Don’t miss the annual GLMA Conference September 18-21st in Denver Colorado. Regular registration ends August 23rd.****Register here: http://www.glma.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=559 Amy Wilson-Stronks will be presenting on a plenary panel titled Improving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Care as Culturally Competent Care, with Ignatius Bau, Independent Heath Policy Consultant, and Mateo Ledezma, Clinical Director of the Center of Excellence in Culturally Competence Care for LGBTI Health Equity at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.
This session will be held Friday, September 20th from 11:15 am-12:15pm.
More about the plenary panel:
In the past few years, U.S. health care providers and systems have increased their awareness of the importance of providing culturally competent care to diverse patient populations. Principles of cultural competency and of patient- and family-centeredness have become integrated into national health care quality frameworks, standards and measures. This session first will provide an overview of cultural competency frameworks, standards, and measures adopted by national health care quality and accreditation organizations such as the Institute of Medicine, Liaison Committee on Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, National Quality Forum, Joint Commission, National Committee for Quality Assurance, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. As cultural competency becomes recognized as an essential element of health care quality, awareness of the unique health issues and health care disparities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients and families also has increased. This session will make the case for ensuring that improvements in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health care are essential to achieving high quality, patient- and family-centered, culturally competent health care.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this plenary session, attendees will be able to identify cultural competency measures used by at least three national health care quality and accreditation organizations.
By the end of this plenary session, attendees will be able to define the concepts of cultural competency and of patient- and family-centeredness.
By the end of this plenary session, attendees will be able to make that case that improvements in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health care are essential to achieving high quality, patient- and family-centered, culturally competent health care.