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Can we talk? Navigating the Challenging Conversation Concerning Suicide

In a time when behavioral health issues are being discussed...

Questions and Scenarios for Navigating Healthcare 

Healthcare workers have...

Updated Overview of Substance Use Disorder

Understanding addiction is essential to successfully addressing it. By understanding the neurological responses to substances and theories of addiction, participants will better be able to treat patients with...

Q&A and Scenarios for Substance Use Disorder: Language and Stigma

In recent years, there has been an increase in the use and subsequent harm from synthetic substances available in “headshops” and online. Awareness of these substances and their effects is...

Questions and Scenarios for Behavioral Addictions

In recent years, there has been an increase in the use and subsequent harm from synthetic substances available in “headshops” and online. Awareness of these substances and their effects is...

Tips for Prescribing/Dispensing Controlled Substances Within the Law

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Functional Pain and Opioids: Clinically Useful Strategies (enduring)

Opioids are prescribed and used inappropriately for functional pain syndromes (FPS). This course will emphasize assessing patients experiencing nociplastic pain and contrast the diagnosis and management...

Reducing Stigma: The Past, Present and Future of Recovery

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Approach to the Patient with Back Pain - "Oh My Aching Back!” (enduring)

This activity will provide education will for primary care physicians in the care of the back. It will also help identify red flags and make a more specific diagnosis. As a result, patients will get the...

KyPQC: Advancing Health Equity for Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorder Using a Trauma Informed Care Lens

The Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC) utilizes the platform of the annual meeting to provide education in clinical practice guidelines, profile evidence-based processes of care, and highlight...

KyPQC: Addressing the Co-occurring Needs of Women and Families Experiencing Violence

The Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC) utilizes the platform of the annual meeting to provide education in clinical practice guidelines, profile evidence-based processes of care, and highlight...

KyPQC: It Didn’t Have to be this Way

The Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC) utilizes the platform of the annual meeting to provide education in clinical practice guidelines, profile evidence-based processes of care, and highlight...

KyPQC: Leading with Our Hearts: Understanding and Addressing the Challenges of Empathy and Compassion when Working with High Need Patients

The Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC) utilizes the platform of the annual meeting to provide education in clinical practice guidelines, profile evidence-based processes of care, and highlight...

2022 HRS - Potential Sequelae of Injection Drug Use

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - Recovery Capital: Assets, Not Abstinence

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - The Kentucky Opioid Response Effort: Harm Reduction Principles and Strategies

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - Building A Movement To End The Intersecting Issues Of Overdose, Homelessness And Incarceration

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

2022 HRS - Building a Peer Workforce to Support Harm Reduction and Wellness

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services, including 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and...

The Beautiful Boy

Health care providers, family members, and friends need to have the skills to prevail over the anger and hopelessness that is felt when dealing with the affliction of addiction by utilizing "great...

Radon Policy and What Health Professionals Need to Know: Module 5

Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in those who have never smoked tobacco and the second leading cause of lung cancer after tobacco smoking.

Module 5 covers the need for federal and state radon...

What Patients Need To Know About Radon: Module 6

Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in those who have never smoked tobacco and the second leading cause of lung cancer after tobacco smoking.

Module 6 covers the importance of risk communication,...

Public Health Responses to Frequently Asked Questions About Radon: Module 4

Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in those who have never smoked and the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.

Module 4 addresses past scientific debate and current consensus about...

Radon Testing and Mitigation to Protect Health: Module 3

Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in those who have never smoked and the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.

Module 3 addresses radon testing, radon mitigation, radon-resistant...

Sources of Radon: Module 2

Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in those who have never smoked and the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.

Module 2 introduces the basic properties and characteristics of...

Event Reporting and Patient Safety Optimization

Increased reporting of medication safety events by all practitioners within our health system. Lack of knowledge related to the impact that reporting all medication events, regardless of level of harm that may...

Module III: Social Determinants of Health, Access to Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Telehealth has become more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social determinants of health may increase a patient’s risk for contracting COVID and their ability to recover. Social determinants of...

Module II: Nuts and Bolts of Telehealth

Providing care via telehealth requires additional skills that are different from those used for in-person visits in primary care. This module will explore appropriate environment, etiquette and patient...

Module IV: Telehealth, COVID-19 and Mental Health

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the increased use of telehealth to provide patient care. In addition, social isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the mental health of many...

Adopting LTC “Best Practices” & Addressing CMS Deficiencies

The very existence of the CMP program highlights the fact that KY CNFs are deficient in education and practical solutions to address CMS deficiencies that lead to reduced quality of care for CNF resi-dents in...

2021 Kentucky Harm Reduction Summit - A Statewide Collaborative Approach to Improving Care for Pregnant People Affected by Opioid Use in Massachusetts

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services including: 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and prevention, 5)...

2021 Kentucky Harm Reduction Summit - COVID-19, Mental Health and Substance Use: Rapid Research Review and Implications for Prevention

Healthcare teams lack awareness and knowledge about harm reduction services including: 1) prevention and response efforts, 2) available resources, 3) promising practices, 4) disease testing and prevention, 5)...

The Here and NOWs of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: Utilizing Science to Improve the Care of Infants with Antenatal Opioid Exposure

There is no nationally accepted standard approach to the assessment of and care for infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. There is paucity of data on behavioral and neurodevelopmental outcomes for...

2021 KyPQC Recordings - Maternal Health Equity in Vulnerable Populations - Morbidity, Mortality and Racial Disparities: What Can We Do?

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent are preventable. The death of a neonatal nurse in the hospital where she worked illustrates a profound...

2021 KyPQC Recordings - IL Perinatal Quality Collaborative: Mothers and Newborns affected by Opioids

ILPQC works closely with the Illinois Department of Public Health Regionalized Perinatal System, state health agencies, associations, and advocacy groups to improve obstetric and neonatal care to reduce...

End-of-Life Issues & Palliative/Hospice Care in Dementia

Addressing end-of-life issues and the provision of Hospice care has been shown to provide numerous benefits to patients and their families including but not limited to: pain and symptom management, quality of...

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Focus on Buprenorphine

Understanding Opioid Use Disorder

CPD 7: Crosstalk - Communicating and Addressing Patient Challenges

Substance use disorder (SUD) is a treatable, chronic disease that often involves cycles of relapse and remission due to complex interactions in the brain, heredities, and an individual’s environment...

Elder Abuse Issues & Capacity Determination in Dementia

Approximately 10% of the population over the age of 65 years (~4.3 million persons) in the United States have been the victims of elder abuse, and this number is expected to double to almost 90 million persons...

CPD 4: Medications Used to Treat Opiate Use Disorder​

Substance use disorder (OUD) is a treatable, chronic disease that often involves cycles of relapse and remission. Individuals who are under the influence of these substances often engage in risky and...

CPD 5: Powering Recovery - Other Substance Use Disorder Treatments

According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an...

The Nuts and Bolts of Implementing the Expanded Role of the RN in Primary Care

Many organizations are on the journey to implement and enhance the roles of the PC RN. This journey is filled with both barriers and facilitators. There is a lack of understanding of other roles on the care...

Management of Daily Care in Dementia: Bathing, Dressing & Incontinence

Elder abuse in the form of forced compliance with daily cares such as bathing and dressing, catheterization, or neglect in the form of failure to achieve hygiene or manage incontinence in aged persons with...

Leveraging Physician Extenders in the Infusion Center

The number one underlying reason for ED visits in the US is cancer.  Presenting to the ED results in hospital admission about 70% of the time for cancer patients. Leveraging physician extenders...

Palliative Cancer Care: What Are You Waiting For?

Palliative care is the medical subspecialty focused on providing relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of serious illness. Palliative care services include focused management of symptoms, pain and...

Optimizing Genetic Counselor Access in Oncology Care

Genetics is a continually growing and evolving field in oncology care and across healthcare. Genetic counselors are scarce in many communities and community hospitals throughout the United States and within...

Maintaining CoC Accreditation Amidst COVID-19

The Commission on Cancer is delivering on their commitment to quality cancer care by enhancing new programs, products and services and responding to changes in work resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Caring for Transgender Patients

To maintain regulatory compliance, it is important for covered entities to understand guidelines from Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, as well as documented disparities specifically related to the...

Mental Health in Cancer Care

In 2020 the National Cancer Institute identified that people who have cancer and a mental health diagnosis live longer if they receive mental health treatment. Better outcomes are related to the...

The COVID-19 Recession: How the Pandemic Has Affected Kentucky’s Economy

The pandemic has taken a significant toll on Kentucky’s economy. All major sectors reported employment declines as businesses reduced operations to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. While Kentucky...

Qualitative and Quantitative Measures Associated with Community Hospitals Participating in the Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network

The majority of cancer patients in the USA are treated at community hospitals (Petrelli NJ, 2010). This percentage is very likely even higher for common malignancies such as breast or colon cancer that can be...

The Changing Healthcare Landscape

Throughout history, health care policy has determined how care is provided to patients in the United States. In an ever-changing world, it is important to understand the trends in policy as well as how it is...

Community Engagement to Implement a Lung Cancer Screening Education Program in Western Kentucky

Lung cancer (LC) is the deadliest cancer worldwide. In the U.S, Kentucky has the highest LC mortality disproportionately affecting racial/ethnic/minority/rural populations. Low dose computed tomography (LDCT)...

The Effect of Pandemics on Cancer Patients: Ethical Issues

Oncologists are currently dealing with an unprecedented clinical context due to the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 because in 1918 -- the last time there was a similar global pandemic affecting American...

Taking ACTION to Train the Next Generation of Cancer Professionals from Appalachian Kentucky

Kentucky has the highest cancer incidence and mortality rates in the US with the greatest burden of the disease occurring in the Appalachian region of the state. As an example of the cancer disparities in this...

HPV - Value of Champions in a Healthcare System

More than 80% of the US population will be infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV) at some point in their life. The majority of cervical cancers are caused by an HPV infection. Both screening with...

Telehealth – the New Normal in Healthcare

In March, 2020, most health systems were forced to stop performing elective medical procedures and patients were reluctant to come to a medical center for outpatient clinic visits, fearing they would be...

Don’t Get Lost in the Data Weeds

Too often, when healthcare public relations employees knock on the door of another department director, they are met with hesitation as to what they are about to be asked. Public relations employees are...

Thoracic Oncology Business Model – Saving Lives & Driving Value

Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer along with high mortality rate. One of these reasons is because typically patients are diagnosed with late stage cancer. By having a comprehensive early...

The Changing Landscape of Oncology Navigation

Patient navigation has continued to evolve and transform along with the changing healthcare environment since its inception. Dr Freeman’s use of patient navigators to educate on the value of early...

Closing The Gaps In Stroke Systems Of Care: The North Carolina Experience In The Post-Acute Realm

According to the Implications for the Organization of Stroke Systems of Care in North America published in 2015.“Stroke systems of care must change to increase timely and equitable access to...

TIME=BRAIN: CALL 911, Optimizing Stroke Patient Outcomes

According to the 2007 publication Implementation Strategies for Emergency Medical Services within Stroke Systems of Care “The effective integration of EMS for stroke involves complex...

Is it a Stroke?

According to the Missed Ischemic Stroke Diagnosis in the Emergency Department by Emergency Medicine and Neurology Services published in 2016. “The failure to recognize an ischemic stroke in the...

Right Plase, at the Right Time

This presentation will increase the knowledge of using thrombolytics to treat acute ischemic stroke. Discuss differences between Alteplase and Tenecteplase. Create a better understanding of the 2019 Update to...

Hold Up! What’s the Work Up?

This presentation will increase the knowledge of what is required as part of the acute ischemic stroke work up. Discuss the stroke work up and how it relates to increased patient outcomes and decreases...

Stroke Rehabilitation: A Practical Approach to Stroke Recovery

According to the Principles of experience-dependent neural plasticity: implications for rehabilitation after brain damage published in 2008. “Neural plasticity is believed to be the basis for...

Secondary Prevention

According to the 2014 publication, Guidelines for the prevention of stroke in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack: a guideline for healthcare professionals from the American Heart...

Do You Know What You Don’t Know?

According to the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. “Nearly 15 years of increased stroke education and organization has...

Reading the Tea Leaves: Vital Radiographic Findings in Stroke

According to the 2010 publication The Future of Stroke Imaging: What We Need and How to Get to it“Advanced stroke imaging has made significant progress in the last 5 years. However, additional efforts...

CPD 2: Risky Business - Screening Patients for Substance Use Disorder

According to the Substance Use Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) nearly 80% of people with an opiate use disorder do not receive treatment. Because of this more healthcare providers need to screen...

CPD 3: Help Me Find My Way - Referring Patients to Treatment & Resources

According to the Substance Use Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) nearly 80% of people with an opiate use disorder do not receive treatment. More healthcare providers need to screen for substance...

Medication Reconciliation: Process Overview and Reference Tool

Pharmacy technician-driven medication reconciliation has been shown to improve medication discrepancy identification and resolution in health systems. However, institutional medication history training for...

Module 2: Urinalysis: Dipstick Testing in the Pharmacy

This module demonstrates how to perform a CLIA-waived-point-of-care urine dipstick test in the outpatient pharmacy and discusses how to interpret the results of a urine dipstick test. Regulatory requirements...

Module 3: Implementing Pharmacist Protocol Care for UTIs: Case-based Review

In this module, pharmacists will have the opportunity to test their knowledge and apply the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy protocol for acute, uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) in adult females (v2) to...

Module 4: Antibiotic Stewardship in the Community Setting

This module discusses the importance of antimicrobial stewardship in the community setting and the important role pharmacists can play to minimize inappropriate antibiotic use. Examples of innovative...

Weighing the Odds: LAN MAT Risks & Benefits

Current primary care practice sites are rarely providing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as part of the comprehensive care needed for patients who suffer from substance use disorder (SUD) and are seen in...

Portal Hypertension

Gastroenterology is a new specialty that has been re-introduced to Ephraim McDowell Health. As a result, patients with specific GI-issues are now more frequently cared for in the Regional Medical Center. Staff...

Prediabetes and Metabolic Risk Factors

Prediabetes affects 1 in 3 adults in the US population and the majority of patients impacted by the disease do not even know they have this condition. Even if patients are not aware of their diagnosis it can...

Glucose Lowering Medications and CVD Risk (SGLT2 Inhibitors, GLP Receptor Agonists)

Medications used to treat diabetes have rapidly increasing emergent evidence about their impact on cardiovascular risk and heart failure. The recommendations and FDA approved indications for these therapies...

Antiplatelet Therapy and CVD Risk Reduction

Recent studies have more clearly defined the risks and benefits of aspirin for primary prevention of CVD in diabetic patients necessitating review. This video addresses the risk and benefits. 

Heart Healthy Dietary Patterns for Diabetes

Diabetes is a major cardivascular risk factor, with lifestyle management forming the cornerstone of prevention and management

AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors

Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES), delivered by an interdisciplinary team with specialized training, is an essential component of diabetes medical treatment. DSMES improves A1C, reduces...

Children/Adolescents with Diabetes and Heart Health

A diagnosis of pre- diabetes is often delayed or entirely missed in the pediatric population. An early diagnosis of pre-diabetes allows for early intervention, varied options for management and improved...

Women with Diabetes and Heart Health

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of morbidity/mortality in type 2 DM. 

Seniors with Prediabetes and Heart Health

Prediabetes affect 1 in 2 older adults. Proactive care of older adults with prediabetes can effectively reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes. This educational panel discussion shares tools from a...

At the Heart of Telehealth: Extending the Reach of Diabetes Care and Education

Telehealth has been shown to be a very effective method for delivery of diabetes care and education in various geographic areas with patients across the lifespan. The authors...

Quality Improvement in Public Health: A Focus for Local Boards of Health

Physicians do not receive adequate public health training during their formal medical education to prepare them to serve on local boards of health. They under-utilize or are not aware of many of the resources...

WHY ADVOCACY? WHY ME?: Make your Voice Count!

Physicians do not receive adequate public health training during their formal medical education to prepare them to serve on local boards of health. They under-utilize or are not aware of many of the resources...

Public Health 101: A Guide for Physician Public Health Board Members

Physicians do not receive adequate public health training during their formal medical education to prepare them to serve on local boards of health. They under-utilize or are not aware of many of the resources...

The Role of the Ambulatory Care Pharmacist in the Management of COPD and Transition of Care in a Community Hospital

COPD is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. $50 billion was spent in 2010 - 70% attributed to exacerbations. Each COPD admission/readmission costs approximately $8,400-$11,100. Barriers to quality...

COPD Guidelines

The GOLD workgroup released updated treatment guidelines for COPD in the spring of 2019. In order to provide Kentuckians with optimal COPD treatment outcomes, practitioners across the state should be able to...

Lung Cancer Patient Navigation

Patients in Appalachia face unique barriers to accessing and navigating complex health care delivery systems due to distance from care and life circumstances. There is a shortage of trained patient...

Domestic Violence

Culturally Effective Patient Navigation in Appalachia

Health professionals and others providing care and support to the Appalachian population need to have knowledge and appreciation of the Appalachian culture.  Training is needed to increase awareness of...

Communication in Patient Navigation in Appalachia

The goal of this module is to provide you with the information on how to improve your personal communication skills in the performance of patient navigation in Appalachia. We will talk about enhancing...

Financial Issues in Cancer Navigation for Appalachia

Patients in Appalachia face unique barriers to accessing and navigating complex health care delivery systems due to distance from care and life circumstances. There is a shortage of trained patient...

Process of Navigation

Patient navigators guide patients through cancer care, which is often very complicated. The navigator guides the patient using a process, based on a community needs assessment that improves the patient...

Community Needs Assessment for Cancer Navigators

Communities are typically defined by a geographic area; however, they can also be based on shared interests or characteristics such as religion, race, age, or occupation
People within a community come...

Navigating Patients through Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Testing

Screening is a procedure that takes place before the patient has symptoms or shows any sign of disease. Some screening exams can be uncomfortable, and just the idea of being tested can cause anxiety in a...

Therapeutic Use of KASPER and Urine Drug Screening and Testing in Clinical Practice