Diversity & Inclusion Strategies to Improve African American and Latina Maternal Infant Health in Frederick County
African American and Latina women and infants experience higher rates of mortality and morbidity. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy for Family Physicians, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine recommend that providers participate in diversity and inclusion training. With funding from the Frederick County Office for Children, the Frederick County ACEs Workgroup is pleased to offer this highly interactive, experiential and research based training to help turn the curve for better outcomes.
Learning Objectives
• Understand the concepts of diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias: What are they? How do they work? Why are they important?
• Explore how these concepts impact decision making, health care outcomes, and business results
• View Frederick County data on maternal and infant health outcomes, focusing on health disparities among women and infants of color
• Create a personal action plan to focus on conscious inclusion.
• Create a plan to address cultural inclusion within your organization and across institutional silos.
Target Audience
Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, midwives, doulas, community health workers, outreach workers, social workers and health care and social services administrators who provide, plan and evaluate health care and social services to pregnant women and infants.
Faculty
Michael Baran, PhD, inQuest Consulting Services
Maisha Douyon Cover, MPH, Senior Program Specialist, Maryland Department of Health, Minority Health and Health Disparities
Accreditation Statement:
Frederick Health Hospital is accredited by MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement:
Frederick Health Hospital designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.75 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Frederick Health Staff and Social Work CEUs Available.
MEETING INFORMATION
Friday, February 21, 2020
Frederick Health
Crestwood Medical Conference Center
7211 Bank Ct, Frederick
7:30 Networking & breakfast
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Program
Cost: $15
Register before 2/14/20
Registration Closed
