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My name is Kaylee Cloud and I am an entry-level Occupational Therapy Doctoral student at EKU. I completed my Capstone project with a focus on health literacy and language barriers in healthcare. I completed my project at CHI St. Joseph Hospital in Berea, KY. This hospital is a Critical Access Hospital, meaning it is located in a rural area where patients have difficulty accessing healthcare. I began my project by assessing organizational health literacy and personal health literacy of patients, providers, and resources at the hospital to determine the needs of the hospital. I then worked to create resources and update some of their current resources to improve readability and improve patients’ access to resources that are easy to understand. I created resources for both patients and practitioners with the goal to improve both personal health literacy and organizational health literacy. I created an educational PowerPoint presentation with the goal to implement it as a continuing education module for new and current employees at the hospital and other resources that were targeted toward hospital administration’s current concerns regarding patient outcomes. All of the assessment results and resources were left with my mentor for future use and reference in the hospital.
Graduation Date
1-1-2024
Disciplines
Occupational Therapy
Degree Type
Open Access Capstone
Document Type
Poster
Site Mentor
Kori Becknell
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