2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/15/2014 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Audiology Facility QA Reports: A Means of Promoting Change to Improve EHDI Outcomes | St. Johns | 9
Audiology Facility QA Reports: A Means of Promoting Change to Improve EHDI Outcomes
Audiologists are key stakeholders in achieving EHDI goals, but many practices do not have a mechanism in place for reviewing their clinic performance in terms of meeting best practices. The Minnesota Department of Health EHDI program routinely reports data back to hospitals and primary care clinics and has seen positive change as a result of this strategy. The MDH EHDI program has recently developed and tested an audiology site-specific EHDI report that provides clinic data alongside statewide data and goals. The report includes details on all aspects of the EHDI process including timeliness of reporting and performing screening and diagnosis, amplification, connections to early intervention, and family support. This report has assisted clinic staff and MDH in monitoring the quality and completeness of audiologic data for individual clinics and has served as a stepping stone to promote and engage ideas for improvement. An evaluation was distributed to all audiologists who participated in site visits and received a data report. Preliminary feedback suggests that the site visits and data reports were useful and positive change is anticipated for individual sites as well as supporting statewide improvement toward national EHDI goals.
- understand the value of reporting data back to stakeholders
- identify ways to engage quality improvement strategies in audiology clinics
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Kirsten Coverstone
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter,Author), MN Dept. of Health, Kirsten.Coverstone@state.mn.us ;
Kirsten Coverstone is an audiologist with many years of service dedicated to early hearing detection and intervention. She grew up in southern Minnesota, earned her masters degree from the Univ. of Northern Iowa and her doctorate from Salus University. Kirsten has actively worked at the local state and national levels to promote universal newborn screening for hearing. As coordinator of the Lions Infant Hearing Program at the University of Minnesota she worked directly with hospitals to establish effective hearing screening programs and audiologists to confirm hearing loss. In addition, Kirsten implemented a statewide hearing instrument loaner program for infants and young children in Minnesota. She is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of children and their families as the MDH EHDI Screening Program Coordinator.
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Melanie Wege
(Co-Presenter,Author), Minnesota Department of Health - Newborn Screening Program, melanie.wege@state.mn.us;
Melanie Wege is a board certified audiologist who joined the Minnesota EHDI Team after 17 years as a clinical audiologist with a primary interest in pediatric diagnosis and follow-up. Her focus with the Minnesota EHDI Team is to provide education, support, and ongoing quality system improvement strategies to all providers involved with infant hearing screening and follow-up through diagnosis.
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Zaynab Rezania
(Co-Presenter,Author), Minnesota Department of Health, zay.rezania@state.mn.us;
Zaynab Rezania is an Epidemiologist for the Newborn Screening Program at the Minnesota Department of Health. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2005. After graduation she moved back to her hometown of Minneapolis and obtained a Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. Zaynab has worked with newborn hearing screening since 2008. She has enjoyed being a part of Minnesota’s EHDI program as it has grown through the years since its inception in 2007.
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