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"I love it when patients come in and they bring their list of questions, or they ask me ‘Should I have this test?’ or ‘Why are we doing this?’ That makes the relationship, that makes managing this chronic problem together, a lot better."

‒ Dr. E. Harry Walker
MetroHealth Center for Community Health

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Better Health Greater Cleveland's 5th session

Learning Collaborative to Improve Chronic Disease Care

Topics in Patient-Centered Care

Selected Presentations from Sept. 18th, 2009, Session
 

 

Better Health Greater Cleveland Update

Randall D. Cebul, MD, Better Health Director

 

 

Keynote: The Patient-Centered Medical Home

Sponsored by Health Action Council Ohio

Richard J. Baron, MD, FACP, Greenhouse Internists P.C., Philadelphia

 

Health Literacy: How to Improve your Communication

with Patients with Chronic Diseases

John “Daryl” Thornton, MD, MPH

 Education Strategies in Heart Failure: Making the Patient Part of the Team

Mark Dunlap, MD & Julie Gee, RN, MSN, CNP

 

Beyond the Exam Room

Mark Roth, MD & Anil Jain, MD

Population Management and Electronic Tools for Outreach Support in Patient Care

 

 

A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Treatment
of Complex Chronically Ill Patients

William Schwab, MD

 

High-Functioning Teams in Chronic Disease Care

Nicholas J. Dreher, MD

 

Improved Chronic Disease Care: What Does it Take to Make it Happen?

Aleece Caron, PhD, Ronald Adams, MD,

Marianne Sumego, MD & Caroline Carter, MS, LSW

Christopher Hebert, MD, MS, Moderator


                          Learning Exchange Workshops – Concurrent Sessions

 

Conquering Language Barriers

Anita Misra-Hebert, MD, Andres Gonzales, MEd, & Mari Galindo-DaSilva

 

The Role of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) in Chronic Disease Care

Anil Jain, MD, David Kaelber, MD, PhD & Mark Binstock, MD 

 

Hospital to Home: Keys to a Smooth Transition

William Charles “Chad” Cook, DO, Sally Moennich, RN, BSN, MBA

 & Linda Neiding, RN, MSN, FNP, BC

 

 Taking the Next Steps: A Call to Action

 

Christopher Hebert, MD, MS & Caroline Carter, MS, LSW

  

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