 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Vicki Legion, Community Health Works of SF/YES WE CAN, San Francisco State University, Department of Health Education, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132, 415-338-3480, vlegion@sfsu.edu
The YES WE CAN Care pathway poster describes a medical/social team model that aims to scale-up best practices and reduces medical system barriers for low-income children with asthma. The distinguishing feature is a multi-disciplinary team combining the clinician, a nurse care coordinator, and a community health worker from the family’s own community. This assures early intervention, close follow-up cultural competence and real support for home self-management. The approach has been developed by and for community based and public health clinics serving culturally and linguistically diverse, low-income communities. YES WE CAN is a blend of best practices. The model brings together tested best practices from Community Health Works of San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, the Child Health Institute/University of Washington/Asthma Outreach Project, the YES WE CAN Urban Asthma Partnership and demonstration clinics. Two new asthma cluster clinics were set up at community-based clinics, and a hospital-based children's asthma clinic increased its numbers served. Intermediate measures of quality of care rose, and preliminary results indicate that rates of hospitalization and emergency department use dropped sharply. A culturally competent team approach has been disseminated effectively in an urban safety net setting.
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