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ForwardPCMH 2025 Blood Pressure Control and Asthma Medication Ratio Sprint - Session #2
Members of the healthcare team will develop a deeper understanding of the root cause(s) for the sprint key interventions and application of modifications to the interventions based on feedback and results from quality improvement tools, such as PDSA. Particpants will also engage in facilitated peer-to-peer learning around finding solutions to common implementation obsticles. The session will also include practices to enhance current approaches to asthma management.
Agenda:
9:00 a.m. to 9:10 p.m. – Welcome & Overview – Suzanne Cohen, MPH, Senior Director of Population Health, The Health Federation of Philadelphia
9:10 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. – Peer to Peer Sharing Breakout rooms to discuss implementation progress and strategies to address challenges.
- Two dedicated to BP
- One dedicated to Asthma 9:40 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. Breakout Takeaways
9:50 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. – Asthma Medication Ratio Presentation – Tricia Heitzman, PharmD, DUR/HEDIS Pharmacy Coordinator, Lauren Pheasant, PharmD, BCACP, DUR/HEDIS Pharmacist, Geisinger Health Plan
10:20 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – Next Steps & Evaluation
Target Audience
Nurse
Physician
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
• Describe progress in implementing key interventions.
• Collaborate on finding solutions to common obstacles encountered in implementing interventions.
• Describe practices that enhance the current approach to improving asthma medication ratio.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 Audience Disclosure slides (001.5).pptx | 459.28 KB |
 Agenda 4.10_BP and Asthma_HealthChoices.pdf | 140.81 KB |
| 4.10.2025 PCMH Sprint - Asthma Medication Ratio.pdf | 535.04 KB |
Members of the healthcare team will develop a deeper understanding of the root cause(s) for the sprint key interventions and application of modifications to the interventions based on feedback and results from quality improvement tools, such as PDSA. Particpants will also engage in facilitated peer-to-peer learning around finding solutions to common implementation obsticles. The session will also include practices to enhance current approaches to asthma management.
Agenda:
9:00 a.m. to 9:10 p.m. – Welcome & Overview – Suzanne Cohen, MPH, Senior Director of Population Health, The Health Federation of Philadelphia
9:10 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. – Peer to Peer Sharing Breakout rooms to discuss implementation progress and strategies to address challenges.
- Two dedicated to BP
- One dedicated to Asthma 9:40 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. Breakout Takeaways
9:50 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. – Asthma Medication Ratio Presentation – Tricia Heitzman, PharmD, DUR/HEDIS Pharmacy Coordinator, Lauren Pheasant, PharmD, BCACP, DUR/HEDIS Pharmacist, Geisinger Health Plan
10:20 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – Next Steps & Evaluation
Suzanne Cohen, MPH, Senior Director of Population Health, The Health Federation of Philadelphia
Tricia Heitzman, PharmD, DUR/HEDIS Pharmacy Coordinator
Lauren Pheasant, PharmD, BCACP, DUR/HEDIS Pharmacist, Geisinger Health Plan
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