Event Title
Poster: Massachusetts Training for Patient Navigators: Addressing Healthcare Disparities Through Providing Culturally Appropriate Support for Patients
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
12-5-2010 4:05 PM
End Time
12-5-2010 5:00 PM
Description
Patient Navigation (PN) has emerged as a new function in addressing health disparities by assisting underserved individuals’ access to health care and maintain care continuity. Literature gives broad descriptions and evidence of the value of the PN role. In coordination with Massachusetts’ Healthcare Reform, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health embraced the PN role, training and hiring navigators to work in health centers throughout the Commonwealth. DPH and Area Health Education Centers have developed and provided a 45 hour curriculum designed to develop PN skills for assisting consumers’ access to care and diagnostic and treatment services. PNs and supervisors from a variety of communities with underserved populations in rural and urban settings across the state have received training. As a member of the advisory board and trainer in the Massachusetts trainings, I will illustrate in the poster, the training curriculum and outcomes and showcase the evolving role of the patient navigator.
Poster: Massachusetts Training for Patient Navigators: Addressing Healthcare Disparities Through Providing Culturally Appropriate Support for Patients
Moakley Atrium
Patient Navigation (PN) has emerged as a new function in addressing health disparities by assisting underserved individuals’ access to health care and maintain care continuity. Literature gives broad descriptions and evidence of the value of the PN role. In coordination with Massachusetts’ Healthcare Reform, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health embraced the PN role, training and hiring navigators to work in health centers throughout the Commonwealth. DPH and Area Health Education Centers have developed and provided a 45 hour curriculum designed to develop PN skills for assisting consumers’ access to care and diagnostic and treatment services. PNs and supervisors from a variety of communities with underserved populations in rural and urban settings across the state have received training. As a member of the advisory board and trainer in the Massachusetts trainings, I will illustrate in the poster, the training curriculum and outcomes and showcase the evolving role of the patient navigator.