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Vania Maldonado

by tracybcarpenter October 26, 2012

Vania Maldonado, a patient care coordinator at the Loudoun County Community Health Center in Leesburg, Virginia, shares a secret to her success: for her, the patients are like family.

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Chris Echterling

by tracybcarpenter October 25, 2012

Family physician Chris Echterling faced a patient whose needs were so overwhelming, he sent an email to colleagues saying, “Who wants to help me save a life?”

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2012 Health Summit: Engage, Educate, and Empower!

by Administrator October 25, 2012

Join us for this regional luncheon and continuing education opportunity. Meet Freda Lewis-Hall, an ACU Charter Member. Click the flyer to view or you may visit the conference webpage.   ...

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Audio Story Bank Launches

by Administrator October 16, 2012

Listen to ACU members tell their personal stories – including why they chose to practice with the underserved, their success and challenges, and lessons learned. The ACU Audio Story Bank ...

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Early Membership Renewal Incentive

by Administrator October 1, 2012

Hurry! Renew your ACU membership by October 15 and you will be entered to win this pocket sized Flip Video Camera to take with you wherever you go! It is ...

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Online Professional Training on Asthma Care

by Administrator September 16, 2012September 9, 2020

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. ...

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Adolescents and Stage 2 Meaningful Use

by Administrator September 11, 2012

Clinicians struggle with the complex challenge of maintaining an accurate electronic medical record when a parent has authority to access their adolescent child’s record. Could increasing patient engagement with Stage ...

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mHealth Technology and the Underserved

by Administrator August 30, 2012

Tom Martin, author of the ACU Column Assessing mHealth Opportunities and Barriers to Patient Engagement [PDF] published in the August 2012 Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, ...

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ACU’s “Building an Asthma Care Home” Training

by Administrator August 15, 2012

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 ...

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Special Invitation to ACU Subscribers

by Administrator August 10, 2012

Become a HealthBegins.org Beta User and You Could Win $125 Have you ever cared for a patient whose most pressing problem was substandard housing, hunger or unemployment, but you felt ...

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