Hello, I am a family nurse practitioner with environmental health. I was recently hired on because we are now moving into clinical services. We have developed a program that incorporates clinic services (detailed exposure history evaluations, assessments, as needed labs, etc) with healthy home assessments and interventions. We are currently focusing on our poorly controlled asthmatic pediatric patients in the local Houston area as well as patients with elevated lead levels and also other environmental exposure concerns.

Please comment on the training that CHWs and Nurses receive to be trained in the case management of the healthy homes program. Did CHWs receive reimbursement? If so, I am interested in how this was presented to Medicaid so that the non-licesed health professionals were reimbursed.

Were medication and outpatient utilization and costs included as well?

Are the rates drawn from Medicaid's rates, or from claims' data or from charges?

Any data gathered on health-related quality of life for the kids or caregivers?

In the weeks following the webinar, the materials, including slides and presentation, will be available at: 

http://www.asthmacommunitynetwork.org/webinars

How could our medical-legal partnership pursue reimbursement for legal interventions? I work for a legal aid office that serves a group of pediatric clinics through a medical-legal partnership. My office provide free legal services to patient families. We seek to alleviate housing conditions problems for these families, in order to try to improve medical (and asthma) outcomes for low income pediatric patients. Would this be feasible?

The slides do not seem to be showing.  I'm stuck on the first one...

I cant see the powerpoint slide 

I am a doctoral nursing student at Arizona State University and live in Artesia New Mexico.  I am currently in a class entitled "Healthcare Policy and Innovation."  My doctoral project involves enhancing focused education through the use of multimedia.

I am a doctoral student at Arizona State University and live in Artesia New Mexico.  I am currently in a class entitled "Healthcare Policy and Innovation."  My doctoral project involves enhancing focused education to children with chronic asthma, through the use of multimedia.  One of my assignments is to create a blog, I have chosen the Federal Action Plan as my topic.  As I am reading through the action plan program, the priorities listed are encouraging and well planned.  I have several questions:

In 2013, North East Independent School District was the first school district to win the National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management.
 
This award is EPA’s highest recognition a program and its leaders can receive for delivering excellent environmental asthma management as part of their comprehensive asthma care services. Each year, EPA honors exceptional health plans, health care providers and communities in action.