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December 2011
Monthly Newsletter
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Save the Date
March 8, 2012 - evening meeting from 6-8pm with WIH's own NICU nutritionist Lynn Przystac - teaching us about baby nutrition, both in the NICU and post-discharge. Meeting is at WIH, the new auditorium. More details to follow. |
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Featured Reading
Learn why the AAP has expanded recommendations to focus not only on SIDS, but also on a safe sleep environment that can reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths.
It has become increasingly important to address these other causes of sleep-related infant death. Many of the modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors for SIDS and suffocation are strikingly similar.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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How the Crisis of Healthcare and Education are related
There are two crises in America, both of which have a profound effect on the economy. The cost of healthcare is eating away at our ability to finance other needy areas. Poor performance of our educational system is weakening our international competitiveness. Both healthcare and education are at the precipice of complete collapse. They both deliver glaringly inferior results with prohibitive expenditures. The performance of our healthcare system relative to other developed countries was abysmal when examined from multiple perspectives, while spending nearly twice that of the country with second highest per capita cost.
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"Divesting from Formula Marketing in Pediatric Primary Care" : A call to Action to Support Breastfeeding
The Call to action reiterates that formula samples, coupons and even advertising have been shown to increase the risk of ceasing breastfeeding. Furthermore advertising such as formula names, products and educational materials in physicians offices undermine breastfeeding and are associated with lower breastfeeding rates. The Call to Action urges that all sectors in society make accommodations and changes to support breastfeeding.
The Surgeon Generals call is available on line:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/breastfeeding/calltoactiontosupportbreastfeeding.pdf
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...And a Happy Announcement:
The 7 birthing hospitals in the state of Rhode Island have all Banned the Bags for new moms. Our neighbors to the north have bestowed recognition on all the people involved in this accomplishment.
The Massachusetts' Mother Baby Summit has chosen the State of Rhode Island as their November recipient for "And the Award Goes To..." award:
http://www.motherbabysummit.com/award.html
Every month they choose a group/person/staff who demonstrates outstanding accomplishments and commitment to optimal mother-baby care.
Congratulations to all our hospital partners for all you do to improve maternity care.
Denise Fenick, BS, RN, IBCLC
Chair, Rhode Island Breastfeeding Coalition
(401) 742-5665
fenick@cox.net
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Putting the Health IT Pieces Together
The Rhode Island Quality Institute's Regional Extension Center (RI REC) will host its 3rd Health IT Expo on December 8, 2011, from 4 to 8 pm at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick.
The event is free for all Rhode Island healthcare providers, their staff, and other members of the healthcare community and includes a free dinner buffet and cash bar. The premier sponsor is Blue Cross & Blue Shield of RI; other sponsors are the Rhode Island Medical Society and Webster Bank.
RI REC's Health IT Expo offers information and strategies to make the most of your Health IT investment:
- Attend presentations and panel discussions on timely Health IT topics, including incentives
- Learn about RI REC's free and new programs including Direct Messaging and Health IT Certification
- Meet with RI REC Vendor Marketplace participants, payors, and leaders in healthcare
Register now at http://tinyurl.com/RIRECExpo
For more information, please contact Courtney at cgreenwood@riqi.org or at 401-276-9141x293.
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Upcoming Events
February 3, 2012 is national Wear Red Day,a day for everyone to wear red in support of the American Heart Association. If your office would like to participate as a whole, this can be turned in to a small fundraiser for the Heart Association. For a donation, office staff and physicians will be given a AHA Red Dress pin to wear with their red outfit. If your office is interested in participating, please feel free to contact Sara McMullen, the Corporate Events Director for RI at 330-1706. A few RIAAP members are already involved with this great organization - we'd love to have your support.Riddle - What do you get when you mix 3 pediatricians, a pediatrician's mother-in-law and the health insurance commissioner with 100 other musicians? Come find out on December 10, 2011 when the Messiah will be performed at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium at 7pm. Tickets are available at riphil.org or 248-7000.
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Prevention of Suicidal Deaths
The Rhode Island Child Death Review Team (CDRT) is a multidisciplinary team operating under the auspices of the Office of the State Medical Examiners within the Department of Health. The CDRT reviews incidences of youth fatality which includes youth deaths by suicide in Rhode Island. The in depth individual case review process helps us as members of the prevention community better understand why children in our state die by suicide, and to help us identify how we can prevent future deaths.
During 2005-2010, the Child Death Review Team reviewed deaths of 73 young people ages 0-24 who died in Rhode Island by suicide. The attached Rhode Island Youth Suicide issue brief is meant to serve as a centralized resource of information for your staff and administration to better inform prevention efforts statewide.
The Rhode Island Youth Suicide Prevention briefing delivers youth suicide fatality rates statewide, methods used, attempt rates, minority youth considerations, suicide risk factors, protective factors, current education and prevention efforts, resources, and team generated recommendations. This is a comprehensive briefing being disseminated statewide that can be utilized advocacy and educational purposes, or really any way you see best.
YOUTH SUICIDE ISSUE BRIEF
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NEWS FROM THE ANNUAL PROS MEETING
Pros celebrated its 25th anniversary at the NCE held in Boston this year. We were especially honored with an appearance by our new AAP president, Dr. Bob Block. The future is very bright for PROS and practice based pediatric research. I will take this opportunity to share two items of interest with you.
For those who are currently using an electronic health record, I would like you to consider joining PROS under the ePros banner. This will allow you and your practice to participate in PROS studies with minimal or no impact on your practice. Data will be gathered through your EMR, de-identified, and sent to a secure server over night to PROS.
The second item is addressing a study in the field and has some great benefits.
* Is ready for you to enroll in today.
* Is quite relevant to our daily practice.
* Should be a pretty easy one for busy offices.
* Offers you training in counseling teens on smoking cessation or
social media (the control group). At the end of the study we can
certainly get you the other groups training so you get both.
* Pays a small stipend to you for your trouble.
Just a few of the details --
+ You only need enroll (consent/survey) 100 patients that are 14 and
older that are coming for any type of visit and that are smokers or are
not smokers. Just the next 100 kids 14 or older coming through the
door. They will tease out the smokers later.
+ Almost every county in Oklahoma has a high smoking rate. I actually have overall smoking rates by county, if that helps, but you probably have a rough idea about your own smoking
rate at that age.
+ Once you do the brief training and participate in a teach-back call, you just
provide your regular care and let the study team do all the follow up
work on these patients.
The PROS website has a little more detail: http://www.aap.org/pros/smokeMAIN.htm
Please email me with any questions at jbenun@gmail.com
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Contact Info
Secretary RI AAP Chapter
Jacques Benun
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