EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
3/04/2019 | 2:50 PM - 3:15 PM | Using Hospital EHDI Data to Impact Change for Families! | DaVinci A/B
Using Hospital EHDI Data to Impact Change for Families!
Similar to EHDI programs across the nation, the Oklahoma Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NHSP) is tasked with tracking babies from universal newborn hearing screening through diagnosis of hearing loss and ensuring enrollment in early intervention. Hospitals often set the pace for all follow-up care yet monitoring this activity is often overwhelming for states. With competing demands on EHDI staff, high turnover rates, and budget challenges, hospital hearing screening and reporting can be overlooked and underestimated. Recognizing the power of partnership and data-driven decision making, the OK NHSP developed an initiative to create statewide Hospital Hearing Reports for individual birthing hospitals. Reports were created utilizing Quality Improvement strategies to enhance tracking and surveillance while reducing the number of children “loss to follow-up” and results that are “loss to documentation.” The reports are provided as a quarterly hospital consultation to improve the Refer/Do Not Pass, Not Performed, and Not Reported rates. During this project, the OK NHSP was able to increase communication with hospitals as well as increase the expectations of all three concern areas to ensure enhanced care for Oklahoma infants. (Refer/Do Not Pass, Not Performed, and Not Reported.) This ongoing project has impacted 250,000 infants born at 50 Oklahoma birthing hospitals within the last 5 years (2013-2018). This project was also highlighted in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Innovative and Promising Practices for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI). During this session, the OK NHSP will discuss how they integrate hospital hearing screening data within EHDI. They will share accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned. The program will also share how reports help with targeting needed hospital/vendor education at individual hospitals. Trend analysis will be provided for each report area to show the impact Hospital Hearing Reports have had on Oklahoma children.
- a) Identify ways to track and integrate hospital hearing screening data within EHDI
- b) Learn how to maximize EHDI Hospital Hearing Screening Reports
- c) Learn ways to enhance partnerships with hospitals and outsourced vendors
Presentation:
18878_10536PatriciaBurk.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
18878_10536PatriciaBurk.docx
Presenters/Authors
Patricia Burk
(), Oklahoma State Department of Health, PatriciaAB@health.ok.gov;
Patricia Burk, is the EHDI Coordinator for the Newborn Hearing Screening Program at the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Patricia helps to promote early identification, diagnosis, and amplification of children with hearing loss throughout the State of Oklahoma. She also facilitates the Oklahoma Audiology Taskforce to address pediatric audiology initiatives across the state. Patricia holds a Masters in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Patricia is internationally certificated as a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist. She has experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist working with children and adults who have hearing loss. Patricia is a Quality Improvement Advisor for the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management and currently serves on the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing as a representative for the Directors of Speech and Hearing Programs of State Health and Welfare Agencies.
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