The Train the Trainer workshop prepares trainers with the skills and tools needed to deliver Cultural Competency training to various healthcare workers. The course is led by seasoned trainers in this area, and addresses the challenges trainers often face when delivering this type of curriculum. This video highlights the training.
Senior Care & Lifestyles Palliative Care Highlights
What is palliative care? Dr. Forte, Director of Hospice & Palliative Care explains, "Palliative care is care directed at quality of life and symptom management in people with a chronic illness". In this video, we gain a better understanding about what kind of care this is, how it's different from hospice care, and who can receive palliative care. Click on the video to learn more!
Senior Care & Lifestyles Palliative Care Highlights
Staten Island-Wide Primary Care
Education Event
Our first Staten Island-Wide Primary Care Education Event was held on July 19, 2016 in conjunction with Borough President James Oddo.
Opening remarks provided by BP James Oddo set the stage for the topics that followed:
The goal of the Population Health Improvement Program (PHIP) is to increase access to high quality chronic disease, preventative care, and management in both clinical and community settings.
The purpose of the PHIP project is to effectively and efficiently meet the needs of Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured individuals within the Staten Island Community. By improving care, improving health and reducing costs, this project intends to help in the reduction of avoidable hospital use.
The Staten Island Performing Provider (SI PPS) partnered with Wagner College to host a half-day learning event on July 8th for 25 Mandela Washington Fellows. The Fellows are competitively selected young Africans who are founders or leaders of not-for-profit organizations and were selected from a pool of thousands of applicants across Africa to participate in the President Obama's Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. .
Love Yourself, Transform Your Life! Healing & Wellness Festival!
ALL are welcome to the "Love Yourself - Transform Your Life! Healing and Wellness Festival" happening on Saturday, July 30 from 10am to 7pm at the *NEW* and revitalized Tompkinsville Park in Staten Island.
Island Voice, Roc-A-Natural, and Bronx Healing invite you to the "Love Yourself, Transform Your Life! Healing & Wellness Festival."
It will be a day of Inspiration, Arts, & Healing for the whole family and community!
SI PPS is committed to ensuring that it has a system for responding to compliance issues as they are raised; for investigating potential compliance problems; responding to compliance problems as identified in the course of self-evaluations and audits and correcting such problems promptly and thoroughly.
ORAL HEALTH UPDATE: Dental Problems Connected to Chronic Diseases
POOR ORAL HEALTH and HEART DISEASE
(Part I of a 7 Part Series)
The Strong Link Between Mouth Health and Body Health
Years ago a medical doctor who worried you could have heart disease would probably not refer you to the dentist. The same for diabetes, pregnancy, or just about any other medical condition. Times have changed. The past 5 to 10 years have seen a huge interest in the link between mouth health and body health.
