Year: 2018

Westernmass Medical Home Meeting 10/9/18

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W MA Medical Home Meeting
Tuesday October 9, 2018
9:15-10:30 AM
 
Shriners Hospital Auditorium
516 Carew St., Springfield 
 
Agenda
9:15 AM:   Welcome & Announcements
9:30 AM:   Presentation: Winter Heating Assistance
Liana Pasialis, New England Farmworkers (agency that administers LIHEAP Fuel Assistance)
 
10:00 – 10:30 AM: Tour of new Inpatient Acute Rehabilitation Unit
at Shriners Hospital – Shriners Inpatient Rehab
New England Farm Workers Council
1666 Main St Springfield, Ma 01103
Liana Pasialis
Phone: 413-272-2272
Fax: 413-846-4818
LPasialis@Partnersforcommunity.org
Fuel Assistance
Fuel Assistance Program runs from Nov1st-April 30th
During the winter months of Nov15th-March 15th there is a winter moratorium where they can not shut off your heat do to financial hardship
If you are a family of 1 you will qualify for assistance if you make less than $35,510 a year
If you are a family of 4 you will qualify for assistance if you make less than $68,000 a year
Most people believe since they don’t qualify for other state assistance that they will not qualify for fuel assistance, however that is not the case. Attached to this post is the financial statistic you have to fall within to qualify.
The program is a first come first serve bases. In order to apply look at the document attached, find the town you reside in and contact the organization it is listed under.
On the document attached it also states what information you need to bring with you. It is very important to note that every person in that household has to prove there legal status (birth certificate, ect) If there is one person who can not prove there legal status then part of the financial stipend will be cut. (Example a family of 4, only 3 people can prove there legal status there stipend will be cut by 25%) However they do not report any undocumented person to another agency.

Westernmass Medical Home Meeting

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W MA Medical Home Meeting

Tuesday September 11, 2018

9:15-10:30 AM

Shriners Hospital Auditorium

516 Carew St., Springfield 

Agenda

9:15 AM:   Welcome & Announcements

9:25 AM:   Discussion: 2018-19 Year priorities for this group

9:40-10:30 AM: Presentation – Susan Tapases, BSN RN, Shriners Hospital Clinical Liaison & Inpatient Rehab Team

New Inpatient Acute Rehabilitation Unit at Shriners

Please see power point below for admission criteria and more info about the rehab unit

MedicalhomeKS (1)Medical Home and Payor Presentations (002)

Medical Home Meeting: January 9th 2018

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On January 9th we had an open discussion about future topics for presentations. Some of the ideas include:

  • ADHD resources
  • Autism resources and issues
  • Services of Autism Resource Centers
  • Autism diagnosis requirement – barriers to diagnosis for non-verbal children
  • Autism and insurance issues – speaker from Autism Resource Center?
  • What to do if insurance refuses to accept ASD diagnosis
  • Behavioral health resources
  • MCPAP (MA Child Psychiatry Access Program)
  • Pain management – Baystate Pedi Pain Clinic speaker?
  • Respite for CYSNHs
  • PCA services
  • Childcare & vouchers – New England Farm Workers?
  • Transition to Adulthood
  • Transition to adult medical care – health care transition
  • Building health skills for youth/children – part of transition to adulthood
  • Transition to adulthood – guardianship
  • Transition to adulthood – panel of agencies/entities involved: DDS, MRC, DPH, schools
  • Transition resources – e.g. GotTransition2.0 web portal
  • Age 3 Transition
  • from Early Intervention to school
  • other supports available at age 3
  • Age 3 Transition with Autism Spectrum diagnosis
  • Transition Assessments – age and stages, developmental pediatrics, neuropsych compared to developmental pediatrics
  • Masstart services – planning for individual health plans at school for children with complex care
  • Medical education issues (doctors, nurses, other health care professionals):
  • systemic approaches to unmet needs e.g. PCPs and sub-specialists for young adults with complex care
  • home visiting in medical education – Operation House Calls
  • Urgent care centers – roles, services, concerns, care coordination
  • Pharmacy
  • Pharmacy role in care coordination
  • key questions for families and care coordinators
  • Polypharmacy
  • Panel from insurers – changing models, ACOs (accountable care organizations)
  • DDS and related services – DDS-contracted services, Adaptive Design, Family Resource Centers
  • Educational Advocates – free
  • Housing – range of services – speaker from WayFinders (formerly HAP Housing)?
  • Child safety – home safety, car and car-seat safety
  • MA Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund

If you have any other ideas please reach out to any member of the meeting committee.

We also had a presentation about lead poisoning prevention by Sharon Gifford BS, RN and Jennifer Chacon, Community Health worker from the DPH Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and Square One. As of December 1st there have been major changes to the regulations regarding Lead exposure for children living in Massachusetts. The new regulation requires inspection of living location for children with lead levels about 10, and monitoring for levels 5-9. In Massachusetts children must be tested for lead at age 1, 2 and 3 years, high risk cities, age 4yrs also. Many resources and additional information is available at http://www.mass.gov/dph/clppp.

Next meeting: February 13, 2018 at 9:15am at Shriners Hospital in Springfield, MA.