Women's Health ECHO: AIM Bundles - Preeclampsia, Hemorrhage, and Depression (October 13, 2022)

October 13, 2022

Program Information

This program is designed to connect providers to a community of peers and subject-matter experts from Ohio University and across the state to address patients’ complex health needs related to women’s health using a multidisciplinary team approach. All medical providers, behavioral providers, and care team members working in primary care settings (especially in Federally Qualified Health Centers) are encouraged to join and participate.

This activity meets on the second and fourth Thursday of every month from 12-1pm ET.

Acknowledgement of Support

The Women’s Health ECHO Program for Ohio is supported by the Centene Corporation and Buckeye Health Plan.

Target Audience

This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:

  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Medical Providers (MDs,DOs,NPs)
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Therapists
  • Other care team members

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:

  • Connect patients with services to address social determinants of health to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities.
  • Utilize best and promising practice approaches to enhance the coordination of care between settings.
  • Apply evidence-based practices to effectively treat and counsel patients throughout the spectrum of sexual and reproductive health care.
  • Better facilitate and improve behavioral health approaches, medication management, and other lifestyle practices for women’s mental health.
  • Demonstrate evidence-based approaches to prevention and screening for conditions that disproportionally affect women.
  • Enhance treatment strategies for medical conditions across the lifespan.
Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 ACE/ASWB
    Through Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
  • 1.00 ACPE
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) credit to pharmacists at its activities.
  • 1.00 ADA CERP
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
  • 1.00 APA
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities.
  • 1.00 CDR
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide CDR credits to registered dieticians at its activities.
  • 1.00 Participation Hour(s)
    You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
Activity opens: 
03/10/2022
Activity expires: 
12/31/2022
Event starts: 
10/13/2022 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/13/2022 - 1:00pm EDT

Schedule

This ECHO meets the second and fourth Thursday of every month from 12-1pm ET. Below are the dates of the remaining sessions: 

  • June 23, 2022
  • July 14, 2022
  • July 28, 2022
  • August 11, 2022
  • August 25, 2022
  • September 8, 2022
  • September 22, 2022
  • October 13, 2022
  • October 27, 2022
  • November 10, 2022
  • December 8, 2022

Faculty

Jody M. Gerome, DO, FACOOG, is a Senior Associate Dean, Medical Education and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Athens, Ohio, where the mission is to train osteopathic primary care physicians to serve in the State of Ohio. In addition to her work preparing our next generation of physicians, she practices Obstetrics and Gynecology for Ohio Health Physicians Group – Heritage College Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her practice serves a 5 county region in the Appalachian region in Southern Ohio. As a general obstetrician gynecologist, she aims to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes through education and high-quality patient care. She has participated in multiple projects designed to improve quality care to the at-risk populations she serves. Dr. Gerome, a northern Ohio native, and avid Cleveland sports fan, now resides in Athens, Ohio, where she and her husband are raising 3 young boys.

Laurel Danes-Webb, MS, APRN-CNP, FNP-BC, CDCES, graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Doctor of Nursing Degree (converted to a DNP) as well as Ohio State with a Master’s of Science in Nursing. She obtained a Post Masters Family Nurse Practitioner certificate in 1999 from Otterbein University and began practice as one of the first Family Nurse Practitioners in Hocking County. She presently is employed full time at Hopewell Health Center, a large FQHC that spans over nine counties in southeastern Ohio where she has been employed for 19 years. Her practice includes patients of all ages and she utilizes up to date evidenced based practice standards in her care. In addition to family practice, she incorporates diabetes management strategies from her background and certification as a diabetes care and education specialist. Previously as a professor of nursing at a local community college, Laurel was able to master skills of teaching which has been invaluable in working with patients having low literacy or inability to read. Laurel is committed to caring for the underserved and ensuring all patients get excellence in care.

Shannon Linder, DNP, APRN-CNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, is a dual certified family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and faculty at the Ohio State University College of Nursing. Shannon completed all of her degrees from The Ohio State University; Bachelor's of Pharmaceutical Sciences, BSN in 2005, MS in 2008 as a Family Nurse Practitioner, and PMHNP post-master's and Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2014. She currently maintains outpatient clinical practice Matrix Psychological Associates as a PMHNP and cover inpatient services at Columbus Springs, Dublin. Her areas of interest include: depressive and anxiety disorders, mood disorders, women's health and reproductive mental health, eating disorders, and trauma. As a FNP, her experience was in retail health and neurology. Prior to becoming a NP, her RN experience was step-down intensive care. Outside of work life, Shannon enjoys spending all of her extra time with her husband and their 4 children (ages 8, 6 and twin 3 year olds) and their family & friends. She also has a strong love for working out with Peloton & training for quarter and half marathons.

Sarah Sams, MD, FAAFP, trained and practiced is a Family Physician who practices full spectrum Family Medicine including obstetrics in her role as Associate Director at Grant Family Medicine Residency program in Columbus, Ohio. Sarah’s greatest joy in medicine is caring for families across the lifespan, including having delivered more than a dozen “2nd generation” babies (babies of babies she delivered). In her faculty role at Grant, she is in liaison between the Family Medicine department and the Mother/Infant departments, servicing on the OB peer review Women’s/Infant CPIT (Clinical Performance Improvement Team) and the System wide Women’s/Infant Guidance Council. Dr. Sams is a past president of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians and currently serves as an Ohio Delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegate. She also currently serves on the AAFP commission on Finance and Insurance.

Stacy Lee, RN, is the Family Navigator Program Manager within Community Health Programs at OUHCOM. She has been with the program since 2014. The Family Navigator Program provides education, outreach, support, and advocacy for Medicaid-eligible at-risk pregnant women. Ongoing prenatal and postpartum navigation services are provided by registered nurses, addressing social determinants of health and barriers to care. In addition to RN licensure, she holds a BBA in Management and Strategic Leadership. Stacy has been involved with multiple ECHO series related to women’s health, maternal substance use disorder, and screening, monitoring, and evidence-based practices for children and families affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome. She is active with several area women’s health interdisciplinary collaboratives and leads the Babe and Me Tobacco Free smoking cessation program at Ohio University.

Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.

Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.

Faculty Disclosures

No faculty disclosed a relevant financial relationship for this program.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Community Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.   

Designation Statement

Through Joint Accreditation, Community Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

By completing this activity you provide the Weitzman Institute permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).

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Available Credit

  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 ACE/ASWB
    Through Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
  • 1.00 ACPE
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) credit to pharmacists at its activities.
  • 1.00 ADA CERP
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
  • 1.00 ANCC
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
  • 1.00 APA
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities.
  • 1.00 CDR
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide CDR credits to registered dieticians at its activities.
  • 1.00 Participation Hour(s)
    You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
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