HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN Equitable Care Educational Strategy

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN – Equitable Care Educational Strategy

Vision Statement	Residents are champions of change in reducing healthcare disparities.
Team Objectives	Our objective was to improve health and reduce healthcare disparities by aligning GME with HealthPartners’ equitable care and community engagement priorities through development of an institutional equitable care educational strategy and incorporation of residents into the equitable care work of HealthPartners and Regions Hospital.
Success Factors	The most successful part of our work was a deliverable that was truly aligned with our hospital’s priorities and that will lay a solid foundation for our continued equitable care work. We were inspired by the interest throughout the larger health system in this project. Many are seeing uses for our Toolkit in their areas.
Barriers	The largest barrier encountered was the increased interest by the health system that resulted in changes to our project scope and the content of our video. The content veered a little from the original intent of the residents to meet the organization’s goals. We worked to overcome this challenge by finding other ways to incorporate the residents’ perspective in the Toolkit.
Lessons Learned	The single most important piece of advice to provide another team embarking on a similar initiative is to take the time you need to do it right. The time we took to build connections across our organization and to learn about what the organization is working on makes us hopeful that this effort will be sustained.