[Clinicians] {Disarmed} FW: Clinical Education Agenda for 2008 CHAMPS/NWRPCA Fall Primary Care Conference

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CHAMPS/NWRPCA 2008 Fall Primary Care Conference

Decision '08: Building the Future of Community Health

October 18-22, 2008

Denver, Colorado

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Dear CHC Clinicians,

The CHAMPS/NWRPCA Fall Primary Care Conference, October 18-22, 2008, in
Denver, Colorado is quickly approaching.  Early registration ends
September 26th.  The hotel is filling up fast, so get your reservations
in as soon as possible.  For a copy of the registration brochure click
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or call (206) 783-3004.  Following are clinically focused sessions that
may be of interest to you:

Saturday, October 18
Risk Foundation in Primary Care: A Key to Quality Service in Health
Center Operations
This session will provide an overview of the principles and practices of
Quality Improvement, Risk Control, and Patient Safety, and how these
principles apply most realistically to the health center setting. Tools
and methods of how to identify important risk trends, contributing
factors, and best solutions will be discussed.

Sunday, October 19
Lifestyle Changes: Helping Patients Manage Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus has a strong genetic background but develops in
susceptible people mostly as a result of poor dietary habits, physical
inactivity and overweight.  The Director of Endocrinology and Diabetes
Practice, at the University of Colorado Health Science Center, will
discuss recommendations for lifestyle changes along with the use of
medications for preventing and treating Diabetes.

Primary Care Renewal: Creating a Primary Care Medical Home Through a
Learning Collaborative Sponsored by a Health Plan
The first 18 months of a journey in creating a primary care medical home
in five diverse organizations, based on the work done by Southcentral
Foundation, will be presented.  This work, sponsored by CareOregon, a
Medicaid Managed Care Organization, uses the model of a learning
collaborative. 

Monday, October 20
Clinicians Roundtable
Join your colleagues for a facilitated discussion and networking. Bring
your hot topics and questions. This session is open to all health center
clinicians. Extra fee event ($30) includes box lunch.

Behavioral Health in Primary Health Care Settings
With ongoing cuts in funding for mental health and continuing
stigmatization of mental disorders in our country, it is more important
than ever to connect people to the services they need. Learn more about
methods and reasons to integrate behavioral health into your health care
settings from a Clinical Social Worker who works "in the trenches" of a
CHC behavioral health department.

Substance Abuse in the Primary Care Setting: A New Perspective
This presentation will focus on the treatment of substance abuse as a
chronic medical illness, using lessons learned from the chronic care
model, from a community care clinic medical director.  A team approach
to treatment will be emphasized along with the "harm reduction"
philosophy.  Best practices for the medical management of substance
abuse will be discussed.

Tuesday, October 21
Role of the Medical Director
Come hear first hand from a seasoned CHC Medical Director.

Rural Healthcare Ethics: Some Practical Issues Utilizing Cases
This interactive session will feature two members of the Coalition for
Rural Healthcare Ethics leading a discussion of topics and cases in
clinical ethics in rural settings.  It will offer a preview of the
resource Handbook for Rural Healthcare Ethics currently being developed
by the Coalition.  Participants will be encouraged to bring their
personal experiences with ethical challenges to the discussion.

Managing Chronic Pain Patients When the Magic Cure Has Ended and They
Are Not Getting Better
CHC providers often feel inadequate and/or overly burdened when managing
the multitude of chronic complaints that rarely improve.  Chronic pain
patients often want a MAGIC cure and when there is none they feel
hopeless, despondent, and lose function.  This session will assist with
how to address such difficult issues from a CHC clinician, with a strong
interest in chronic illness and pain, who currently manages hundreds of
chronic pain patients.

Wednesday, October 22
Providing Culturally Competent Care for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender Population (GLBT)
This session uses the power of theatre and an in-depth physician lecture
to explore health disparities of the GLBT population.  On The Streets is
a play created and performed by the Kaiser Permanente Educational
Theatre Program to express the care needs of the GLBT population.  The
performance is followed by a GLBT culturally competent care training
with a pediatric physician and a general internal medicine physician.

CHAMPS/NWRPCA 2008 Fall Primary Care Conference

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LOCATION:

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Phone: (800) 444-2206 or (303) 297-1300 

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