2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/09/2020 | 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Creating Follow-up Strategies Tailored to the Community Served | New York B
Creating Follow-up Strategies Tailored to the Community Served
Audiology clinics face unique follow-up challenges specific to the community they serve. For example, 85% of Alaskan communities are not connected to any road system. For some rural Alaskan families, travel to an audiologist could mean starting the trip on a snow machine, boarding on a plane, and then taking a car to the clinic. In addition, some regions only have one audiology clinic for a geographic area the size of the state of Louisiana. It is common for children to be born at a hospital location and then fly back to their home community. The family may need to juggle care for other children, time away from their job, and finances to travel for follow up screening and diagnostic tests. There have been two pilots where the birth hospital tested having newborns who reside in remote locations receive the outpatient screening at the audiology clinic, and if necessary, receive a diagnostic exam before they return to their home community. Each facility created a different protocol to implement this immediate follow up process. Successful implementation of protocols take commitment on the part of the audiologists, agency and a clearly expressed message on the value of follow up presented and reinforced by the provider and birth facility. Both protocols have shown success in reducing the lost to follow up rates and the number of days to follow up screening at their facility. The methods created and results obtained will be described.
- Participants will be able to describe the protocols developed
- Assess the value of considering unique strategies
- Identify strategies to encourage stakeholder interest in creating a personalized follow up strategy based on their challenging situation
Presentation:
21060_12801RoseDockery.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Rose Dockery
(), Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corp., Rose_Dockery@ykhc.org;
Rose Dockery is director of audiology at Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel, AK where she serves a large Native Alaskan population. She received her Au.D. at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and her Master's degree in deaf education from Georgioa State University. Before becoming an audiologist, she worked as a Teacher of the Deaf for Fulton County Schools in the state of Georgia.
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Annette Callies
(), State of Alaska, annette.callies@alaska.gov;
Annette is responsible for management of the EHDI Program. As Coordinator of Quality Improvement Team, she guides policies to increase follow-up rates. She serves as the lead on follow-up activity analysis, interpretation, and reporting on programmatic data to plan or reconfigure systems to improve efficiency, including provision of technical assistance as required. Annette also provides education to health care providers, early intervention specialists and parents about the program and monitors the State database for timeliness of referrals and to identify and resolve system issues. To engage a diverse group of stakeholders in systems improvement, she plans and facilitates the EHDI Advisory Committee Meetings and provides technical assistance to sub-committees. In her free time, Annette enjoys painting, portrait photography and playing with her four grandbabies.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.