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Hello: My role as the Patient Education Coordinator at a large health organization allows me to help support/coordinate the patient education resources used across the care continuum. For years we have integrated the principles of plain language within the patient education resources which we have internally developed. At this time I am investigating ways we may be able to further facilitate concepts of health literacy within our health care culture. I currently have the support of some of our system leaders and I've been researching the vast array of resources which are available. It would be great to collaborate with anyone else who may also be working on similar projects.
Hi Alix;
Welcome to the Health Literacy group!. As I have been going through the group's directory, I have definitely found many people who are Patient Educators and Coordinators for health organizations -- working on the system development side. Would you let us know the job categories of the leaders you are working with? And, in terms of patient and system principles, like plain language patient education resources, what have you been thinking about lately?
Cynthia