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Meeting Information



ClinicalCommittee

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Clinical Committee Meeting

October 23, 2006, 12-2 pm

City Hall,1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 278

 

MINUTES

 

Members in Attendance:  Peg Strub, Gail Herrick , Marie Hoemke, Gloria Thornton, Karen Cohn

Absent Members:  Maria Elena Alioto, Nan Madden,

Guests and Staff:  Anjali Nath, staff; Krista Ward

 

Item

Meeting Notes/Decisions

Outcomes

I

Welcome, Introductions & Sign In

Facilitator:  Peg Strub           Timekeeper:  none          Recorder:  Anjali Nath

 

II

Review Minutes, Agenda & Set Time

 

Minutes approved

 

III

Distributing Asthma Management Flyers

Marie reported that Doctors Offices and School nurses she has contacted are excited because information is flowing, forms are being filled out and returned.

 

V

October 16th SF Asthma Network Meeting

Anjali Nath and Krista Ward from Breathe CA reviewed their assessment of the evaluations. 

 

Points to note:

Need for larger room –possible options include Laurel Heights $212 for ½ day,

CHN building,

Topics of interest:

Spirometry – Gloria posed the question about whether people really need to be trained on spirometry or whether they actually refer for this

Patient cases

Linking ER to PCP

 

Gloria brought up the challenge of standardizing care through health plans.

Some suggestions:

Stickers to mark charts in day care centers

Advocate for prompted progress note

Beef up patient education and advocate to have it integrated into regular visit

LCR prompts

Give them a way to self-rate; give them a menu and have them prioritize 3 and we can help them with those; Where do they really need to start?

Clarify role of spirometry at each site

 

Karen listed requirements used in Prop 10 grant:

Do a chart audit

Pull chart audit and make sure flu vaccine was given

Classify child by severity

 

Feedback received by Gail:

Some people felt that they were duplicating services that are already provided at SFGH Peds Clinic.

 

Feedback about Meeting:

Overall really good

Food good

Too many speakers, rushed, everyone went over time

 

Karen reported on her research on the Environmental Systems Change grant from The California Endowment.

Article indicated that poverty is not an indication of susceptibility to disease

 

Follow-up to meeting:

Send back Next Step Form or

Phone Call Followup:  Remind about Next Step Commitments, Self-rating questions, Certificates, Send out compilation of next steps, find out how many people need laminated poster, who needs to retake exam

Thank you notes to Speakers

 

SFATF would like to urge AAE revise the AE-C Exam

 

Would like to move forward on suggestion to create an Asthma Educator Network Newsletter

SFATF Contact list

 

Karen suggested making the next meeting more interactive maybe with a few talks.  More about what participants are experiencing and make it more about participants interacting.

 

Anjali announced that SFATF has

 

Marie announced that the ATF Schools Committee work is really paying off and the impact on the

 

 

Contact Sheet:

Gail

School Nurse of Day for Public School Issues

Stacey for CDC resources

Karen – Enviro resources

Gloria & Rowena – Qs related to Health Plan members

Peg Strub

Anjali as contact person

 

 

 

d.       Karen reported that still trying to encourage participants to schedule their exams; Karen asked if committee will authorize payment for new interested people to take the AE-C exam.  Committee agreed as long as MOU is set that requires review of slides and perhaps audio course.  Also agreed to pay for retakes for people who already participated and those who haven’t taken exam yet. 

 

Other options - Vendor is also available to do a Case Study Review Course, and

Becoming an Asthma Case Manager course

 

 

à Gail and Nan could do a review course. 

Peg requested that Gail or Nan come to Kaiser

 

Next full meeting in March/April

Coaching sessions, M,T, Th afternoon

 

Anjali will:

-type up the Next Steps Brainstorm sheets and email out to committee and also publish to participants.

 

-compile comprehensive contact list

 

-get compilation of Feb training from Karen

 

-          send Thank you cards to speakers

-          compile resource/contact info

-          begin putting info together for a newsletter

 

 

 

Gail and Nan will work together to put on a review course/coaching sessions for the exam

 

Gail will work with Peg to do a review course at Kaiser

 

Committee will plan for next Asthma Network meeting for March/April

VII

Announcements:

none

 

VIII

Next Meeting:

Monday, December 4, 2006, 12-2pm, City Hall Rm 278