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Clinical and Community Collaboration on Reducing Falls
Dr. Letourneau is an experienced physician and public health advocate who brings extensive experience leading large-scale improvement initiatives and will serve as a contracted consultant for the project assisting with clinical direction, clinician engagement, and advancement of PFE and Choosing Wisely tools clinical practices. In her former role leading Maine Quality Counts, a regional health improvement collaborative, Dr. Letourneau led several multi-stakeholder improvement efforts, including the multi-payer Maine Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot, the Maine Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, and the Northern New England Practice Transformation Network.
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Clinical Integration Technical Advisor, YMCA of the USA
Marc Rosen is a Clinical Integration Technical Advisor at YMCA of the USA. He provides technical assistance and training to local Ys as they explore and develop formal partnerships with health care systems, hospitals, and clinics in areas such as the YMCA’s evidence-based health interventions, shared facility arrangements, or health navigation. Prior to his current role, Marc spent three and a half years at Y-USA working on its Chronic Disease Prevention Programs team helping local Ys prepare, implement, and sustain the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program by sharing replicable and recommended practices. read more
Join us for this learning session on how collaboration between clinical practices and community-based organizations can improve patient safety. Our speakers will discuss fall prevention as a case study.
Objectives: Participants will
- Learn how implementing Choosing Wisely recommendations can help reduce falls in older adults;
- Understand the benefits of engaging with a community-based organization to amplify a clinical implementation focused on fall reduction; and
- Become familiar with how to team with community-based organizations.
