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About
Learn more about this unique collaborative
Our Time Together
Each one-hour session starts with a brief check-in, where you can reflect and learn from an interdisciplinary mix of leaders who understand the unique challenges and opportunities of your work with older adults.
Together, we frame up a featured topic using guests, case studies, and discussion groups. We also always include time with our team as a full community to explore timely regulatory updates and technical assistance supports.
Our Approach
We respect your busy schedule and the investment of time you make in our one-hour sessions, which we hold via Zoom twice each month.
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We also respect what you have to bring to our discussions. Each person around our virtual table is asked to come ready to share real-time questions that you are struggling to answer, offer up lessons learned through your experiences, and help us ensure that this remains a safe space to engage and learn as a trusted community of aging services colleagues.
Our Platform
Using proven adult learning techniques, our work is grounded in Project ECHO principles of amplifying scarce resources via technology, reducing disparities through best practices, mastering complexity through case-based learning, and monitoring our outcomes with data.
We do this through:
- Interactive session components
- Anonymized case studies
- Guided practice
- Ongoing mentorship
- Peer-to-peer learning
- Collaborative problem-solving
By participating, you expand your own thinking as well as help build the capacity of your fellow experts around the state, who can apply that knowledge and improve the lives of older people in their communities. This inclusive, nonhierarchical philosophy is at the heart of the ECHO Model and our team's approach.
Our Funder
In 2024, our collaborative continues to welcome new leaders from around the state and holds a unique space in the aging services sector for interdisciplinary discussions across clinical and executive leaders. We do this work together today thanks to funding from the Minnesota Northstar Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program.
Our Partners
We also couldn't do this work without the programmatic and promotional support of the following partners:
Our History
In October 2020, the University of Minnesota and Hennepin Healthcare worked together to launch a weekly virtual ECHO training series across the upper Midwest, featuring national core content designed for staff in skilled care centers. In partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Project ECHO as part of the National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network, our program focused on six goals:
- Keep SARS-COV-2 out of nursing homes
- Identify early exposure among residents and staff
- Prevent spread between staff, residents and visitors
- Provide safe and appropriate care to residents with mild and asymptomatic cases
- Help nursing home staff implement best-practice safety measures
- Reduce social isolation for residents, families and staff
When the first phase of this national network concluded in March 2021, our program had served 544 staff across 242 organizations in seven cohorts across multiple states. But we were only getting started! Our our trusted cohorts of interdisciplinary leaders then consolidated into one group focused on Minnesota and expanded to assisted living.
For more on where we've been over the years, review sessions in our Archive.
