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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
~Thomas Jefferson
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| Cervical Cancer in Montana | |  Cervical Cancer in Montana
The Montana Cancer Control Programs recently published a surveillance report title Cervical Cancer in Montana. The report features data on the incidence and mortality of invasive cervical cancer, incidence of pre-cancer (in-situ), and estimates on participation in preventive measures like HPV vaccination and cancer screening.
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| Healthy Relationships Training of Trainers | |
 Healthy Relationships Training of Trainers with Theda New Breast August 16-18, 2016
Billings, MT
The Leading the Next Generations Healthy Relationships Curriculum is an innovative tool founded in Native culture and teachings. The Native Wellness Institute developed it specifically for Native couples, people, and communities.
Healthy couples raise healthy children who will, in turn, rebuild the foundation for healthier Native communities. The Healthy Relationships Curriculum and training combines the teachings of our Native ancestors with the realities of today's world. Using the curriculum can lead to balance of the mind, body, and spirit by creating and strengthening healthier relationships with partners, families, and communities.
The Native Wellness Institute's focus on culturally-based healthy relationship education and promotion makes the Healthy Relationships Curriculum the leader in Indian Country. Imagine tribal communities supporting positive, healthy relationships and having access to information, role models, mentors, training and resources to build healthier relationships and families. This is the goal of the Leading the Next Generations Healthy Relationships Curriculum.
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| Tips for College Bound Teens | |  Tips for College Bound Teens. What to say about sex, love, relationships, and contraception to those taking off to college in the fall? Kayla Smith, a peer health educator and Bedsider U college representative has some terrific ideas. Read an interview with Kayla did with the Office of Women's Health. |
| New Resources from CMS on Medicaid and CHIP | | New Resources from CMS on Medicaid and CHIP.
- Medicaid Family Planning Services Clarified: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to State Health Officials to clarify previous guidance on the delivery of family planning services and supplies to all Medicaid beneficiaries, as well as to highlight approaches states may take to ensure timely access to this benefit. In addition, CMS is inviting states to explore Medicaid waivers to address issues with stocking IUDs and the implant, as well as other state ideas related to all types of family planning services.
- Enhanced State Medicaid and CHIP Profiles on Medicaid.gov: CMS has updated their state Medicaid and CHIP profiles to include the most recent information on eligibility levels, quality measures, and more.
- CMS Bulletin Reviews Effective Strategies for Enrolling and Retaining Youth: CMS also issued an informational bulletin that outlines the options states have for enrolling and retaining eligible children (through age 18) in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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| Most Adolescents are Not Getting Tested for STIs | |  Most Adolescents are Not Getting Tested for STIs
A new study of 3,953 adolescents and young adults aged 15-25 years revealed that most had never been tested for STIs. CDC researchers analyzed data from the Get Yourself Tested (GYT) campaign and found that only 11.5% of respondents reported that they had been tested for an STI in the previous 12 months. Females were more likely than males to report being tested (16.6% vs 6.1%, respectively). Those who were in high school reported very low levels of testing (4.1% of females and 1.5% of males), despite national recommendations specifically targeting adolescents for screening of chlamydia and gonorrhea. |
| USPSTF Releases Final Recommendation for Syphilis Screening | |  USPSTF Releases Final Recommendation for Syphilis Screening
This month, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released its final updated recommendation statement for screening for syphilis infection. The USPSTF continues to recommend screening for syphilis infection in asymptomatic, non-pregnant adults and adolescent who are at risk for infection (A grade). This updated statement specifies men who have sex with men, and men and women living with HIV as populations that have the highest risk for syphilis infection. Prevalence rates for different races/ethnicities and geographic areas are also included, as well as information on other factors, such as history of incarceration or commercial sex work, to help clinicians further determine which patients are at risk for infection.
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| Identifying Your Audience and Health Messages that Resonate | | |
What's Your Peer Crowd? Identifying Your Audience and Health Messages that Resonate
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
1:00pm -2:30pm EDT / 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
Join us in the latest session of the Health Communication Matters! Webinar Series.
Register Now for this FREE Webinar!
Overview:
In today's cluttered media environment, developing health messages that reach and resonate with adolescents can be challenging. This webinar introduces the concept of adolescent peer crowds - that is, collectives or subcultures with shared norms, values, styles and preferences. Are the teens you're trying to reach Skaters or Preppies? Are they Jocks or Metalheads... or maybe a little of both? This webinar will help you figure it out and, using the FDA's FRESH EMPIRE tobacco education campaign as an example, will teach you how this piece of information can help you better design and disseminate your messages.
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| Coding Scenarios for STD Clinic Visits | |  Webinar: Coding Scenarios for STD Clinic Visits
On our last coding webinar, participants asked us to present more coding scenarios, and we listened. In this webinar, Lissa Singer will present a series of patient encounter scenarios for typical visits in STD clinics with ICD-10 and CPT coding options. She will also discuss common reasons for denials and provide some ideas on how to avoid them.
Time: Wednesday July 27, 2016 at 2 pm ET
Speaker: Lissa B. Singer, RNP, MBA, CPC-I, CPCO
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| Revenue Logic Tool | |  Confidential & Covered Releases Revenue Logic Tool
Confidential & Covered, a multi-year research project designed to better understand insurance use and confidentiality at Title X-funded family planning health centers, is excited to release its new Revenue Logic Tool to estimate the magnitude of revenue loss occurring in service sites due to the provision of confidential services. The workbook and companion instructions are available for download on the Confidential & Covered website.
Consider the circumstance in which your health center sees a patient requesting confidential services. Staff assesses patient income and puts the patient on the sliding fee scale, partially using grant funding to cover the cost of the services. Your highest commercial insurance contract would have reimbursed your health center site 100 dollars for the visit, but grant funding plus the sliding fee scale covers just 45 dollars - is this difference a revenue loss? The Revenue Logic Tool is for Title X grantees and subrecipients to estimate the magnitude of this revenue loss occurring within service sites due to the provision of confidential services.
Confidential & Coveredis funded by the Office of Population Affairs (OPA). The project is designed to identify policies and practices that mitigate revenue loss at Title X-funded family planning providers due to the provision of confidential services.
If you are interested in more information about how to implement the revenue logic tool or about the research project, contact Julie Lewis, a Service Delivery Improvement Director at NFPRHA who oversees Confidential & Covered, at jlewis@nfprha.org or 202-293-3114 ext. 214. |
| Introduction to Trafficking: A Health Care & Human Rights Challenge | |  Introduction to Trafficking: A Health Care & Human Rights Challenge
Description: Human trafficking has severe adverse effects on the health, well-being, and human rights of millions of vulnerable adults and young people in the United States and globally. Health professionals can play a significant role in early intervention of this problem and reducing the profound suffering it causes. This webinar will increase understanding of the dimensions of labor and sex trafficking and discuss specific action steps that health professionals can take to address the problem. Speakers will provide a brief overview of the problem from a public health, clinical, and human rights perspective; explain how clinicians can identify and respond; and illustrate how forging community and systems partnerships build more effective local responses. Other more in-depth webinars will be offered later.
At the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Define labor and sex trafficking of adults and youth and the role of health care and public health professionals in responding to this human rights abuse.
- Identify indicators for trafficking among patients, including risk factors, signs, and symptoms.
- Describe three specific approaches that health professionals can take to respond to potentially trafficked patients and to develop effective, collaborative prevention and community response strategies to labor and sex trafficking of adults and youth.
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| Zika Resources | | |
Zika Resources
General (for healthcare providers and pregnant women)
Child Care Aware of America's Emergency Preparedness Team conducted a webinar with experts from CDC, Children's Health Team, and Pregnancy and Birth Defects Task Force. Topics include the basics of the Zika virus, the role of child care providers in prevention, and recommendations for pregnant mothers and parents considering pregnancy.
Zika Planning & Response Efforts
CDC will report two types of outcomes: live-born infants with birth defects and pregnancy losses with birth defects.
This document describes the CDC's response plan for the first locally acquired cases of Zika virus infection in the continental United States and Hawaii.
Christopher T. Lee, MD; Neil M. Vora, MD; Waheed Bajwa, PhD; et al.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep;65(Early Release)
In November 2015, the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene began developing and implementing plans for managing Zika virus; NYC activated its Incident Command System on February 1, 2016. As of June 17, 2016, a total of 3,605 patients had been tested for Zika virus in NYC, 182 (5.0%) of whom had confirmed Zika virus infection. Twenty cases were in women who were pregnant at the time of diagnosis, and two cases of Zika virus-associated Guillain-Barré syndrome were diagnosed.
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| Zika Toolkit Webinar | | |
Zika Toolkit Webinar
When: Thursday, July 13, 2016, 1-2 p.m. EDT
Learn about the key steps when counseling male and female clients about preventing Zika transmission, health care system changes to facilitate quality contraceptive care in the context of Zika, and training and education materials on quality contraceptive counseling in the context of Zika. A recording of this webinar will be made available within two weeks of the event.
This webinar will include:
- An overview of the Zika Toolkit
- Steps a health care provider can take when counseling a non-pregnant woman or man about preventing Zika transmission
- How health systems in hospitals and state-specific programs are addressing Zika and the need to expand access to contraceptive care
- Training and education materials on quality contraceptive counseling in the context of Zika
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