Join the Project ECHO Online Learning Community
Hennepin Healthcare is committed to expanding access to care for vulnerable Minnesotans through Project ECHO.
What is Project ECHO?
- Links a set of experts to healthcare teams in any community via Zoom
- Community providers develop the knowledge and expertise to manage their patient population
- Each hour-long session includes a 10-30 minute didactic and 20-25 minutes of case-based learning
- All healthcare professionals are welcome
Integrated Opioid and Addiction Care ECHO
Every Thursday from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, CST
- Education and support for providers who care for patients with problematic opioid use, including addiction
- Training in the use of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder
- Ongoing mentoring and case study discussions
MN Community Collaboration on Viral Hepatitis
1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 12:05 pm - 1:05 pm, CST
- Provides education and training for the treatment of hepatitis B and C
- Develop the knowledge to manage patients with HCV and HBV through didactic presentations and case-based learning
- Eliminate HCV by facilitating collaboration between clinicians that treat viral hepatitis and community partners, such as community health clinics, addiction treatment centers, syringe service programs, and homeless shelters.
- Identify and remove barriers to testing, linkage to care, and treatment for HCV and other infectious diseases.
- Advance culturally competent care with a special focus on those most impacted by HCV, including American Indian and unhoused persons.
Perinatal Substance Use ECHO
2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 12:15 pm-1:15 pm, CST
- Focus on the intersection of perinatal opioid and polysubstance use and perinatal mental health
- Of interest to stakeholders who influence, provide, or support care for pregnant people experiencing mental health or substance use disorders, including students, residents, and fellows
- Expand trauma-informed and stigma-free care for patients and their families
Race Equity and Opioid Use ECHO
2nd and 4th Wednesdays from 12:05 pm-1:05 pm, CST
- Provides a space for BIPOC community members and health care teams to address disparities in opioid care
- Community-empowering dialogue where all voices are valued
- Health equity education through the lens of communities of color
- Share community stories of lived experience
- Build ways to engage with communities of color through community-empowering dialogue
Trauma Informed Care and Health Equity ECHO
3rd Tuesday of the month from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, CST
- Explore trauma and its impact within patients and healthcare workers
- Consider the context each patient and healthcare worker brings to the healthcare encounter and the larger context of the healthcare system and broader society
- Broaden and deepen understanding of trauma for improved healthcare outcomes, improved delivery of healthcare, provider/healthcare worker wellbeing
- Recognize that trauma is bigger than just a patient experience - it lives within providers/healthcare workers and within our histories and systems
Integrative Pain Care ECHO
1st Tuesday of the month from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, CST
- Explore the intersections of interventional, non-pharmacological and integrative strategies to manage chronic pain
- Develop the knowledge of the many non-pharmacological and non-invasive evidence-based tools available to manage chronic pain
- Aim to address this gap for health care providers to more confidently engage in chronic pain care, partnering with patients and communities
- Our goal is to increase knowledge and access to evidence-based non-pharmacological and integrative approaches to pain care as part of the healthcare team