Pathways to Wellness provides high-quality and affordable integrative healthcare services including acupuncture, massage, and herbal medicine to diverse populations. Their "Share the Care" model allows clients paying market rates to subsidize free and low-cost services for those in need. They have been serving the community for over 20 years and provide over 15,000 treatments annually at their clinic and various satellite locations.
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Dennis Dunmyer, BBA, MSW, JD, Vice President of Behavioral Health and Community Programs, Kansas City CARE Clinic
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore the approach to Missouri’s Community Health Worker workforce.
2. Discuss the role of school-based health care in preventative medicine.
3. Discuss examples of workplace wellness programs that create healthier employees while improving an organization’s bottom line.
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The Future of the American Healthcare Delivery System in an Era of ChangePYA, P.C.
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Dennis Dunmyer, BBA, MSW, JD, Vice President of Behavioral Health and Community Programs, Kansas City CARE Clinic
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore the approach to Missouri’s Community Health Worker workforce.
2. Discuss the role of school-based health care in preventative medicine.
3. Discuss examples of workplace wellness programs that create healthier employees while improving an organization’s bottom line.
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Professor Tim Kendall, Director, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, introduces the new NICE quality standards for mental health service user experience.
A Community Health Worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted community member with an unusually close understanding of the community served. This is short presentation designed to garner support for CHWs.
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This session will focus on identifying the roles of public health pharmacists with focus on areas of convergence and models for collaboration and cooperation between public health and pharmacy professionals.
Session aim: Discuss strategies to enhance capacity of pharmacists to advance public health outcomes.
Session objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Explain how pharmacists can play pivotal roles in disease prevention and health promotion
• Identify key interdisciplinary approaches where pharmacists can help achieve optimal public health outcomes
• Discuss strategies to integrate public health practice into pharmacological training and pharmaceutical care.
Content: Throughout the world, pharmacy as a profession is evolving. In recent years, several entities involved in pharmacy education have identified public health as a major area for improvement and expansion within the core pharmacy education. Pharmacists have been identified as key healthcare professionals in achieving health goals as mentioned in Healthy People 2020. In order to successfully integrate pharmacists as public health professionals, there is a need to introduce the principles and concepts of public health early on in pharmacy education. It is equally important to create and develop opportunities for practicing pharmacists and demonstrate the impact of pharmacists toward improving the population’s health. In this session, targeted interventions to outcomes assessment, differences and similarities will be discussed with implications for effectively advancing the capacity of pharmacists to achieve public health outcomes.
References
1. Policy Statement: The Role of the Pharmacist in Public Health. Policy Number 200614. American Public Health Association. November 8, 2006.
2. Capper, SA, Sands, CD. The Vital Relationship Between Public Health and Pharmacy. The International Journal of Pharmacy Education. Fall 2006, Issue 2.
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A Community Health Worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted community member with an unusually close understanding of the community served. This is short presentation designed to garner support for CHWs.
The goal of this webinar is to educate healthcare professionals about the differences between palliative and curative care while exploring the history and philosophy of the hospice movement.
Background: Pharmacy developed as a profession over several decades with the advent of apothecaries and was formalized as a profession and regulated in India beginning 1948 with the Pharmacy Act. Public health, existent for centuries was only formalized in India in 1987 through the Model Public Health act. Clinical pharmacy through structured and formalized PharmD education is fairly new to 21st century India. Clinical pharmacists play a very important role in promoting public health through various initiatives – health education, health communication, medication review, medication adherence to name a few. There is however, little recognition for clinical pharmacists as public health professionals even in developed countries where public health and pharmacy systems have co-existed for decades. In India, as both fields emerge, it is important to find synergies and open up pathways for collaboration and cooperation to ensure a stronger pool of public health field clinicians, researchers and professionals.
This session will focus on identifying the roles of public health pharmacists with focus on areas of convergence and models for collaboration and cooperation between public health and pharmacy professionals.
Session aim: Discuss strategies to enhance capacity of pharmacists to advance public health outcomes.
Session objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Explain how pharmacists can play pivotal roles in disease prevention and health promotion
• Identify key interdisciplinary approaches where pharmacists can help achieve optimal public health outcomes
• Discuss strategies to integrate public health practice into pharmacological training and pharmaceutical care.
Content: Throughout the world, pharmacy as a profession is evolving. In recent years, several entities involved in pharmacy education have identified public health as a major area for improvement and expansion within the core pharmacy education. Pharmacists have been identified as key healthcare professionals in achieving health goals as mentioned in Healthy People 2020. In order to successfully integrate pharmacists as public health professionals, there is a need to introduce the principles and concepts of public health early on in pharmacy education. It is equally important to create and develop opportunities for practicing pharmacists and demonstrate the impact of pharmacists toward improving the population’s health. In this session, targeted interventions to outcomes assessment, differences and similarities will be discussed with implications for effectively advancing the capacity of pharmacists to achieve public health outcomes.
References
1. Policy Statement: The Role of the Pharmacist in Public Health. Policy Number 200614. American Public Health Association. November 8, 2006.
2. Capper, SA, Sands, CD. The Vital Relationship Between Public Health and Pharmacy. The International Journal of Pharmacy Education. Fall 2006, Issue 2.
Primary Health Care, Objectives, Principles and Policy DirectionsHealth and Labour
Presentation by Dr.Hans Kluge e.a., director of Health Systems, WHO-Euro at the WHO/TNO/Dutchgovernment Congres 'Connecting Health and Labour' 29 - 1 December 2012
1. 2nd PBBSc - Comty - Unit - 1 Introduction to community health.pptxthiru murugan
2nd Year PBBSc Nursingcommunity Health Nursing
Introduction to community health
Unit I: Introduction
Introduction to community health - concepts, principles and elements of primary health care.
Introduction to community health nursing.
Concepts of community health nursing - community nursing process.
Objectives, scope & principles of community health nursing.
Questions:
Community health nursing: Definition, objectives, scope, concept, principles
CH Nursing process: Definition, steps
Primary health care: definition, concepts, principles and elements
Community health nursing:
Definitions: health, disease
Community: A group of people who share common interests, who interact with each other, and who function collectively within a defined social structure to address common concerns
Public Health (old name): Science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort
Community Health: it refers to the healthy status of the member of the community to solve the problems affecting their health and to the totality of a health care provided for the community
Community health nursing: applied in promoting and preserving the health of populations.
Concept Community health nursing:
The client or “unit of care” is the population.
The greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Working with the client(s) as an equal partner.
Primary prevention - priority – appropriate actions
Healthy environmental, social, & economic
Mutual respect and co – operation - IPR
Focus on the population and sub populations
Concept community health nursing:
Specific activity or service.
Optimal use of available resources
Involvement of different professionals
Caring relationships and partnerships with families & communities.
People are essential participants
Focus on empowerment of families & community.
Allows the communities & families acquire skills & knowledge
Objectives Community health nursing:
To identify health needs and priorities
To increase the capability of community to deal with their own health problems
To strengthen community resources
To control and counteract environment
To provide MCH
To provide clinics for minor ailments,
To referral of major illness
To give health education
To provide facilities for family planning
To promote the use of local health services
To teach and demonstrate healthy ways of living
To prevention and control of communicable disease & Non – communicable diseases
To promote the health of school children through health services.
To promote the health of the worker - occupational health
To Maintain and promote the health of the elderly & handicapped
To Work with Govt & NGO
Points to remember Objectives of CHN:
To Identify health problems
To Prevent diseases
To Promote health
To Cure (treat) diseases
To maintain Environment
To provide HCS - High risk: women, child, old age, handicapped
To provide School health
To provide Occupational health
To provide R
CONTENTS
Introduction
NHM
NRHM
Components of NRHM
NUHM
Components of NRHM
Difference between NRHM and NUHM
Future goals
Conclusion
References
INTRO:
National Health Mission
Ministry of health and family welfare
NHM - approved in May 2013
Sub missions – NRHM & NUHM
It aims at improving and correcting the deficiencies in the health care delivery system with a focus on integrating all thee available healthcare facilities like Ayush along with ongoing vertical programme.
Main programmatic components
- RMNCH+A
- control of NCDs & Comm. d/s
NRHM:
Launched in 5th April 2005 for 7 years by GOI
Intended for 2005 - 2012
Recently extended to 2017
Operational in whole country & Special focus on 18 states
Correct the deficiencies of health system
The Mission adopts a synergistic approach by relating health to determinants of good health viz. segments of nutrition, sanitation, hygiene and safe drinking water.
Objective of the mission:
Reduction in child and maternal mortality.
Universal access to public health services.
Prevention and control of communicable and noncommunicable diseases, endemic diseases
Stabilization and demographic balance.
Revitalizeimunisation programme
Access to integrated phc.
Revitalize local local health tradition.(Ayush)
Promotion of healthy life style
COMPONENTS UNDER NRHM:
Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) through Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centers (HWCs)
National Ambulance Services (NAS)
National Mobile Medical Units (NMMUs)
Free Drugs Service Initiative
Free Diagnostics Service Initiative
Community Participation
a)Accredited Social Health Workers (ASHA)
b)Rogi Kalyan Samiti (Patient Welfare Committee) / Hospital Management Society
c)VHSNCs
Mera Aspataal
Kayakalp
SUMAN (Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan)
Mission Indradhanush
TB Harega Desh Jeetega Campaign
Eat Right India Movement, with ‘Sahi Bhojan Behtar Jeevan’
AYUSHMAN BHARATH HWCS:
Ayushman Bharath is an attempt to move from a selectiv approach to health care to deliver range of services like preventive,promotive,curative,rehabilitative,and palliative care
It has 2 components
1) Health and wellness centre(HWCs) 1,50,000
2)Pradhan mantri jan Arogya yojan (PM-JAY)
Health insurance cover 5 lakh / year – 10 crore poor ppl
The first Health and Wellness Centre was inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 14th April 2018 in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
So far, 51,484 HWC are formed
Objectives:
upgrading the Sub Health Centers (SHCs) and Primary Health Centers (PHCs) in rural and urban area
provide Comprehensive Primary Health Care
common NCDs such as Hypertension, Diabetes and 3 common cancers of Oral, Breast and Cervix.
primary healthcare services for Mental health, ENT, Ophthalmology, Oral health, Geriatric and Palliative health care and Trauma care as well as Health promotion and wellness activities like Yoga.
Sharing and Learning Together to Deliver High Quality End of Life Care for AllNHS Improving Quality
Sharing and Learning Together to Deliver High Quality End of Life Care for All
Presentations from the Sharing and Learning Together to Deliver High Quality End of Life Care for All event held on
Tuesday 24 June 2014, Congress Centre, London, WC1B 3LS
#nhsiqeolcare
It is the small topic from the 3rd unit of Bsc nursing, delivery of community health nursing , in which u will come to know about organization, staffing and functions of rural health services provided by Govt.
Enhancing the quality of life for people living with long term conditions.
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Similar to Pathways Building Healthy Communities.2 (20)
2. Mission:
• Pathways to Wellness improves the health and wellbeing of diverse
populations by providing high-quality, integrative health care.
• Our “Share the Care” model of business allows clients paying market
rates for services to help subsidize free and low cost services to those
in need.
3. Pathways provides these services:
• Wellness Center services (located on the 3rd Floor of the South End
Community Health Center, 1601 Washington Street, convenient to BMC)
include acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and shiatsu massage six days
a week, Mon-Fri 8am-8pm; Sat 9am-5pm.
• Smoking Cessation program includes acupuncture, herbal tea and
aromatherapy.
• On-site educational seminars to employees and customers (informational
and experiential). Brown bag lunch topics include:
• Care for the Caregiver
• Healthy Aging
• Making Healthy Lifestyle Changes “Stick”
• On-site chair massage or acupuncture demonstrations at employee health
fairs and customer appreciation events
• At-home and in-office services – full acupuncture or chair massage
sessions on fee for service basis
4. History
• 1989: Founded as 501c3 non-profit AIDS Care Project (ACP)
• 2000: Pathways to Wellness expands scope of services beyond
HIV/AIDS, as federal funding for ACP declines
• 2006: Moved into South End Community Health Center (SECHC)
• 2011: Served 1600+ clients with 15,000 acupuncture, massage and
Chinese herbal medicine treatments
5. Recognition for Pathways:
• 1993: MA Dept of Public Health calls on Pathways to
establish standards of care for acupuncture treatment
• 2004: Received first NIH multi-year federal research grant
• 2004, 2009: Recognized for Excellence in Community Service by
Greater Boston Business Council
• 2008: Received “Out of the Blue” award from The Boston
Foundation
• 2008 – 2011: Recognized as an Innovator in Care by federal Agency
on Health Care Research & Quality (AHRQ) for AIDS
Care Project
6. In FY2012, Pathways provided:
• 2700 free acupuncture treatments to people living with HIV and AIDS,
reducing pain from neuropathy, increasing the ability to maintain anti-retroviral
medications which reduce risk of contagion, improving immune system
function, reducing cravings for addictive substances.
• 2300 acupuncture and massage services to elders and people
homebound with chronic disease and disability, reducing pain,
depression and anxiety, and improving sleep and digestive function.
• 2200 low cost community acupuncture services, addressing diverse
symptoms, including pain, anxiety and depression, and sleep problems.
• 1900 acupuncture treatments provided to low income patients referred
by physicians at the South End Community Health Center through an
insurance reimbursement pilot program.
• 750 free acupuncture treatments provided to military veterans and their
family members for symptoms ranging from pain to post traumatic stress
related difficulties.
7. Programs
• AIDS Care Project (ACP) – Free acupuncture for people living with
HIV/AIDS in Boston area.
• Military Veterans care – Free acupuncture for military veterans and their
family members.
• Community Acupuncture –Low cost ($25-$45/hour) group acupuncture
offered at main clinic
• Home Care – Insurance reimbursed acupuncture and massage provided in-
home serves elders and clients with severe disabilities and chronic illness.
Fee for service home and office based visits provided to general community.
8. Programs
• Insurance pilot program – Provides insurance reimbursed acupuncture care
to Medicaid eligible clients referred by physicians at the South End
Community Health Center (SECHC).
• Sliding Scale Services – Sliding scale prices available based on
documented income.
• Chinese Herbal Clinics – Low cost Chinese herbal consults are available
through herbalist training programs, as well as private pay herbal consults.
• Community Education and Outreach – Complimentary and paid
educational talks and acupuncture demonstrations provided to medical
professionals and community groups.
9. Programs
• Outcomes Measurement – Pathways measures changes in patients’
symptoms over the course of treatment, including symptom type, duration,
intensity and frequency, as well as use of medication and quality of life.
• Other Programs – Pathways provides additional care based on availability
and need.
• In the spring of 2010, Pathways clinicians volunteered to provide free acupuncture
to Haitian immigrants in Boston suffering from traumatic loss after the earthquakes
in Haiti.
• In 2011, Pathways participated in beta testing of Integrative Medicine for All. We
provided pro-bono acupuncture to clients referred from MDs at Boston Medical
Center for clients unable to pay for care.
10. Community Connections
• Pathways provides satellite clinics on site at:
• Mass. General Hospital Infectious Disease unit (10 yrs+)
• Tufts Medical Center Infectious Disease unit (3 yrs +)
• Cambridge Zinberg Clinic Infectious Disease unit (12 yrs +)
• Tufts Oncology Infusion Center to open Fall 2012
• Former satellite clinics (closed due to lack of funding)
• Spaulding Rehab Inpatient (2010-2011)
• Lynn Community Health Center (2006-2010)
• Uphams Corner Community Health Center (2008-2010)
• Southern Jamaica Plains Community Health Center (2010-2012)
• Whittier Street Community Health Center (2011-2012)
11. Community Connections
• Home care acupuncture & massage are provided to elders and people living
with disabilities. Referrals come from RN care managers at:
• Commonwealth Care Alliance
• Cambridge Health Alliance (Elder Service Plan)
• Boston Community Medical Group (NHP)
12. Expert Clinicians
• 15 Acupuncturists
• Master’s degreed
• Licensed by MA Board of Medicine and Insured
• CORI checked, TB tested, OSHA trained, CPR certified
• Some with dual degrees: RN, OT
• Several clinicians teach in their field at New England School of Acupuncture,
and have 10-30 yrs experience
• Research Director, Elizabeth Sommers, Ph.D.(public health), L.Ac. is adjunct
faculty at BU School of Public Health; co-author of numerous articles and
research papers
13. Expert Clinicians
• 3 Massage Therapists
• Licensed and Insured in MA
• 10+ years experience
• Certified in multiple modalities
• CORI checked, TB tested, OSHA trained, CPR certified
• 3 Chinese Herbalists
• Licensed by MA Board of Medicine and Insured
• 5+ years post-graduate study, 10+ years experience
• CORI checked, TB tested, OSHA trained, CPR certified
14. Evidence based care
• Pathways maintains a client database with 20+ years of data from AIDS Care
project showing clinical outcomes including:
• Improvements in digestive side effects from anti-retroviral medications
• Changes in other symptoms
• Insurance reimbursed pilot program in 6th year
• South End Community Health Center clients referred for acupuncture by primary
care physician for pain, headache, menstrual, menopausal or carpal tunnel
symptoms.
• Statistically significant improvements found in pain duration, frequency and intensity
and in quality of life indicators for clients referred for pain and headache.
• High patient satisfaction ratings from clients served in this program
• Insurer finds reimbursement for acupuncture services does not significantly impact
total cost of care.
15. Evidence based care
• Pathways Research Director, Beth Sommers, Ph.D., L.Ac.
• Serves as co-chair of Alternative and Complementary Health Practices Group of the
American Public Health Association
• Testified in June 2012 before Congress on the inclusion of massage and
acupuncture in the Affordable Care Act
• Is editor of the 2012 European Journal of Integrative Medicine with focus on “Public
Health in Integrative Medicine”
• Writes regularly on public health issues in Acupuncture Today
• Completed research with focus on the public health impact of acupuncture on
medication adherence in people living with HIV/AIDS, and on the reduction of
cravings for addictive substances in military.
16. Values:
• High-Quality Care - Pathways provides high quality integrative health care through the
application and measurement of best practices for complementary health care
providers.
• Diverse Populations – Pathways’ programs are aimed to deliver services to diverse
populations; Pathways also welcomes diversity throughout the organization.
• Respect - Pathways supports a respectful environment for patients, employees and
volunteers.
• Affordability – Pathways provides affordable care options for patients with few
resources.
• Public Health – Pathways promotes healthy lifestyle habits, the prevention of chronic
disease, and the empowerment of our patients in caring for themselves, through
community education and demonstration programs.
• Measurable Outcomes - Pathways measures clinical outcomes and participates in
research and evaluation to build the evidence base for our practice.
• Integration - Pathways clinicians work in conjunction with patients’ other health care
providers, and ensures that patients have access to best possible combination of
treatments and support systems they need for their own healing process.
17. Our Clients say…
• “When I first walked in the Pathways clinic, I felt I was transported to a safe
place where physical and spiritual healing could happen. Immediately I felt
unconditional positive regard from the staff and the caring, curative hands of
the acupuncturists. I was disabled by peripheral neuropathy brought about as
a side effect of HIV medications. The pain went from both knees to the
bottom of my feet. I had difficulties walking and required a cane to couch the
pain. Within the first 10 months of treatments I dropped the cane and started
to walk faster and with little pain.”
• – L.T. AIDS Care Program client
18. Our Clients say…
• “John” told me that only 3% of troops sent to Vietnam saw combat on a daily
basis. He was one of those soldiers - 132 men served in his unit, and only 18
came back. Today, he breathes with the assistance of an oxygen tank, and is
dealing with further lung problems due to the effects of Agent Orange. He
has been receiving free acupuncture treatments at Pathways to Wellness for
over two years- and recommends it to his family and friends. Because of his
treatments, he takes no regular medication for his back pain or his post
traumatic stress disorder, and his doctor is thrilled that he has regained
oxygen circulation throughout his lungs. He can drive a car without concern
of being impaired by pain medications. He can take a deep breath without
coughing. And at least once a week, during his treatment, he can relax
completely – in a way he hasn’t been able to since he returned from Vietnam.
• – Military Vet Clinic client
19. Our Clients say…
• “Rosa” suffered for two years from migraine pain, arthritis in her hands, neck
and shoulders, problems sleeping, as well as vertigo and vision problems with
the migraines. The pain medicine she took only helped temporarily. Prior to
getting acupuncture, she couldn’t cook or sleep due to the pain and vertigo,
was upset all the time, and unable to help out her family. She had multiple
MRIs and emergency room visits due to the migraine symptoms.
“Acupuncture has changed my life!” Her pain and vertigo have improved, and
she is able to function and help her family again.
• – Insurance Pilot Program client
20. Our Clients say…
• In January 2008, VB was diagnosed with prostate cancer that had spread to
the bone. VB started looking for a more holistic approach to his care, and
discovered Pathways. The shiatsu and acupuncture services were far more
affordable than the ones that he had received at other places. The
treatments have helped increase his stamina as well as his ability to do more
tasks on a daily basis, and significantly reduce his pain levels.
• – Community Acupuncture client
21. Our Clients say…
• “Acupuncture is great. It definitely helps my chronic shoulder pain and
stiffness, which I have because I have used a manual wheelchair for 47 years
and also because of two falls where I landed on my shoulders. Acupuncture
allows me to go about my day without pain medication, which I had been
taking before on a frequent basis. Because of Pathways’ treatment and the
pain relief it has given me, I am able to go to work, where I need to be able to
push my wheelchair all day long.”
• – R.N., Home care client
22. Our Staff say…
• “The ethnic and economic diversity of the population we treat really attracted
me to Pathways. Being able to treat people who wouldn’t otherwise have
access to this kind of care, like our AIDS Care Project patients who come in
even when they’re sick and tired, means a lot to me, and to them.”
• – Christina, Pathways Staff Acupuncturist
• “Over the past 12 years of treating clients here, I’ve grown in ways I didn’t
expect. There’s a level of perseverance in our clients that is truly remarkable
– some have gone through so many diagnoses of cancer and other things,
and they keep on living – not suffering necessarily, but persevering.”
• - Jeff, Pathways Staff Acupuncturist
23. Our Supporters say…
• “There are so many reasons to come and be treated at Pathways. It’s
absolutely top quality care…and while you’re getting the best care in a
wonderfully nurturing environment, you are also helping someone else have
access to that care. And to me, that’s the essence of Pathways.”
• - Julie Carey, former Pathways Board Chair and current supporter