Continuing Education Credits:n/a
Intended Audience: Direct care staff.

The BH Community Crisis and Urgent Care Protocol improves access to coordinated evidence-based clinical treatment and supportive services that can enable individuals with BH disorders to address urgent and crisis BH issues safely in community settings with a variety of options. The training explores multiple paths an individual can take when a crisis arises that does not involve utilizing the emergency room.

Continuing Education Credits:N/A
Intended Audience: Physicians, NPs, RNs, Medical Assistants or staff providing care to hypertension patients.

This module highlights best practices for capturing and documenting blood pressure derived from empirical evidence of missed opportunities. Controlling Blood Pressure is one of the ten priority performance improvement measures that MHVC has selected within the NYS DOH DSRIP program. The overarching goal of this measure is to reduce the number of Medicaid patients with high and uncontrolled blood pressure.

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This training contains a series of PowerPoint presentations that were presented at Screening and Diagnosis of Early Stage Cancers: The Best Defense is a Good Offense at the Price Center located at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The following are six (6) presentations from Cancer Prevention and Screening Researchers and Physicians:

• Screening for Uncommon Cancers: Who and how should you screen for Gastric Cancer?
• Screening Mammography: Does One Size Fit All?
• Colorectal Cancer Early Diagnosis: Updates on Screening Guidelines
• Overview of Cancer Screening in the Bronx
• Cervical Cancer Detection: Perspectives on Screening and HPV
• Prostate Cancer: To Screen or Not to Screen

Continuing Education Credits:n/a
Intended Audience: All healthcare staff.

This online module provides an introduction to Asthma, overview of Asthma Evidence-Based Guidelines, and Asthma Management tools.

Continuing Education Credits:This module has been submitted for CE and CME credits and is pending approval.
Intended Audience: All Staff

This learning module is designed for primary care providers, care managers and behavioral health providers to increase knowledge and self-confidence in screening for and managing major depressive disorder using the PHQ9, measurement-based care and the collaborative care model.  The module uses a longitudinal series of annotated video case vignettes to demonstrate effective communication skills and the Collaborative Care Model in action.  A case-based post-test checks for understanding of covered content.

Specific content includes:

• Details about the prevalence of major depressive disorder in the general population and in patients with comorbid chronic disease
• How to screen for depression using the PHQ2 and PHQ9
• How to have a conversation with a patient about a diagnosis of depression to
• How to use shared decision tools to guide medication choice conversations, and counsel patients about medication side effects.
• How to do a suicidal risk assessment using the P4 Screener, and how to manage a patient with active suicidality
• How to use Brief Action Planning to support self-management of depression
• How to collaborate with an extended care team  (primary care provider, care manager and psychiatrist) to implement the depression collaborative care model.
• How to use measurement-based care to guide the management of depression by repeating the PHQ9 over time.
• How asking about “what matters” can help support the development of care plans that meet patients where they are at.

By the conclusion of this activity learners will be able to:

1. State three reasons why it is important to screen for depression in general medical settings
2. Utilize the PHQ2 and PHQ9 to identify patients with depression in their practices and monitor treatment response
3. State 4 questions of the P4 Screener to evaluate for active suicidality
4. Utilize depression education, and self-management support strategies including BAP to manage patients with depression
5. Understand the various roles of Collaborative Care team members and effectively collaborate with a behavioral health collaborative care team (Care manager, psychiatrist, PCP) to maximize care and make referrals as needed.

For more information on the E-Learning module please click here to access training announcement.

Continuing Education Credits:n/a
Intended Audience: All healthcare staff.

Montefiore Hudson Valley Collaborative (MHVC) hosted a smoking cessation webinar called “Reaching Your Tobacco-Using Patients: Let the Quitline Help!” Facilitated by Patricia Bax, RN, MS, TTS, ACB, Marketing and Outreach Coordinator for the NYS Quitline/Roswell Park Cancer Institute, this webinar provided information about the NYS Quitline and how their services can help clients/patients to quit, as well as an overview of barriers and facilitators to implementing tobacco cessation activities and policies at the organization.

Continuing Education Credits:n/a
Intended Audience: All healthcare staff.

Participants learn about the resources that the NYS Smoker’s Quitline offers to providers and consumers including the reports available to individual site or organization. This dynamic presentation also includes strategies on how to use Motivational Interviewing techniques in relation to tobacco use cessation.