Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency

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Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency

An innovative podcast from HealthPartners about diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism that asks candid questions. Join hosts Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD, plus leading guest experts, as they help expand the definition of healthy communities through open dialogue and conversations.

  1. Accessibility in Health Care and Beyond

    NOV 11

    Accessibility in Health Care and Beyond

    As the director of web and mobile digital accessibility at HealthPartners, Steve Sawczyn leads a team dedicated to making health care simple and accessible for everyone. Steve, who is blind, has used his own experiences to inspire his team’s accessibility work and says he has learned to challenge what people say is impossible.

    30 min
  2. How Bystander CPR Improves the Odds of Survival

    OCT 11

    How Bystander CPR Improves the Odds of Survival

    Statistics show that women and communities of color are less likely to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation after cardiac arrest. Dr. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is the emergency medical services director at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and co-founder of Akoma United, an organization with the mission to save lives, especially in communities of color, and goal to empower everyday people to use CPR. She shares why it's important and reminds us that there’s no liability when doing CPR.

    33 min
  3. Improving Access to Yoga for Chronic Pain in the Spanish-speaking Community

    SEP 11

    Improving Access to Yoga for Chronic Pain in the Spanish-speaking Community

    There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to chronic-pain management. Each person’s story is unique and requires individualized care that often includes non-opioid therapies. Sara Hall, a clinical nurse specialist in pain management at Regions Hospital, shares how a 2020 grant helped her team develop a yoga program that’s more accessible for Spanish-speaking patients with chronic pain.

    25 min
  4. Living with a Sudden and Life-changing Physical Disability

    AUG 11

    Living with a Sudden and Life-changing Physical Disability

    Stephanie Zahrbock suddenly lost all sensation and the ability to move or feel anything below her belly button in 2016 when a lesion was discovered on her spine. The former runner shares how her world changed and how solutions to her challenges can benefit everyone.

    29 min
  5. Equity and Creating Safe Spaces for Open Dialogue

    JUL 11

    Equity and Creating Safe Spaces for Open Dialogue

    It’s important to understand that equity, the quality of being fair and impartial, means we don’t all start from the same place. Equity in the workplace starts with commitment and alignment. Rhonda Cox, vice president of people and culture for Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation, shares why equity’s important to her and what inspired her to want to shape, create and influence workplace culture to be more inclusive and equitable for colleagues.

    27 min
  6. Minneapolis Schools Heal and Transform Through Grief and Trauma

    JUN 11

    Minneapolis Schools Heal and Transform Through Grief and Trauma

    Growing Through Grief is a school-based grief support and crisis management program supported by the Park Nicollet Foundation that provides children with peer support groups, individual counseling, and death-related crisis response after they’ve experienced the loss of a loved one. Nicole Barnes, Growing Through Grief program manager, and Judy Brown, Minneapolis Public Schools mental health manager, outline the prevalence of childhood bereavement and share the C.A.R.E.S. (community, awareness, resiliency, empathy and strength) support group model. The episode will highlight how the partnership between health care and education systems brings additional resources to schools that share education and renewal practices with students that bring hope and healing.

    30 min
  7. Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Equity Action Lab

    12/26/2023

    Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Equity Action Lab

    Our focus on reducing disparities led to a partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. A gap in care with our Somali patient population was discovered after reviewing numbers for colorectal and breast cancer screenings, pediatric immunizations and diabetes. In the Season 4 finale, two HealthPartners colleagues, family nurse practitioner Munira MaalimIsaq and senior project manager Greg Fedio, share how the Equity Action Lab project, or what they and participants called "Open Faces," helped assess and better understand the gaps and determine steps for changes. "Off the Charts" returns June 11.

    29 min
  8. Family Cancer Gene Discovered with myGenetics

    11/27/2023

    Family Cancer Gene Discovered with myGenetics

    HealthPartners created myGenetics, a community health research program in partnership with Helix, because DNA can tell people about their health and may hold the key to understanding certain health risk factors. Deenya Craig, a HealthPartners patient with a family history of cancer, started having irregular mammograms in her mid-30s and knew DNA testing existed. Through myGenetics, she found out she carries the BRCA2 gene mutation that brings a greater risk of breast and ovarian cancers. She’s now a health advocate and encouraged her family to get checked.

    28 min
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An innovative podcast from HealthPartners about diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism that asks candid questions. Join hosts Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD, plus leading guest experts, as they help expand the definition of healthy communities through open dialogue and conversations.

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