COMING SOON!

Abundant Life Health Symposium

Saturday October 23, 2010

8:30AM to 4:30PM

Palmer Theological Seminary

6 E. Lancaster Avenue

Wynnewood, PA 19096.

 

Registration Material will be available soon. See attached Calendar Alert to mark your calendar now!

 

                                Integrating Smoking Cessation into Primary Care Services

Quitting smoking is one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish and maintain. Helping participants develop a new community that reinforces all their efforts to live a healthier life provides crucial support to their continued success – in quitting and improving their health. The National Nursing Centers Consortium (NNCC) is offering the ‘Stay Quit, Get Fit’ program, funded by the Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform, at no cost to select primary care centers in Philadelphia to improve the health of existing members and new participants from the community.
 

                         What NNCC provides to the partner site and ‘Stay Quit, Get Fit’ participants is:
• Initial workshop for all providers and primary care staff introducing the program and reviewing clinical care guidelines for cessation, discussing referral methods and electronic health record documentation.
• Group cessation and group exercise twice a week for a 7 week cycle. Licensed therapists provide the group cessation class which (in addition to a tobacco cessation focus) includes nutrition, stress reduction and relaxation skills. The fitness specialist provides the exercise portion of the group tailored to participant’s individual abilities and goals.
• Two follow up “reunions” (at 1 and 3 months after course completion) including health measures, surveys, nicotine replacement therapy refills, further quit support and celebrations of successes gained.
• The program manager is also always available to participants and staff for continued support between and after class.

For more information on Stay Quit Get Fit click on the following link:  http://www.nncc.us/programs/stayquit.html
 

The Gov's Office of Health Care Reform (GOHCR), through the Chronic Care Initiative (CCI), aims to implement the Chronic Care Model in PA and is the umbrella organization for this collaborative, statewide effort that brings together many stakeholders (including health plans). Learning collaboratives are being formed in PA's six regions, starting in SE May 15, SC in October and SW or NE in November. Learning collaboratives are formal groups of about 30 primary care practices (they sign 3-year contracts), which will be supported by quality improvement coaches via IPIP, report on measure sets (diabetes and asthma initially) provided by IPIP using a patient registry provided by IPIP. The learning collaboratives kick off at sessions, organized by the GOHCR, that provide education on the models as well as compensation for time spent out of the practice by participating physicians and staff. The learning collaboratives have follow-up sessions to share lessons learned and continue learning about the models. All of these services are free to practices. The CCI will be initiated in the remaining regions in 2009 while also going back to the SE to develop another learning collaborative and offer other clinical topics (perhaps something in prevention). It's been said that 500 practices is the "tipping point" - that point where change becomes permanent - so we will continue to recruit practices and implement the Chronic Care Model. Link: http://www.pafp.com/