Evaluation Café RSVP
Corey Smith, Director of Health Equity Evaluation at Corewell Health, and Nathan Browning, Founder and Principal of Kaier Research, will be our next presenters on Wednesday, November 20.
Join us in-person for lunch at 4410 Ellsworth, or virtually for the presentation via Zoom, beginning at noon EST. Register to attend virtually.
Evaluating Health Equity Within Healthcare
How do you evaluate a whole strategy? This is the question our health equity evaluation team at Corewell Health has been wrestling with for the past four years. As an evaluation team, we are uniquely situated to play a critical role in helping to provide strategic insights, generate meaningful evidence of value, and support health equity efforts at Corewell as it continues to mature. Corewell Health is the largest healthcare system in Michigan with over 65,000 employees, 21 hospitals, and over 300 outpatient sites. In this presentation, we will discuss the journey we’ve gone on to answer the critical question of how to evaluate a strategy. Grounded in a commitment to advancing systems change and with a mission to support strategic decision-making, we have navigated changes in organizational structure, built up the case for evaluation as a practice, and attempted to operationalize the notion of co-learning (as described by Schwandt & Gates, 2021) as the work continues to eliminate health disparities for our patients and communities. This presentation will include a discussion of how we are situated in the organization and the implications for evaluation, how we are working to move from a program to a portfolio-driven approach to evaluation as a way to evaluate strategy, and the opportunities that co-learning has provided us to support our team's mission.