ASAP e-newsletter: May 4, 2023

Running on Empty: Physician Stress and Wellbeing, Wednesday, May 24, 6:30-8 p.m.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and is valid for 1 COPIC point

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AMA podcast - Reframing Compassion Fatigue: Compassion as a Tool for Combating Burnout

Rola Hallam, MD, British-Syrian consultant anesthetist, humanitarian and founder of CanDo, a social enterprise that enables local, frontline health care workers to provide health care to their own war-affected communities, shares the story of her “valley of darkness” and how compassion can be a tool to combat burnout. More information and links to listen here.

Help Colorado support your patients with paid family and medical leave

Colorado voters passed Proposition 118 in 2020, paving the way for Colorado's new paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program starting in 2024. Coming soon for health care providers is an online portal to allow you to register in the system and make a recommendation on leave duration for your patients based on their condition or treatment plan. Registering directly in the system will allow you to provide an elevated patient experience by supporting them – and their families – when a serious health condition prevents them from working. The more providers who use the online system means fewer patients will need to bring documents to a provider office during stressful life events.

The FAMLI Division anticipates launching the health care provider portal towards the end of the summer. Once it’s ready, they will have step-by-step user guides and how-to videos published on famli.colorado.gov/health-care-providers to support you and your staff through the process. In the meantime, subscribe to get updates related to the health care provider portal directly from the FAMLI Division as soon as they are available.

Ensure your patients' health care coverage continues

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has been working with partners over the past year to develop materials and messaging to help members prepare for the return to regular renewal processes. Multiple toolkits with downloadable flyers and member messaging are in the PHE Planning resource center.

We encourage practices to:

Download and hang this flyer to raise awareness that members will need to take action to renew their Health First Colorado or Child Health Plan Plus coverage.
Also download and hang this flyer to help people who no longer qualify for Health First Colorado learn about their options for other health coverage.

Help individuals and organizations that support awareness programs and provide services to improve the mental health of young people of color through the Moore Equity 5K, 8 a.m. Saturday, July 29 on the CU Anschutz Campus.

Sign up to walk with us in person in Aurora
Sign up for the virtual walk to walk in your community
And/or donate to the cause

Sponsored by the Colorado Psychiatric Society (CPS) and supported by the Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society, Colorado Medical Society and University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Psychiatry, Moore Equity Walk honors mental health advocate Bebe Moore Campbell. Your efforts help promote awareness about and raise funds to support community organizations that have undertaken innovative awareness programs and/or have provided services to improve the mental health of young people of color. Registration is free but donations are encouraged.

AMA health equity series to examine structural incentives for inequity in health care - May 9

The next session of the National Health Equity Grand Rounds, a virtual quarterly series intended to shape national engagement and discourse on health inequity, will be held Tuesday, May 9, 12-1:30 p.m. MT.

Speakers will discuss how inequities are incentivized in health care by perpetuating and exacerbating segregated systems of care. The conversation will also highlight strategies for disrupting existing systems to produce positive change and explore how the process of undoing structural incentives for inequity creates opportunities for collective healing.

More information and registration

Thanks to our Partners in Medicine

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Upcoming CMS meetings and events

All Colorado Medical Society committee meetings and events are open to all CMS members and you are welcome to attend! All are held via Zoom unless otherwise noted. Find a full list of events here: cms.org/events. Questions? Contact membership@cms.org.

Council on Legislation end-of-session celebration (in-person) - Tuesday, May 9, 6-7 p.m. Dinner included. RSVP to jennifer_armstrong@cms.org

Committee on Professional Education and Accreditation (virtual) - Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Email kim_vadas@cms.org to register

Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (virtual) - Thursday, May 11, 6-7:30 p.m. Email kate_alfano@cms.org to register

Committee on Physician Wellbeing (virtual) - Tuesday, May 16, 6-7 p.m. Email kate_alfano@cms.org to register

Committee on Value in Health Care (virtual) - Wednesday, May 17, 6-7 p.m. Email jennifer_armstrong@cms.org to register

Running on Empty: Physician Stress and Wellbeing (hybrid) - Wednesday, May 24, 6:30-8 p.m. CMS/COPIC Headquarters in Denver. Register

CMS office closed Monday, May 29 in observance of Memorial Day

2023 CMS Board of Directors meetings: June 16 in Denver/hybrid, Sept. 22-23 location TBD (Annual Meeting; save the date!) More information

Registration is required for most meetings; non-members or those unable to be identified at the time of virtual meetings may be removed. Unsure if you are a CMS member? Verify your membership here.

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