Off the Charts: Examining the Health Equity Emergency

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to chronic-pain management. Each person’s story is unique and requires individualized care that often includes non-opioid therapies. Sara Hall, a clinical nurse specialist in pain management at Regions Hospital, shares how a 2020 grant helped her team develop a yoga program that’s more accessible for Spanish-speaking patients with chronic pain.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Sara Hall

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Programa NeuroWell/Dolor

Manejando Mi Dolor con Yoga

¿Tiene dolor crónico? Está pensando intentar el Yoga, ¿pero preocupado que el Yoga pueda ser demasiado desafiante o que empeoraría su dolor? ¡Este curso podría ser para usted!

Yoga puede aliviar la tensión y mejorar el dolor

Enseñado por instructores certificados de yoga con capacitación adicional en el dolor crónico, este curso le mostrará los fundamentos de cómo crear su práctica de yoga y ayudará a entender porque el yoga ha sido demostrado que reduce el dolor crónico. Sara Hall es una enfermera que ha trabajado en el campo de manejar el dolor por más de 15 años y combinado la ciencia del yoga haciéndola accesible a aquellos con dolor crónico.

Ofrecido en formato digital en linea, este programa le permit progresar a su propio paso, y le ofrece el beneficio de que pueda participar de cualquier lugar y a cualquier hora que desee enfocarse en su bienestar.

A medida que yoga se vuelve más popular, también aprendemos más de sus beneficios de salud

Mejoramiento de:

• En el sentido de bienestar
• Balance y fuerza
• Sueño
• Nivel de energía
• Memoria y concentración

También incluidos en este programa hay contenido y recursos adicionales.

Manejando Mi Dolor con Yoga lo dejará sintiéndose empoderado con herramientas para mejorar su bienestar, aliviar tensión, y controlar su estrés.

**Patrocinado por HealthPartners y MDH**

Visite https://myneurosciencecenter.com/MyNeuroscienceCenter/learnabout/10062 para registrarse.

Email: [email protected]

Manage My Pain with Yoga

Do you have chronic pain? Are you thinking about trying yoga but concerned about it being too challenging or making your pain worse? This course might be for you!

Yoga can relieve tension and improve pain

Taught by certified yoga instructors with additional training in chronic pain, this course will take you through the basics of building a yoga practice and help you understand why yoga has been shown to reduce chronic pain. Sara Hall is a nurse who has been working in the field of pain management for more than 15 years and has blended the science of yoga with making it accessible for those with chronic pain.

Offered in an online format that's self-paced, this program has the benefit of being able to participate anywhere and anytime you want to focus on your well-being.

As yoga is growing in popularity, so are the known health benefits

Improved:

• Sense of well-being
• Balance and strength
• Sleep
• Energy levels
• Memory and concentration

What to expect

Each module includes:

• Education about yoga and how it can improve chronic pain and symptoms associated with chronic pain such as poor sleep, fatigue, anxiety and depression
• A short demonstration video to go into more depth about various elements of yoga
• A yoga practice video with two ability levels to follow or go between
• A short survey to provide feedback

Also included in this program is additional resources and content as well as the option of meeting live with health care providers who are also trained as yoga instructors (for an additional fee).

Manage My Pain with Yoga will leave you feeling empowered with tools to improve your well-being, relieve tension and control your stress.

** Sponsored by HealthPartners and the Minnesota Department of Health**

Visit https://hprfstudies.org/redcap/surveys/?s=RKXN8YE3E3 to register.

Email [email protected] for more questions.

Stephanie Zahrbock suddenly lost all sensation and the ability to move or feel anything below her belly button in 2016 when a lesion was discovered on her spine. The former runner shares how her world changed and how solutions to her challenges can benefit everyone.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Stephanie Zahrbock

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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It’s important to understand that equity, the quality of being fair and impartial, means we don’t all start from the same place. Equity in the workplace starts with commitment and alignment.

Rhonda Cox, vice president of people and culture for Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation, shares why equity’s important to her and what inspired her to want to shape, create and influence workplace culture to be more inclusive and equitable for colleagues.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Rhonda Cox

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Growing Through Grief is a school-based grief support and crisis management program supported by the Park Nicollet Foundation that provides children with peer support groups, individual counseling, and death-related crisis response after they’ve experienced the loss of a loved one.

Nicole Barnes, Growing Through Grief program manager, and Judy Brown, Minneapolis Public Schools mental health manager, outline the prevalence of childhood bereavement and share the C.A.R.E.S. (community, awareness, resiliency, empathy and strength) support group model. The episode will highlight how the partnership between health care and education systems brings additional resources to schools that share education and renewal practices with students that bring hope and healing.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guests: Nicole Barnes and Judy Brown

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Our focus on reducing disparities led to a partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. A gap in care with our Somali patient population was discovered after reviewing numbers for colorectal and breast cancer screenings, pediatric immunizations and diabetes.

In the Season 4 finale, two HealthPartners colleagues, family nurse practitioner Munira MaalimIsaq and senior project manager Greg Fedio, share how the Equity Action Lab project, or what they and participants called "Open Faces," helped assess and better understand the gaps and determine steps for changes.

"Off the Charts" returns June 11.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guests: Munira MaalimIsaq, FNP; and Greg Fedio

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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HealthPartners created myGenetics, a community health research program in partnership with Helix, because DNA can tell people about their health and may hold the key to understanding certain health risk factors.

Deenya Craig, a HealthPartners patient with a family history of cancer, started having irregular mammograms in her mid-30s and knew DNA testing existed. Through myGenetics, she found out she carries the BRCA2 gene mutation that brings a greater risk of breast and ovarian cancers. She’s now a health advocate and encouraged her family to get checked.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Deenya Craig

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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The playing field isn’t always level when it comes to youth sports. Access for kids and communities often depends on whether parents and families can afford the costs connected to teams, training and travel. Lea B. Olsen, a former college athlete with a career in sports, shares her how she found competitive basketball as a kid growing up in South Minneapolis. She talks about how the youth sports model has changed and anxiety’s impact on today’s young athletes.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Lea B. Olsen

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Community Health MPact is a course in which students examine causes of and potential solutions to health inequities impacting urban communities in Minnesota. Urbanization can bring social and economic benefits, but structural inequities in these areas are the key contributors to health inequities which most often harm Black communities and communities of color.

Dr. Priya Sury, a HealthPartners emergency medicine physician at Hudson Hospital in Hudson, Wisconsin, and assistant professor and course director for urban community health at the University of Minnesota Medical School, shares how she was inspired to create the course she wanted when she was a medical student.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Priya Sury, MD

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Allyship is showing solidarity with members of a marginalized or mistreated group to which one doesn’t belong. Kelly Fang, senior on-site well-being program manager and health coach, shares her allyship story that began when her child wanted to dress more masculine. She talks about what allyship is and isn’t, struggling with the concept of “living a double life,” and how to be a resource for others.

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Kelly Fang

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women (excluding skin cancers) and second-leading cause of cancer-related death among women in the U.S. And while African American women are less likely to develop breast cancer, they're more likely to die from it – a lot more likely.

Dr. Lashonda Soma, a breast imager for Midwest Radiology who serves as medical director of HealthPartners Mammography and Regions Breast Health Center, shares her personal and professional experiences with disparities in breast health.

Relevant links:

• Video: Dr. Soma share more about breast health (Breast Cancer Gaps Project)
• Video: Dr. Soma shares five myths about mammograms (Breast Cancer Gaps Project)
• Park Nicollet Health Services: Jane Brattain Breast Center

Hosts: Kari Haley, MD, and Steven Jackson, MD

Guest: Lashonda Soma, MD

HealthPartners website: Off the Charts podcast

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