SAVE THE DATE

“Addressing Tobacco with Your Patients:

Evidence Based Interventions and Cessation Resources”

THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2010

12:30-1:30; 200 ROOMS

Matthew Gulbranson

Training and Outreach Specialist

Tobacco Cessation Resource Center (TCRC)

Washington State Department of Health

Learning Objectives:

Following this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Learn about brief tobacco interventions and how to use it with your patients
• Understand effective methods for implementing the brief intervention
• Learn about the Washington State Tobacco Quit Line and how to use it with patients

Acute Assessment and Management of Pediatric Trauma

online curriculum in the acute assessment and management of pediatric trauma patients, hosted by Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, WA) – the designated Level I Pediatric Trauma Center for Washington state

http://depts.washington.edu/pedtraum/

A Multi—Systems Approach to Pediatric Trauma

http://hsc.unm.edu/emermed/ped/education/pedsTrauma/course.shtml

Pediatric Emergencies

http://hsc.unm.edu/emermed/ped/education/pedEmer/course.shtml

Download the : Tobacco Free Campus decision matrix

Amy Belko PhD, MD Pediatrics

Tips for those who care for adults

1. Review the development of the current 2010 childhood vaccine schedule and understand its complexity.
2. Learn some tips for interpretation of footnotes.
3. Learn some local/national/international resources for questions

PowerPoint

Handout

On Aug. 2, 2010, Providence and Capital Medical Center will become tobacco-free campuses. As the two major health care providers in our service area, we are excited to make the commitment supporting healthier communities.

This means the use of any tobacco product will be prohibited on the campuses and affiliated clinics of Providence and Capital Medical Center.

This will include physician practices and any vehicle parked in garages or parking lots owned by Providence and Capital Medical Center, or affiliated clinics.

If an admitted patient decides to use tobacco products, they will be required to discharge themselves from the hospital Against Medical Advice (AMA). Should they decide to pursue readmission, they will follow the same process as any AMA patient, which requires that the patient enter back through the ED for triage. Read more »

Change is in the air! The Interpretive Services Resource Guidebook has changed. Be sure to print off the latest Resource Guidebook at http://documents.wa.providence.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-3006/resource%20guide.pdf

The in-person interpreters list is much shorter; these companies (Cross Cultural Communications and Language Fusion) will be providing both sign language and language in-person interpreters to Providence St. Peter Hospital, Providence Physician Network, and Providence Centralia Hospital moving forward. Any current appointments scheduled with other companies can be filled, however moving forward, all future appointments at PSPH need to be filled through either Cross Cultural Communications or Language Fusion. As mentioned earlier, our phone interpreting company will be changing at the start of August. More to come as that develops. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please feel free to contact me with questions. x37677 – Sharon Cockrum