ACT Learning Network at Cincinnati Childrens

Rob Kahn, MD, MPH, Physician Leader, Community and Population Health, and Andy Beck, MD, MPH, Associate Professor & Attending Pediatrician, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Drs. Kahn and Beck describe their experience working to help make Cincinnati’s 66,000 children the healthiest in the nation through strong community partnerships. They discuss the use of the community-wide All Children Thrive Learning Network to bring the community voice into population health improvement efforts. They introduce early successes and challenges with respect to improvement efforts focused on decreasing preterm births and preventable child hospitalizations and increasing thriving children and 3rd grade readers. They also highlight innovative uses of the electronic health record, geography, and collaborative co-production.