Listed below is the North Dakota HEAR NOW project staff. A short project
role description, biographical sketch, and contact information for each member
is included.
Project
Director - Wendy Thomas, M.S.
Primary responsibilities:
- Coordinate research and data analysis components for the project
- Oversee the statewide tracking database to record newborn hearing screenings results
- Technical assistance to hospital staff for statewide tracking database input
- Develop reporting procedure to meet agency's GRPA standards
- Provide training and technical assistance to hospitals about hearing screening and statewide tracking database.
Marketing Coordinator - Kimberly Witt, M.S.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Oversee the project and coordinate with stakeholder organizations throughout the state.
- Work with staff of the CSHS Division to integrate UNHSI into the long-term planning process for sustaining the program after the grant ends.
- Assist the project in developing cost-benefit analyses to be used in planning for long-term maintenance of UNHSI in ND.
- Represent project to funding agency grants management and project officers.
Primary responsibilities:
- Responsible for all administrative and clerical support for the ND EHDI
project.
Primary responsibilities:
- Provide training and technical assistance to hospitals about hearing screening and statewide tracking database.
- Provide training to hospitals about referral procedures to early intervention and family support programs
- Assist in developing inter-agency data sharing and referral procedures
- Prepare regional and hospital data for project report cards
- Prepare monthly and annual data report for project documentation oand quarterly hospital reports
- Send follow up letters to parents' of infants who refer or miss initial hearing screen
- Send monthly referral list to RightTrack and PIP for follow up
Primary responsibilities:
- Provide training and technical assistance to hospitals about hearing screening and statewide tracking database.
- Provide training to hospitals about referral procedures to early intervention and family support programs
- Assist in developing inter-agency data sharing and referral procedures
- Prepare regional and hospital data for project report cards
- Prepare monthly and annual data report for project documentation oand quarterly hospital reports
- Send follow up letters to parents' of infants who refer or miss initial hearing screen
- Send monthly referral list to RightTrack and PIP for follow up
Primary responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing and maintaining the UNHSI web site
- Assist in the development of other information and public awareness materials
- Central point of contact for web-based project information dissemination
Primary Responsibilities:
- Represent First Sounds project with other CSHS and Title V programs, including metabolic screenings and birth certificate initiative
- Liaison between Department of Health programs and initiatives and project
- Assist in developing hospital and program report cards
- Will facilitate planning and integration of the UNHSI program with state and local
- disability prevention, early intervention, and health and family support activities.
- Develop fiscal and long-term planning for project
- In unique position to assist in facilitating the planning and activities to sustain the UNHSI program long after the current grant funding expires.
Sue Burns, RN, BNSc
Program Administrator
Children's Special Health Services
701.328.4669 or 800.755.2714
sburns@nd.gov
