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Clinical Quality Conference
Performance Improvement: Reducing Health Disparities through the Care Model
Westborough, MA
March 26, 2008

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Schedule / Agenda

Presentations:

• Keynote Address: Eliminating Health Disparities - Moving Beyond Documentation to Moving the Dial
  - Lauren Smith, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

• Diabetes Guidelines Update: Diabetes Management - A New Season
  - Stuart R. Chipkin, M.D, FACE, Research Professor, School of Public Health and Health Sciences University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• NHLBI Asthma Guidelines Update  
  - Jim Glauber, MD, MPH, Medical Director of Neighborhood Health Plan and Director of the Central Pediatric Asthma Program, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

• The HIV Epidemic at 27: Advances & Remaining Challenges  
  - Howard A. Grossman, MD, Associate Director for Industry-Sponsored Trials, Fenway Community Health Center

• Best Practices in Primary Care & Behavioral Health Partnerships

  • Integration of Primary Care and Mental Health: A Demonstration Project
    - Laura Failla Manship, LICSW, MBA, Director of Behavioral Health Services, Holyoke Health Center

  • Collaborative Healthcare: What Organizations can do to Support Collaborative Care
    - Mardia Coleman, Research Associate, University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Health Policy and Research &
    - Debra Hurwitz, MBA, BSN, RN, Senior Research Associate, University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Health Policy and Research

• Improving Cancer Screening and Follow-up

  • Improving Cancer Screening and Follow-up of Abnormal Findings
    - Eileen Manning R.N., B.S., Dana-Farber/Partners Breast and Cervical Screening Collaborative

  • Innovative Strategies to Improve the Health of Male Patients - Care Model Implementation
    - Dumas Lafontant, Director, Lower Roxbury Coalition & Wellness Initiative, Whittier Street Health Center

• Integrative Care for the Homeless Population
  - Jessie Gaeta, MD, Primary Care Provider, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless

• Community Health Centers Improving Performance in Healthcare & Reducing Disparities
  - James W. Hunt, Jr, President & CEO of Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

• Using and Presenting Data

  • Using and Presenting Data: Clinical Reporting from an Electronic Health Record
    - Bob Dempkowski, Deputy Director of Lynn Community Health Center

  • Using and Presenting Data: Performance Improvement - Reducing Health Disparities Through the Care Model
    - Pat Lathrop, MHA, Director of Patient Care Services of Lowell Community Health Center

• Quality Improvement Tools: Performance Improvement - Ongoing work to reduce disparities in health through use of the Care Model
  - Jean Bernhardt MHSA, MSN, NHA, CNAA, APRN-BC, Director of Nursing and Chief Compliance Officer of North End Community Health Center

• Best Practices in Implementing Planned Care

  • Sustaining Performance Improvement: Results of a Qualitative Research Study
    -  Melissa Corrado, MBA, Director of Operations of Primary Care Development Corp

  • Article: Factors Contributing to Sustaining and Spreading Learning Collaborative Improvements

  • Cambridge Health Alliance: Our Experience with Primary Care Re-Design & Planned Care
    - Laureen Gray, Program Director, Planned Care of Cambridge Health Alliance &
    - Carleen Riselli, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, Performance Improvement Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison of Cambridge Health Alliance

  • Building Teams in Primary Care: Toolkit

   

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