FALL 2018 An Evening with Experts

Financial Health: A Building Block for Women’s Health
For you, your patients, family and friends

November 29, 5:00-7:30PM

Financial Health: A Building Block for Women’s Health
Agenda 

5:00-5:30 Registration & Reception

5:30–5:45 Spark Award Winner Announcement

5:45-6:00 Conference Introduction: Financial Health as a Social Determinant
Carrie Bridges Feliz, MPH, Co-chair, Women’s Health Council of RI

6:00-6:30 Financial Health as a Foundation
Diane Crosby

6:30-6:40 Video Interlude
Edye Demarco

6:40-7:10 Financial Health – Policy and Advocacy 
Kelly Nevins

7:10-7:30 Q&A and Closing Remarks
Peg Miller, MD, Co-chair, Women’s Health Council of RI

New Location

The Rhode Island Foundation
Rhode Island Room, 1st Floor
1 Union Station, Providence, RI

Karen Rosene Montella Spark Award for Innovation in Women’s Health in RI 2016 Winner

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Corinna Roy receives Spark award for recipient Rebecca Boss, Acting Director, Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals and State Opioid Treatment Authority

For: Her development and implementation of the Anchor ED Program which connects overdose patients in Hospital EDs with peer to peer recovery support while they are being held for observation, a time when they are likely to be receptive to help from others who have lived the experience, and continues that care post visit to help them on a path to recovery and health.

Primary Evaluation Criteria:

Innovative research, education, clinical care and policy/advocacy that improves medical, behavioral and/or social health of women in Rhode Island at any point in their lifespan. Size of initiative is not relevant.

• The Program provides an innovative approach to reaching overdose patients who come to Hospital EDs and their families to improve outcomes and long-term recovery.
• The Program is reducing opioid overdose deaths, ED visits and, therefore, is impacting individuals, families and communities throughout the State as individuals begin a successful path to recovery.

Focuses on health and/or socioeconomic disparities in community

• The significant increase in opioid deaths in Rhode Island has become a public health crisis. Women have historically been low users of heroin but there has been a 100% increase in use among women nationwide since 2004. Rhode Island rates are rising and likely similar.
• Prior to this program patients routinely left the ED without being referred to treatment or recovery support services, a lost opportunity for intervention and successful continuity of care and a high likelihood that they would return.

Removes barriers to care or broadens reach of existing are centers

• The patients are more likely to agree to talk with an Anchor coach because of the peer to peer nature of the consult. To date, only 16 survivors have declined.
• The post ED support also enhances the chance that patients access recovery support services.

Has been in place for 1 year with demonstrable results

• Was launched in June 2014 and now a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist is available to all RI hospital EDs 24/7.
• Has successful statistics and qualitative support from ED providers and national organizations

Secondary Evaluation Criteria:

Links providers who deliver care and coordinate services or promotes the health of women

• Has developed a continuity of care from ED visit through recovery treatment and follow-up in the community.
• Uses appropriate providers at appropriate times of the patient’s visit

Expected transferability of process, service or program to other organizations

• Has already been implemented in all the EDs across the State and is being implemented in at least ten other states nationwide.
• The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy has called it one of the most innovative programs in the country
• The Program is supported by Certified Peer Recovery Specialists, or “Anchor coaches” who go through a vigorous training and continuing education developed for the Program.

Ability to engage patients, clients and/or community in a meaningful way

• Most of the patients seen by the Anchor coaches have not been in a formal treatment program in the prior 12 months.
• 87.5% engagement on the 30th day following an ED visit after overdosing and 37.5% have accepted a referral to detox or medicated assisted treatment within one week after the ED visit.

Other Program Components:

• Provide warm handoffs to individuals and/or family members (if the individual is agreeable) to treatment and recovery resources
• Offer SUD education and support to any family member or friend supporting the patient’s recovery
• Provide the individual and/or family member(s) (if agreeable) specific education on overdose prevention, the use of Naloxone and how to obtain Naloxone
• Review “recovery planning” tool and/or additional resources to patients and their family members
• Continued contact for additional recovery support after discharge with first contact within 24 hours
• Followed by Anchor Recovery Community Center through recovery coaching, telephone recovery support, treatment referral and recovery housing.

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The Karen Rosene-Montella, M.D.
Spark Award for Innovation in
Women’s Health in RI

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Recognition by the Women’s Health Council of RI

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR / REVIEW CRITERIA

• Innovative research, education, clinical care and policy/advocacy that improves medical, behavioral and/or social health of women in Rhode Island at any point in their lifespan. Size of initiative is not relevant.
• Focuses on health and/or socioeconomic disparities in the community.
• Removes barriers to care or broadens reach of existing care centers.
• Service, process or program has been in place for at least 1 year with demonstrable results.
• Additional preferred components

– – Links providers who deliver care and coordinate services or promotes the health of women.

– – Expected transferability of process, service or program to other organizations.

– – Ability to engage patients, clients and/or community in a meaningful way.No weighting has been assigned to the criteria.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

• Any provider or provider organization that cares for women and/or girls in Rhode Island. Our definition of provider includes anyone that cares for the social, medical and behavioral health of women which could include direct care givers, payors or policy makers who work in institutions or the community, e.g. educators, public health professionals, social service providers.

Nomination and Selection

• Nominations should be sent by email to Krystal Branco kbranco@lifespan.org between April 1 and October 1 of the calendar year.
• Individuals may submit nominations for themselves or for others.
• A Review Committee of the Women’s Health Council of RI will review all submissions in the context of the Review Criteria and make a decision before the Annual WHC Fall Conference. The review may include phone calls or visits to finalist sites.
• The award winner will be announced at the Annual WHC Conference and will present their work at the Conference. The winner will also be recognized on our website, in the Lifespan employee e-newsletter Lifelines, through a press release to the local media and on the Lifespan social media channels.

Nominations include the following. Click here to submit a nomination. 

Concept

• Summary of vision and issue being addressed
• Description of service, process or program in context of Review Criteria
• Subset of women impacted
• Overview of development process
• Length of time in place

Impact and Value

• Documented results and why it is an improved solution
• Transferability to other organizations
• Future plans for service, process or program, sustainability, impact on community and health care system

For more information about or to nominate for the Spark Award or for more information about the Women’s Health Council of RI, contact Robin Zaman at 401 444.8009

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PRESS RELEASE

Women’s Health Council of RI seeking nominees for innovation in women’s health award

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Nominations are being accepted for the Karen Rosene Montella, M.D., Spark Award for Innovation in Women’s Health in RI. The distinction recognizes innovative services, processes or programs that improve medical, behavioral and/or social health for Rhode Island women of all ages.

Named for Rosene Montella, M.D., senior vice president of women’s services and clinical integration at Lifespan and professor and vice chair of medicine and director of obstetric medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, the award focuses on health and socioeconomic disparities in the community. It is an acknowledgement of a provider’s efforts to remove barriers to care or broaden the reach of existing care centers; link providers in care delivery and coordination; and engage patients and the community. Rosene Montella helped found the Women’s Health Council of RI, serving as chair since its inception in 2008.

“We have no shortage in Rhode Island of compassionate providers working hard every day to ensure a broad spectrum of women receive high-quality, comprehensive care,” said Peg Miller, M.D., FACP, director of Lifespan’s Women’s Medicine Collaborative and co-chair of the Women’s Health Council of RI. “Through this award, we’d like to call attention to those committed providers for their valued contributions to raising the bar on women’s health in our state.”

Any provider or provider organization that cares for the social, medical and behavioral health of women and/or girls in Rhode Island is eligible for the award, including direct caregivers, payors or policy makers who work in institutions or the community such as educators, public health professionals, or social service providers. Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Completed nomination forms can be emailed to Krystal Branco at kbranco@lifespan.org.

The deadline is October 1.

For more information about or to nominate for the Spark Award, contact Krystal Branco at kbranco@lifespan.org or 401 793.7382.

For more information about the Women’s Health Council of RI, contact Robin Zaman at 401 444.8009

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