2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/19/2018 | 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Utilizing Regional Educational (Early Intervention) Audiology Providers to Increase Timely Diagnosis for Iowa Infants | Mineral D/E
Utilizing Regional Educational (Early Intervention) Audiology Providers to Increase Timely Diagnosis for Iowa Infants
In an effort to improve timely diagnosis of infants that do not pass their hearing screens, the Iowa EHDI program partnered with regional educational audiologists to perform unsedated diagnostic assessments. This presentation will provide participants with information on how the Iowa EHDI program and its partners identified issues that contributed to LFU and timely diagnosis and highlight a successful strategy using a collaborative approach and quality improvement to improve services for children and families.
Participants will learn the steps taken to set up a successful pilot utilizing educational audiologists to perform unsedated diagnostic assessments in a family’s community. Additionally, the presentation will include program statistics, Iowa’s success, challenges and plans for the future. We anticipate this information will be helpful to other states that continue to struggle with improving timely diagnosis and decreasing their LFU/D rates.
- Participants will be able to identify one successful strategy using regional educational audiologists to improve timely diagnosis.
- Participants will learn what type of training and support is needed to set up a successful partnership between an EHDI program and regional educational audiologists.
- Participants will learn the benefits of collaborating with regional educational audiologists to improve timely diagnosis.
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Presenters/Authors
Tammy O'Hollearn
(), Iowa Department of Public Health, tammy.ohollearn@idph.iowa.gov;
Tammy O'Hollearn has been the EHDI Director for Iowa for the last 15 years. She has worked at the Iowa Department of Public Health since 2001. Ms. O’Hollearn provides administrative oversight, budget management, oversees surveillance of the newborn hearing screening and follow-up data base, as well facilitates the day-to-day management of activities to meet program goals. Ms. O’Hollearn works with many stakeholders in the community that assists Iowa EHDI in meeting program goals and strengthen the system of care for Deaf or hard-of-hearing infants. She directs data design, collection, program analyses and evaluation of the EHDI SOC. She serves on many state and national committees and facilitates the Iowa EHDI Advisory Committee. Tammy received a Link Associates Dorothy Schwartz Award in 1993 and ISHA Outstanding Service Award in 2009 and in 2016, the Iowa EHDI program received the EHDI Website of the Year Award.
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Shalome Musignac-Jordan
(), Iowa Department of Public Health, shalome.musignac-jordan@idph.iowa.gov;
Shalome Musignac-Jordan serves as the follow-up coordinator for Iowa’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program. She has been in this role for the last five years. Ms. Musignac-Jordan is responsible for direct family and physician follow-up, training and use of the EHDI web based data system, developing partnerships with early intervention, medical home and audiological service providers; healthy equity, program evaluation and data analysis.
Prior to 2014, she was involved with care coordination for integrated health home, coordinated intake for early intervention, case management and parent education.
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