December 16, 2011 | Vol. 5 #46
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The next issue of the MPCA
eUpdate will be distributed Thursday, December 29. Happy holidays!
ADVOCACY
Access Recording of
Last Week's Health Center Tele-Forum
If you weren't able to participate in last week's Health Center Tele-Forum
hosted by NACHC, you can access a recording of the call to learn about Health
Center policy and advocacy updates that were discussed.
MPCA NEWS
Second Webinar in
Behavioral Health/Primary Care Integration Series Jan. 11
The second webinar in MPCA's year-long series of webinars supporting
community efforts to expand integrated behavioral health and primary care
will take place on January 11, 2012, at 11 am ET. During "Blending
Behaviorists into the Patient-Centered Medical Home," Cherokee Health
System President/CEO Dennis Freeman, PhD will discuss the organization's
primary behavioral health integrated care practice model and the role that
behavioral health plays in enhancing the PCMH. There is no cost to
participate. Click here for more information about the second
webinar in the series and register at bit.ly/bhiweb2.
Presentation materials and a recording of the first webinar in the series,
"The Value of Telepsychiatry in the Primary Care Medical Home"
held December 13, are now available in the MPCA Resource Library (scroll down to the Behavioral
Health section on the webpage).
Reminder: Dec. 16 is Deadline to Enroll in MPCA PCMH Learning
Community
Today, December 16 is the deadline to enroll in the MPCA PCMH Learning
Community, a new technical assistance initiative developed by MPCA in
partnership with a national PCMH expert organization to assist Michigan
Health Centers in implementing PCMH principles. The end goal is for
participating Health Centers to receive NCQA level 3 PCMH designation and
Meaningful Use achievement. Learn more and download the enrollment form
from the new MPCA PCMH Learning Community webpage at www.mpca.net/PCMH.html. Questions? Contact Lynda Meade,
Program Manager, at 517.827.0470 or lmeade@mpca.net.
MPCA Launches New
Recruitment & Retention Online Toolkit
Resources in the online toolkit at www.mpca.net/recruitmentandretention.html can be used
to guide your Health Center's recruitment and retention efforts, and also
for training staff to be more prepared and involved in the process. Coming
soon are dates and topics for MPCA's 2012 Recruitment & Retention
Webinar Series - watch for more information.
Are You Registered
for MPCA's UDS Training & Finance Officers Workshop?
Dec. 19 is Deadline to
Reserve a Hotel Room at the Special MPCA Room Rate
A block of rooms at the Lexington Lansing Hotel has been reserved at a
special rate for attendees of the 2012 UDS Training and Finance Officers
Workshop hosted by MPCA in January. The deadline for reserving a room at
the special rate is December 19. Click here for hotel contact information, the agenda,
and registration information.
Health Delivery,
Inc. Opens Saginaw's Second Teen Health Center
After two-plus years in the making, Health Delivery, Inc. and the Saginaw
School District unveiled the new Arthur Hill School-based Health Center
with a ribbon cutting ceremony on December 12, 2011. Read more
Waterford Teen
Health Center Provider Earns State Award
Dottie Rodriguez, a nurse practitioner at Oakland Primary Health Services'
Waterford Teen Health Center, was recently recognized by the School
Community Health Alliance of Michigan for her advocacy for children and
school-based/school linked Health Centers and programs. Read more
Congratulations Bay
Mills Health Center
The Bay Mills Indian Community in Brimley has received the Joint
Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for re-accreditation of its ambulatory
and behavioral health care programs, and it has also been designated by the
Joint Commission as a Primary Care Medical Home.
Click here for media coverage of Michigan Community
Health Centers.
Funding for State
Health Insurance Exchange Omitted from Budget Supplemental
On Tuesday the Michigan House passed a FY 2012 budget supplemental (HB
5014) that does not include federal funding for continuing the planning and
development of the MiHealth Marketplace, the state's health insurance
exchange. The Senate concurred by a 20-17 vote on Wednesday. Also removed
from the Senate's version was nearly $9 million for graduate medical
education. The Michigan Legislature is now on recess until January 11,
2012.
2012 State of the
State Address Jan. 18
Governor Snyder will deliver his second State of the State address on
January 18, 2012. MPCA is once again co-sponsoring WKAR's statewide
coverage of the address on public television.
Michigan Health
& Hospital Association Receives Funding as a Hospital Engagement
Network
The Michigan Health and Hospital Association is among 26 state, regional,
national or hospital system organizations to receive funding from HHS'
Partnership for Patients to be a Hospital Engagement Network. As a Hospital
Engagement Network, it will help identify solutions already working to
reduce healthcare acquired conditions, and work to spread them to other
hospitals and healthcare providers. Read more
Legislation
Introduced for Tracking Diabetes Across Michigan
Rep. Gail Haines (R-Waterford), chair of the House Health Policy Committee,
introduced HB 5204 last week that, if passed, would require the
Michigan Department of Community Health, Department of Human Services, and
Medical Services Administration to study the impact of diabetes on state
programs and create a diabetes action plan to battle the disease and its
implications. The bill has been referred to the House Health Policy
Committee.
MSU College of Human
Medicine Expands Public Health Program in Flint
Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine will recruit and
house a new cluster of top public health researchers in downtown Flint. The
college also will expand its master's level Program in Public Health with
faculty and staff located in Flint, and it will increase the number of
third- and fourth-year medical students at the three Flint-area hospitals
and other clinical sites by 50%. Hamilton Community Health Network is among
the organizations represented on the MSU/Flint Community Research Advisory
Committee. Read more
White House Names
ACCESS "A Champion Non-profit"
The White House office has named ACCESS - the largest Arab American human
services nonprofit in the United States, with eight locations and more than
100 programs serving metro Detroit - as a "champion non-profit"
and praised the organization as a "critical part of our American
family." Read more
FY 2012
Appropriations Hang in the Balance
As of the distribution of this eUpdate,
word is the House and Senate are closer to passage of a FY 2012 omnibus
appropriations bill containing the nine remaining spending bills (including
the Labor-HHS bill which funds the Health Centers program). "The
omnibus appropriations bill, which seems to have bipartisan support, is now
seemingly being delayed until the payroll tax issue can be negotiated as
well. The White House had signaled it will not approve an omnibus until
presented with a payroll tax bill the President can sign," explains NACHC's
Kaitlin McColgan in a Health
Centers on the Hill blog post from earlier this week. Read more
NHSC Loan Repayment
Program 2012 Application Cycle Open
The 2012 application cycle for the National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
Loan Repayment Program opened this week. While it will remain open until
May 15, 2012, the program is expected to be competitive and providers are
strongly encouraged to apply early. Award amounts for this year's program
have been modified to help ensure communities with the greatest need -
those with the highest Health Professional Shortage Area scores - receive
recruitment support to fill much needed clinical positions. Application Guidance You can help spread the word
by adding a widget to your website - click here.
HHS Secretary
Sebelius Elected 2012 Chair of Interagency Council on Homelessness
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness is an independent agency
within the federal executive branch that consists of 19 federal Cabinet
secretaries and agency heads. Its mission is to coordinate the federal
response to homelessness and create a national partnership at every level
of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness
across the country. Read more
HHS Distributes
Letter on Importance of Flu Vaccine for Pregnant Women
HHS distributed a letter on December 5 that was endorsed by nearly a dozen
leading medical organizations, including the AAFP, AAP, and AMA. Read more
HEALTHCARE HEADLINES
& REPORTS
Affordable Care Act
Helps Young Adults Get Health Insurance
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics released data this week
showing that because of the Affordable Care Act's provision allowing young
adults to stay on their parents' insurance plans through age 26, 2.5
million more young adults have health insurance. Read more
Many Young Children
Overdosing from Medicines At Home
The CDC, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association Education Foundation,
and a coalition of partners have launched Up and Away and Out of Sight, a new
education program encouraging parents to follow a few simple steps to
protect children from unintentionally overdosing on medicines at home. Each
year, one in every 150 two-year-olds visits an emergency department in the
U.S. for unintentional medication overdose. Read more
Text4baby Shows
Promising Results for Moms
Text4baby, a free health education text messaging service for pregnant
women and new moms, is reaching its primary target audience of medically
underserved women and achieving a number of its health education goals,
according to a preliminary assessment presented at the American Public
Health Association annual meeting this week. Read more
Health Care
Personnel Flu Vaccination
This CDC report presents information on healthcare personnel influenza
vaccination by occupation, age group, work setting, and place of
vaccination. It also details reasons HCP give for choosing either to
receive the vaccine or refuse it. Read more
Should Dentists Offer Health
Screenings?
According to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health,
each year nearly 20 million men, women, and children in the U.S. fail to
see a family physician, but they do visit the denitist at least once.
"I'm not advocating for dentists to become general health care
providers," said the lead researcher in the study, but she says
dentists can easily measure blood pressure and administer simple screening
questionnaires. Read more
RESOURCES
ICD-10 and Version
5010 Implementation Widget and Timelines
CMS has developed a timeline widget for downloading to your computer
desktop or mobile device that includes detailed timelines of activities
that providers, payers, and vendors need to undertake to prepare for
Version 5010 and ICD-10. Printer versions of the compliance timelines are
also available. Read more
Free Women's Health
Education Materials
The Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) - a nonprofit organization
committed to educating family physicians about high-quality, comprehensive
reproductive health services - has developed education materials for CHC
clinicians to increase contraceptive knowledge and improve patient care
while acquiring CME credit. CHC clinicians can subscribe to Contraceptive Pearls,
RHAP's email publication that highlights evidence-based, clinical best
practices to improve contraceptive care, and they can subscribe to RHAP's
mailing list to stay up-to-date on the organization's training, mentoring,
and advocacy work - click here.
Emergency
Preparedness and Response Training Resources
The CDC has compiled a list of emergency preparedness and response training
resources offered by federal agencies and Clinician Outreach Communication
Activity (COCA) partners - click here.
Click here
for a list of funding opportunities posted on the MPCA web site.
Click here
for career opportunities in Michigan Community Health Centers. Or,
subscribe to the MPCA career opportunities RSS feed - click here.
UPCOMING MPCA EVENTS
MPCA
Health Policy Committee Conference Call
December 19, 2011, 3 pm
MPCA Board Meeting
December 20, 2011, 1-3
pm
MPCA, Lansing, MI
MPCA Office Closed for the
Holidays
December 23, 26, 30, 2011 and
January 2, 2012
The dates of MPCA
committee/network conference call meetings for 2012 have been posted on the
MPCA website at www.mpca.net/events.html.
UPCOMING STATE &
NATIONAL EVENTS
Health Care Innovation Challenge
Webinar: Measuring Success
December 19, 2011, 2-3 pm ET
CMS Innovation Center staff will present how potential innovative proposals
can demonstrate measurable impact on the aims of better care and better
health in addition to considerations for operational planning for potential
applications. Log-in and call 877.261.8937 and enter code 31613148#.
Project Power:
Proven Techniques for Leading Change at Health Centers
January 17, 2012, 2-3:30 pm ET - first webinar in a five-part webinar
series
Earlybird online registration
deadline: December 19, 2011
This five-part webinar series hosted by NACHC provides an introduction to
the proven techniques for planning and managing projects. Participants will
be encouraged to work on their own projects throughout the series, and to
form learning teams with other participants. The series will rely on The Fast Forward MBA in Project
Management, by Eric Verzuh, for reading assignments and for
project management templates. Register
Click here for
a list of other upcoming events to be held by other organizations in
Michigan and across the country.
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