May 24, 2013

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Kathie Westpheling to Retire

May 2, 2013 By 1 Comment
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ACU will soon bid adieu to Kathie Westpheling, MPH, who has served as executive director since 2002. She is a passionate advocate for the underserved, transdisciplinary care, health professions education, and health information technology. Kathie began her career at ACU in 1996 as the project director for the NHSC 25th Anniversary Initiative. She oversaw the relocation of the organization from its headquarters in Lexington, KY, to its current home in the Washington, DC area. Under her … [Read more...]

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New Funding Platform for Health Projects

May 2, 2013 By 1 Comment
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Crowdsourcing Platform Addresses Health Disparities. Clinicians with great ideas for community health programs have a new source to look to for small grants to get them off the ground. ACU member Dr. Rishi Manchanda, a co-founder of HBFunder (http://www.hbfunder.org/) says, “Like many frontline providers, we have seen how hard it can be to get funding for small projects that can have a big impact on social determinants of health and healthcare for vulnerable populations.” HBFunder … [Read more...]

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Violence in America: The Wider Conversation

May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Eugene Steuerle, an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fisher Chair at the nonpartisan Urban Institute. Steuerle is also a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury.

Violence in America: The Wider Conversation By Eugene Steuerle In the aftermath of Newtown and, by one estimate, 25 mass shootings since 2006, the country is engaged in an intense fight over assault-like weapons and the right of Americans to carry them. While I consider it downright stupid and outright dangerous to allow people to buy, sell, and carry around the equivalent of small machine guns—imagine how safe you would feel if all your loony neighbors touted one around—I wish we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Behavioral, Featured Bottom Right, gun violence, Newsletter

Free Tuition – IHI Open School

April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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ACU will award up to 20 scholarships to members to attend the IHI Open School for Health Professions online courses free for one year. The IHI Open School is an inter-professional educational community focused on health care improvement. Courses address topics such as quality improvement, patient safety, teamwork, leadership, and patient-centered care (view courses and certificates here). Courses are open to health professionals in nursing, health administration, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, … [Read more...]

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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

2013 Health IT and the Underserved Conference

April 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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ACU hosted its first-ever conference on Health Information Technology (HIT) in March 2013. We are especially grateful to all the participants, presenters, sponsors and exhibitors for making it a success. Search Twitter for #acuHIT to learn what others were saying during the conference. Follow ACU on Twitter and Facebook to learn how you can harness the potential of HIT to enhance care for the underserved. Click the image at left to view the conference prospectus. Quick Links Award … [Read more...]

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Health IT Resources

April 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Resources Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has a listserv that provides timely, authoritative information about the EHR incentive programs, including attestations,  incentive payments, and Meaningful use criteria and updates. Health IT Blogs Health IT Buzz is a blog about health information technology (health IT). The best part of the blog is that it presents a vast and varied field of respondents … [Read more...]

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ACU’s Commitment to Health Information Technology (Health IT)

April 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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ACU believes that health information technology (health IT) is a vital tool in achieving the health care reform goals of increasing access, improving care delivery, engaging in culturally competent outreach and education, and enhancing workforce development and training. An electronic health record that includes documentation of demographics, including race and ethnicity, risk factor assessments, and evidence-based preventive and chronic disease management decision support, enables clinicians … [Read more...]

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Comprehensive Asthma Resource List

April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Asthma, culture, Language, literacy

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
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