Welcome to the National AHEC Organizations 2014 on-line conference agenda. Updates are added constantly, so please keep checking back for more information. Sign up, create your own schedule, and let others know you are attending. A great networking opportunity.
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Are you a new Director? Have you ever been to NAO's New Director Orientation? Well, now is your opportunity to attend a great pre-conference training session. You will go home with some great information and support from other Center and Program Directors to help navigate through the AHEC world.
There is a $25.00 registration fee and you must sign up during the conference registration process in order to attend.
If you have any questions on this session, please contact Glenda Stanley at gstanley@bigbendahec.org.
Perches and Flights: Building the AHEC of the Future Together
International expert Dr. Christopher Metzler of Georgetown University presents a high energy-interactive session in which he will discuss:
Be prepared with questions and inquires. Prepared to challenge your own assumptions and ready to take action!
The Indiana AHEC Network was interested to learn if there was a relationship between the accumulated contact hours in AHEC programs and participants' known matriculation into college. In this presentation, we will share what we found as well as how one center applied this new knowledge to their programs.
The North Carolina Lactation Educator Training Program is a collaborative effort between Northwest Area Health Education Center of Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services: Division of Public Health - Women & Children’s Health Section, the North Carolina WIC Program, and Novant Health. This interprofessional program began in 1996 and addresses knowledge gaps regarding lactation evidence-based practice guidelines for care providers.
Session Sponsored by: Mid-Carolina AHEC, Inc
Conference participants who attend this session will learn about: • Implementing programs and diverse strategies across AHEC's and with other federal partners to better serve veterans and their families; Challenges and best practices for AHECs partnering across state lines and with other federal agencies to meet the needs of veterans; and engaging communities and resources and implementing existing trainings for AHECs looking to increase their engagement in veterans issues.
Session Sponsored by: Northwest Indiana AHEC - Purdue University Calumet
As the link between academia, community-based organizations and clinical practice sites, AHECs are in a unique position to foster development of IPE. This session uses the results of the January 2014 IPE surveys of AHEC Programs and Centers to discuss barriers, challenges, and opportunities for implementation of IPE.
Going digital is an essential ingredient in providing relevant and fiscally sound programming to the emerging healthcare workforce. This presentation outlines the specific steps required to digitize an AHEC and highlights how a digitized AHEC can dramatically enhance programmatic goals while providing center sustainability through earned revenue.
Given the general mission of the AHECs to develop the healthcare workforce needed in rural and underserved areas, it is important to have accurate and reliable data about that workforce. Making use of available data sources about the workforce enables AHECs to use resources more effectively and maximize program impact.
Data collection, cleaning and reporting is an obligation - albeit, at times, it feels more like a burden - shared amongst AHECs. For three programs, this activity has morphed into an effective collaboration that eases stress, promotes camaraderie, and increases effectiveness. Learn how to replicate or join the process in your state.
The I3 PCMH POP collaborative includes 24 Family Medicine and Pediatrics residencies devoted to improving population health. Over 8 years, I3 has demonstrated significant quality improvement with engagement of faculty, residents and staff. We provide interactive discussion of our methodology and outcomes, and describe lessons learned running residency collaboratives.
The SEAHEC Medical Library in Wilmington, NC placed its AHEC Digital Library inside New Hanover Regional Medical Center's EHR. This accomplishment contributes to Meaningful Use, makes clinical support information easily accessible to all providers, brings accolades to our AHEC, and plays an important role in improving patient health.
"Lead or Lose" focuses on the inner workings of true leadership and how leadership can transform an organization from the inside out. Leadership is required to some degree, by all. Everything rises and falls with leadership, from the receptionist to the CEO. "Lead or Lose" will help your organization win with true leadership.
Many supervisors in mental health in North Carolina have little to no formal training in clinical supervision. A lack of competent and trained supervisors affects client outcomes and workforce stability. This session will discuss a clinical supervision intensive training program and its impact on the workforce in Eastern NC.
Tobacco Road Victories in the Tarheel State: Successful Collaborations in Increasing the Awareness of Health Literacy Among Healthcare Professionals in North Carolina
This presentation will feature a collaborative project between a rural primary care practice and the local health department and the role AHEC played in connecting, creating, and facilitating an integrated practice model for obese patients.
Data collection, cleaning and reporting is an obligation - albeit, at times, it feels more like a burden - shared amongst AHECs. For three programs, this activity has morphed into an effective collaboration that eases stress, promotes camaraderie, and increases effectiveness. Learn how to replicate or join the process in your state.
Youth Mental Health First Aid helps communities identify and help adolescents showing signs of mental illness. The YMHFA Corps engages AmeriCorps members to provide YMHFA certification classes for community members who work with youth. Currently 8 AHECs participate in the YMHFA Corps hosting an AmeriCorps member. Workshop participants will learn about the YMHFA program and the impact the YMHFA Corps is having on local communities.
Session Sponsored by: The Eastern Arizona Area Health Education Center
The Rural Experiences for Health Professions Students (REHPS) provides students an interprofessional rural experience. Participant Alyssa Howard developed an innovative practice approach designed to alleviate the shortage of physician coverage in rural Redfield, SD while improving quality standards. Her proposal to the hospital Board of Directors led to a newly created position which allows her to practice to the full scope of her licensure, and meeting the Triple Aim – “improving the patient’s experience of care, improving the health of individuals and populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care”.
David Garr, MD, is Executive Director of the South Carolina AHEC and Associate Dean for Community Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. A family physician, he has taught and published on interprofessional education, prevention, population health, and primary care. A past president of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR), he has served as chair of the interprofessional Healthy People Curriculum Task Force since 2002. Dr. Garr is a graduate of Duke University and Duke Medical School.
Session Sponsored by: Pee Dee AHEC
iPad-based evaluation technology was implemented among 1,400 teen participants annually during a Teen Pregnancy Prevention program held each semester within the Louisiana National Guards residential Youth Challenge Program. Manual pre-, post- and quiz data entries were eliminated. Lessons learned, ROI and hands-on demonstration will be offered during this session.
Come learn more about what we are doing here at UNC’s SOD in collaboration with AHEC in light of this new requirement.
AHEC’s role in State Health Workforce Data Collection
As health reform has accelerated, states are increasingly feeling pressure to collect timely, objective and comprehensive state-level data to determine whether they will have the health workforce place to meet an expected increase in demand. Policymakers and other stakeholders lack basic data with which they can answer questions about supply (e.g., how many health professionals do we have and in what settings and geographies do they work?); demand (e.g., for what health professions and in what settings/geographies will demand increase?); demographic characteristics (e.g., will mass retirements endanger future supply?); and educational characteristics (e.g., how many nurses have and how many go on to pursue a BSN?) of health professionals.
Many states do not collect the type of rigorous and comprehensive data needed to provide snapshots or longitudinal data on the supply, distribution and characteristics of their health professionals. AHECs are well positioned to play a role in developing and maintaining state data systems, as they have the ability to 1) create partnerships and be neutral conveners; 2) be multi-disciplinary; and 3) be involved in all stages of the health careers pipeline. High quality workforce data are also important to the AHEC programs and centers in that they provide a basis for planning educational programs at state and regional levels and then evaluating those programs once they have been implemented.
This panel, facilitated by North Carolina, will bring together representatives from three states where AHEC is already playing a role in collecting health workforce data or is involved in attempts to develop statewide data systems. Panelists will provide an overview of efforts in their state, identify challenges which they have faced, and describe strategies that they used or are using to overcome barriers. Panelists will also speak to how their programs have used the workforce data to enhance AHEC programming.
Session 2 - 10:15 - 10:45 am
Evidence-based chronic pain management in primary care is being taught and implemented in western NC through an Innovations grant from CMS. The multi-component project, including CME and direct medical care in primary care practices, will be exemplified from our experiences since July 2012. Standardized practices and tools will be shared.
Like other AHECs, the MassAHEC Network provides many different health careers exploration activities for youth. Faced with the challenge of measuring outcomes to determine statewide impact, MassAHEC developed a core competency model where program specific learning objectives are mapped to the core competencies and then summarized for the entire network.
Multilingual youth interested in health careers need to understand that their language skills are a valuable asset as they proceed with their education. This engaging session will demonstrate one method of incorporating medical interpreting skills into youth programs with multi-lingual speakers. Participants will play MassAHECs Multi-Lingual Medical BINGO and receive materials.
Session Sponsored by: University of Toledo AHEC Program
The MU School of Medicine AHEC Summer Community Program provides medical students clinical training in a rural community between their first two years of medical school. After the experience, participants’ perceptions towards rural practice changed favorably, and 46% of participants chose a rural location for their first practice. Program structure, evaluation, and outcomes will be discussed.
At a time when organizations are asked to do more with less, Capital City AHEC has created a nationally recognized patient navigation program that has grown to annually serve over 500 patients, 200 clinicians and 5,000 individuals across the Washington, DC Area. This presentation will share Capital City’s best practices and candid approach to sustaining impactful and innovative patient navigation partnerships.
This presentation will provide an overview of the nurse supply and demand models developed by the South Carolina Office for Healthcare Workforce and Analysis. Through the use of a scenario builder we will demonstrate how various policy levers may influence future RN supply or demand projections.
Session Sponsored by: Texas AHEC East - Greater Houston Region
For nearly 20 years, the NC AHEC program has worked tirelessly to produce quality health careers programming that impacts every aspect of the strategic pipeline with programs focusing on: elementary, middle and high school underrepresented minority students; parental involvement; health professions schools partnerships and outcomes evaluations. We will discuss our best practices for each piece of the pipeline.
Double session Sponsored by: MICI-Indiana AHEC and Indiana AHEC Network
One tool we have to help build new teams is our stories. Public narrative involves sharing strategic anecdotes from our professional lives to create new connections and develop new leaders. This workshop will help participants develop their own public narratives to be used as a tool of team-building and leadership development.
Session Sponsored by: The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Compassion Fatigue is being recognized as a growing concern in healthcare due to the significantly increased risk of substandard patient care associated with it. This presentation will discuss the associated risks to patient care and the importance of educating healthcare professionals about this condition to enhance patient outcomes.
One in every five Americans experiences a mental disorder in any given year and half of all Americans have such disorders at some time in their lives. These illnesses of the brain affect all of us, regardless of age, gender, economic status or ethnicity. Nearly every person sitting in the pews has been touched in some way by mental illness. And yet, individuals and families continue to suffer in silence or stop coming to their faith community because they are not receiving the support they so desperately need. They become detached from their faith community and their spirituality, which is an important source of healing, wholeness and hope in times of personal darkness. This presentation will discuss the importance of mental health literacy and identify concerns around mental illness that exist in the faith community. We will also discuss how information and strategies can be effectively disseminated to address these concerns. A specific faith support will be discussed in how they were able to implement resources and supports.
SEAHEC will present our innovative approach to quality management specifically utilizing our Future Healthcare Leaders program as a case study. This will assist AHECs in developing program management ideas including hose for school-based health career clubs. We will share helpful project guidelines and a management tool for tracking.
Session Sponsored by: Northern Nebraska AHEC
Funders look for data, but respond to human interest! AHEC's have plenty of data to provide but do we have enough human interest? This session will assist centers in creating successful stories that can easily be integrated into evaluation reports to share with funders and stakeholders.
Pioneer Valley AHEC youth, part of MassAHEC acquired health advocacy and leadership skills during a multi-year statewide tobacco awareness campaign. This presentation illustrates how the model empowers youth to learn, lead and positively influence their community's public health and how it can be applied to public health issues and careers. Justin M. Chellman, BA, Co-Author.
This workshop will introduce attendees to a free on-line toolkit designed to increase the skill and knowledge of busy clinicians precepting health professions students interested in primary care. The speakers will share how PCCAMP was developed, the steps taken to move PCCAMP from a concept to an actual product as well as its use with clinical preceptors at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The audience will take a virtual tour of the website.
Session Sponsored by: Upstate Area Health Education Center
A sustained partnership between a University medical school and an AHEC resulted in partnered research, community, and health professional education. This model community-academic partnership based on bidirectional interactions led to community empowerment and engagement leading to demonstrated benefits when addressing rural social and health issues.
This presentation highlights how NC AHEC and the Nurse Council implemented nursing activities with the aim of advancing the education of the nursing workforce in North Carolina. Legislative funding has enabled NC AHEC and many NC nursing programs to create innovative programs that provide educational advancement for registered nurses.
Common Sense for a Common Good: The 21st Century Mother of Invention
If “necessity is the mother of invention”, then AHECs and their safety net partners have long practiced parsimonious innovation – working wonders with limited budgets to develop novel approaches to health and wellness services for entire communities. The Affordable Care Act provides the perfect platform for AHECs and their partners to collaborate and integrate their efforts for greater impact and to tell their story to a national audience looking for better ways to improve our nation’s health. But there are risks involved: as these cost-effective models of service become part of the mainstream they could become victims of their own success, with payers ratcheting down on their support, followed by reductions in indigent care funding, or losing valuable human resource to other organizations. This presentation will discuss how these assets can be organized to develop a sustainable and uniquely American model of care.
This presentation will provide information about how the local AHEC system can assist the community in meeting the needs of military families. There will be a discussion of the methods to identify the numbers of local military families, the needs of these families, and strategies to work effectively with them.
The Wisconsin AHEC Alumni Association began as an inspiration during the 2012 NAO conference and has operated as a statewide networking and programming organization for two years. This presentation will discuss the creation of a student Alumni Association, benefits and challenges, and vision for additional Associations across the nation.
South Carolina AHEC and its four centers have strived to appropriately assess continuing education program outcomes and to use measurements to determine successes. This presentation will describe the highs, the lows and the lessons learned during our multi-year emphasis on determining program outcomes. Assessments of two programs will be presented.
HOSA Future Health Professionals stands proud of our educational partnerships with AHEC. Through these relationships, we are addressing emerging healthcare issues and workforce needs. This presentation highlights a partnership that includes champions on both sides of the agreement: HOSA and AHEC; both serving a shared mission as a health professions pipeline program.
This presentation focuses on the Primary Care-Population Medicine Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School. This dual degree, 4-year program, in which medical students receive an MD and a Master's degree, alters how students are admitted to medical school, how they are educated and the positions they seek after graduation.
Northwest AHEC team will review various attempts to increase learner engagement in the classroom and at a distance. Examples include the audience response system for PowerPoint (a.k.a. using the clickers), use of social media to connect peers and create communication backchannels, live streaming and video conferencing for classroom events, real-time training with Lync, and other potential strategies beyond threaded discussion for deeper learner/ instructor engagement in distance education courses.
The ongoing challenge for organizations is to deliver high quality programs with limited resources. In order to accomplish this, managers and program staff must know how to read and understand financial reports. This session will enable participants to be competent readers of the financial reports of an organization.
Session Sponsored by: Arizona Area Health Education Center
IPMA will present the results of our AHEC partnership at the national conference. We will provide a summary of REMS and CO*RE to familiarize AHEC leaders with the educational needs, content and curriculum. We will present quantitative results of our partnership and we will discuss further opportunities available.
Session Sponsored by: UT Health Science Center at Tyler
Presenters will discuss the West Virginia Rural Health Association's demand study, "Health Care in WV: A Workforce Demand Analysis", and also describe the WV Health Data Portal that was created following the release of the demand study. The report focuses upon the distribution of healthcare providers in relation to population, chronic diseases, and aging patients and providers, in order to assess future workforce needs in the state.
Session Sponsored by: MICI-Indiana AHEC
Community-based clinical experiences with interprofessional teams is important in training students in IPE. AHECs are in a pivotal position to leverage existing community-based resources to foster development of meaningful IPE experiences. Examples of how IPE was initiated in community-based settings will be presented and select vetted IPE tools reviewed. Participants will develop mini-plans for IPE using a prepared template.
A growing body of literature now suggests that use of telepsychiatry to provide mental health care has the potential to mitigate the workforce shortage that directly affects access to care, especially in remote and underserved areas. This workshop will describe NC Statewide Telepsychiatry Project that is providing evidence-based care by connecting 60-80 hospital emergency departments via telepsychiatry across the state of North Carolina.
This presentation describes the East Bay AHECs activities providing education to safety net providers about the Affordable Care Act. The presentation includes information on the development of the provider education curriculum content, as well as information on how the curriculum was implemented, including what partnerships, tools and evaluations were used.
Evaluation practices will be featured that address the key question, "Do AHEC Alumni (students with experiences in AHEC programs) end up in health careers?" This session will share with participants the information necessary to replicate data collection, analysis and/or reporting in their respective AHEC Center or AHEC Program.
Session Sponsored by: DFPM University of Utah
With support from Missouri Foundation for Health, Missouri AHEC created ten rural and urban, middle school-based HOSA: Future Health Professionals clubs, and Northeast Missouri AHEC created six rural, high school-based clubs, to combat healthcare recruitment difficulties. Projects had purpose of exposing students to healthcare careers in hopes of increasing their understanding, and inspiring to pursue training.
This session will describe lessons learned from implementing the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of care in 6 Family Medicine (FM) Residency Programs in Arkansas. Additionally, competencies needed for FM residents and other learners to operate in the PCMH model of care will be described and curriculum strategies discussed.
Session Sponsored by: Maine AHEC Network
This presentation aims to provide participants with an understanding of how the Maine AHEC Network, at program and center levels, has been able to influence and participate in Interprofessional (IP) Education and Practice innovations throughout the State. The presentation includes an overview of Maine AHEC Networks IP activities and describes specific examples of collaboratively developed IP education and training programs as well as evaluation tools being piloted to assess impact.
We continue to create innovative partnerships between the AHECs in New Mexico, University of New Mexico’s Health Extension Rural Office (HERO), and New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Program to address health needs in New Mexican rural communities. With similar goals, yet different strategies, a unique approach to workforce development and meeting the needs of underserved populations is being developed.
Session Sponsored by: Foothills AHEC
Georgia's Statewide AHEC began hosting annual Primary Care Summits in 2008, with over 100+ invited stakeholders. Using this process, the AHEC has successfully increased its own funding, increased GME Loan Forgiveness Awards, increased GME residency expansion slots, and created a totally innovative AHEC certified tax credit for community based faculty. Details on how this was accomplished and supporting materials will be provided.
Dramatic and unprecedented changes in health care and how it is organized and delivered have altered the health care landscape and have significant implications for health professions education. Numerous reports have emphasized the need for clinicians who can practice evidence-based medicine, make better use of technology to deliver high-quality care, and work as members of interdisciplinary teams to provide patient-centered care. AHECs have a unique role to play in preparing the next generation of health care providers with the competencies needed in a reformed system. Because of their connections with community-based health care organizations and strong grounding in academic health centers, AHECs are in a position to develop curricula and offer training to give health care providers the new skills needed for 21st Century health care. This session features a panel of representatives of AHEC programs who are currently involved in innovative educational programs to prepare health providers with the new competencies needed in a reformed system. Panelists will speak on the ways that their AHEC worked to identify the need for these new roles, and the strategies used to develop educational programs to prepare providers with the competencies needed to deliver care in high performing teams.
Come learn more about what we are doing here at UNC’s SOD in collaboration with AHEC in light of this new requirement.
Session 2 - 10:30 - 11:00
Combined Session #HC642, Starting a Health Professions Affinity Community (HPAC) in your Schools
On the heels of a successful two-year Veterans’ Mental Health Initiative, HRSA directed A-TrACC to coordinate another national project - this time for AHEC grantees to educate health professionals and staff on the Health Insurance Marketplace. This session will showcase the A-TrACC Health Insurance Marketplace curriculum.
Every educator who has coordinated an educational activity for healthcare professionals can relate to this often humorous look at the flops and failures that have occurred during any of the stages of program planning from start to finish or anywhere in between. The faculty will share insights using themes from Murphy’s Laws, and lessons learned from those flops to help others avoid the traps and pitfalls in program management.
In 2012, Area L AHEC received a grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to assist a regional FQHC with the implementation and provision of shared medical appointments (SMAs). This talk outlines the mechanics of implementing an SMA program in the primary care setting and highlights lessons learned.
Session Sponsored by: South Carolina AHEC
The SC Department of Health and Human Services, Midlands Technical College and South Carolina AHEC in 2013 partnered to establish South Carolina’s first statewide Community Health Worker program, a Medicaid-funded endeavor considered one of the first in the United States. The goal is to improve patient care and health outcomes.
Internships can provide benefits to both organizations and students. Such programs have proven particularly effective within the health care field, from rural immersion of medical students to assisting in the recruitment of hospital pharmacists. This presentation will describe AHEC-administered student internship programs targeting underserved areas in Wisconsin and northeastern Kentucky.
CT Connect is an innovative, online clinical rotation program that can increase efficiency, reduce duplication and improve satisfaction for the student, the provider organization and the educational institution in order to train, recruit and retain the next generation of healthcare providers.
Session Sponsored by: Texas AHEC East
Learn an innovative, effective approach that advances the AHEC mission by establishing public-private partnerships to increase access to oral healthcare while decreasing costs. This collaboration throughout a three-state, five-county Appalachian region of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, created a strong network that utilizes Community Health Workers to achieve meaningful outcomes.
Supply, Demand, and New Roles for the Pharmacist Workforce: A North Carolina Case Study. This presentation assesses the demand for and supply of pharmacists in North Carolina. We explore emerging roles for pharmacists under new models of healthcare delivery and AHEC’s role in preparing pharmacists to move into these new roles. We assess the educational, regulatory, and reimbursement factors affecting the broader expansion of new models of pharmacist-provided direct patient care and describe Mountain AHEC’s (MAHEC’s) program incorporating pharmacists as direct care providers in Western North Carolina.
Session Sponsored by: MICI-Indiana AHEC
Interprofessional Education is becoming more formalized as part of the required curriculums in academic health profession training institutions. IN-AHEC network staff will lead workshop attendees through an interactive educational session that will provide AHEC educators with the necessary tools to develop, implement and evaluate a successful IPE clinical training experience.
Session 2 - 11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Session Sponsored by: Blue Ridge AHEC - Georgia
The Georgia AHEC’s have implemented a new data management tool that we call ADMS (AHEC Data Management System) in the 6 GA Network Centers and the Program Office. The new system has enabled our Centers and Program Office to become more productive in capturing and reporting important data related to Students, Preceptors, Professionals, Partners and all Programs they are associated. This application is a secured cloud based system and remotely accessible by authorized users.
Open enrollment came and went. Now what? Dr. Pamela Roshell, Regional Director of Region 4 of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will discuss lessons learned from the first open enrollment period and what to expect from the next one. She will also provide new resources to educate health professionals and consumers as part of the Coverage To Care initiative.
This session will discuss how the Northwest AHEC designed their outreach program through a series of videos including footage from outreach visits, interviews with students and a presentation of data demonstrating the impact on the region.
The southern region of the Illinois AHEC Network, in partnership with the National Center for Rural Health Professions,has developed and implemented an innovate Rural Health Experience (RHE) program. RHE brings together graduate and professional level students and community-based healthcare partnerships to provide insight into the health needs of a specific community over the course of several days.
Southern Regional AHEC shares lessons learned and best practices from their implementation of Moodle, an open-source learning management system for delivery of online learning. They use Moodle to provide mandatory employee courses, residency didactics, CME accredited courses, and a blended learning community for advanced practice professionals.
Session Sponsored by: Texas AHEC East Coastal Region
"What has your AHEC/HETC done for you?" Using data and qualitative outputs for our five key focus areas, Northwest AHEC will demonstrate ways to effectively disseminate this information to maximize exposure, heighten awareness, and leverage opportunities for further exploration of appropriate potential partnerships to fulfill the AHEC mission.
Responding to a solicitation from the Maryland Department of Labor and Licensing Regulation’s EARN Initiative ESAHEC convened stakeholders in healthcare services and training to spark an innovative partnership, called “Ready to Care” to promote jobs in healthcare. This industry-led initiative is catalyzed by Maryland’s Eastern Shore Area Health Education Center based in Cambridge, Maryland, serving all nine counties of the Eastern Shore with many HPSAs/MUAs.
Session Sponsored by: Blue Ridge AHEC - Georgia
The Georgia AHEC’s have implemented a new data management tool that we call ADMS (AHEC Data Management System) in the 6 GA Network Centers and the Program Office. The new system has enabled our Centers and Program Office to become more productive in capturing and reporting important data related to Students, Preceptors, Professionals, Partners and all Programs they are associated. This application is a secured cloud based system and remotely accessible by authorized users.
Need some delicious and healthy recipes at your fingertips? Nursing and medical students from the University of Colorado Denver and Central Colorado AHEC have partnered in developing a website to offer food pantries and consumers a quick way to make healthy meals. It is accessible to you anytime!
We highlight the partnerships that launched the NC AHEC Practice Support Program. We describe the components of practice support services including the content and techniques that have made them successful. We offer results and discuss the ongoing financing in terms of sources and the association of dollars with deliverables.
Research shows there are major factors affecting NHSC retention rates. To meet the need for addressing NHSC provider recruitment and retention issues, Eastern AHEC developed a NHSC site administrator toolkit, mentor program, and electronic family guide. These efforts will ensure that quality providers who believe in the mission of the NHSC will remain in their initial HPSA after their NHSC commitment is complete.
This presentation will provide information about how the Mental Health First Aid curriculum is being used as a successful model of continuing education to disseminate training to audiences. The curriculum will be reviewed along with a discussion of the various formats that can assist with delivery of the model.
Community Health Workers are essential for the Triple Aim of improving patients care experiences, improving population health and reducing healthcare cost. Come discuss ways to hire, deploy and supervise CHWs to drive access to quality health care in light of the 2013 CMS rule allowing state Medicaid reimbursement for preventive services.
A Health Education Specialist (HES) can act as a health coach, perform Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and, as a practice facilitator, help prepare a practice for health care reform. We will discuss how we found, paid for and use a HES in a family medicine outpatient practice.
The Interprofessional Education Site Evaluation Instrument and Update on the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Dr. Brian Sick, through his work with the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, has developed an instrument to assess the readiness of a site to provide an interprofessional education for its health professional students. A site can use this instrument to gauge their progression towards becoming an exemplary interprofessional education site and determine where to focus their improvement efforts. Dr. Sick will discuss the development and use of the instrument. He is looking for feedback on the instrument and for sites willing to partner with the National Center on piloting the instrument in their own settings. Dr. Sick will also give an update on the work of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.