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Educational Sessions and Webinars For Louisiana Healthcare Providers
Healthcare professionals can access continuing education and training opportunities through our Provider Education Network Learning Sessions. Many of our educational sessions are conducted through webinars or in-person workshops. Available webinars include topics such as Brief Tobacco Intervention, Emergency Preparedness, Population Health Analytics, Team-Based Care and more. In-person workshops include our Rural Health Workshop, aimed at helping providers expand healthcare access to underserved populations of our state.
Upcoming Session
Please join us on Wednesday May 17, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. for a presentation on The Influence of Community Health Workers and Their Impact on Health Disparities by Chiara M. Theard, and Tamika Goins.
Learning Session Archives
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The Influence of Community Health Workers and Their Impact on Health Disparities: May 2023
May 17, 2023
Learning Objectives:
- Understand community health worker roles in cardiovascular health.
- Learn about opportunities for obtaining CHW training and accreditation.
- Understand what is considered patient health information (PHI) and the required confidentiality related to that information.
- Understand how to develop an effective social media strategy to engage with the target population.
- Understand how to apply specific motivational interviewing techniques during 1:1 sessions
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Partnering with a Pharmacist for Diabetes Management: March 2023
March 22, 2023
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to impact chronic disease outcomes through collaboration with pharmacists and best practices for working together
- Learn the pharmacist’s role in Diabetes Self-Management Education Services (DSMES)
- Learn about Medication Therapy Management and Chronic Care Management services, including the roles of the pharmacist and primary care collaborator
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Offer No-Cost Clinical Services to Support Women’s Health: March 2023
March 1, 2023
Learning Objectives:
- Learn and understand the burden of breast and cervical cancer, as well as cardiovascular disease in Louisiana.
- Learn the services offered by the Louisiana Breast & Cervical Health Program (LBCHP).
- Learn and understand the provider and patient benefits of participating in LBCHP.
- Learn and understand the services offered by the Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for WOMen Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) program to address cardiovascular disease.
- Learn and understand the provider and patient benefits of participating in the WISEWOMAN program.
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Medicaid Guidance for RHCs, FQHCs and SBHCs: November 2022
November 30, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about guidance and resources for resolving and escalating issues
- Learn a brief overview of the rate setting process
- Learn a brief overview on the use of modifiers and Telehealth/Telemedicine services in FQHC/RHC setting
- Review recent FQHC/RHC policy updates
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Virtual Tabletop Exercise: Preparing for and Responding to an Active Shooter: October 2022
October 26, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Reveal planning weaknesses in the Emergency Operations Plan and standard operating procedures or to test or validate recently changed procedures
- Identify current capabilities
- Improve the coordination between and among various response personnel
- Identify deficiencies and/or validate training on the critical elements of emergency response
- Increase the general awareness and understanding of the potential threat
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Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: August 2022
August 31, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Identify the benefits of early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Learn how Cardiovascular disease risk factors increase the risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
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Preventing Cardiovascular Disease Through Primary Care: June 2022
June 22, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Learn risk reduction counseling strategies that can be executed in the primary care setting to improve cardiovascular disease
- Understand how team-based care approaches can assist in reducing health disparities
- Identify strategies to assis with chronic care management
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Utilizing Telehealth to Achieve Health Equity in Minority Communities: April 2022
April 13, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the benefits of virtual care and how it positively impacts minority populations
- Learn from a real story of going virtual – Black Women’s Health Imperative will share about their experience with a recent virtual National Diabetes Prevention Program
- Discover how Well-Ahead Louisiana can support providers in implementing telehealth solutions as a standard of practice in their facility
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Virtual Tabletop Exercise: Preparing for the 2022 Hurricane Season: April 2022
April 6, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Reveal planning weaknesses in the Emergency Operations Plan and standard operating procedures or to test or validate recently changed procedures
- Identify current capabilities
- Improve the coordination between and among various response personnel
- Identify deficiencies and/or validate training on the critical elements of emergency response
- Increase the general awareness and understanding of the potential hazard
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Applying for the 2022 State Loan Repayment Program: March 2022
March 9, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the State Loan Repayment Program (SLRP)
- Know which sites and providers are eligible
- Understand how to apply online
- Review check list guidelines
- Know important application dates and deadlines
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Using Community-Based Blood Pressure Monitoring to Address Hypertension: February 2022
February 23, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize why hypertension is a serious health problem in Louisiana
- Explain how community-based blood pressure monitoring can improve the health of your communities
- Understand what a community-based blood pressure monitoring program is
- Understand how to become and operate as clinical support for a community-based blood pressure monitoring program
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Connect2Quit: How to Easily Connect Your Patients to Tobacco Cessation Resources: January 2022
January 26, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about Quit With Us, Louisiana
- Learn about Connect2Quit Louisiana and how to implement it in your practice
- Learn how to ask patients about tobacco use
- Learn how to enroll your patients easily in services from Quit With Us, Louisiana
- Complete the certification quiz
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Help Your Patients Reduce Their Risk for Type 2 Diabetes: November 2021
November 17, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to test your at-risk patients for prediabetes
- Learn about the National Diabetes Prevention Program and patient referrals
- Learn about Louisiana’s Now’s the Time prediabetes awareness campaign
- Learn how to utilize Now’s the Time resources in your healthcare facility
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The Link Between Breast Cancer and Heart Disease: October 2021
October 27, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- The connection between breast cancer and heart disease
- The services offered by the Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program
- The heart disease programming offered by Well-Ahead Louisiana
- How to access, refer to, or share these available resources with the patients you serve
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Facility Fire Tabletop Exercise: September 2021
September 28, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of a tabletop exercise
- Know your facility’s strengths and weaknesses based on the scenario presented
- Know the next steps your facility can take to be better prepared for a fire or other emergency
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Back to School: K-12 COVID-19 Testing and Vaccinations: August 2021
August 18, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- The importance of Adolescent COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination in Schools
- The current state of Adolescent COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts in Louisiana
- Strategies to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and build vaccine confidence
- Information about the Louisiana Department of Health’s Safer, Smarter Schools PreK-12 Testing Program
- How to help get the school year off to a heathy start as a healthcare provider
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Healthcare Facility WellSpot Designation: Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice: July 2021
July 28, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Louisiana’s health outcomes
- What we’re doing about the challenge
- Healthcare Facility benchmarks
- Why become a WellSpot
- How to become a WellSpot
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Overcoming Initial Barriers in Implementing Faith-Based Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs: June 2021
June 30, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Faith-based Health Promotion and Disease Prevention designation components
- Best practices for implementation
- What resources are available for implementation
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Engaging with Community Health Workers and How They Support Louisiana: May 2021
May 19, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Describe common roles for Community Health Workers in clinical and non-clinical settings
- List three ways Community Health Workers responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana.
- Describe methods Louisiana partners are using to increase the use of and support for the Louisiana Community Health Worker workforce
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State Loan Repayment Program: Open Enrollment Information: April 2021
April 21, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- An overview of the State Loan Repayment Program
- What the application requirements and benefits are
- How to apply for the State Loan Repayment Program
- How awardees are selected
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ROI Obesity Model for Employees: March 2021
March 31, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the disease of obesity and its direct and indirect cost to our system
- Evaluate the clinical and economic benefits of weight loss
- Barriers to efficient management of obesity and what are the implications of weight loss interventions on overall weight loss
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Quality Care: Strategies for Improving Heart Disease Outcomes in Rural Clinics: March 2021
March 10, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Ways to promote health equity with Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Evidence-based practices
- Resources available for implementing heart disease-related evidence-based practices
- Importance of team-based care
- Importance of referring patients to lifestyle change programs and tips for linking community resources amid the pandemic
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DSMES Via Telehealth: How RHCs and FQHCs Can Get Connected: January 2021
January 27, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- An overview of DSMES structure, requirements and benefits.
- Ways in which RHCs and FQHCs can provide their patients access to DSMES via Telehealth.
- How DSMES via Telehealth differs from DSMES in-person.
- Billing requirements for DSMES via Telehealth.
- An overview of the partnership opportunity for Well-Ahead’s DSMES via Telehealth project.
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Additional Session Archives
Project ECHO Information Session
- December 16, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- An overview of the Project ECHO® model.
- Benefits of participating in an ECHO project.
- Review of the both Diabetes and Lifestyle Coach ECHO sessions launching in January.
Fax-to-Quit Training
- December 9, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Explore innovative Fax-To-Quit approaches to effectively screen, advise and refer patients to Quit With Us, Louisiana.
- Integrate the Fax-To-Quit program within your healthcare setting.
- Identify comprehensive cessation coverage guidelines and available Medicaid and Medicare CPT codes.
- Leverage tobacco cessation resources available to healthcare providers in Louisiana.
Chronic Care Management
- November 18, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation slides are unavailable.
Improving Diabetes Outcomes in Louisiana
- November 17, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
Overcoming Data Pushback: Aligning Providers and Trusted Measurements in Population Health
- October 31, 2020
- Presentation recording is unavailable.
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Understand current quality measurement purpose and limitations
- Understand and overcome the natural data pushback around measurement
- Identify with a new trusted measurement philosophy
- Learn how to measure patient data to improve population health
Motivational Interviewing: Helping Clients to Make Positive Changes
- October 1, 2020
- Presentation recording is unavailable.
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- What prevents clients from making healthy changes
- Why motivational interviewing works to help elicit change
- Tips to help implement motivational interviewing
Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH): Preparing for Annual Reporting
- July 22, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Understand the NCQA PCMH 2020 Annual Reporting requirements and recognition concepts, criteria and competencies
- Understand the evidence of implementation and document review process
- Leverage the checklist to ensure all annual reporting requirements are met
- Understand the timeline of major milestones and tasks to ensure successful annual reporting
- Understand gap assessments to assist in developing plan of action for recognition
Incorporating Health Literacy for Diabetes Prevention and Management
- June 17, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
- MEE productions presented key findings gathered from focus groups conducted with Louisiana residents that shed light on the barriers in providing diabetes prevention and management education to disparate populations across the state.
Using Self-Measured Blood Pressure (SMBP) to Manage Uncontrolled Hypertension
- May 20, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Explain the benefits of using SMBP
- Identify patients for which SMBP is needed
- Train patients to self-measure their blood pressure
- Explain how to interpret SMBP readings
- Describe how to set up an SMBP program in your practice
Making Medication Therapy Management Work in Community Pharmacy
- April 15, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Review laws and regulations around the provision of MTM services
- Present the MTM Core Elements delivery model
- Discuss potential best practices for MTM implementation in community pharmacy settings
- Provide alternative methods for delivering MTM services
Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in Louisiana
- February 19, 2020
- Presentation recording is unavailable.
- Presentation slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Prevalence rates of prediabetes and diabetes
- Plans for diabetes prevention in Louisiana
- Benefits of the National Diabetes Prevention Program
- Screening, testing, and referral processes for diabetes
Integrating Tobacco Cessation Interventions into Daily Practices
- January 29, 2020
- Presentation Recording
- Dianna Raxworthy’s Presentation Slides
- Taylor Reine’s Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Explore innovative approaches to effectively screen, advise, and refer patients to available cessation resources
- Leverage the Million Hearts Tobacco Cessation as a standard of practice within your healthcare facility
- Identify cessation resources available to providers and patients in Louisiana
The Value of Community Health Workers
- December 18, 2019
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Definition of Community Health Workers
- Roles of Community Health Workers
- The link between health care, government and social services resources
Understanding Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) Services
- November 20, 2019
- Presentation recording is unavailable.
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- When you should refer to a DSMES program
- How to refer to an ADA-recognized DSMES
- The requirements of ADA-recognized DSMES program
- How ADA-recognized DSMES programs meet and maintain recognition
Team-Based Care 101
- January 12, 2018
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
Developing Optimal Treatment Plans for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
- October 20, 2017
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
Expanding Oral Health Services in Louisiana Health Centers
- September 29, 2017
- Presentation recording is unavailable.
- Presentation Slides
A Provider’s Guide to Fluoride Varnish Applications
- August 18, 2017
- Presentation Recording
- Presentation Slides
Pharmacist-Provided Medication Therapy Management
- March 9, 2017
- Presentation Slides
- Learning Objectives:
- Define Medication Therapy Management (MTM) and its components
- Identify financial opportunities to sustain your MTM service
- Discuss strategies to promote your MTM services
- List business, clinical, quality improvement, and other MTM resources
National Stroke Association FAST Program: The 4-1-1
- February 2017
- Presentation recording is unavailable.
- Presentation Slides