COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptability Among Clients and Staff of Homeless Shelters in Detroit, Michigan, February 2021.

Understanding COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among clients and staff of homeless shelters can inform public health efforts focused on communicating with and educating this population about COVID-19 vaccines and thus improve vaccine uptake. The objective of this study was to assess COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and uptake among people in homeless shelters in Detroit, Michigan. A cross-sectional study was conducted from February 9 to 23, 2021.

Leveraging the strength of comprehensive cancer control coalitions to support policy, systems, and environmental change.

Strategies that facilitate change to policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes can enable behaviors and practices that lead to cancer risk reduction, early detection, treatment access, and improved quality of life among survivors. Comprehensive cancer control is a coordinated collaborative approach to reduce cancer burden and operationalizes PSE change strategies for this purpose. Efforts to support these actions occur at the national, state, and local levels.

Interprofessional Academic Patient Aligned Care Team Panel Management Model.

The panel management model brings together trainees, faculty, and clinic staff to proactively provide team-based care to high-risk patients with unmet chronic care needs.

The Dyad Model for Interprofessional Academic Patient Aligned Care Teams.

Combining interprofessional education, clinical or workplace learning, and physician resident teachers in the ambulatory setting, the dyad model enhances teamwork skills and increases nurse practitioner students' clinical competence.

Evaluating the Feasibility of Using a Mobile App to Track Oncology Patient Navigation Activities and Outcomes.

Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports the implementation of evidence-based interventions to prevent and control cancer, including patient navigation (PN); however, PN lacks standardized tools to measure effectiveness and aggregate data across programs. Using a mobile application (app) could provide a systematic infrastructure for cataloging PN activities and measuring patient outcomes.

Objective: Our goal was to evaluate the feasibility of using a mobile app to assist with PN services within cancer control programs.

Huddling for High-Performing Teams.

In short team huddles, trainees and PACT teamlets meet to coordinate care and identify ways to improve team processes under the guidance of faculty members who reinforce collaborative practice and continuous improvement.

PACT ICU Model: Interprofessional Case Conferences for High-Risk/High-Need Patients.

Physician, nurse practitioner trainees, medical center faculty, and clinic staff develop proactive, team-based, interprofessional care plans to address unmet chronic care needs for high-risk patients.

Initiative to Minimize Pharmaceutical Risk in Older Veterans (IMPROVE) Polypharmacy Clinic.

An interprofessional polypharmacy clinic for intensive management of medication regimens helps high-risk patients manage their medications.

Capacity Building for and Implementation of Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change: Results from a Survey of the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program.

Policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches are commonly used to improve population health. Cancer-related examples include providing data and education to stakeholders about policies that support healthy living, or health systems changes such as universal reminders about recommended cancer screening. The National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) funds health departments to form cancer coalitions that develop and implement cancer plans.

Interprofessional transformation of clinical education: The first six years of the Veterans Affairs Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education.

This paper describes the Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE), a seven-site collaborative project funded by the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) within the Veterans Health Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The CoEPCE was established to fulfill OAA's vision of large-scale transformation of the clinical learning environment within VA primary care settings. This was accomplished by funding new Centers within VA facilities to develop models of interprofessional education (IPE) to teach health professions trainees to deliver high quality interprofessional team-based primary care to Veterans.

Are you ready for audits.

Audits can cost your practice thousands--if not millions--of dollars. Protect yourself with internal audits to ensure compliance.

Clinic consortia media advocacy capacity: partnering with the media and increasing policymaker awareness.

Media advocacy is a popular means of crafting and disseminating messages broadly and has been used by advocates to increase policymaker and public awareness of key health policy issues, such as the large number of uninsured. Some media advocacy activities are more effective than others, however, requiring increased sensitivity to the media environment and adequate resources and expertise. This article describes the results of media advocacy activities undertaken by 19 clinic consortia funded under The California Endowment's Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program from 2002 to 2006.

Choropleth map design for cancer incidence, part 2.

Choropleth maps are commonly used in cancer reports and community discussions about cancer rates. Cancer registries increasingly use geographic information system techniques. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control convened a Map Work Group to help guide application of geographic information system mapping techniques and to promote choropleth mapping of data from central cancer registries supported by the National Program of Cancer Registries, especially for comprehensive cancer control planning and evaluation purposes.

Choropleth map design for cancer incidence, part 1.

Choropleth maps are commonly used in cancer reports and community discussions about cancer rates. Cancer registries increasingly use geographic information system techniques. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control convened a Map Work Group to help guide application of geographic information systems mapping techniques and to promote choropleth mapping of data from central cancer registries supported by the National Program of Cancer Registries, especially for planning and evaluation of comprehensive cancer control programs.

Lessons from the field: expanding health insurance coverage one county at a time.

From 2004 to 2007 the California HealthCare Foundation's Step by Step: Local Coverage Expansion initiative supported insurance coverage expansions for uninsured children and adults in thirty California counties. In this paper we descbribe the initiative and its achievements as well as challenges for grantees. Also, we discuss the implications of the initiative's outcomes for expanding coverage locally and more broadly.

Increasing access to care for the uninsured: considering the options in California counties.

We interviewed California county health agency staff and administered a 58-county survey in 2002 and 2004 to inventory programs designed to improve access to care for the uninsured, and to assess county ability to meet the needs of California's uninsured during slow economic periods. Most counties have established means to connect people to existing public insurance programs and services have been expanded. Growth in new health care insurance programs for children and modest growth for adults are apparent.

Virtual scheduling. A 21st-century approach to staffing.

Nursing professionals have been aware of the management challenges associated with hospital scheduling and staffing for years. However, today's changing work force, advances in technology, increased financial pressures, and regulatory oversight have put the scheduling process on health care's strategic agenda. Virtual staffing is the optimization of front-to-back hospital processes, integrating traditionally disparate systems to provide prospective and informed decisions about resource planning.