Meeting Minutes for February 19, 2015 American Lung Association Office, 8:00-9:30 AM
Attendees in Person: Sara Anderson, Health Educator/Quality Improvement Specialist, Envision NM; RuthAnn Goradia, Chronic Disease Resource Nurse, Albuquerque Public Schools; Alice Marosi, Retired MD; Geri Jaramillo, Health Educator/Coordinator, NMDOH Asthma Control Program; Laurel McCloskey, Executive Director, CDPC; Mary Shepherd, Epidemiologist, NMDOH Asthma Program; Ashley Gudgel, Executive Director, Breathe America; Kathy Moseley, Program Manager, Enhancing Care for Children with Asthma, American Lung Association; Swati Somuri, Asthma Quality Improvement Specialist, Molina Healthcare.
Attendees by Phone: Susan Acosta, School Health Advocate, NMDOH Metro-Northwest Regions.
Agenda Items Discussion Items Outcomes/Next Steps Welcome & Attendance List signed. Introductions Dec 2014 Meeting Notes distributed. Minutes Approval Agenda Approval Agenda distributed. Strategic Plan: Priority 1: constantly recruiting new Geri will create a spreadsheet Administrative partners, create a spreadsheet to on the NMCOA Strategic Plan Support funnel information of who to contact to say who to contact for each Committee for each priority. priority. Priority 2: currently assessing data needs and will continue to do so with the data sharing database. Priority 4: currently report annually. Priority 5: date expired and changed to 2015. Priority 6: NMDOH to take the lead and will ask for comments for other data available. Suggestion to keep the monthly timelines (for all strategies) as indicated, the same each year.
Strategic Plan: Education Committee led by Education Priority 1: Working on promoting AAPs to HCPs statewide, need a plan of how Ruth Ann will come up with Committee to disseminate, do not have a timeline, education timelines.
Page 1 of 5 end of June or July. #2: Electronic Home Asthma Action Plan is a hitch, need Adobe Software #4,8, 11 have timelines, the committee will discuss at the next meeting. Policy Committee Priority 1: Policy Committee led by Kathy Report: combined o Committee to create a will create a similar asthma Strategic Plan and similar asthma education education reimbursement update reimbursement assessment tool grid by April. assessment tool, asthma services billing interview, and asthma programs survey to the Minnesota documents. Priority 2: the state list of AE-Cs on the National Asthma Education Certification Board website will be updated by November. All other priorities are being taken care of currently.
Legislation 2015: stock emergency medicine hearing Ruth Ann will share data of o The stock emergency statute the stock emergency should be approved by the 27th medicine hearing benefit. of February o The guidelines will be an online document. APS is waiting for the final rule then the guidelines and then will be presented to the Board. o The cost for each school is $25 to obtain a pharmacy license. Need a list of steps for how to financially support this o Ruth Ann to provide data from Chicago and other states related to stock emergency medicine. o Head to Toe has albuterol and epinephrine to be in place for next fall when emergency medications will start to be used.
Smoking restrictions in vehicles o Six states already have
Page 2 of 5 smoking in cars fines. o The bill is from Steinborn from All members encouraged to Las Cruces because he saw look up personal legislators someone smoking with a kid in and contact about the the car. smoking in cars bill. o Kathy testified as an expert witness. It has passed the House Health Committee and is now in the House Judiciary Committee. o The concern is in the fine size. Opponents state a violation of rights
A bill banning employment and smoking at Presbyterian was tabled because in New Mexico there is existing smokers’ rights legislation.
Education Home Asthma Action Plan Provide all feedback on the Committee o Need comments on the Plan Home Asthma Action Plan by Report by the end of March. the end of March to Patty o The plan needs to be in Marshik at: Spanish too. Need to discuss [email protected] . how to get the plan out to providers and will also put it up on the NMCOA web page.
Fall Asthma Education Event (See also Create a combined planning World Asthma Day under group for World Asthma Day Administrative Committee Report) Activities or the fall asthma o Effective to piggyback on an education event. Contact Ruth event such as the APS school Ann if interested at supply drive in the late [email protected] . summer. Could do activities such as getting a passport stamped and inhaler trainings. Could get UNM athletes and need to look at liability issues. o Parents could fill out the Asthma Action Plan at this event and could be reminded to make an appointment with their provider.
Page 3 of 5 o Another option is the World Asthma Day on May 5th before school is out and during World Asthma Day.
Administrative Website: Laurel to develop a Laurel will work on the Committee website page for NMCOA to website page development Report include member names, the data and will report on progress at sharing database link, logo, a each meeting. Email Laurel, calendar of events, and other [email protected], items. with any website ideas. Transition: Laurel is taking on the administrative meeting logistics and duties with a contract between DOH Asthma Control Program and CDPC. This role will make the work of NMCOA more efficient and equally important, Create a combined planning will allow the NMCOA to share the group to work on World 501c3 status of CDPC. Asthma Day/Asthma World Asthma Day/Asthma Awareness Month Activities Awareness Month and the fall school asthma o Do not need to rethink education event. Contact Ruth every year. Idea may be to Ann if interested at choose a specific event [email protected] . and repeat that event annually. The goal is to promote to school health providers and brand the event as a NMCOA activity. o Create a planning committee to plan this event. Other: The Administrative Committee is looking at purchasing a phone system for use at NMCOA meetings. The new phone system should be one that has speaker extensions, making it easier for participants calling in to hear what’s being said and better able to participate during meetings.
Page 4 of 5 Other Business Data storage web applications [we had Administrative Support incorrectly described it as ‘data sharing Committee will research databases’] are being researched to PHConnect (and other similar create a place to share anything useful applications). to the Council, e.g. documents, reports, articles, etc. o Considering PHConnect o Assessing the data needs of the council by June 30th. Possibly to survey council members. Next meeting Thursday, April 16; 8-9:30 a.m. at the American Lung Association offices at 5911 Jefferson Street NE Albuquerque, NM.
Meeting adjourned at 9:30am.
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