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May Is Asthma Awareness Month (AAM)
It’s time to celebrate your achievements in asthma management! Programs like yours are delivering critical services to individuals, families and communities. As you grow and advance your program, take time to reflect on your work and the difference you continue to make in the lives of people with asthma in your community.
Visit AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org regularly this May to share your successful strategies and learn from and collaborate with others to achieve one common goal: to help people with asthma live the healthy and active lives they deserve.
Announcing the Winners of the 2019
National Environmental Leadership Award
in Asthma Management
Congratulations to three exceptional programs that deliver innovative and sustainable asthma care to those in need.
Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance
Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance (Omaha, NE) is a children’s environmental health organization dedicated to improving children’s health through healthy homes. The Alliance’s Asthma In-Home Response Program serves children ages 18 years and younger with asthma and partners with community-based organizations, hospitals and managed care organizations to deliver free home visits, asthma education, environmental assessments, supplies and remediation. The Alliance has a significant referral network, referring families to other organizations for emergency, legal and employment services, as well as food pantry access and more.
Participants have shown a significant decrease in symptom days, missed school days, emergency department visits and hospitalizations. For every $1 invested, Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance has realized a return on investment of $1.83.
Rhode Island Department of Health
The Rhode Island Department of Health Asthma Control Program (Providence, RI) serves children with asthma ages 0 to 17 years in high-poverty, urban cities throughout the state. To deliver care, the Program partners with such organizations as Hasbro Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Health Center, New England Asthma Regional Council, United HealthCare, and the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative. The evidence-based Home Asthma Response Program (HARP), which uses certified asthma educators and community health workers (CHWs), conducts up to three intensive in-home sessions for each child, including tailored environmental services.
CHWs reported reductions in environmental triggers, including mold, pests, dust, pets, tobacco smoke and chemicals. In addition, using hospital claims data, HARP was able to show a 75% reduction in asthma-related hospital and emergency department costs among its participants. For every $1 invested, HARP has realized a $1.33 return on investment. HARP recently expanded to provide home-visiting services statewide for Medicaid-enrolled children.
Mobile Care Chicago
Mobile Care Chicago (Chicago, IL) provides free access to specialty medical care, including for asthma, for children across Chicago. Started in 1998 by four physicians wanting to address cost and transportation—two of the most commonly cited barriers to asthma care—the program began offering free care in the highest need neighborhoods from converted Winnebago RV vans serving as mobile clinics. The program has since grown from a partnership with two Chicago public elementary schools to a partnership with 45 Chicago public schools, parochial schools and Head Start programs operating state-of-the-art mobile health clinics.
The Mobile Care’s Comprehensive Asthma Management Program provides in-home asthma assessments and a wide range of supplies, including furnace filters, cleaning supplies and integrated pest management, and has seen a 50% decrease in school absenteeism and emergency department visits and a three-fold return on investment. The reduction in hospitalization rate alone has saved the local health care system at least $156 million during the past 13 years.
2019 Asthma Award Winners Webinar
Register today to learn how integrated health care services, strong community ties and high-performing collaborations are key components of an effective and sustainable program.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Webinar: 2:00–3:00 p.m. EDT
Q&A Session: 3:00–3:30 p.m. EDT
Speakers
- Ian Sheets, Impact Coordinator, Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance
- Ashley Fogarty, MPH, Rhode Island Department of Health
- Amy Bain, MSN, APN, CPNP, Mobile Care Chicago
- Matt Siemer, Executive Director, Mobile Care Chicago
- Moderator: Tracey Mitchell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Post your questions for our speakers in the Discussion Forum section of AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org. Speakers will answer questions immediately following the webinar, from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT.
Register for the webinar here.
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AAM Resources for
Your Program
Spend AAM with AsthmaCommunityNetwork.org! Access tools and resources to plan meaningful AAM activities and promote your asthma program’s work:
- Promote your program’s AAM events on the Events
Calendar.
- Use the Blog to share how your event went or how your program is making a difference in your community.
- Connect with other programs in your area and across the country and collaborate to host joint events.
Share tools and materials from your program in the Resource Bank.
From the Resource Bank
Videos for Community Health Workers
A House, a Tent, a Box: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understanding of Healthy Housing
Frameworks Institute
National Healthy Housing Standard
American Public Health Association
Up to Code: Code Enforcement Strategies for Healthy Housing
ChangeLab Solutions
“It’s Asthma” Infographic Series
Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Public Health Fellowship Program
Keeping Families Healthy
Stony Brook Children’s Hospital
Evaluation of the Environmental Scoring System in Multiple Child Asthma Intervention Programs in Boston, Massachusetts
American Journal of Public Health
Asthma Home Visit Questionnaire
Boston Public Health Commission
Genetics and Pollution Drive Severity of Asthma Symptoms
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Rice University
Wee Breathers™ in Spanish
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
Asthma Environmental Intervention Guide for School-Based Health Centers
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention
Upcoming Events
Join Us for #AsthmaChat
May 7, 2019, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Twitter chat
10th Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference
May 9–10, 2019
Lewis Center, OH
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