Gravidas at Risk is an annual two-day statewide perinatal conference designed to address both inpatient and outpatient care. This conference will provide current information about clinical issues and strategies important in the care of high-risk pregnant women.
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Save the Date - 2020 Breast Cancer Symposium!
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October 23, 2020 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Virtual Conference
Mark your calendar for the 2020 Breast Cancer Symposium, which will be a Virtual Conference on October 23rd!
Excessive alcohol use, which affects almost a third of adults, is the nation’s third leading cause of preventable death. It is a major risk factor for many health, social, and economic problems. In addition, the problem has worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Northwest Area Health Education Center/ State Employees Credit Union Telemedicine Mini-Grants are available to help area practices!
Submit your proposal to the Northwest AHEC Practice Support team by August 21st to be eligible.
Up to $10,000 in project assistance and coaching available for area health providers.
Submit your proposal here!
More details are below.
NEW DATES! Best Practices in the Prevention and Treatment of Disordered Eating
REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.NWAHEC.ORG/60676
This series of one-hour sessions will provide health care providers with best practices for prevention, screening, identification and treatment of disordered eating.
This activity will be offered via Webex only.
Scheduled Series Dates:
One of the primary reasons for establishing the North Carolina AHEC system in 1972 was to increase the number of primary care physicians trained in the state with a focus on placing graduates in underserved communities.
Funds are provided to each of the four medical schools and their primary care departments to expand the training of primary care residents, and to enhance the possibility that graduates will settle in the state. In the Northwest AHEC, these funds provide a stipend based upon the number of approved full time employees in the primary care department residency programs.
Leadership coach, motivational speaker, trainer, and columnist Nigel D. Alston sits down for a conversation about healthy communities, where we are, and how we can improve the health of our communities, especially impoverished minority communities.
We recently came across this article about habits formed during quarantine and COVID-19. These are trying times but the shutdown and stay-at-home orders have also allowed a lot more family time and reflection time to give back to yourself. Some of these new and improved lifestyle changes are some we should try to keep around even post COVID-19 distancing. Is this a new normal for some of us?
LIVE WEBINAR ON July 30, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed new and difficult challenges for health care systems and professionals worldwide. Not least among these challenges are a variety of ethical issues in patient care. In this program, a panel of presenters will provide brief descriptions of several of those clinical ethical issues.
Dr. Karl Thomas will examine the difficult choices public and private health care systems confront in allocating limited resources among diagnostic, preventive, and treatment measures.
Dr. John Moskop will summarize the WFBH triage contingency plan created to decide who will and will not receive critical care resources in the event that a major surge ofcritically ill patients exceeds the system’s resource capacity.
Dr. Carl Grey will describe challenges in providing supportive and compassionate palliative care despite pandemic restrictions.
As session moderator, Mr. Gerardo Maradiaga will invite program participants to identify additional clinical ethics issues they have encountered.
Objectives
- Describe difficult choices in allocating resources among diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic measures in the current pandemic.
- Explain the role of triage plans in distributing scarce medical resources in a severe pandemic.
- Recognize challenges in providing effective palliative care despite pandemic restrictions.
Speakers
- John C Moskop, PhD
- Gerardo R Maradiaga, Clinical Ethicist
- Karl W Thomas, MD, FCCP, Professor
Audience
Physicians, PAs, NPs, nurses, hospital chaplains/clergy, social workers, psychologists, counselors, allied health professionals and all others interested in emerging ethical issues in health care.
Three Webinars:
Each webinar to be one and a half day
Aug. 24– 25, Oct. 19 – 20, Dec. 2 – 3
Plus two clinical days to be scheduled
This course targets health care professionals who work with breastfeeding mothers, and offers necessary knowledge and skills for providing basic breastfeeding management and support. These skills focus on basic prenatal and postpartum counseling, and the management of common concerns and clinical problems.
The interactive training involves five days of didactic sessions, two days of clinical rotations and an independent study assignment. The clinical days will be scheduled to occur between the first two days and last 2 days of the program.
NOTE: Due to COVID pandemic, this event will be via live webinar only.
