Interprofessional Health Education:

Mano y Corazón

Corinne Chacón

Managing Founder of Mano y Corazón

& Former District Director

Senator Jose Rodriguez, 29th Senatorial District, Texas

March 28, 2015

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What is Mano y Corazón?

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Innovative

Interprofessional

Practitioner-driven

Annual conference or

in-depth sessions

Enhanced interactions

Innovative mechanism for

reinforcing Health Care Transformation

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Organized by Senator Jose

Rodriguez in conjunction with the

Senate District 29 Health Care

Advisory Committee

A powerful spectrum of health

care professionals serving as

volunteer citizen advisors

Senator José Rodríguez

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Co-organizers

Fiscal Agent

Accreditation Partners

Interprofessional audience

•MDs and PhDs

•Doctors of Nursing Practice

•Advance Practice RNs

•Licensed Professional Counselors

•Social Workers

•Community Health Educators

•Community Health Workers (Certificates of Attendance)

Practitioner-driven content

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Four pillars of community resiliency

Mano y Corazón format = timely,

interprofessional topics

Senator’s leadership opens doors to

resources

Trans-institutional

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Multiple audiences

Private hospitals

Regional anchor safety net hospital

Community service providers

Academic institutions (medical and nursing)

Public health system

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2012 Mano y Corazón Highlight Senator José Rodríguez with Keynote Speaker

Don Berwick, MD, former CMS Administrator

Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy

& Clinical Practice -- ACO Topics Panel

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Hospital-Physician Clinical & Economic Integration

Primary Care Perspective & ACOs

Diagnostic Services & ACOs

Pharmacotherapy & ACOs

Specialty Services & ACOs

Informatics & ACOs

ACO Design

2014 Mano y Corazón Highlight Human Trafficking: What Health Care Professionals

Must Know

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“Studies suggest that up to 50% of sex

trafficking victims in the USA seek medical

attention while in their trafficking situation,

yet it is unclear how the healthcare system

responds to the needs of victims of sex

trafficking.”

DOJ, FBI, DHS & DOL

Trauma-informed care An International Comparative Public Health Analysis of Sex Trafficking

of Women and Girls in Eight Cities: Achieving a More Effective Health

Sector Response. Authors: Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, Roy Ahn,

Elaine J. Alpert,Elizabeth Cafferty, Anita McGahan, Timothy P. Williams,

Judith Palmer Castor, Nadya Wolferstan, Genevieve Purcell, and

Thomas F. Burke. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York

Academy of Medicine, Vol. 90, No. 6. doi:10.1007/s11524-013-9837-4

An annual conference

or in-depth sessions

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2012 Mano y Corazón Binational Conference of

Multicultural Health Care Solutions

2013 Mano y Corazón Conference of

Multicultural Health Care Solutions

2014 Mano y Corazón Speaker Series

Mano y Corazón MULTICULTURAL HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS

SPEAKER SERIES 2014

Enhanced Interactions

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Daily interactions by care provider type:

Nurses - 7 patients per day

Therapists - 8 persons daily

Hospice – 10-15 persons daily

Physicians – 32-40 patients

Promotoras – 5 homes visited

Impact

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Final quarter of 2013 = 45,540

Total for 2014 = 311,910

First quarter of 2015 = 184,320

Total interactions enhanced by MyC = 541,770

New networks and organizational relationships

created

Health care professionals drawn into policy arena

Relax the structure,

just enough

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No institutional reference or titles

on name badges

Provide research papers from other

disciplines

Include many opportunities for

unstructured interacting

TRANSCENDENCE

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……. of silos

……. of disciplines

……. of mindsets

……. of expectations

TRANSCENDENCE

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