The Office of Minority Health – offers patient education materials in English, Spanish and various other languages. Go to Publications, then Consumer Publications. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers free clinician and consumer guides that compare the benefits and risks of medications and/or other therapies for a wide range of health problems such as type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, and rental … [Read more...]
‘Who Wants to Save a Life?’
July 25, 2012 by
Dr. Chris Echterling faced a patient whose needs were so overwhelming, he sent an email to colleagues saying, “Who wants to help me save a life?” Listen here. … [Read more...]
ACU Says Thank You and Farewell
July 23, 2012 by
The ACU Board of Directors extends its thanks to departing member Vinod Miriyala. Dr. Miriyala is a dentist working in southeastern Ohio for the Ironton Lawrence County Area Community Action Organization. As an ACU board member, he has helped strengthen ACU's ties to the oral health community and identified oral health resources for our work on tobacco cessation. We also bid farewell to Dr. Merrell Sami, who worked with ACU while participating in Georgetown … [Read more...]
Youth Clinic experience opens minds and hearts
April 3, 2012 by
By Konnor La, an ACU student member and third year student at the University of California, Berkeley. Konnor can be reached at konnor.la@gmail.com. To learn more about the Suitcase Clinic, visit their website at http://www.suitcaseclinic.org/. Imagine a young man walking through the streets of a small, neat college town with his friends. He is carrying a large, heavy backpack filled with everything he thinks he will need throughout the day. Who do you imagine he is? A college … [Read more...]
Respiratory Therapists: Key Players in Asthma Care
March 1, 2012 by
Carole Dorr, RT, is a Registered Therapist at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Lois Wessel, CFNP, ACU’s Associate Director for Programs and asthma project co-director, interviewed Carole to get a sense of her role in asthma care and education as part of a transdisciplinary health care team. Q. What kind of training do respiratory therapists receive? A. Graduation from an accredited Respiratory Therapy Program is required to become a Respiratory Therapist (RT); more … [Read more...]
ACU member named to IOM Committee
February 1, 2012 by
Laurie Francis, BSN, MS, has been appointed to the Instituteof Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy representing ACU. The Roundtable brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations and associations, and representatives of patient and consumer interests who work to improve health literacy. Health literacy is central to improving health outcomes, Ms. Francis says. "Our clinic assessments revealed that 50 percent of clients suffer from diminished health literacy … [Read more...]
Free Clinic Director to Study Impact of Health Reform
January 1, 2012 by
ACU Member Sister Mary Ellen Howard, Executive Director of the St. Frances Cabrini Clinic in Detroit, MI has her work cut out for her for the next 18 months: she was selected by the McGregor Fund of Detroit to receive a fellowship to study the effect of health reform on the safety net and particularly, on free clinics. Sister Mary Ellen aims to learn how free clinics will manage as Medicaid expansions built into the Affordable Care Act are implemented. "2014 marks a turning point for free … [Read more...]
ACU Fellow Focuses on Social Determinants of Health
January 1, 2012 by
ACU is pleased to welcome Tobie-Lynn Smith, MD, MPH, a Georgetown University-Unity Health Care Community Health Center Director Development Fellow. As a component of her fellowship year, she will be working with ACU. Tobie is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa in San Antonio, TX. While a 3rd year resident she served as Resident Director on the American … [Read more...]
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