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There are limits to the number of patients you can effectively care for. Here's how to determine that number, improve patient access and better manage your workload.
Mark Murray, MD, MPA; Mike Davies, MD; Barbara Boushon, RN
Not only did Sherman County Medical Clinic's District Administrator, Caitlin Blagg, worry about meeting Must Pass Measure 1.C.0, which states that PCPCHs must “provide continuous access to clinical advice by telephone” for Patient Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) recognition, she was also concerned about how meeting this measure would impact her already busy single provider and staff.
This webinar is designed to help educate healthcare leadership, organizations and clinicians about coping skills and other resources available to deal with professional and personal changes in the workplace, changing clinical roles, and the potential for burnout.
September is National Recovery Month, and in celebration of the 23 million people who are in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol, the National Council for Behavioral Health created a toolkit to increase understanding of these diseases. The toolkit includes a poster highlighting that recovery is possible, an infographic that shares statistics on recovery, tip sheets and more.
A toolkit for cognitive assessment and screening, featuring the General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG), Memory Impairment Screen (MIS), Mini-CogTM and more. Additional information regarding evaluation, tools and other important cognitive assessment topics for health care professionals can be found here.
This link features the Rapid Geriatric Assessment Tool (RGA) - a free cognitive function assessment tool that includes assessment of frailty, and nutrition - useful in older adult screenings. Also includes patient handouts for fatigue, polypharmacy, Sarcopenia and other related items. An accompanying RGA Training Video is available here.
This page features the Rapid Cognitive Screen Assessment Tool (RCS) - a free cognitive function assessment tool useful in older adult screenings.
This page features the Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) Examination for detecting mild cognitive impairment and dementia, typically used for cognitive screening of older adults.
The Seniors & People with Physical Disabilities (APD) Offices provide in-home care and long-term care services to those that qualify. The local Case Workers and Transition Coordinators at these offices can connect you with important resources and information for care. This page allows you to see all of the local APD Offices in Oregon, and sort locations by county, and/or search by city.
This page connects you to resources for older adults in Oregon. You can learn about resources, services and facilities, search for local resources, connect with ADRC staff, and access tools and guides related to health for older adults.
Workforce projections in Oregon estimate “a 38% increase in additional primary care providers by 2030 to maintain the current rate of utilization” (Petterson, 2013). However, high-functioning teams that utilize registered nurses (RNs) to manage some conditions can help narrow this gap. Enter: the Nurse Visit.
This toolkit provides a seven step framework for implementing patient decision support in primary care.
This course combines pre-reading (the ODST) with slides and handouts intended for use in a hands-on workshop to practice decision support skills. There are online workshops for physicians and non-physicians.
Patient decision aids are educational tools that give you information about your options and encourage you to think about what is important to you as you make your healthcare choices. These paper, DVD or web based tools may be used before, after or during your medical appointment. We can help you find the right resources to support you with your healthcare decision making.
Shared Decision Making (SDM) is a collaborative process that allows the patient and provider to make important health care decisions together. During this presentation you’ll learn some valuable lessons from the field, how to choose the most appropriate SDM topics for your clinic, how to integrate patient decision support tools and the process of SDM into routine workflows, learn about training resources for providers and staff, and where to go to get additional resources.
In 2015, CareOregon and its provider partners set out to both build and sustain capacity of integrated behavioral health services in primary care in the Portland Metro region to address the total health of our members beyond traditional primary care.
This article follows Clinica Family Health Services in Colorado through thier process of improving access to care by allowing nurses to play a bigger role in care and see more patients in a financially sustainable way.
"With more and more Americans gaining access to primary care, clinics face the challenge of increasing demand for services with no enhanced capacity to meet the demand. In this article, authors addressed this issue by initiating RN-led visits that required little provider time, thereby increasing access without worsening burnout."
Karen A. Funk, MD, MPP and Malia Davis, MSN, ANP-C
"Facing a shortage of primary care physicians and a large increase in patients needing care, safety-net clinics are realizing the full potential of using the nursing workforce to deliver better care."
Thomas Bodenheimer, Laurie Bauer, J. Nwando Olayiwola, and Sara Syer of the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at UCSF
Looking to learn more about how CPC+ will work to “dramatically improve the infrastructure of primary care clinics”? Moderators from Care Management Plus and the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network will field questions from Oregon practices interested in participating in CPC+.
There are over 600 Oregon primary care clinics recognized as a Patient-Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH). Chances are you work in, or collaborate with, one of these clinics in some capacity. Get the inside scoop on what's changing in the PCPCH Program, including new standards for attestation in 2017.
HealthInsight Oregon is engaging primary care practitioners (PCPs), mental health practitioners, and inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) in an effort to help communities build the connections to close gaps in care for this vulnerable population.
Oregon Community Health Workers Association offers advocacy, meetings and events, education and other useful information to Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Oregon. This page offers resources surrounding CHW programs, newsletters, reports, and publications.
