This Provider Bulletin is being sent a month early, as we have time-sensitive information about the Young Investigator Award proposal deadline and about the AAP National Conference & Exhibition that we thought you would want to know! Please also take care to check on the section about our QI Project being discontinued.
Best Wishes from Reach Out and Read
Young Investigator Award Program Proposal Deadline
The APA Young Investigator Award Program for Primary Care Strategies for the Promotion of Early Literacy and School Readiness is supported by Reach Out and Read. This year's proposal submission deadline has been extended to October 16th. Please click herefor more information.
AAP National Conference and Exhibition Events
that you might be interested in....
Sat 10/24: 1:50 pm Health Literacy 101: Ensuring Patient Understanding with Teachback and Other Verbal Communication Skills; Laura Noonan, MD, FAAP; Lee Sanders, MD, MPH; Hsiang Yin, MD, FAAP
Sat 10/24: 5:00 pm The Role of the Pediatrician in Improving the School Readiness of At-Risk Children; David T. Tayloe, Jr., MD, FAAP
Fri 10/23 Toxic Stress Meeting & Sun 10/25 Council on Early Childhood Meeting: Pam High MD and Luisa Cala MD will have a poster of a RCT of literacy promotion for low income mothers with newborns in the birthing hospital. Outcomes: both groups were reading regularly at follow-up between 2-5 months old but those in the literacy intervention when asked open ended questions were more likely to report reading together as one of their own and their baby's three favorite things to do. The intervention also promoted FATHERs reading with their babies.
Sun 10/25: 2-3:30pm Screen Time: What We Know and What We Can Do About It; Robert Mendelson, MD, FAAP, David Tayloe, MD, FAAP
Sun 10/25: 6-7pm Reach Out and Read medical providers informal convening: All interested NCE attendees are welcome to join the conversation. Please forward this invitation to others who might be interested. Marriott Marquis (Liberty Salons M-P) Please register for this convening here.
QI Project to be Discontinued after December 2015;
Materials and MOC Records to be Retained
With the overall MOC environment in transition, Reach Out and Read will no longer offer the QI project to providers, effective January 2016. The current participating cohort will be our last.
Materials from the Project will continue to be available in myROR. Reach Out and Read will also retain providers' MOC/MC-FP/CME records for seven years as required by the certifying Boards; however, webinars and QI data entry into the myROR system will be discontinued.
Since first being offered on a pilot basis in 40 Florida practices in 2009, nearly 600 providers in more than 200 practices around the country have successfully completed the Reach Out and Read Quality Improvement (QI) Project for Maintenance of Certification (MOC/MC-FP) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit. Results of the project have been impressive: books given in more than 95% of well visits, accompanied by advice in 93% of visits.
Going forward, Reach Out and Read will build on best practices that participating sites have developed through the QI project over the years. Representatives from a variety of Reach Out and Read affiliate offices are currently contributing to the development of a standard set of program attributes and metrics that will enable participating practices, and the affiliate program staff supporting them, to evaluate and document program quality.
Reach Out and Read is grateful to the staff of the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program who contributed their expertise to the development of the QI Project and to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, whose materials were integral to successful implementation of the Project in so many practices throughout the Reach Out and Read provider network.
