A Cleveland Collaboration for better Health Literacy
It is estimated that nearly half of American adults — 90 million people—have only basic or below-basic health literacy skills and have difficulty understanding and acting on health information. As a result, persons with limited health literacy skills have higher utilization of treatment services, including hospitalization and emergency services and lower utilization of preventive services. Individuals with limited health literacy incur medical expenses that are up to four times greater than patients with adequate health literacy skills.
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center and Project: LEARN are hosting the inaugural Ohio Health Literacy Conference, in partnership with the City of Cleveland Department of Public Health, The MetroHealth System and Visiting Nurse Association of Ohio to:
- Increase Health Literacy Awareness
- Share resources to improve health literacy and ultimately, health outcomes
- Provide tools to increase Health Literacy capacity at the local, regional, and state levels
All healthcare providers, physicians, nurses, administrative staff, social workers, dietitians, health plan administrators, adult literacy professionals, public health professionals and health literacy professionals from hospitals, universities and other organizations throughout Ohio and surrounding states are encouraged to attend this important conference.
The conference will take place on October 12-13, 2011 at the Cleveland Renaissance Hotel. A preconference Plain Language Writing workshop is included, October 11th. The cost of the conference is $199, which includes CEU opportunities.
Dr. Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States and Vice Chairman of Canyon Ranch Institute, will join us as keynote speaker.
For more information, visit Ohio Health Literacy Conference..