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Description: Please join us as we share how we continue to advance Baystate Health’s efforts to enhance care experiences for transgender, nonbinary and gender expansive patients and colleagues.  Our discussion will include examples to help you build skills and understanding as we work together to create inclusive and welcoming spaces for all patients, families and coworkers.  

Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1| Review Baystate Health’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as it pertains to gender affirming care.
2| Review gender-affirming and inclusive policies and practices implemented at Baystate Health.
3| Identify common barriers to accessing high-quality healthcare faced by transgender and nonbinary patients
4| Describe a spectrum of "better practices" for trans inclusion
5| Identify examples of gender-inclusive health communication (e.g. ways to talk about body parts and conditions without ascribing gender to the patient)

Faculty

Reva Kleppel, MSW, MPH
Department of Medicine
Baystate Medical Center

Panelists: 

Kara Wolf
Sr. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant
Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Baystate Health

Lauren Meade, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan
High Street Health Center, Baystate Health

Davey Shlasko, M.Ed.
Founder and Director, Think Again Training & Consulting

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Physicians
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.  Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.