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Submit your abstract for the Arab Health Conference in Aleppo, Syria on May 1-7, 2011
MPHI is pleased to be a partner with the Arab Community Center for Economic Social Services (ACCESS) to present the 6th International Conference on Health Issues in Arab Communities. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15, 2010.
Click here to visit the conference website
MPHI Receives MAHP President's Recognition Award - July 19, 2010
"This is a discretionary award made by the MAHP President based on recommendations from members nominating organizations and/or groups that have demonstrated collaboration that assist in achieving the MAHP mission of providing affordable and accessible health care services for Michigan's Citizens.
"We are pleased MPHI is receiving this award as we have seen the evolution of MPHI from its conception to current form and know tha Michigan would not be able to provide the advocacy or administrative structure to facilitate many of our critical health care services nor would Michigan be in a position to provide the data analysis and documentation regarding the effectiveness of programs - a trait that we share with our member health plans as we promote evidence based medicine and programs."
Michigan Association of Health Plans 2010 President's Reecognition Award
Hereby presented to
MICHIGAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUE
For the tireless effort they have made in their advocacy and innovations for the provision of essential health care services for Michigan Citizens. The Michigan Public Health Institute has established a long tradition and proven track record of collaboration with the Michigan Association of Health Plans and others to achieve singular achievements for health care coverage for Medicaid, expanding preventative health programs, training health care personnel, and facilitating a new climate that encourages mutual strategic planning to meet Michigan's future health care needs.
The Michigan Association of Health Plans wishes to extend this special President's Recognition Award to the Michigan Public Health Institute, its staff and Board of Directors and particularly its Executive Direcot, Jeffrey Taylor, Ph.D., as a recognition of the value and appreciation that we have for the efforts in furthering Michigan's health care objectives. We look forward to our continued involvement with Dr. Taylor and the Michigan Public Health Institute to accomplish our joint objectives for Health Care Reform in Michigan.
Dennis H. Smith,
President, Michigan Association of Health Plans
MPHI Supports Donor Drive 2010
As part of a massive statewide initiative to add a million names to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry in 2010, MPHI is asking for your participation.
Doing so will save lives and help bring the state’s percentage of registered donors in line with the national average. It also helps MPHI meet its goal of signing up 1000 potential donors by the end of 2010. We’re doing our part because Michigan is ranked 42nd in the nation in the percentage of residents registered to be organ, tissue and eye donors.
Last year, 288 people donated organs at Michigan hospitals - not enough to meet the needs. About 3,000 Michigan patients are on the waiting list to receive desperately needed organs.
If you have not already joined the Donor Registry, you can do so by going online to
www.giftoflifemichigan.org calling
800.482.4881 or visiting a Secretary of State branch office. I also encourage you to discuss organ and tissue donation with your family and friends.
When joining the registry, you will be asked: “Where did you hear about organ donation?” Please select “other” from the drop-down menu, type in MPHI. This helps us track how many of our employees, friends and family members sign up, and will allow us to demonstrate our leadership to the community.
After joining the Donor Registry, the Secretary of State’s office will send a heart logo to place on your driver’s license or state ID. Thank you for helping us give hope to those in need. Joining the Donor Registry takes less than a minute, but it could mean years of new life for those needing a transplant.
Becoming a potential organ donor is easy, think about it and if you would like to join the campaign in Michigan to increase the number of organ donors check out the donor drive website.
- Jeff Taylor
MPHI Board of Directors Discusses Health Care Reform
The following presentations review the new National Health Care Legislation and relates it to Public Health opportunities.
Click here to view the presentations.Health Care Reform and Community Health Center ExpansionDouglas M. Paterson, MPA
Director of State Policy
Michigan Primary Care Association
Andrea Charlton, MPH, MSW
Community Health Planning Specialist
Michigan Primary Care Association
Public Health Aspects of Health Care ReformJean Chabut
MPHI Board President
Deputy Director, Michigan Department of Community Health
Maternal and Child Health Features of Health Care ReformAlethia Carr, Director
Bureau of Family, Maternal & Child Health
Michigan Department of Community Health
Click here to view the presentations.
MPHI Webcasting Wins Rich Media Impact Award - Government
The 2010 winner is Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) for using rich media webcasting to assist them in overcoming public information and outreach challenges within many state agencies in Michigan. With the help of Mediasite, MPHI worked with Michigan Women, Infants and Children program to produce multi-language constituent-outreach to educate families about a new food program. MPHI also worked with the Unemployment Insurance Agency to effectively inform and answer questions from unemployed workers. In addition to helping MPHI overcome communication difficulties in these instances, MPHI has also lowered training costs, seeing a 256 percent return on investment by using Mediasite in lieu of face-to-face training.
Click here to read the full article.
MPHI Highlighted in GLITR Report
MPHI was highlighted in the Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report (GLITR), during the annual Tech Tour.
Click here to read the full article
MPHI Announces Food Drive
Okemos, Michigan: The Michigan Public Health Institute (“MPHI”) will host a healthy food drive to benefit the Greater Lansing Food Bank (“GLFB”).
The healthy food drive will run Monday, April 12, 2010, through Friday, April 23, 2010. Donations may be dropped off at MPHIs Central Office located at 2436 Woodlake Circle, Suite 300, Okemos, Michigan 48864. We welcome donations from all community members. Monetary donations will also be accepted on behalf of the GLFB.
There are 21 pantries in Ingham County funded by the GLFB with over 200 volunteers meeting the needs of members of our community. On average, 1,800 families per month are served, which directly affects 5,230 individuals. 41% of all individuals served are children. We are calling on all community members to reach out to our families in need by making a donation to this drive.
Read the full press release hereView the FlyerSee what foods are needed
MPHI's Teri Covington co-authors article on Child Abuse & Neglect
Though child abuse rates are declining in the United States, there has been no real change in the number of child maltreatment (CM) fatalities (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2008). While year-to-year numbers vary, there were an estimated 1,530 child abuse and neglect deaths reported by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System during 2006, representing 2.04 deaths for every 100,000 children. It is widely accepted that this number is underestimated for many reasons, including inconsistencies in investigation, reporting, legal standards and definitions, and medical diagnosis and death certificate coding (Crume, DiGuiseppi, Byers, Sirotnak, & Garrett, 2002; Ewigman, Kivlahan, & Land, 1993; Schnitzer, Covington, Wirtz, Verhoeck-Oftedahl, & Palusci, 2008). There are a number of risk factors associated with maltreatment fatalities, such as residing in homes with unrelated adults, young age of the child, and prior involvement with child protective services, and this information can aid in developing initiatives to prevent further deaths. Fatalities from neglect remain difficult to identify and prevent given the potential overlap with accidental and medical causes (Brewster et al., 1998; Crume et al., 2002; Hicks & Gaughan, 1995; Knight & Collins, 2005). To better identify, understand and respond to the system issues and prevention possibilities in these deaths, we sought to evaluate changes in our state after the implementation of a citizen panel that reviewed child maltreatment fatalities in the child welfare system.
Click here to read the whole article:
Effects of a Citizens Review Panel in preventing child maltreatment fatalities
MPHI's 2009 Annual Report is Available Online
In 2009, MPHI marked its 20th year of working to promote the health of Michigan residents. By providing expertise in key service areas, MPHI supports state-of-the-art community health practices. Services include:
health information technology;
research and evaluation;
learning solutions;
health and health care expertise; and facilitation for
planning and implementing change. The Annual Report details projects that demonstrate expertise in each of these areas;
click here to view the report.
Survey Research Center Collecting Data for Saginaw Healthy Homes
Saginaw County, MI – Nationally and in Saginaw a variety of preventable health and safety hazards threaten children every year. Exceptionally for Saginaw, the University of Michigan and the Saginaw County Department of Public Health have garnered U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to form Healthy Homes – Saginaw, an initiative including multiple agencies and local faith/community based organizations aimed at identifying and addressing housing-related illnesses and injuries, such as asthma, lead poisoning, trips and falls, mold exposure, and carbon monoxide contamination.
“As part of the program, Okemos-based Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) is conducting a phone-based survey of 1500 households in the 48601, 48602, and 48607 ZIP Code areas and neighborhood risk factor data will be collected by faith-based advocates and Saginaw Valley State University students”, states Deborah Socier, Program Manger.
Click here to see full press release.
Anissa Stanley of MPHI named Planner of the Year 2009
Anissa Stanley of MPHI (Child & Adolescent Health Program) completed her Certified Meeting Specialist (CMS) certification through the
Society of Government Meeting Professionals and was named "Planner of the Year 2009" by this organization. Additionally, she was featured in the "Planner Spotlight" article of Meeting Professionals International, summer edition 2009 (
click here to read more). In preparation to complete her Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Exam in 2010, Anissa will participate in a six month preparation course with a $600 scholarship from
Destination Michigan to assist her in achieving this goal.
MPHI featured in StreamingMedia.com article
December 11, 2009 - MPHI's webcasting service is featured in the StreamingMedia.com article titled "The Government Video Boom". The entire article can be accessed
here.
MPHI collaborative database uses Newborn Blood Spot Screening to detect children with Genetic Abnormalities
October 26, 2009 (Honolulu, Hawaii) — A study investigating the use of a long-term follow-up database of children with inborn errors of metabolism has shown that metabolic practitioners can systematically gather information about outcomes from newborn blood spot screening (NBS) for a collaborative database useful for short-term patient follow-up. The proof-of-principle study also yielded specific information about children with medium-chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCAD).
The project was an initiative of the Inborn Errors of Metabolism–Information System (IBEM-IS) work group of the Region 4 Genetics Collaborative, the goal of which is to come up with strategies for children with congenital and inherited disorders. Current participants include newborn screening specialists in a 7-state region near the Great Lakes. The results were presented here at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 59th Annual Meeting.
Read the full article here.
MPHI Program Director Shannon Stotenbur-Wing speaks out in the Oakland Press on pattens of Child Abuse
"Child abuse usually has a pattern, so it occurs repeatedly over years and years," she said. "Increasing the penalty for those who are convicted of child abuse itself is not enough to prevent future activities."
"The people do have to be penalized for doing that, but there need to be areas where mental health and psychological treatments are provided, because they tend to abuse themselves, too," said Stotenbur-Wing.
Read the full article here
$24 Million MPHI Project Will Boost Health Information Exchange
Washington, DC – A Request for Proposal (RFP) to create a broadband network linking Michigan health care facilities was posted on November 11. The project will network approximately 520 health care sites in 71 Michigan counties covering all of the state except the urban counties from Lansing to Detroit. Hospitals, federally qualified health clinics, health departments, tribal clinics, Michigan Department of Corrections clinics, and other types of facilities will be linked. "The network will play a major role in the national plan to foster the use of electronic medical records and the electronic exchange of health information," stated Jeff Shaw, Senior Project Manager.
In early 2007 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a $400 million "pilot" program to stimulate the deployment of broadband infrastructure to support telehealth and telemedicine. On behalf of the State, the Michigan Public Health Institute applied for a portion of the money. In December 2007, MPHI was awarded $20.9 million, the fourth highest of the 69 state and regional awards. Michigan’s health care facilities will kick in an additional $3.7 million for a total of $24.6 million.
The RFP that was recently posted seeks a single vendor who, with the help of subcontractors, can create the statewide network. The network will consist of both leased communication lines and new fiber optic cable. The network will also take advantage of “middle-mile” fiber optic cable that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the “stimulus” bill) will probably fund in the most rural sections of Michigan (e.g., in the Gaylord-Grayling corridor, and along the state’s western shoreline).
Construction of a smaller network has already commenced in the thumb area of Michigan. This small network will link eight hospitals by means of a tower-mounted wireless communications system. It will become a part of the larger, statewide network once that is built.
The RFP is posted at
http://www.usac.org/_res/documents/rhc-pilot-program/pdf/search-postings/2009/Michigan-Public-Health-scope-02.pdf.
Every Child Matters
Washington, DC – A report released today shows that 10,440 children in the U.S. are known to have died from abuse and neglect between 2001 and 2007, but experts say the real number may be as much as 50 percent higher. The difference is due to varying definitions of abuse and neglect in the states, as well as inconsistent record-keeping and data collection methodologies. Child protection leaders say the situation makes it impossible to provide an accurate assessment of abuse and neglect of children in America.
Stars from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, took to Capitol Hill today to help raise awareness. The popular television show chronicles the New York Police Department team that investigates sexually based crimes, including those committed against children. Actors Tamara Tunie (medical examiner Melinda Warner) and B.D. Wong (psychiatrist George Huang) joined in speaking out on the importance of investing in the protection of children.
Organizations supporting the summit this week include the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, Every Child Matters Education Fund, National Association of Social Workers, National Center on Child Death Review and National Children’s Alliance.
The discussion of children’s issues in Washington this week comes exactly 100 years after President Theodore Roosevelt held the first-ever White House summit on children’s issues. The Every Child Matters Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan organization working to make children, youth and families a national political priority. We promote the adoption of smart policies for children and youth, including: ensuring that children have access to affordable, comprehensive health care services; expanding early-care and learning opportunities and after-school programs; preventing violence against children in their homes and communities; alleviating child poverty; and addressing the special needs of children with parents in prison.
Watch the video of the speech that Teri Covington, Director of the National Resource Center for Child Death Review, gave at the event.
Read the transcript of the speech.
Novel H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu)
For more information, please click on the links below:
CDC Swine InfluenzaMichigan Department of Community Health Influenza WebsiteDHHS Pandemic Flu Plan University of Michigan School of Public Health Flu WebsiteGoogle Flu Shot Finder
Overview of the H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu)
Presenters:Dr. Kevin Piggott, MD, MPHDr. Piggott, a University of Michigan Preventative Medicine Resident working at MPHI, provides an overview of the H1N1 Flu (Swine FLU). In his presentation Dr. Piggott discussed the incidence of the H1N1 Flu, how it is spread, medications that would assist in recovery and how to keep yourself from getting the H1N1 Flu. Dr. Piggott goes on to answer questions concerning the Flu and ramifications for next Flu Season.
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