Project ECHO

About

Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) transforms the way rural, underserved communities learn and share knowledge. Coordinated by Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, the SIU ECHO provides a virtual network for experts to mentor and share their medical expertise.

Originally launched in 2003 at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Project ECHO has grown into a national model of telementoring that addresses more than 100 complex health conditions. The ECHO modelTM does not provide care to patients, but, rather, it provides front-line clinicians with the knowledge and support they need to treat patients with challenging conditions, including opioid addiction and hypertension.

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Why join?

As an ECHO participant, you’ll acquire new skills and competencies to better manage patients with complex health conditions. You’ll also become part of a growing national community of health care providers dedicated to expanding healthcare access, reducing disparities, improving quality, safety and efficiency, and promoting consistency in care and practice. The ECHO Model uses technology to leverage scare resources, share best practices and teach participants how to better evaluate and monitor outcomes.

Participants can also earn continuing medical education credits: up to 8 for the Hypertension ECHO and up to 10 for the Opioid ECHO.

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Series

Improve asthma management for patients by providing healthcare providers, administrators, and executives insights on reducing hospital admissions for Asthma and creating a network of providers in the region working together to improve care for patients with Asthma. Click here to learn more. 

Master clinically important topics that will enhance your ability to accurately diagnose hypertension, risk stratify patients and more effectively control hypertension. You'll learn to provide a risk stratification framework specifically for patients with severe blood pressure elevations to guide therapeutic decision-making regarding the type, timing and location of anti-hypertensive drug therapy. Click here to learn more.

Facilitated by SIU Medicine's multidisciplinary team including an addiction specialist, clinical psychologists, psychiatrist, social worker, and a Data-2000 waivered clinician working in a federally qualified health center (FQHC), this ECHO is designed to increase the number of providers with a Data-2000 waiver, also known as Buprenorphine Waiver Program or x-waiver, in Illinois counties that have few or no medication-assisted treatment services. This series also engages clinicians who have received Data-2000 waivers but are not using it to treat patients by mitigating perceived barriers. Clinician participants are strongly encouraged to identify local behavioral health partners to participate in the Opioid ECHO with them.

Hosted by specialist from the Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, the didactic and discussion will focus on key topics centering on memory and aging. You will gain better insight into specific types of dementia, to how to best help navigate important barriers for someone experiencing cognitive decline. Click here to see upcoming sessions. 

Build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support and advocacy. You will learn to master important topics that will enhance the CHW's ability to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. Click here to learn more. 

Ongoing ECHO Programs

SeriesDateRegistration Link
Opioid ECHO3rd Wednesday, September 18, 2024 thru April 16, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pmSign up here 
Asthma ECHO3rd Thursday, September 19, 2024 through June 19, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pmSign up here 
Community Health Work 101 ECHOTuesdays and Thursdays, October 1 - November 21, 2024, 10:00am-11:30amSign up here 
SUD Resilient and Responsive Communities ECHO2nd Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - June 25, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pmSign up here

 

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Join the next ECHO cohort! New classes begin every 4-6 months. To get started, please answer a few questions for us.