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Asthma Training with CME Now Available

April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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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...]

Filed Under: Asthma, Patient Centered Medical Home, Patient Education

General Diabetes Patient Education Handouts

April 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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General Diabetes Patient Education Handouts New! Now Available in Haitian Creole ACU is pleased to make available eight patient education flyers on living with diabetes newly translated into Haitian Creole (also known as HC or Kreyol). The flyers are written in simple, plain language for low literacy audiences. Clinicians can download and print them on demand. The flyers are also available in English and Spanish. More than one million people living in North America speak Haitian Creole. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Patient Education

Michelle Lamb, Pharm.D., CDE, BCACP

December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Clinical pharmacist Michelle Lamb, Pharm.D., CDE, BCACP, takes pride in being part of a transdisciplinary health care team. She combines high tech (health IT is an important tool in enhancing patient care) with and high touch, delivering information tailored to the patient’s culture and literacy level. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Audio Story Bank, culture, December 2012, Diabetes, Health IT, Health Reform, Language, literacy, Newsletter, Patient Education, Pharmacy

Order Your 2013 Health Promotion Calendar

December 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Additional copies of the ACU 2013 health promotion wall calendar sent to all members are available for purchase. The calendar is suitable for use in exam rooms, offices and waiting rooms. The calendar theme is Be a Partner in Your Health. Using simple messages in English and Spanish, the calendar reminds patients that patient-centered health care involves a partnership in which they play an active role. The calendar messages are: Set health goals together / Formen metas de salud … [Read more...]

Filed Under: December 2012, Featured Bottom Left, Newsletter, Patient Education, Wellness

40 Educational Handouts on Using Insulin

December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Low Literacy and Very Low Literacy Versions Available ACU and the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation announce the release of 40 educational handouts for patients who are starting insulin. Each handout is written in easy to understand language with simple illustrations. The handouts are available in both English and Spanish and two literacy levels: low literacy and very low literacy. The handouts are free to download and distribute. Using Insulin to Treat Your Diabetes: What It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Patient Education, Uncategorized

Patient Education Resources for Low Literacy Populations

December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Office of Minority Health  – offers patient education materials in English, Spanish and various other languages. Go to Publications, then Consumer Publications. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers free clinician and consumer guides that compare the benefits and risks of medications and/or other therapies for a wide range of health problems such as type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, and rental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Patient Education, Uncategorized

New Patient Resource on Cholesterol

December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Lowering the Fats in Your Blood: A Patient Resource Guide is a new addition to ACU's patient education materials. It is written in simple language to help patients understand "good" blood fats and "bad" blood fats and how they affect risk for heart disease and stroke. The booklet is available in English and Spanish in both an audio and print format. Other titles in the series are Managing Your Pain and Managing Your Type 2 Diabetes. ACU participated in the development of the booklet on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Bottom Left, Patient Education

Bridging the Disparities Gap with Mobile Technology

June 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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MHealth provides vital tools to support the goals of health care reform to increase health care access, improve care delivery systems, engage in culturally competent outreach and education with technology that is easy to use, affordable and scalable, and is already adopted by patients of all ages and socioeconomic status. Mobile health technology (mHealth) is changing the way the world approaches health care access and delivery. Text messaging is used to support patient adherence with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Featured Bottom Right, Health IT, July 2012, Newsletter, Patient Education, Tobacco Tagged With: , , ,

“Kicking the Can” at the National Soda Summit

June 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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How can Americans "kick the can" and limit our consumption of sugary beverages? This was the main issue explored at the first National Soda Summit hosted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) on June 7 and 8, in Washington, DC. Nearly 250 people, including educators, activists, foundation executives, and public health advocates, such as ACU Executive Director Kathie Westpheling and I, attended this conference to explore the scope of issues involved with sugar-sweetened … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Diabetes, Featured Bottom Right, Obesity, Patient Education

New Diabetes Patient Ed Resources

April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

New and available free: patient education about the Fasting Blood Sugar Test. Patient handouts and videos are available in English, French, Russian and Spanish from Healthy Roads Media. These materials are adapted from the high-quality and extensive multilingual health education resources of Health Information Translations. Check out both websites for the tools you need. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Diabetes, May 2012, Newsletter, Patient Education