Two new trainings on caring for patients with disabilities are available for healthcare providers and clinic staff! These trainings are online, free, and available for professional continuing education credit.
With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a collaboration of 10 state disability and health programs, including the Ohio Disability and Health Partnership, strive to improve access to quality health care for patients with disabilities.
Would you like to make your practice more accessible and disability friendly? We can help! Please contact the Ohio Disability and Health Program for help, Zoe.Wenk@osumc.edu.
Responsive Practice: Providing Health Care & Screenings to Individuals with Disabilities
This training will prepare healthcare personnel to
- Describe health disparities experienced by people with disabilities;
- Recognize the healthcare barriers faced by people with disabilities; and
- Use strategies to provide disability-competent, responsive care.
This training is approximately 40 minutes in length and offers 1 continuing education credit for physicians and nurses (see below for CEU information)
Responsive Practice: Accessible & Adaptive Communication
This training will prepare healthcare personnel to:
- Presume that patients with disabilities are competent to understand, communicate, and participate in their own health care;
- Identify and use alternative methods of communication; and
- Improve patient-provider communication and patient-centered care.
The training is approximately 30 minutes in length and offers 0.5 continuing education credits for physicians and nurses (see below for CEU information).
The Ohio Disability and Health Partnership leads several efforts to improve the health and quality of life for Ohioans with disabilities. Current information and resources for each of these activities can be found on our website. Our main activities are:
- Collaborate with Ohioans with disabilities on all activities
- Evaluate the health and health needs of Ohioans with disabilities
- Prepare healthcare personnel to deliver disability competent care
- Link central-Ohioans with intellectual and developmental disabilities to needed care
- Provide health promotion programs to Ohioans with disabilities
- Inform policy, systems environment changes towards better health for Ohioans with disabilities
Email Zoe Wenk for any questions, comments, or concerns.
Continuing Education Information
Responsive Practice: Providing Health Care and Screening to Individuals with Disabilities is approved for 1 continuing education credit and nurses and physicians.
Nurses:
North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited Approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity was approved for 1.0 Nursing Contact Hour. Activity # 521
Physicians:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC and the NH Disability and Health Program Institute on Disability/ UCED, University of New Hampshire.
The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is accredited by the NH Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1.0 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Responsive Practice: Accessible and Adaptive Communication is approved for 0.5 continuing education credits for nurses and physicians.
Nurses:
North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited Approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity was approved for .5 Nursing Contact Hour. Activity # 522
Physicians:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC and the NH Disability and Health Program Institute on Disability/ UCED, University of New Hampshire.
The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is accredited by the NH Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC designates this live activity for a maximum of .5 AMA PRA Category 1.0 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
These trainings are supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number, NU27DD000032, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.