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56326 Heart to Heart: An Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration to Address Health Disparities Through Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessments in Underserved Urban Neighborhoods
- Michael E. Bales, Jifeng Zhu, Farid Aboharb, Neville Dusaj, Lior Shtayer, Venkatesh Balaji, Allegra Keeler, Christine A. Ganzer, Krista A. Ryon, the H2H Consortium, Brett J. Ehrmann, Julianne Imperato-McGinley
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 5 / Issue s1 / March 2021
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- 30 March 2021, p. 135
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ABSTRACT IMPACT: Leveraging partnerships with faith-based institutions and community centers in at-risk NYC neighborhoods, the H2H Program breaks down barriers to engaging with the medical establishment and addresses the increasing burden of diabetes and CVD risk factors in the most vulnerable individuals. OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Screening for modifiable risk factors is critical for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction. Low-income, urban communities often encounter barriers to care. Community-academic outreach partnerships are vital in addressing such disparities and promoting health equity and culturally targeted interventions among high-risk populations. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: In 2010, the Weill Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center along with Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing (HBSON) launched Heart to Heart (H2H), a community outreach program partnering with faith-based centers to offer free health screenings and education to some of New York City’s (NYC) most vulnerable communities. Participants work with undergraduate, nursing, medical and dietician students to complete a demographics and health questionnaire followed by vital signs and point-of-care blood testing. Participants then receive personalized health education, nutrition and lifestyle counseling by student volunteers, precepted by WCM Primary Care and HBSON faculty. Participants are provided information on local free or low-cost clinics as necessary for follow-up. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: To date H2H held 125 events and 5,952 screenings. Mean age of the participants was 54.3 (SD 39.6) and 3,682 (63.1%) were female. 74.2% identified as non-white. 42.1% were uninsured. 32.3% reported annual income of less than $20k. 18.3% of participants reported not having seen a doctor in the past year. 40.7% reported preexisting hypertension, of which 74.5% were on medication and 78% with sub-optimal control. 15.7% had been previously diagnosed with diabetes, of which 75.8% were on medication and 41.4% with sub-optimal control (HbA1c <7). 37.7% had been diagnosed with dyslipidemia previously, of which 47.4% were on medication and 62.1% with sub-optimal control. Screenings revealed, 56.9% had undiagnosed hypertensive blood pressures, 4.7% had an elevated HbA1c >6.5, and 49.2% had dyslipidemia. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF FINDINGS: H2H screening revealed significant cardiovascular health disparities, many of which were poorly controlled or newly discovered. Cross-institutional academic partnerships can empower communities with knowledge of their health status and help facilitate access to medical care to further address health risk factors.
Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Bloodstream and Urinary Tract Infections in a National Level Network of Indian Hospitals
- Purva Mathur, Paul Malpiedi, Kamini Walia, Rajesh Malhotra, Padmini Srikantiah, Omika Katoch, Sonal Katyal, Surbhi Khurana, Mahesh Chandra Misra, Sunil Gupta, Subodh Kumar, Sushma Sagar, Naveet Vig, Pramod Garg, Arti Kapil, Manoj Sahu, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Pallab Ray, Manisha Biswal, Neelam Taneja, Priscilla Rupali, Vellore Binila Chacko, Joy Sarojini Michael, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Camilla Rodrigues, Vijaya Lakshmi Nag, Vibhor Tak, Vimala Venkatesh, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, KE Vandana, Muralidhar Varma, Vijayshri Deotale, Ruchita Attal, Kanne Padmaja, Chand Wattal, Neeraj Goel, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Tadepalli Karuna, Saurabh Saigal, Bijayini Behera, Sanjeev Singh, MA Thirunarayan, Reema Nath, Raja Ray, Sujata Baveja, Mammen Chandy, Sudipta Mukherjee, Manas Roy, Gaurav Goel, Swagata Tripathy, Satyajeet Misra, Anupam Dey, Tushar Mishra, Hirak Raj, Bashir Fomda, Gulnaz Bashir, Shaista Nazir, Sulochana Devi, Khuraijam Ranjana Devi, Langpoklakpam Chaoba Singh, Padma Das, Anudita Bhargava, Ujjwala Gaikwad, Neeta Khandelwal, Geeta Vaghela, Tanvi Sukharamwala, Prachi Verma, Mamta Lamba, Shristi Jain, Prithwis Bhattacharyya, Anil Phukan, Clarissa Lyngdoh, Rajeev Sharma, Rajni Gaind, Rushika Saksena, Lata Kapoor, Neil Gupta, Aditya Sharma, Daniel VanderEnde, Anoop Velayudhan, Valan Siromany, Kayla Laserson, Randeep Guleria
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- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 41 / Issue S1 / October 2020
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- 02 November 2020, pp. s398-s399
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- October 2020
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Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major global threat to patient safety. Systematic surveillance is crucial for understanding HAI rates and antimicrobial resistance trends and to guide infection prevention and control (IPC) activities based on local epidemiology. In India, no standardized national HAI surveillance system was in place before 2017. Methods: Public and private hospitals from across 21 states in India were recruited to participate in an HAI surveillance network. Baseline assessments followed by trainings ensured that basic microbiology and IPC implementation capacity existed at all sites. Standardized surveillance protocols for central-line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) were modified from the NHSN for the Indian context. IPC nurses were trained to implement surveillance protocols. Data were reported through a locally developed web portal. Standardized external data quality checks were performed to assure data quality. Results: Between May 2017 and April 2019, 109 ICUs from 37 hospitals (29 public and 8 private) enrolled in the network, of which 33 were teaching hospitals with >500 beds. The network recorded 679,109 patient days, 212,081 central-line days, and 387,092 urinary catheter days. Overall, 4,301 bloodstream infection (BSI) events and 1,402 urinary tract infection (UTI) events were reported. The network CLABSI rate was 9.4 per 1,000 central-line days and the CAUTI rate was 3.4 per 1,000 catheter days. The central-line utilization ratio was 0.31 and the urinary catheter utilization ratio was 0.57. Moreover, 3,542 (73%) of 4,742 pathogens reported from BSIs and 868 (53%) of 1,644 pathogens reported from UTIs were gram negative. Also, 1,680 (26.3%) of all 6,386 pathogens reported were Enterobacteriaceae. Of 1,486 Enterobacteriaceae with complete antibiotic susceptibility testing data reported, 832 (57%) were carbapenem resistant. Of 951 Enterobacteriaceae subjected to colistin broth microdilution testing, 62 (7%) were colistin resistant. The surveillance platform identified 2 separate hospital-level HAI outbreaks; one caused by colistin-resistant K. pneumoniae and another due to Burkholderia cepacia. Phased expansion of surveillance to additional hospitals continues. Conclusions: HAI surveillance was successfully implemented across a national network of diverse hospitals using modified NHSN protocols. Surveillance data are being used to understand HAI burden and trends at the facility and national levels, to inform public policy, and to direct efforts to implement effective hospital IPC activities. This network approach to HAI surveillance may provide lessons to other countries or contexts with limited surveillance capacity.
Funding: None
Disclosures: None