Community Health/Outreach Worker Tool

Effective January 1, 2014, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services is changing Medicaid regulations regarding which types of providers can be reimbursed for providing preventative services to Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries. This Question & Answer document explains how this important Medicaid change will impact coverage of the community-based interventions for low-income children with asthma.

Use-Inhalers.com is an educational website for Patients and Professionals that teaches proper use of inhalers in an engaging, interactive way with new webcam technology of real time practice available online, iPhone and iPad.

The NEAIC Suggested Supplies list was designed to guide providers who are new to asthma home visiting services and to standardize required supplies across NEAIC intervention sites. It provides links to vendors of effective, low-cost supplies used by providers who are experienced in asthma home visiting.

Asthma resource list with clinical guidelines, toolkits, mobile technology asthma resources, multimedia and multilingual patient education resources for low literacy and limited English proficient populations and smoking cessation tools.

Asthma Triggers: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, Doctors, and Nurses is a free e-book about reducing asthma triggers and the links between asthma and air pollution. In English and Spanish.

Natural cleaning recipes for daily use that won't irrate airways.

The Healthy Pest Free Housing Initiative (HPFHI) is a collaborative project to reduce pest infestation (cockroach and rodent) and pesticide use among public housing residents through Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

Safe cleaning for people with asthma

Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) lauched www.redalergiayasma.org.

AANMA staff interviewed former NFL player Chris Draft for the September issue of the MA Report. In the article, titled “Your Asthma Game Plan: A team effort”,