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color:black;font-weight:bold'>Dear CHC Clinicians,</span></font></b><font
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>The
CHAMPS/NWRPCA Fall Primary Care Conference, October 18-22, 2008, in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Denver</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Colorado</st1:State></st1:place>
is quickly approaching. Early registration ends September
26th. The hotel is filling up fast, so get your reservations in
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</span></font><b><u><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Saturday, October 18</span></font></u></b><font size=2
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Risk Foundation in Primary Care: A Key to Quality Service in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Health</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Operations</span></font></b><font
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>This session
will provide an overview of the principles and practices of Quality
Improvement, Risk Control, and Patient Safety, and how these principles
apply most realistically to the health center setting. Tools and
methods of how to identify important risk trends, contributing factors,
and best solutions will be discussed.</span></font><font size=2
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</span></font><b><u><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Sunday, October 19</span></font></u></b><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Lifestyle Changes: Helping Patients Manage Diabetes</span></font></b><font
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font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><br>
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus has a strong genetic background but develops
in susceptible people mostly as a result of poor dietary habits,
physical inactivity and overweight. The Director of Endocrinology
and Diabetes Practice, at the University of Colorado Health Science
Center, will discuss recommendations for lifestyle changes along with
the use of medications for preventing and treating Diabetes.</span></font><font
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'> </span></font><font
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Primary Care Renewal: Creating a Primary Care Medical Home</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:black'> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Through
a Learning Collaborative Sponsored by a Health Plan</span></b></span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Garamond;color:#333333'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>The first 18
months of a journey in creating a primary care medical home in five
diverse organizations, based on the work done by Southcentral
Foundation, will be presented. This work, sponsored by
CareOregon, a Medicaid Managed Care Organization, uses the model of a
learning collaborative. </span></font><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
color:#333333'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
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</span></font><b><u><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Monday, October 20</span></font></u></b><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Clinicians Roundtable</span></font></b><font size=2
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>Join your
colleagues for a facilitated discussion and networking. Bring your hot
topics and questions. This session is open to all health center
clinicians. Extra fee event ($30) includes box lunch.</span></font><font
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Behavioral Health in Primary Health Care Settings</span></font></b><font
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font-family:Garamond;color:#333333'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>With ongoing
cuts in funding for mental health and continuing stigmatization of
mental disorders in our country, it is more important than ever to
connect people to the services they need. Learn more about methods and
reasons to integrate behavioral health into your health care settings
from a Clinical Social Worker who works "in the trenches" of
a CHC behavioral health department.</span></font><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>This
presentation will focus on the treatment of substance abuse as a
chronic medical illness, using lessons learned from the chronic care
model, from a community care clinic medical director. A team
approach to treatment will be emphasized along with the "harm
reduction" philosophy. Best practices for the medical
management of substance abuse will be discussed.</span></font><font
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bold'>Tuesday, October 21</span></font></u></b><font size=2
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bold'>Role of the Medical Director</span></font></b><font size=2
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>Come hear first
hand from a seasoned CHC Medical Director.</span></font><font size=2
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>This
interactive session will feature two members of the Coalition for Rural
Healthcare Ethics leading a discussion of topics and cases in clinical
ethics in rural settings. It will offer a preview of the resource
Handbook for Rural Healthcare Ethics currently being developed by the
Coalition. Participants will be encouraged to bring their
personal experiences with ethical challenges to the discussion.</span></font><font
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Managing Chronic Pain Patients When the Magic Cure Has Ended and
They Are Not Getting Better</span></font></b><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Garamond;color:#333333'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>CHC providers
often feel inadequate and/or overly burdened when managing the
multitude of chronic complaints that rarely improve. Chronic pain
patients often want a MAGIC cure and when there is none they feel
hopeless, despondent, and lose function. This session will assist
with how to address such difficult issues from a CHC clinician, with a
strong interest in chronic illness and pain, who currently manages
hundreds of chronic pain patients.</span></font><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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</span></font><b><u><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Providing Culturally Competent Care for the Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender Population (GLBT)</span></font></b><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>This session
uses the power of theatre and an in-depth physician lecture to explore
health disparities of the GLBT population. On The Streets is a
play created and performed by the Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre
Program to express the care needs of the GLBT population. The
performance is followed by a GLBT culturally competent care training
with a pediatric physician and a general internal medicine physician.</span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Garamond><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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</span></font><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:
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<font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>Phone: (800) 444-2206 or (303)
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