ACU's Comprehensive Asthma Resource List has everything you need to create an an asthma care home for your patients. In one location, you can find resources including clinical guidelines, patient education and self-management materials, policy briefs, asthma reports, clinical toolkits, mobile technology and asthma information, and smoking cessation and tobacco materials. Many of the resources are available in both English and Spanish, and some in other languages, including Chinese. Also … [Read more...]
Asthma Training with CME Now Available
April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Building a Comprehensive Asthma Care Home: Engaging Clinicians, Patients and Caregivers in Comprehensive Asthma Management is a continuing professional education program offered by ACU and Co-hosted by the Clinical Directors Network (CDN). It has been approved for 1.0 prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. ACU trainers Lois Wessel, FNP-BC and Anna Gard, FMP-BC, have trained more than 1,675 clinicians in the three years they have offered the course. "We are constantly … [Read more...]
Asthma Care in the Patient Centered Medical Home
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“When you can’t breathe, nothing else matters, ” according to Lois Wessel, RN, CFNP. In this video, Ms. Wessel talks about asthma care in the context of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Her 15-minute presentation was recorded at the "Clearing the Air" asthma disparities conference held at the Maritime Institute Conference Center in Linthicum, MD on June 28th, 2011. … [Read more...]
Asthma Award Call for Applications
December 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Are you a leader in asthma management? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently accepting applications for the 2013 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management. If you are a health plan, health care provider, or a community in action that has demonstrated success in managing environmental asthma triggers as part of your comprehensive asthma management program, apply to receive recognition for your important work. Spread the Word! – New this year, EPA is seeking … [Read more...]
New Smartphone App on Tobacco Cessation
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ACU has launched a new smartphone app that helps clinicians talk to patients about tobacco use. The app includes a six brief questions that clinicians can ask patients to measure their nicotine dependence. Release of the app coincides with the annual Great American Smokeout, a day when Americans are encouraged to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. The ACU Low Health Literacy Nicotine Addition Test scores the patient's responses to the six questions and … [Read more...]
New CDC Asthma Surveillance Report
November 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new national surveillance of asthma report in November 2012, finding more Americans are living with asthma. Despite this trend, the report also finds that fewer people are dying from asthma, and the number of asthma-related hospital visits has not increased. This analysis shows more people with asthma are effectively managing and controlling the disease, leading healthier and more productive lives. … [Read more...]
Online Professional Training on Asthma Care
September 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Two recorded webinars on comprehensive asthma management are now available online from ACU. One webinar is in English, and the second, intended for community health workers, is available in Spanish. The two webinars compliment ACU's other asthma online professional resources. The goal of both webinars is to improve the quality of asthma care by training health care providers to incorporate in their care plans culturally and linguistically appropriate education on environmental asthma trigger … [Read more...]
ACU’s “Cómo controlar el asma en el hogar”
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Cómo controlar el asma en el hogar y motivar al personal clínico, pacientes y personas que los cuidan a tratar el asma de forma integral Este curso de 90 minutos se enfoca en cómo incorporar el control de los desencadenantes ambientales en un plan integral para disminuir los episodios de asma. La meta de este programa es capacitar a profesionales de la salud afín de mejorar la calidad de los tratamientos integrales para el asma. La capacitación sigue los lineamientos del Programa … [Read more...]
ACU’s “Building an Asthma Care Home” Training
August 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Building an Asthma Care Home: Engaging Clinicians, Patients and Caregivers in Comprehensive Asthma Management This 90-minute course focuses on incorporating environmental trigger control into a comprehensive asthma management plan in order to decrease asthma episodes. The goal of this program is to improve the quality of comprehensive asthma care by training health care providers to incorporate culturally and linguistically appropriate education on environmental asthma trigger … [Read more...]
ACU Participates in Release of Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities
May 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Executive Director Kathie Westpheling spoke on behalf of ACU at a Washington, DC event May 31st marking the release of the Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities. Westpheling said "ACU is committed to working to reduce asthma health disparities in children. Our efforts include developing a clinical decision support tool for an electronic medical record that will include an environmental trigger assessment as part of a patient centered asthma care plan." … [Read more...]
