New York State Diabetes Campaign
The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) selected CHCANYS as their first clinical partner to participate in a five-year, $35 million campaign, the New York State Diabetes Campaign (here referred to as the Campaign). The goal of the Campaign is to reverse the diabetes epidemic in New York State by focusing on:
- improving clinical care,
- mobilizing communities, and
- promoting policy.
CHCANYS currently strives to meet these goals with New York State’s federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) through the use of the National Committee for Quality Assurance Diabetes Recognition Program (NCQA DRP) and Bridges to Excellence (BTE) Diabetes Care Link Program. The NCQA DRP and BTE DCL are voluntary programs for practices to receive recognition for delivering quality diabetes care. Recognized health centers enjoy benefits such as being distinguished as leaders in the community of practice and leverage NCQA DRP data abstraction efforts for incentives such as that received through the Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition.
The Campaign and its clinical partners have come together and designed four Levels of Engagement as a means of encouraging health centers to participate in the Campaign where they are. Resources and support are provided to health centers by CHCANYS with the goal of increasing the center’s levels of engagement to ultimately becoming a center of diabetes excellence.
- Level 1: Join the NYS Diabetes Campaign listserv and educational opportunities to improve diabetes management.
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Level 2: Take a closer look at how well you are managing your patients with diabetes. Start with monitoring 10 charts against national diabetes standards.
- Level 3: Participate in quality improvement activities and focus on improving four to five diabetes measures.
- Level 4: demonstrate that you are a leader in diabetes care and best practices as evidenced by achieving recognition under national programs, demonstrating positive outcomes and providing peer leadership.
For more information, contact CHCANYS’ Quality Initiatives team at (212) 279-9686.
Half the Care Campaign
To further address the state of diabetes in New York State, the Campaign launched “Half the Care” – a statewide advertising initiative urging physicians to provide more comprehensive care to their patients with diabetes. The campaign features full-page images of doctors split in half to emphasize that patients receive half the care they need and promotes a message that "We can do better." Click here for the press release. For more information and resources, visit the website at www.fulldiabetescare.org.
CHCANYS would like to Congratulate the Following Health Centers
for Achieving NCQA Diabetes Recognition
ACP Closing the Gap Program
Closing the Gap: Diabetes Care (CTG) is a team-oriented, practice based, 12 months on-line educational intervention. This program provides physicians with the tools needed to help improve the care they provide to patients with diabetes. This program incorporates the Chronic Care Model for systems change, and the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle for quality improvement. Participants will be able to receive traditional as well as practice-based CME credit for Part 4 MOC and possibly qualify for the NCQA Diabetes Recognition award. Click here to learn more.
For more information or to enroll, contact the Quality Initiatives program at (212) 279-9686.
Recorded Webinars:
Master your Cultural and Survival Nutrition Skills
Culturally sensitive interventions are an effective way to overcome some of the barriers to medical nutrition therapy. To facilitate positive health outcomes and maximize adherence, health care professionals must integrate evidenced-based nutrition recommendations into the patient’s dietary practices and food preferences. Cultural competency encompasses cultural awareness, knowledge and skill.
Upon diagnosis, physicians and nurses are in a unique position to make initial nutrition recommendations to patients prior to their first consultation with a registered dietitian. The goals of this session are: to provide non-dietetic professionals with key nutrition counseling strategies that work in clinical practice; to apply cultural specific communication tools to patients from different cultures; and to apply a cultural food practice model.
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Recording Details
Subject: Master your Cultural and Survival Nutrition Skills
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Recording ID: JFH4TM
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Shared Medical Appointments — An Innovative Practice Model to Improve Outcomes in Your Patients with Diabetes
Dr. Diana Berger, a diabetes and lifestyle medicine specialist, will facilitate a webinar about shared medical appointments (SMA), often referred to as a “group visit,” for patients with diabetes. In a SMA, a group of 10-15 patients meets with a physician, behaviorist, medical assistant, nurse, and dedicated documenter for 90 minutes. Patient participation and peer support is an integral part of this team-based approach to care in which the care team facilitates discussion rather than lecturing. SMAs can improve clinical outcomes, increase patient and clinician satisfaction, improve access to care, and boost a physician’s productivity. This innovative practice model is efficient, cost-effective, and potentially profitable for a practice.
The goal of the webinar is to inspire the participants to design, implement, and evaluate shared medical appointments for their patients with diabetes in their practices.
Diabetes Learning Series: Incorporating Self Management Goal Setting with the Patient into a Routine Visit
Dr. Doug Rahner, Medical Director, and Tricia Lyman, Collaborative Coordinator of Family Health Network of Central New York, Inc. co-facilitate a webinar about incorporating self-management goals for patients with diabetes in an office visit. The purpose of self-management goal setting is to aid and inspire patients to become informed about their conditions and take an active role in their treatment. Helping patients and families manage chronic conditions is an idea whose time has come. Many patients do not understand what their doctors have told them and do not participate in decisions about their care, which leaves them ill prepared to make daily decisions and take actions that lead to good management. Others are not yet even aware that taking an active role in managing their condition can have a big impact on how they feel and what they are able to do. Enabling patients to make good choices and sustain healthy behaviors requires a collaborative relationship, a new health partnership between health care providers and teams, and patients and their families; a partnership that supports patients in building the skills and confidence they need to lead active and fulfilling lives.
The goal of the webinar is to inspire the participants to design, implement, and eventually share how self management goal setting is incorporated in medical appointments for their patients with diabetes in their practices.
Managing Progressive Kidney Disease
Dr. Andy Narva, Director at the National Kidney Disease Education Program, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, focused on strategies for improving outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the primary care setting. The discussion will include a description of standards of care for people with CKD as well as barriers to improving care, identifying and monitoring patients with progressive disease, collaborating with a nephrology consultant, and educational materials available from the National Kidney Disease Education Program.
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