June 2011
1) MaineHealth Learning Community To learn more about the MaineHealth Learning Community and the services it offers to its members, please Click Here
2) The MaineHealth Learning Community's 2011 PRISM Series!
As we expand our focus into the Accountable Care concept, the series continues its alignment with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Triple Aim concept of optimizing the healthcare experience within Population Health, Patient Experience, and Cost & Efficiency.
2a) Accountable Care – Quality & Performance Improvement
Save the Date - September 22, 2011 Learning sessions include but are not limited to demonstrating value, quality improvement concepts, providers-teams-health systems, Microsystems, prevention, CIR, and EHR and meaningful use. Be on the lookout for your invitation in July.
2b) Transitions of Care/Preventable Readmissions. April 7, 2011
The overarching theme of this PRISM was transitions of care and preventable readmissions. The conference was held in the new MaineHealth Conference Center and hosted 220 participants. Keynote addresses were presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado, David Bachman, MD, Sr. Medical Director, MaineHealth, and Vance Brown, CMO, MaineHealth. Learning sessions included care coordination, readmissions, preventable hospitalizations, medication reconciliation, timely communications, and optimizing care in hospital transitions. To view the day's complete agenda and presentations, please Click Here.
3) Let's Go! Childhood Obesity Healthcare Institutes
Please join us on September 15, 2011 for session three of the Let's Go! Childhood Obesity Healthcare Institutes educational series. These are a series of one day learning sessions taking place on January 27, April 28, and September 15, 2011. They are geared towards providers and their office team who want high level, cutting-edge skill sets for treating children with obesity. Sessions one and two were a huge success and attending those, although valuable, is not a prerequisite to attending session three. We hope to see you there! Learn More
4) Living Well with Asthma
"Living Well With Asthma" guide now available from MaineHealth! Designed for patients with Asthma or those caring for someone with the disease, the guide is available to order through the J.S.McCarthy fulfillment site (for JSM users) or by emailing hutchs5@mainehealth.org. To view this and other patient education tools, Click here
5) Adult Preventive Health
According to the Alliance for Health Reform, researchers believe that hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved annually if people stopped smoking, lost weight, exercised regularly and consumed a healthy diet. Learn More
6) Announcing the First STEPS Learning Collaborative
MaineCare and Quality Counts will be running the First STEPS (Strengthening Together Early Preventive Services) learning collaborative to provide support to pediatric and family practices to improve rates of EPSDT services. Learn More
7) Effectiveness of Preventive Dental Treatment by Physicians for Young Medicaid Enrollees
The American Academy of Pediatrics established a policy that every child should receive an oral health assessment (including caries risk assessment) by 6 months of age by a pediatric health care professional. Learn More
8) Physician House Call for Older Adults
Several days per week Dr. Anderson makes house calls on patients referred from the emergency department as well as from inpatient sources and outpatient practices. Combining his background with a passion for older patients, his goal is to help the primary providers with the care of these often complicated and at risk patients while working to reduce hospital readmissions and avoid unnecessary visits to the ED. Learn More
9) Update on PL 595: Universal Childhood Immunization Program and FAQs
In Spring 2010, the Maine State Legislature passed public law 595, which established the Universal Childhood Immunization Program and created the Maine Vaccine Board to oversee Program. This universal program provides all children from birth until 19 years of age access to all recommended childhood vaccines at no cost to their families or provider offices. Learn More
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