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Academic and Research Skills

Advocacy

Community Pediatrics

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health

Hospital Medicine

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety

School and Community Health

Trainee
Session Type: Workshop

From Screening to Action: Empowering Pediatric Providers to Address Food Insecurity and Other Social Determinants of Health

Saturday, April 26, 2025
10:00am – 11:30am HST
Location: Convention Center: 324
CE: 1.5

Disclosure(s):
Victoria Ward, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Carmin M. Powell, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Walter Wickremasinghe, MD, MBA: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Melissa Rubin, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Kim Hoang, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Raymond Lejano, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently mandated that admitted patients and their families must be screened for social determinants of health (SDOH) as a quality measure. As a result, families of pediatric patients who experience food insecurity and other resource limitations are being increasingly identified. Yet there are ethical concerns when at risk families are identified, but no response mechanisms are in place. Using case-based and team-based learning approaches, pediatric providers will gain familiarity with how to care for patients and their families when such resource limitations are identified, and better implement institutional response mechanisms. During this interactive workshop, learners will explore strategies to develop and implement sustainable interventions with seasoned practitioners from multiple institutions across the country and a diversity of practice settings. As a result, they will develop critical advocacy skills such as performing a needs assessment and landscape analysis, mapping stakeholders and aligning with leadership interests, building community partnerships for resource provision, and utilization of monitoring and evaluation data to assess the impact of interventions. Participants will leave the session with an actionable intervention roadmap to respond to resource instability identified through SDOH screening tools in their practice setting, and key resources to bring back to their home institutions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the needs of their patient communities that lead to inequitable health outcomes and barriers to health achievement.
  • Develop cross-institutional learning to discuss effective solutions for challenging barriers to addressing resource insecurity amongst patients and their families.
  • Create advocacy implementation plans to assess needs, map internal and external partners for resource provision, and evaluate the impacts of interventions to address resource instability identified through SDOH screening tools. Evaluation method learned will include effective tools such as surveys, data collection, run charts in order to incentivize stakeholder and institutional engagement.

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