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ACU Celebrates 15 Years 
ACU was founded in 1996 by National Health Service Corps (NHSC) alumni who wanted to continue to support each other and share knowledge, resources and expertise about practicing in underserved communities. Today the NHSC had more than 8,000 active clinicians, the highest number ever. By September, 2011 the goal is to have 10,500 clinicians in the field. ACU celebrates the work these clinicians are doing. If you are one of them, contact us at acu@clinicians.org. |
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The demand for health care workers has increased 40 percent in the last two years. Find well-qualified candidates, search jobs or post your resume on the ACU career center.
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JHCPU
Online access to the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is an ACU member benefit. Click the image to learn more about JHCPU.
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June is National Employee Wellness Month 
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Resources for new diabetes patients
 With nearly 2 million people diagnosed with diabetes each year, you probably have many newly diagnosed patients in your practice. To help you teach them about diabetes, the American Diabetes Association has introduced Living With Type 2 Diabetes.The program includes:
· Where Do I Begin? a free resource that answers many of the questions patients have at diagnosis. Order free copies of Where Do I Begin? to give to your newly diagnosed patients.
· Living With Type 2 Diabetes, a free 12-month program that offers patients information and support. Program members receive 5 informational packets throughout the year, a monthly e-newsletter, and invitations to meet others through local American Diabetes Association activities and through an online community. Enrollees can choose to enroll in the English or Spanish program and also choose to receive information online or through the mail.
For more information go online, call 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383) or email AskADA@diabetes.org.
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Food plate replaces pyramid
 First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently unveiled MyPlate, the federal government's new food icon which replaces MyPyramid and is intended to remind consumers to make healthier food choices. MyPlate emphasizes fruit and vegetables, which make up half the plate, as well as grains, protein and dairy. Resources for professionals and consumers are available online. |
Strength for serving
ACU is renewing our Strength for Serving initiative, which seeks to provide information and resources you can use to achieve a better work-life balance and avoid burnout. Are you or your organization engaged in wellness? Share your ideas and resources with us. Email Yasi Nejat at ynejat@clinicians.org. |
Skin cancer in minority populationsIn time for Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), has released a brochure, Anyone Can Get Skin Cancer, developed for African-American, Asian-American, Native-American, and Hispanic/Latino audiences to dispel the belief that only people with light (fair) skin are at risk of skin cancer. While skin cancer is less common among people with darker skin, it is often detected at later or advanced stages. Order free copies of the brochure through NCI's Publications Locator or by calling 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237). |
Health disparities, opportunities
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has available three new summaries that highlight data on the quality of health care and disparities experienced by women, children and minorities:
· Selected Findings on Women's Healthcare
· Child and Adolescent Healthcare
· Minority Healthcare
Each presents health measures of interest on prevailing disparitites in health care delivery in priority populations, highlights progress and opportunities for improvement and directs readers to the full reports for more detailed information.
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Prize winning app
The 1st place prize in the myHealthyPeople App Challenge went to the Healthy Communities Institute for creating a dashboard that checks the status of all the Healthy People 2020 goals in Sonoma County using a comprehensive set of key disease prevention and health promotion objectives-enabling communities to track their status. Read about this and other prizing winning apps here. |
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Conferences and E-Learning
June 15, 2 - 3 p.m. ET, Author in the Room® teleconference on Finances in the Older Patient With Cognitive Impairment: "He Didn't Want Me to Take Over"with Dr. Eric Widera, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Click here to enroll.
June 22, 1 - 2 p.m. ET, a free webinar on Organizational Policy and Systems Change sponsored by the Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes will highlight examples related to reducing diabetes disparities in the Alliance projects on the Southside of Chicago and in Dallas, TX.
June 29, 1 - 5:30 p.m., Advancing Transwomen's Health: A Symposium to Improve Access to High Quality HIV Prevention & Care Services,sponsored by the National Alliance for HIV Education and Workforce Development and the Center for Excellence for Transgender Health at the Marriot Tampa Waterside hotel immediately following the Ryan White Conference.
July 23, Bay Area Integrative Medicine for the Underserved in Santa Rosa, CA. This one-day conference will show how community clinics are using different aspects of integrative medicine (i.e, nutrition, acupuncture, naturopathy, group care, behavioral health, etc.) to better serve their patients with the goal of shifting the paradigm toward prevention, patient empowerment, and self-care. Register online or for more information, email Sharad Kohli, MD at sharadkohli@yahoo.com.
Oct. 23 - 25, the 2011 National Primary Oral Health Conference sponsored by the National Network for Oral Health Access at the Gaylord National in National Harbor, MD (Near Washington, D.C.). Registration is available online.
Nov. 10 - 13, the 15th annual conference on Information Mastery: A Practical Approach to Evidence-Based Care for Clinicians and Teachers, sponsored by Tufts Health Care Institute and Tufts University School of Medicine, will be held in Boston.
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Scholarships and Fellowships
For a more complete list of scholarships and fellowship opportunities, visit the ACU website.
HRSA Public Health Internship Program enables graduate and undergraduate students to get a taste of Federal service through a one semester rotation at HRSA. Participants have frequent contact with HRSA's public health experts in one of a wide-range of disciplines including, to name just a few: rural health policy, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, health care systems, and program analysis and evaluation. The application deadline is rolling. Learn more
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Brief asthma survey The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) is conducting a brief online survey among all types of public health professionals as part of a CDC funded asthma project in order to better understand the role of certain public health services regarding asthma. The survey is conducted via Survey Monkey™ and is completely anonymous.
Click this link to take the survey.
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New cultural and linguistic competence resources
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has launched a new multimedia Spanish-language campaign, " Conozca las Preguntas" or "Know the Questions." Cosponsored by the Ad Council, the campaign encourages Latinos to get more involved in understanding their health care. The campaign directs audiences to AHRQ's website where they can find tips and other important health information in Spanish. A new page has been added to the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange: Honing Cultural and Linguistic Competence. This page features innovative programs and quality tools for improving cultural and linguistic competence as well as reducing health care disparities for vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minorities. The current issue of the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange newsletter, available online, also features innovations in cultural competence.
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Call for abstracts Abstracts are sought for the 5th International Conference on Patient-and Family-Centered Care-Partnerships for Quality and Safety sponsored by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care, to be held June 4 - 6, 2012 in Washington, DC. Information on the conference and on submitting abstracts is available online.
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