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Monthly Educational Webinars For Louisiana Healthcare Providers
Many of our Provider Education Network education programs are conducted through webinars, with some offering in-person workshops. Available webinars include topics such as the Brief Tobacco Intervention, Emergency Preparedness, Population Health Analytics, Team-Based Care and more. In-person workshops include our Rural Health Workshops aimed at helping providers expand healthcare access into underserved populations of our state. Provider partners can learn more about the continuing education programs available through social media, email communication, and our calendar.
Wednesday Webinar Recordings
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The Office of Public Health Community Health Worker Program: How Can It Help Your Facility?
May 25, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the Office of Public Health Community Worker Program.
- Identify the program’s goals and services.
- Understand the future goals of program.
- Understand how your facility can get involved.
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Utilizing Telehealth to Achieve Health Equity in Minority Communitites
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 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 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 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 26, 2022
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the Louisiana Tobacco Quitline
- 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 the Quitline
- Complete the certification quiz
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Help Your Patients Reduce Their Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 10, 2021
Learning Objectives:
- Ways to promote Health Equity with Electronic Health Records
- What are evidence-based practices
- What resources are available for implementing heart disease-related evidence-based practices?
- What is Team-based Care and why is it important?
- The importance of referring patients to lifestyle change programs and tips for linking to community resources amid the Pandemic
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DSMES Via Telehealth:How RHCs and FQHCs Can Get Connected
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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Project ECHO Information Session
December 16, 2020
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
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Fax-to-Quit Training
December 9, 2020
Learning Objectives:
- Explore innovative Fax-To-Quit approaches to effectively screen, advise and refer patients to the Louisiana Tobacco Quitline.
- 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.
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Chronic Care Management
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Improving Diabetes Outcomes in Louisiana
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Overcoming Data Pushback: Aligning Providers and Trusted Measurements in Population Health
October 31, 2020
Presentation recording is unavailable.
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
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Motivational Interviewing: Helping Clients to Make Positive Changes
October 2020
Presentation recoding is unavailable.
Learning Objectives:
- What prevents clients from making healthy changes
- Why motivational interviewing works to help elicit change
- Tips to help implement motivational interviewing
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Incorporating Health Literacy for Diabetes Prevention and Management
June 17, 2020
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.
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Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH): Preparing for Annual Reporting
July 22, 2020
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
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Making Medication Therapy Management Work in Community Pharmacy
April 15, 2020
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
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Using Self-Measured Blood Pressure (SMBP) to Manage Uncontrolled Hypertension
May 20, 2020
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
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Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in Louisiana
February 19, 2020
Presentation recording is unavailable.
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
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Integrating Tobacco Cessation Interventions into Daily Practices
January 2020
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
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The Value of Community Health Workers
December 10, 2019
Learning Objectives:
- Definition of Community Health Workers
- Roles of Community Health Workers
- The link between health care, government and social services resources
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Understanding Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) Services
November 20, 2019
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
Webinar Archives
- A Provider’s Guide to Fluoride Varnish Applications
- Expanding Oral Health Services in Louisiana Health Centers
- Developing Optimal Treatment Plans for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
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Pharmacist-Provided Medication Therapy Management
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
- Team-Based Care 101