The 2021 Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies (TCHMB) Summit was held online on February 10-12, 2021.
The theme for this year’s conference was Addressing Health Disparities through Quality Improvement Efforts. Three pre-sessions were held on Wednesday afternoon, February 10. The three sessions were a Race Equity Training, the Neonatal Outcomes Evaluation Network (NEON) annual meeting, and a session of the QI Training Academy focused on Using Quality Improvement to Address Health Equity.
1,101 people registered to the pre-sessions and the main summit. There were 789 unique attendees on day 1 of the main session, and 725 on day 2. Overall, there were 920 unique attendees who participated in day 1 and day 2 of the main session. The summit pre-sessions had 320 people attending the QI training academy, 377 attending the Race Equity training, and 137 attending the NEON meeting.
There was a total of 18.75 credits for continuing medical education (CME), continuing nursing education (CNE), certified health education specialist education (CHES), and licensed social worker and licensed professional counselor education (LSW/LPC). Credits were provided by Texas Department of State Health Services.
The main sessions were recorded (as was the QI Training Academy pre-session). Slides and recordings from the main sessions and the QI Training Academy have been posted and can be found on the agenda page.
The keynote speech was delivered by Dr. Wanda Barfield, Director of the Division of Reproductive Health in CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. Barfield’s keynote focused on reproductive health priorities and their impact on racial/ethnic disparities.
Attendee response to the Summit was exceptionally positive. More than 92% of the attendees felt that the summit met their expectations very or extremely well. 99% said that they would likely attend again and would recommend it to a colleague. 84% indicated that they were able to connect with current or new colleagues, even within the virtual context. 1,101 registered, which was a more than 100% increase over the previous TCHMB annual conference (which itself had increased more than 40% from the Summit before that).
For more on the Summit, download the full impact report.