An AI concept for Advocate Health's community partners and FQHCs
Chicago got community partners curious about AI. This series puts it to work in their daily operations, market by market, across Advocate's footprint.
Advocate's community partner forum in Chicago, hosted at Microsoft, gave Illinois partners a first real look at what AI can do. Dr. Oglesby-Odom's vision takes that across the enterprise.
Inside the walls, Work Forward is already equipping Advocate's workforce. The organizations Advocate funds and partners with, from community nonprofits to the FQHCs that carry outpatient care, need their own on-ramp. This concept builds it on two tracks, one model for every market.
A single forum sparks interest. A series builds habits. Each market's series rides on the listening sessions Advocate already hosts, so partners meet it in a room they trust.
One forum: energy peaks the week of the event, then everyday work takes the hours back.
Illustrative curves. Each partner's real baseline comes from its readiness check.
Program reports, board updates, and funder check-ins drafted from data partners already collect. Staff review and send.
First drafts built from each partner's own outcomes and stories, so small teams compete for funding like large ones.
Health fair flyers, outreach texts, and program guides rewritten at the right reading level and translated for the neighborhoods partners serve.
OptimaNova's traffic light framework gives every partner clear rules for safe AI use from day one. Try it further down the page.
Every partner in every market moves through the same four steps. Scroll to follow one.
Illustrative partner. Readiness scores come from each partner's check.
A hands-on session at the market's community listening event. Partners see AI do their kind of work, with their kind of documents.
A short readiness check for every partner organization: people first, then process, then technology. Ten minutes, and each partner knows exactly where to start.
A follow-up track where partners leave with tools working on their own tasks. Tool-agnostic: Microsoft, Google, or whatever each partner already runs.
Every partner's progress rolls up by market into one view for Advocate. Area VPs see where partners stand, and what works travels to the next market.
Community partners and FQHCs hold sensitive information about the people they serve. Every partner gets the same plain rules, so trust grows with use.
Tap a card to see how the traffic light framework calls it.
FQHCs carry the heaviest load with the leanest teams, and Advocate counts on them for outpatient care. Their track starts with guardrails and goes straight to where the hours are lost. Choose a role.
Collaboratives like Kimberly Hobson's on Chicago's South Side bring safety-net hospitals and FQHCs to one table. That is the fastest path for this track: one design, applied across every member, with results the board sees side by side.
One view of every partner in every market: who has started, who is ready for more, and what is working well enough to share.
Rural Georgia food pantry completed its readiness check
Starting point: ProcessCharlotte FQHC moved into the follow-up track
Intake and UDS reportingAtlanta youth program's grant workflow shared as a best practice
Sent to the national health equity centerSample view with illustrative data. Real targets are set together in discovery.
The series follows the rhythm of Advocate's own community calendar, so each market's sessions land where partners already gather.
Dr. Oglesby-Odom and OptimaNova sharpen both tracks and the launch markets.
The area VPs who host partner forums shape the series for their markets.
Charlotte, Atlanta, and rural Georgia, each tied to its listening sessions. The FQHC track runs alongside.
Proven practices flow to the national health equity center and on to the next market.
The Advocate National Center for Health Equity, led by Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola, is building a clearinghouse of best practices from across the enterprise. Every market in this series feeds it, so a practice proven in Charlotte reaches Atlanta, rural Georgia, and the next market on the list.
Readiness checks and listening with partners in each market.
A clear read on where AI earns its place for each partner type.
The series, the FQHC track, and the Footprint View, shaped with the area VPs.
Sessions, cohort curriculum, partner toolkits, and the reporting view.
Partner champions trained to carry the work forward on their own.
Work Forward equips Advocate's people. This series gives the community its own on-ramp.
Dr. Oglesby-Odom marks up this concept with OptimaNova.
Scheduled with Kenya Lee, so every market shapes its series.
Sessions locked to each market's listening events.
A conversation with Kimberly Hobson on the FQHC track.