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Happy New Year
OHE hopes that you had a wonderful holiday season and we look forward to continuing our work in 2017!
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Advanced Black Lung Cases Surge in Appalachia
Across Appalachia, coal miners are suffering from the most serious form of the deadly mining disease black lung in numbers more than 10 times what federal regulators report, an NPR investigation has found.
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20 Health Conditions People Spent Most on in 2013 -
and What the Bulk of Their Money Went Toward
Of 155 medical conditions, people personally spent $1.2 trillion on the top 20 alone in 2013, according to a new analysis published in
JAMA.
In their investigation "US Spending on Personal Health Care and Public Health 1996-2013," study authors collected and combined 183 sources of data to estimate spending for 155 conditions. They found the top 20 conditions accounted for an estimated 57.6 percent of personal healthcare spending in 2013.
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Message from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General raises public health concerns about e-cigarette use among U.S. youth and young adults. The report comes amid alarming rates of youth and young adult use of e-cigarettes; in 2015, about 1 in 6 high school students used an e-cigarette in the past month. The report finds that, while nicotine is a highly addictive drug at any age, youth and young adults are uniquely vulnerable to the long-term consequences of exposing the brain to nicotine, and concludes that youth use of nicotine in any form is unsafe. The report also finds that secondhand aerosol that is exhaled into the air by e-cigarette users can expose others to potentially harmful chemicals.
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Opportunities from the National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers a Medical Research Scholars Program, a year-long research enrichment program for students enrolled in an accredited medical, dental, or veterinary program. Student scholars will engage in a closely mentored basic, clinical, or translational research project at an NIH facility. Applications for the 2017-2018 program are due on January 13, 2017.
Several NIH entities are supporting the Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research Program, which encourages collaborative research on exploring precision medicine to promote health equity and advance the science of minority health and health disparities. The program supports regional coalitions of academic institutions, community organizations' service providers and systems, government agencies, and other stakeholders. Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers supported through this initiative focus on several population research areas, each combining expertise in precision medicine, population health, disparities, and the science of translation, implementation, and dissemination to address one or more documented health disparities. Research topics of interest include health policy research, social determinants of health, men's health research, and precision medicine research.
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Upcoming Events
Nutrition Education Made Fun:
Effective and Creative Techniques for Teaching Kids to Eat Healthy
and Nutrition & Pediatric Obesity: What's the Relationship and How Can We Help?
The events are scheduled to take place on January 20, 2017 at the Faces of Hope, 249 E. German School Road, Richmond, VA 23224. The Nutrition Education Made Fun workshop is scheduled for 8:30 - noon and the Nutrition & Pediatric Obesity workshop is scheduled for 1 - 4 pm. The cost to attend each workshop is $25 per attendee.
Visit www.vfhy.org/training to register and visit the site regularly for new training opportunities. If you are interested in bringing workshops to your area, please contact Charlie McLaughlin at (804) 786-2279 or cmclaughlin@vfhy.org.
January 30-31, 2017
Washington, D.C.
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Area Health Education Centers Program HRSA-17-071 Application Due Date: March 29, 2017 |
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Expanding Care with the Virginia ARTS Benefit: Addressing The Disease of Addiction In Your Outpatient Clinic Removing the Frustration with Opiate Use
No Cost Statewide Trainings for Clinicians and Behavioral Health Professionals!
Targeted Audience: Practicing/Licensed MDs/Dos, APNs, PAs, medical students, substance abuse professionals, rehabilitation professionals, and behavioral health professionals across the Commonwealth. No skill level is required.
Attend to learn more:
- Utilizing the Virginia Medicaid's Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services (ARTS) new substance use disorder (SUD) benefit, with increasing reimbursement rates up to 400% for many of substance abuse services
- Assessing, screening, and monitoring of the patient at risk for substance use disorders
- Identifying substance use disorders and addiction as potentially underlying disorders
- Integrating SUD treatment management outpatient clinical practice and behavioral health care interventions in outpatient practice
- Developing of a seamless substance use disorders treatment within primary care business model
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Special Instructions:
Clinicians attending the live Providers' Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Treatment (PCSS-MAT) Half and Half live (required in total 8 hour) MAT Waiver Training MUST register for the Virginia Department of Health full day training
In response to the statewide opioid epidemic and in support of the new Virginia Medicaid Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services (ARTS) Benefit launching April 1, 2017, the Virginia Department of Health will host free, statewide trainings intended for broad spectrum healthcare clinical and behavioral health providers, focusing on integrating substance use disorder management business and clinical delivery models and removing the frustration with treating opioid use disorders in outpatient clinical practices.
For further information regarding training opportunities, please contact: Jean Hoyt, CMA; Injury Prevention Specialist at
jean.hoyt@vdh.virginia.gov or Lisa Wooten, MPH, BSN, RN; Injury and Violence Prevention Program Supervisor; Virginia Department of Health;
lisa.wooten@vdh.virginia.gov.
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Understanding How Organizations Use the National CLAS Standards
How are some health and health care organizations implementing the National CLAS Standards?
- By providing comprehensive language assistance services to those served
- By offering specialized training to the workforce (for example, on CLAS or the Standards)
- By completing organizational self-assessments to inform needs and gaps in the provision of CLAS
- By providing compensation to staff to complete CLAS-related training
What helped these organizations implement the Standards?
- Leadership support for implementation
- An organizational culture that supports implementation
- Identification of CLAS champions inside and outside of the organization
What changes have leadership and staff at these organizations observed as a result of implementing the Standards?
- Better communication with populations served
- Improved ability to address and consider the cultural and linguistic characteristics of populations served
- Increased cultural and linguistic competency of staff
- Better organizational capacity to provide care/services to more individuals
- Better patient experience
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