Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital: Part 4 - Housing - A Key to Better Health

Monday, October 4, 2021, 12:00 AM - Friday, March 1, 2024, 11:59 PM

Geared towards multidisciplinary providers interested in the integration of social factors into the clinical setting, Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital offers valuable lessons from national thought-leaders who have lived and learned experience in the social determinants of health arena. Through this series, providers will become well-equipped to address the social and behavioral needs of ALL patients. Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital is intended to provide critical information to every professional that touches the life of a patient, therefore, we encourage participation from individuals across disciplines, from physicians to intake workers, social workers to community outreach workers and everyone in between.

Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital will address equity, culture, and diversity, as well as specific social factors that affect health, such as housing; nutrition and food security; and substance abuse. A critical component of every session will be the appropriate communication of sensitive topics with patients, therefore skilled behavioral health and communication experts will offer strategies for doing so with care and compassion. Each session will feature testimonials from clinicians, patients, and government/community-based partners woven throughout to further evidence and validate the need for social factors to be addressed in culturally and linguistically appropriate ways—and the patient outcomes when providers are trained and educated to address SDOH and when they are not.

Planning Committee

Umar Abare, Coordinator, Social Impact and Community Investment, RWJBarnabas Health, West Orange, NJ
Rachel Born, PhD, Program Director, Social Impact and Community Investment, RWJBarnabas Health, West Orange, NJ
Frank A. Ghinassi, PhD, ABPP, President and CEO, Rutgers Health University Behavioral Health Care; Professor, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Core Faculty Member, Rutgers Global Health Institute Piscataway, NJ
Sabiha Hussain, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship; Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson University Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Lenda Jean-Baptiste, Coordinator, Social Impact and Community Investment, RWJBarnabas Health, West Orange, NJ
Shawna Grossman Kates, MSW, MBA, LSW, CMAC, Director, Case Management and Bed Management, Community Medical Center, Toms River, NJ
DeAnna Minus-Vincent, MPA, Senior Vice President, Chief Social Integration & Health Equity Strategist, RWJBarnabas Health, New Brunswick, NJ
Jennifer Sternbach, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, Corporate Director, Clinical Services, RWJBarnabas Health, West Orange, NJ
Andrew Thomas, MSN, APN, Director, Care Transitions and Care Coordination, and Project Lead, Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ

Part 4: Housing - A Key to Better Health

Housing is healthcare. Safe and affordable housing has been evidenced to result in numerous positive outcomes, including improved physical and mental health; reduced healthcare costs; reduced food insecurity; and improved educational outcomes for children with increased lifetime earnings. While access to safe and affordable housing is not always readily available in every community, it is even more critical that healthcare providers understand the right questions to ask and the resources that are available to ensure that their patients’ homes are warm in the winter and cool in the summer; equipped with the safety features that they need; free from toxins such as lead, mold, pest infestation and animal dander; and that they are receiving other benefits and supports for which they are eligible to help defray the cost of housing. Concurrently, health is affected by the stressors associated by the financial burdens of owning a home and the neighborhood in which your home is located. For all of these reasons, housing is too important to health, social and economic outcomes to be ignored..

1. Describe how housing issues affect health outcomes
2. Discuss the historical context that has resulted in health inequity in low-income minority communities and how housing policy has played a role
3. Communicate effectively with patients about their current living conditions in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner
4. Cite resources and innovations available to help patients improve their living conditions
5. Use tools like the SDOH screening to connect patients to resources for housing assistance

Registration Fee:   Complimentary

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To receive CE credit for this activity, participants must: 1) formally register for the activity, 2) complete the pre-test, 3) review the activity in its entirety, 4) complete the post-test and obtain a 60% passing score within 3 attempts, and 5) complete the activity evaluation. Participants will then be able to download their CE certificate. The CE certificate will also be emailed.

In support of improving patient care, his activity has been planned and implemented by Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and RWJBarnabas Health. Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: This activity is awarded 1 contact hour. (60 minute CH)

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Psychologists: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This activity will offer 1 CE credit for psychologists.

Social Workers: This program is approved for social work continuing education hours by Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in accordance with New Jersey administrative code 13:44G-6.4 and recognized by The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners. This program is approved for 1 general social work continuing education hour.

Estimated time to complete this activity as designed is 1 hour.

Peer Review Statement
In order to help ensure content objectivity, independence, and fair balance, and to ensure that the content is aligned with the interest of the public, RBHS has resolved all potential and real conflicts of interest through content review by non-conflicted, qualified reviewers. This activity was peer-reviewed for relevance, accuracy of content, and balance of presentation by: DeAnna Minus-Vincent, MPA, RWJBarnabas Health, and Laura Burns, LCSW, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care.

This activity was reviewed and renewed on March 1, 2023.

Disclosure: In accordance with the disclosure policies of Rutgers and to conform with Joint Accreditation requirements and FDA guidelines, individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity are required to disclose to the activity participants: the existence of any relevant financial relationship with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, with the exemption of non-profit or government organizations and non-health care related companies, within the past 12 months; and the identification of a commercial product/device that is unlabeled for use or an investigational use of a product/device that is not yet approved.

Faculty
The following faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclosure:
Katherine Brennan, MCRP; Fernando De Maio, PhD; Deborah DeSantis, BS; and Brian Rahmer, PhD, MS

Peer Reviewers
DeAnna Minus-Vincent, MPA and Laura Burns, LCSW have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Planners
The following planners have no relevant financial relationships to disclosure:
Umar Abare; Rachel Born, PhD; Frank A. Ghinassi, PhD, ABPP; Sabiha Hussain, MD; Lenda Jean-Baptiste; Shawna Grossman Kates, MSW, MBA, LSW, CMAC; DeAnna Minus-Vincent, MPA; Jennifer Sternbach, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP; and Andrew Thomas, MSN, APN

RBHS Center for Continuing Outreach and Education
Patrick Dwyer, Director, Continuing Medical Education, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), AAPA Category 1 CME (1.00 hours), ACPE Credits (1.00 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours), Psychologist: APA CE Credits (1.00 hours), Social Worker: NJBSWE CE Credits (1.00 hours)

This activity is jointly provided by

Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
and
RWJBarnabas Health, Social Impact & Community Investment

         

This activity is supported by educational grants from

Walgreens Foundation
and
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation