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5/18-19- Great Falls Program Review
5/31- OPA Sustainability Survey Due
6/8-9-Butte Program Review
6/14-15- Helena Program Review
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Quote of the Week
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
~Dolly Parton
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| ICD-10 CM Webinar Series | |
Join us for our ICD-10-CM Webinar Series, Clinical & Non-Clinical Staff InvitedVirtual Coffee Breaks (VCBs) are 30 minute pre-recorded webinars, available to view at your own convenience. This month, we are offering a Part 1 & Part 2 ICD-10-CM: Ensuring Quality Coding for Family Planning Services.
In addition, the NTCs have developed various job aids and resources to help family planning staff with understanding ICD-10-CM. Two of these job aids are available to download through the webinars below. More tools can be found at fpntc.org, just search under 'Resources'
Part 1: ICD-10-CM Implemented: Ensuring Quality Coding for Family Planning Services
In this first installment of Ensuring Quality Coding for Family Planning Services, Ann Finn, a national trainer and consultant specializing in healthcare reimbursement, will provide an overview of common ICD-10-CM codes for family planning settings. The differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM codes as well as post-implementation tips will be discussed throughout the presentation. This course offers 0.5 contact hours.
Part 2: ICD-10-CM Case Studies: Ensuring Quality Coding for Family Planning Services
In this second installment of Ensuring Quality Coding for Family Planning Services, Dr. Michael Policar from UCSF School of Medicine will review ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes through seven common family planning case studies. Use of CPT codes, E/M codes, and modifiers will be discussed throughout the webinar. This course offers 0.5 contact hours. |
| Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence | | Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Adolescence now lasts longer than ever, and the adolescent brain is surprisingly malleable. These new discoveries make this time of life crucial in determining a person's ultimate success and happiness.
In Dr. Steinberg's book, "Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence," he includes:
* The teenage brain's potential for change,
* The elongation of adolescence as a developmental stage,
* The implications of each for how we parent, educate, and understand young people.
Presenter: Psychology Professor Laurence Steinberg, PhD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Author of, "Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence"
When: Wednesday, June 8, 2016, 4:00 pm Eastern/1:00 pm Pacific
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost:Free!
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| Zika and Pregnancy | | Zika and Pregnancy: 6 Tips for Staying Healthy
Author: Mili K. Patel, JD, MPH, Public Health Analyst, Division for At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health, and Community Resilience (ABC), Office of Policy and Planning (OPP), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) & Shulamit M. Schweitzer, MHS, Senior Management Analyst, GAP Solutions Inc. contractor supporting the Division for At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health, and Community Resilience (ABC), Office of Policy and Planning (OPP), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
Published Date: 5/12/2016 3:32:00 PM
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| WIC Health Education Specialist | |  WIC Health Education Specialist
The WIC program is a public health nutrition program providing nutrition education, nutritious foods, breastfeeding support, and healthcare referrals for income-eligible women who are pregnant or post-partum, infants, and children up to age five. WIC is a short-term intervention program designed to influence lifetime nutrition and health behaviors in a targeted high-risk population. WIC services are provided by approximately thirty contracted WIC agencies across Montana, and benefits to purchase specific supplemental foods are redeemed at WIC authorized food retailers. This Health Education Specialist will work across multiple program areas with an emphasis on ensuring program compliance and high quality services from local WIC agencies and food retailers.
As such, this position develops, implements, and evaluates education, outreach, quality improvement, and technical assistance functions and provides a range of grant administration and professional support duties. In addition, the position assesses ongoing program activities to identify education and training needs; and provides technical support and training to WIC partners in order to support quality improvement activities.
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| Health in the 406 | |  Health in the 406: Focus on Prevention of Underage Drinking and Alcohol Misuse
May 16-21 is National Prevention Week.
- Parents, we need your help; studies show that parental disapproval of underage drinking is the number one reason youth chose not to drink alcohol.
- Alcohol remains the number one drug of abuse for Montana's youth. In 2014, 15.6 percent of 8th graders, 36.2 percent of 10th graders, and 51.1 percent of 12th graders had used alcohol within the past 30 days.
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| Assessing health communication messages | | |
Assessing health communication messages
Do you need help evaluating or developing a health promotion message?
You want to develop effective and engaging safe space messaging as part of a bullying prevention campaign in secondary school settings. You decide to search for a tool to help facilitate this process.
The Health Communication Unit (THCU) developed the Health Communication Message Review Tool to help assess or create health communication messages. It outlines criteria for developing a persuasive health message.
Within the THCU's 12-Step model for developing health communication campaigns, the Health Communication Message Review Tool helps decision makers with Step 8, "Develop the Message Strategy. "Step 8 discusses three key elements of a health message:
- The What? - What are the key messages?
- The So What? - How are the reasons or benefits for action relevant for the audience?
- The Now What? - What action will we take?
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| Suicide Prevention Multimedia Campaign | | 
IHS Navajo Area Launches Navajo- and English-Language Suicide Prevention Multimedia Campaign
Campaign called Iiná Ayóó'ííní'ní, or Love Your Life, uses modern media to promote traditional values honoring life for Navajo youth, young adults
The Indian Health Service launches a new suicide prevention campaign in partnership with the Navajo Nation, local community members and organizations to prevent suicide related behaviors and connect young people to behavioral health care on the Navajo Nation. The bilingual Navajo- and English-language campaign, Iiná Ayóó'ííní'ní, which translates as Love Your Life, uses modern media to share traditional Navajo teachings of honoring life and aspiring to live a healthy and full life of 102 years. The campaign features Navajo young people telling their stories through online videos, billboards and posters that share resources for support and help.
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Helping Youth Beyond At-Risk
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Join us for the 2016 Reaching the Wounded Student Conference:
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Helping Youth Beyond At-Risk presented by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network and Hope 4 The Wounded, LLC Educational Seminars. The conference is the perfect staff development event for school/district administrators, teachers, counselors, community and faith-based youth practitioners.
Many young people today carry wounds with them as they head out to school each day, interact with friends and family, and experience life in their communities. These wounds are the result of trauma, many times experienced in the form of poverty, abuse, violence, loss, and family dysfunction. Research shows that this trauma has a direct effect on cognitive function, emotional health, and interpersonal capacity. Educators, counselors, administrators, and youth practitioners can implement trauma-informed policies and approaches to their work that not only move wounded youth toward healing, but have a positive effect on overall student achievement and performance.
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| Title X 340B Recertification | | Title X 340B Recertification
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Office of Pharmacy Affairs is required to recertify all participating covered entities enrolled in the 340B program to ensure they are appropriately listed in the 340B database and in compliance with 340B program requirements. The recertification period for Title X-funded health centers participating in 340B begins this Wednesday, May 11, and runs through June 8.
Please note: All covered entities must be recertified by June 8 at midnight PT (3 a.m. ET, June 9). Any entities not recertified by the deadline will be removed from the 340B program and would need to reapply to participate in the 340B program.The next open registration period will be July 1-15, 2015, for an October 1, 2015 start date. Thus, these decertified sites would be out of the program for a minimum of one quarter.
To ensure a smooth recertification, you are encouraged to visit the 340B program database and verify that your health center's address is correct and listed sites are still open and eligible to participate in 340B. It is the 340B covered entities' responsibility to keep their records up to date in the database. Most importantly, verify that the 340B program contact information for the Authorizing Official and Primary Contact is current. The Authorizing Official will be responsible for completing the recertification process online. If your Covered Entities' Authorizing Official record is incorrect, please update it by submitting an online change request.
If you encounter any issues with the 340B program database or have questions about recertification, please contact Apexus Answers at ApexusAnswers@340bpvp.com or 1-888-340-2787.
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