COE Rapid Needs Assessment - JHF

March 12, 2025

Members of the healthcare team will learn about the importance and benefits of rapid needs assessment, in the context of COE guiding principles. The session will include models and approaches for rapid needs assessment, effective referrals for immediate needs, best practices, and strategies for prioritizing feasibility.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
    1. Why do we need a rapid assessment of needs?
    2. Hub and Spoke model
    3. Tailored solutions
    4. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
  2. The compounded of a rapid assessment of needs
    1. Fidelity to the COE model
    2. Rapid
    3. Assessment
    4. Assessment cont.
  3. Immediate needs
    1. Risk of overdose
    2. Transportation
    3. Mental health and psychiatric
    4. Support
    5. Housing
    6. Phone access
    7. Discussion question
  4. Referrals for immediate needs
  5. Research evidence
    1. Benefits of a rapid assessment of needs
    2. Best practices: empathy and perspective-taking (video)
    3. Best practices
    4. Discussion question
  6. Penn’s Rock COE
    1. Prioritizing feasibility in rapid assessment
    2. Streamlining the assessment process
    3. Conversation and human-centered
  7. Summary

 

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Explain the benefits of rapid needs assessment on client engagement
• Describe the components of a Rapid Assessment of Needs, including which needs to assess rapidly.
• Explore strategies for using assessment data to enhance care coordination and improve client outcomes.

Additional Information

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File Objectives_Agenda_References.docx42.88 KB
PDF icon Rapid Assessment of Needs_v0.pdf1.49 MB
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/12/2025
Course expires: 
06/30/2025
Event starts: 
03/12/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
03/12/2025 - 1:30pm EDT
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Members of the healthcare team will learn about the importance and benefits of rapid needs assessment, in the context of COE guiding principles. The session will include models and approaches for rapid needs assessment, effective referrals for immediate needs, best practices, and strategies for prioritizing feasibility.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
    1. Why do we need a rapid assessment of needs?
    2. Hub and Spoke model
    3. Tailored solutions
    4. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
  2. The compounded of a rapid assessment of needs
    1. Fidelity to the COE model
    2. Rapid
    3. Assessment
    4. Assessment cont.
  3. Immediate needs
    1. Risk of overdose
    2. Transportation
    3. Mental health and psychiatric
    4. Support
    5. Housing
    6. Phone access
    7. Discussion question
  4. Referrals for immediate needs
  5. Research evidence
    1. Benefits of a rapid assessment of needs
    2. Best practices: empathy and perspective-taking (video)
    3. Best practices
    4. Discussion question
  6. Penn’s Rock COE
    1. Prioritizing feasibility in rapid assessment
    2. Streamlining the assessment process
    3. Conversation and human-centered
  7. Summary

 

Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Penn’s Rock Primary Care - Monika Vansant, DO

Jennifer Mignon, Practice Manage

Jonas Levy, Project Manager

Pitt-PERU - Christine Crowell  

imageIn support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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