Sports and Asthma
Check out the article that appeared in the April edition of NJ Family Magazine on sports triggering a child's asthma symptoms!
The PACNJ Asthma Friendly Child Care Program Award
Does your preschool child have asthma? If so, then it is important that your child is in a child care program that is asthma friendly. Tell your child's teacher about the PACNJ Asthma Friendly Child Care Program Award and to go to www.pacnj.org to learn more!
The New Jersey Asthma Symposium
The NJ Asthma Symposium took place on Thursday, August 9th, 2012 and was a great success with over one hundred attendees! The program was designed to provide NJ health care providers with the information to diagnose and treat asthma in accordance with the latest Guidelines from the 2007 National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP), coordinated by the National heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), as the latest set of clinical practice recommendations for asthma, including environmental controls.
Learn and Teach About Asthma 2012
Learn and Teach about Asthma, a continuing education program, was held at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury, MA on May 19, 2012 in recognition of Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. With over 40 participants in attendance, this year's course was a huge success by all accounts.
Nancy Swan, Director of Children's EPA
Breathless in Mobile, gets Community to Act
Camp YesUcan
Frederick Memorial Hospital promotes Asthma Awareness Day with a day of exercise and learning activities for area children struggling with this condition.
Are the usable provider asthma guidelines available for others to use? (for Lisa Jordan, Easy Breathing)
Lisa,
We at L.A. Cares About Asthma would be very interested in viewing the usable provider asthma guidelines you spoke about in your presentation. Are those available for others to use?
Guideline Implementation Steps & Tools (GIST) Provider Ed/Practice Redesign program
The Michigan Dept. of Community Health and partners created the GIST program to help primary care providers implement the GIP messages in their everyday practice. You can find the materials and resources to help implement them here in the resource bank (http://www.asthmacommunitynetwork.org/node/6551) or at GetAsthmaHelp.org/GIST. These materials are not copywritten and available free of charge. Any questions about GIST can be directed to Tisa Vorce at vorcet@michigan.gov
Who initiates the care plans for the patient (for Lisa Diaz, LA Care)
From Janet Moore - Who initiates the care plans for the patient? Their physician, someone in the healthplan organization, an outside source?
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