{"id":4046,"date":"2018-05-01T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/?page_id=4046"},"modified":"2021-12-01T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T17:40:16","slug":"area-health-education-center-ahec-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/approved-nc-moc-projects\/area-health-education-center-ahec-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n    <div id=\"panel-heading-details-0-0\" class=\"panel-heading oscitas-bootstrap-container\" role=\"tab\">\n\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n            <button class=\"accordion-toggle oscitas-bootstrap-container collapsed\" \n                id = \"button-details-0-0\"\n                data-toggle=\"collapse\"\n                data-parent=\"#unc-accordion-0\"    \n                aria-controls=\"#details-0-0\"  \n                aria-expanded=\"false\" \n                href=\"#details-0-0\">\n                Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) Approved Projects            <\/button>\n\n        <\/h4>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"details-0-0\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse  oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n        <div class=\"panel-body oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<p><strong>\n<table id=\"tablepress-10\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-10 tablepress-responsive\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Approved QI Project<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Description<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Quality Improvement Project Manager<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Falls Screening and Follow-up Care<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Falls is the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries among people over 65 years of age.  They occur frequently \u2013 more than one out of three people in this age group fall each year.   The human impact is significant and includes death, loss of independence, reduced quality of life, and lost time to work.   <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe American Geriatrics Society (AGS) developed clinical practice guidelines for identifying individuals most at risk of falling and performing a comprehensive falls-risk assessment.   <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe project\u2019s goal is to implement evidence-based falls screening and follow-up for patients over 65 in primary care practices and improve performance in the related Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) measure.   <\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"mailto:tammy.garrity@mahec.net?Subject=NCMOC\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tammy Garrity, BS, PCMH-CCE<br \/>\nQuality Improvement Program Manager <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Pediatric Asthma Improvement Module<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Asthma affects 6.3 million children nationally.  It exacts a huge toll on children, families, communities and the health care system and disproportionately impacts black, Hispanic, multi-race, Native American, and poor children and families.   <br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlthough the rate of pediatric hospital stays for asthma has declined nationally,  pediatric asthma continues to be a leading cause of hospital admissions.  <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis project aims to engage pediatric and family medicine practices in implementing evidence based Asthma care processes and improve performance on key asthma outcome measures.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"mailto:tammy.garrity@mahec.net?Subject=NCMOC\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tammy Garrity, BS, PCMH-CCE<br \/>\nQuality Improvement Program Manager <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Improving Medical Office Patient Safety Culture in Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) Clinical Sites<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">According to the IOM, \u2018\u2018the biggest challenge to moving toward a safer health system is changing the culture from one of blaming individuals for errors to one in which errors are treated not as personal failures, but as opportunities to improve the system and prevent harm.\u2019\u2019\u00a0(Institute of Medicine, 2001)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis project aims to engage ambulatory care medical offices in assessing their performance on patient safety culture domains, identifying opportunities for improvement, and to apply a quality improvement framework to strengthen their safety culture (using AHRQ\u2019s Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture).<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"mailto:tammy.garrity@mahec.net?Subject=NCMOC\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tammy Garrity, BS, PCMH-CCE<br \/>\nQuality Improvement Program Manager <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Delivering Evidence Based Outpatient Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT)<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">This project\u2019s focus is to improve the reliability of delivering evidence-based Outpatient Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT). The primary aim is to increase access to OBOT in primary care settings through supporting effective implementation of evidence informed screening and treatment for opioid use disorder. The project hopes to increase provider knowledge in prescribing and treating. A secondary aim is to increase the number of providers with a DEA license waiver (to prescribe buprenorphine).<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"mailto:tammy.garrity@mahec.net?Subject=NCMOC\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tammy Garrity, BS, PCMH-CCE<br \/>\nQuality Improvement Program Manager <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">MAHEC Virtual Health Services<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to care for patients outside of the clinical setting. Patients may be reluctant to be seen in the clinical setting for routine care (such as Annual Well Visits and preventive care visits) and for acute issues. MAHEC is working with physician practices in the region to implement a telehealth platform and increase the availability of virtual health services by provider.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"mailto:tammy.garrity@mahec.net?Subject=NCMOC\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tammy Garrity, BS, PCMH-CCE<br \/>\nQuality Improvement Program Manager <br \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n        \n<\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n    <div id=\"panel-heading-details-0-1\" class=\"panel-heading oscitas-bootstrap-container\" role=\"tab\">\n\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n            <button class=\"accordion-toggle oscitas-bootstrap-container collapsed\" \n                id = \"button-details-0-1\"\n                data-toggle=\"collapse\"\n                data-parent=\"#unc-accordion-0\"    \n                aria-controls=\"#details-0-1\"  \n                aria-expanded=\"false\" \n                href=\"#details-0-1\">\n                Area L AHEC Approved Projects            <\/button>\n\n        <\/h4>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"details-0-1\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse  oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n        <div class=\"panel-body oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-12\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-12 tablepress-responsive\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Approved QI Project<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Description<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Quality Improvement Project Manager<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Opioid Stewardship<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Opioid abuse, addiction, and attributable deaths have been on the increase for many years. This project aims to utilize evidence-based guidelines to decrease the number of patients with current opioid prescriptions and the number of patients on &gt;\/= to 60 Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME). <\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Kenneth Robert, Project Lead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">ECHO Autism - TEACCH <\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Screening for autism in the pediatric population helps to identify those in need of further testing. This project aims to increase the screening of 18-24-month-olds so that children can be identified as early as possible and access services to improve their outcomes.<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Lisa Renfrow, MSN, RN, CDP<br \/>\nDirector-CME<br \/>\nArea L AHEC <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<strong><\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n        \n<\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"panel panel-default oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n    <div id=\"panel-heading-details-0-2\" class=\"panel-heading oscitas-bootstrap-container\" role=\"tab\">\n\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n            <button class=\"accordion-toggle oscitas-bootstrap-container collapsed\" \n                id = \"button-details-0-2\"\n                data-toggle=\"collapse\"\n                data-parent=\"#unc-accordion-0\"    \n                aria-controls=\"#details-0-2\"  \n                aria-expanded=\"false\" \n                href=\"#details-0-2\">\n                NC AHEC Approved Projects            <\/button>\n\n        <\/h4>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"details-0-2\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse  oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n        <div class=\"panel-body oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-19\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-19 tablepress-responsive\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Approved QI Project<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Description<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Quality Improvement Project Manager<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">NC AHEC Practice Support Program<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">The goal of the NC AHEC Practice Support Program is to give clinicians the tools and systems to provide consistent, high-quality care to all patients. This project provides quality improvement coaches\/facilitators who work with clinical practices to transform the provision of care. <\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Terri Roberts, MS, PCMH, CCE and <br \/>\nChris Weathington, MHA <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Collaborative Care Model <\/td><td class=\"column-2\">The AHEC Practice Support Program transforms the way care is delivered so that clinicians have the tools and systems in place to provide consistent, high-quality care to all patients all the time, complete today\u2019s work today, and prepare their practices for value-based payment initiatives. 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