18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
4/15/2014 | 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | 2-Part Presentation: A- Update on EHDI-PALS: Enhancements That Make Your Facility Search Easier | Grand Ballroom 3 | 7
2-Part Presentation: A- Update on EHDI-PALS: Enhancements That Make Your Facility Search Easier
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The provision of infant and pediatric audiology services for diagnosis and intervention requires specialized knowledge, skills, and equipment. EHDI-PALS, a web-based facility database and search tool, was built to facilitate parents, physicians, EHDI coordinators, and other EHDI stakeholders in their identification of audiology facilities with the expertise and equipment to meet the needs of infants. EHDI-PALS went live in November 2012. This workshop will provide the overall facility distribution, usage of this facility search tool and the modifications that have been completed during the past year.
- Do a facility search using EHDI-PALS
- Identify the search enhancement for cochlear implant services
- Visualize the distribution of audiology facilities in the US
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Presenters/Authors
Winnie Chung
(Primary Presenter), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, wchung@cdc.gov;
Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team.
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Vicki Hunting
(Co-Presenter), Hands & Voices, vhunting@expectinghealth.org;
Vicki Hunting lives in Des Moines, Iowa with her husband Mark and two daughters; the youngest a young adult with a profound hearing loss. She has worked in project management, process re-engineering and quality/process improvement for over 18 years. In her more recent experience she is a Quality and Operational Improvement Engineer at the University of Iowa, Division of Child and Community Health and trains others on quality improvement approaches to improve systems of care for Iowa's children and youth with special healthcare needs. She has experience using the Model for Improvement as a framework for quality improvement projects; testing, implementing and spreading changes. Using data for improvement, developing and interpreting run charts and control charts, utilization of Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle to test changes are also part of her experiences. Vicki is on staff at H&V HQ and has been involved in the Iowa H&V Chapter for over 11 years.
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Sarah Stone
(Co-Presenter), MA Dept. of Public Health, sarah.stone@state.ma.us;
Sarah Stone is the Director of the Massachusetts Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program. She has a hearing loss and has been with the program for over 20 years. She has developed programming for families, including social and educational events. She is a member of the state's Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee.
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Tammy O'Hollearn
(Co-Presenter), Iowa Department of Public Health, tammy.ohollearn@idph.iowa.gov;
Tammy O'Hollearn has been the EHDI Director for Iowa for the last 15 years. She has worked at the Iowa Department of Public Health since 2001. Ms. O’Hollearn provides administrative oversight, budget management, oversees surveillance of the newborn hearing screening and follow-up data base, as well facilitates the day-to-day management of activities to meet program goals. Ms. O’Hollearn works with many stakeholders in the community that assists Iowa EHDI in meeting program goals and strengthen the system of care for Deaf or hard-of-hearing infants. She directs data design, collection, program analyses and evaluation of the EHDI SOC. She serves on many state and national committees and facilitates the Iowa EHDI Advisory Committee. Tammy received a Link Associates Dorothy Schwartz Award in 1993 and ISHA Outstanding Service Award in 2009 and in 2016, the Iowa EHDI program received the EHDI Website of the Year Award.
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Sharon Ringwalt
(Author), Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, sharon.ringwalt@unc.edu;
Sharon Ringwalt currently serves as a Technical Assistance Specialist at the Early Childhood Technical Assistance (ECTA) Center; State TA Liaison for the IDEA Data Center and as liaison between the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs and Part C programs through the Centers for Disease Control and Intervention (CDC). She provides TA to state early intervention and preschool programs around: reporting quality data; developing and implementing effective and efficient accountability and improvement systems to ensure compliance and improve results; and use of implementation science concepts to improve systems and scale up evidence-based/recommended practices to improve results for children and families. Additional areas of expertise comprise: communication development and disorders, including language delays and disorders, early literacy, and newborn hearing screening and intervention; screening, evaluation and assessment of young children, including public awareness and primary referral sources; and, interagency coordination, including State and Local Interagency Coordinating Councils.
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Michelle King
(Author), Audiologist, miking@homeoftheinnocents.org;
Michelle King has her doctoral degree in audiology and 30+ years of experience providing diagnostic and habilitative audiologic services for infants and the pediatric populations. She led the planning, developing and implementing of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in KY and the advancement of programming to encompass Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI)and its 1-3-6 goals. She was the business lead in the development of the web-based data programming KY CHILD which supports the capture, surveillance and tracking for EHDI from birthing hospitals and diagnostic audiologists in KY. She has been a member of the Directors of Speech and Hearing Programs in State Health and Welfare Agencies (DSHPSHWA) since 1987 serving in a variety of offices on the Executive Board and served as their representative on the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing.
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Anne Oyler
(Author), ASHA, aoyler@asha.org;
Anne L. Oyler, AuD, CCC-A is an Associate Director of Audiology Professional Practices at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. In this position, she is responsible for representing and serving ASHA’s audiology and speech-language pathology members through a variety of professional activities. Her primary areas of expertise include pediatric and educational audiology. Over the past 28 years, Dr. Oyler has held clinical, academic and research positions. For eight of those years (1999-2007), she served as a consultant to the EHDI program in the state of Mississippi where she participated in the areas of program development and professional and family education.
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