| Session Title: Multi-component Evaluation of School-Based Health Center Network in a Post-Disaster Context |
| Demonstration Session 513 to be held in Suwannee 11 on Friday, Nov 13, 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM |
| Sponsored by the Health Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Sarah Kohler, Louisiana Public Health Institute, skohler@lphi.org |
| Arina Lekht, Louisiana Public Health Institute, alekht@lphi.org |
| Lisanne Brown, Louisiana Public Health Institute, lbrown@lphi.org |
| Abstract: School Health Connection (SHC) is a consortium of school-based health centers (SBHCs) striving to increase access to, standardize, and improve the quality of care in SBHCs in Greater New Orleans (GNO). SHC has developed and implemented a multi-component evaluation approach to measuring its complex clinical component using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Evaluation activities to be discussed include the data collection activities and tools of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), Continual Quality Improvement (CQI) Chart Reviews, utilization data, patient satisfaction surveys, focus group discussions, and interviews from baseline to impact study. Modifications made to evaluation activities in the context of new technological opportunities and funding circumstances will be explored as both relate to CQI chart reviews and the Student Survey. While each activity had unique challenges, they presented many unforeseen opportunities to further efforts to standardize the quality of care in SBHCs in the GNO region. |