Quality Insights of Delaware - Regional Extension Center  
Improving Hypertension and Diabetes Care & Prevention   

Community Health Worker Lunch & Learn Webinar
Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 12:00 - 12:30 p.m.       

Join Dr. Edward Sobel, Quality Insights of Delaware Medical Director, for this webinar session as he highlights the important work that community health workers (CHWs) do every day that contribute to improving access to care and health knowledge, behaviors, and outcomes. Notably, CHWs can help:
  • Improve conditions such as asthma, hypertension, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS
  • Improve procedures such as cancer screening and immunizations
  • Improve maternal and child health in general
As members of the community, these front-line workers are valued for their cultural competence and mediate between providers and other members of diverse communities. Evidence is accumulating that including CHWs in determining the appropriate use of services has a sizable positive return on investment.

Join Dr. Sobel to learn more about how your practice can incorporate the role of CHWs into your office workflow. Registration is required, so please REGISTER TODAY.
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Community Health Workers and Cardiovascular Disease Fact Sheet

Your practice can save time and money if you take advantage of using a community health worker (CHW) for patient education and better utilize the physician for other responsibilities.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions that engage CHWs to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is strong evidence showing the effectiveness of interventions that engage CHWs in a team-based care model to improve blood pressure and cholesterol in patients at increased risk for CVD. There is also sufficient evidence that supports the effectiveness for interventions that engage CHWs for health education and as outreach, enrollment, and information agents to increase self-reported health behaviors (physical activity, healthful eating habits, and smoking cessation) in patients at increased risk for CVD.

Click here to read more about CHW role with CVD.
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Community Health Workers and Million Hearts: Helping People Prevent and Better Manage Hypertension

Community Health Workers (CHW), promotores de salud, community health representatives, and others can work together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help reach the program goals of the Million Hearts� campaign.

For those at risk for high blood pressure and high cholesterol, CHWs can play an important role in prevention. Click here for a factsheet on CHWs and their role with hypertension patients.
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Blood Pressure Ambassador Program: Community Health Workers in our Delaware Community

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are at work in our community. The Blood Pressure Ambassador Program was developed by the Christiana Care Center for Heart & Vascular Health to increase awareness of the consequences of untreated high blood pressure in the community.

The goal of the program is to reach at-risk individuals in their neighborhoods and improve cardiovascular health. Blood pressure screenings identify high-risk individuals and provide opportunities to provide health information and motivate individuals to take action with their health.

 

Specially trained community members volunteer to deliver key messages about high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke risk factors as well as healthy lifestyle choices. When needed, Ambassadors provide resources to connect individuals with a healthcare provider. Peer-to-peer education, motivation, and support bring health promotion to individuals in their own neighborhoods from someone they trust. 

 

Please visit the Blood Pressure Ambassador Program's website for monthly screening locations, upcoming events and resources.  For further information, please contact Angela Parker, MSN, RN-BC at 302.320.6800.

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Don't Miss the Diabetes Wellness Expo 2015
Thursday, November 17, 2015
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Dover Downs Hotel and Conference Center

Encourage your patients with diabetes and prediabetes to attend the Diabetes Wellness Expo 2015, being held NEXT THURSDAY at the Dover Downs Hotel and Conference Center. This is a free event, with lunch provided, that brings together health care providers, businesses, diabetes-related organizations, and others to promote diabetes self-management and a healthier lifestyle for people with diabetes.

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Contacts:
1.877.987.4687, Ext. 137

1.877.987.4687, Ext. 116
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This publication was supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number 1U58DP004799-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.