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ForwardPCMH 2025 Blood Pressure Control and Asthma Medication Ratio Sprint - Session #3 - JHF
Members of the healthcare team will develop a deeper understanding of practices that enhance the current approach to controlling blood pressure. Participants will also engage in facilitated peer-to-peer learning around sharing progress on key interventions and finding solutions to common implementation challenges.
Agenda:
10:30 a.m. to 10:40 p.m. – Welcome & Overview – Suzanne Cohen, MPH, Senior Director of Population Health, The Health Federation of Philadelphia
10:40 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. Successfully Addressing Blood Pressure – Victor Lahnovych, MD, Medical Director, Keystone Rural Health Consortia, Inc., Nicole Hartung, LSW, Value-based Care Manager, Shellie Landers, CPC, Value-based Care Supervisor, Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers
11:10 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Breakouts
Breakout rooms to discuss implementation progress and strategies to address challenges in controlling blood pressure.
11:50 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Next Steps & Evaluation
Target Audience
Nurse
Physician
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
• Describe progress in implementing key interventions.
• Describe practices that enhance the current approach to controlling blood pressure.
• Collaborate on finding solutions to common challenges encountered in implementing key interventions to control blood pressure.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 Audience Disclosure slides (001.5).pptx | 459.28 KB |
 Agenda 7.16_BP and Asthma_HealthChoices.docx | 53.64 KB |
 KRHC slides formatted.pdf | 396.4 KB |
| HCCN Hypertension Control WMCHC.pdf | 649.26 KB |
Members of the healthcare team will develop a deeper understanding of practices that enhance the current approach to controlling blood pressure. Participants will also engage in facilitated peer-to-peer learning around sharing progress on key interventions and finding solutions to common implementation challenges.
Agenda:
10:30 a.m. to 10:40 p.m. – Welcome & Overview – Suzanne Cohen, MPH, Senior Director of Population Health, The Health Federation of Philadelphia
10:40 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. Successfully Addressing Blood Pressure – Victor Lahnovych, MD, Medical Director, Keystone Rural Health Consortia, Inc., Nicole Hartung, LSW, Value-based Care Manager, Shellie Landers, CPC, Value-based Care Supervisor, Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers
11:10 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Breakouts
Breakout rooms to discuss implementation progress and strategies to address challenges in controlling blood pressure.
11:50 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Next Steps & Evaluation
Suzanne Cohen, MPH, Senior Director of Population Health, The Health Federation of Philadelphia
Victor Lahnovych, MD, Medical Director, Keystone Rural Health Consortia, Inc.
Nicole Hartung, LSW, Social Worker
Shelly Landers
Wynter Newman, Wayne Memorial Hospital
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.
Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.5 contact hours.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.5 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 1.50 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.50 ASWB
- 1.50 Attendance