Brigham
CRISIS STANDARDS OF CARE
STATE AND LOCAL EFFORTS
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
VP and Chief Equity Inclusion Officer, Mass General Hospital
COMMUNITY HEALTH
DEVELOPING A STRATEGY TO MEET COMMUNITY NEEDS
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
VP and Chief Equity Inclusion Officer, Mass General Hospital
Kristin Barnicle, MA
Executive Director for Community Health, Mass General Brigham
Wanda McClain, MPA
VP of Community Health and Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kristina McLoughlin
Community Benefits Manager, North Shore Medical Center
Joan Quinlan, MPA
VP of Community Health, Mass General Hospital
CLOSING
AUDIENCE Q&A

CLOSING
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
VP and Chief Equity Inclusion Officer, Mass General Hospital