ECHO21 - Project ECHO I.S.L.A.N.D.-H.D.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 4:00 PM - Saturday, August 20, 2022, 5:30 PM, Zoom link will be emailed, Mineola, NY

Island communities face resource constraints due to the costs of their distal trading relationships, as well as increasing environmental stressors (sea-level rise, extreme weather events), which can displace resources to develop infrastructures for island-based health systems.  Yet, island societies often produce far-flung networks of native-born migrants who retain their origin-identities while pursuing diplomacy, education and economic development in mainland settings.  Migrants simultaneously drive economic development for islands while driving diversity and cultural exchange for mainlands. Islands can pool resources and networks to acquire specialty expertise to population health problems, using tele-workforce improvement models such as Extension for Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) projects, to connect rural and frontier health workers with academic medical centers in an all-teach, all-learn model.  ECHO models that offer (horizontal) peer consults are sustainable, culturally sensitive, and cooperative – compared   to non-equitable “vertical expertise” models, which may be perceived as holdovers from colonialism. Improvement Science Liaisons for Addressing Nephropathy in Diabetes & Hypertensive Diseases (ISLAND-HD) is an ECHO program based at New York University’s Long Island School of Medicine (NYU-LISoM) that uses existing platforms to sponsor ECHO at no cost to clinical learners. 

1. Improve high value primary care using Prevention/Early Recognition/Management (PERM) in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
2. Increase primary care providers’ awareness major risk factors off CKD and kidney failure: DM & HTN
3. Increase use of evidence-based KDIGO Guidelines for CKD diagnosis, prevention and management
4. Provide peer mentoring on systematic, data driven process improvements
5. Create a community of primary care and expert tele-mentors with an “all learn, all teach” approach
6. Enhance clinical decision support tools to improve identification of people with DM and CKD
7. Amplify risk factor reduction through patient activation, nutrition, education & social work support

1. Improve high value primary care using Prevention/Early Recognition/Management (PERM) in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
2. Increase primary care providers’ awareness major risk factors off CKD and kidney failure: DM & HTN
3. Increase use of evidence-based KDIGO Guidelines for CKD diagnosis, prevention and management
4. Provide peer mentoring on systematic, data driven process improvements
5. Create a community of primary care and expert tele-mentors with an “all learn, all teach” approach
6. Enhance clinical decision support tools to improve identification of people with DM and CKD
7. Amplify risk factor reduction through patient activation, nutrition, education & social work support

AMA Accreditation

NYU Long Island School of Medicine is Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians through 3/31/2023. Provider #0006392

Nursing Accreditation

NYU Langone Medical Center- Long Island is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Northeast Multi-State Division(NEMSD), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.  Provider Number:  Provider# NY009-2020 through Oct 9, 2020.  

Social Worker Continuing Education Credit

NYU Long Island School of Medicine Office of CME and CE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of Continuing Education for licensed social workers.  Provider #0319.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (13.50 hours), CME - Non-Physician (Attendance) (13.50 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (13.50 hours), Dietitian CPEUs (13.50 hours), Social Work CEUs (13.50 hours), ABMS MOC Part IV for QI/PI (13.50 hours)