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ICAAP
On
Friday, May 4, 2018, ICAAP will host the 4th Annual ABCD (ABC-Downstate)
Conference, “Lives in the Balance: Caring for Children with Special
Needs, Their Families, Their Communities, and Ourselves in These
Precarious Times,” at the Regency Conference Center in O’Fallon, IL.
The 4th Annual ABCD Conference will
deliver valuable information about navigating the current realities of
service delivery, advocating for those we serve, and professional
self-care, family self-care, and community self-care in order to enable
providers across many disciplines to recognize and address these
realities when caring for children and families with special healthcare
needs, including those impacted by trauma and adverse childhood
experiences.
This is a call for ICAAP members and
friends who work in Central or Southern Illinois to serve on the
conference planning committee. The planning committee meets 3 times (by
phone) as part of conference planning, and responsibilities include:
reviewing breakout session proposals, targeted promotional efforts, and
moderating sessions on the day of the conference. The first planning
committee meeting will be held the week of November 27, 2017, date and
time TBD. If you are interested in joining the conference planning
committee, please contact Elise Groenewegen at egroenewegen@illinoisaap.com
or 312/733-1026 x 204.
Also, please be on the lookout for the
call for conference breakout session proposals within the next 2 weeks!
For more information about the ABC Conferences, visit http://illinoisaap.org/conferences/abc/.
ICAAP
The next COGA meeting will be
held on Tuesday, December 5 at 8:30am at the ICAAP office and via
conference call. If you would like to attend, please RSVP. Please contact Dru O’Rourke at dorourke@illinoisaap.com
with any questions.
The Midwest Forum on Hospitals, Health Systems and
Population Health is bringing together health care and population
health leaders dedicated to improving health, health equity and social
determinants of health. Hosted by the Illinois Public Health Institute,
the Forum is taking place in Chicago on November 29 – December 1, 2017.
The Forum features a special guest of particular interest to
pediatricians, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician widely credited
with discovering and alerting the public to the Flint, Michigan water
crisis. You won’t want to miss her talk, The Heart of the Matter:
Busting Silos for the Children of Flint. ICAAP’s Obesity Prevention
Initiatives team, Mary Elsner, Anna Carvlin, and Grecia Rodriguez, will
also be presenting at a concurrent session entitled Innovation in
Children’s Health Care: Linking Community, Providers, and Payers in
System Approaches focusing on a unique clinical and community
referral model to improve pediatric health behaviors by connecting
medical providers and nonmedical community-based services that offer
nutrition and physical activity programming for children. Find out more and register for the Forum. If you
can’t make the whole event, consider registering for one of the two
preconference sessions on November 29, 2017.
Immunization
Action Coalition
Flu Season is here and the
November 2017 issue of Needle Tips discusses influenza,
including age requirements, contradictions regarding the vaccine, latest
updates, and educational resources for patients and staff.
Registration is now open for the 2017 MIPA
Summit, to be held November 30-December 1 in Bloomington, MN. The theme
of the conference is Our Goal is Zero. Keynote sessions will feature
topics on suicide prevention, brain science, and health equity. Breakout
session topics include drowning and falls prevention, occupational
health, distracted driving, preparing for a career in injury prevention,
and more. The summit is being hosted by the Minnesota Department of
Health.
WMAQ-TV
Illinois hospitals rank 26th
nationwide when it comes to avoiding medical errors, injuries and
infections, a new report released Tuesday finds. Some 2,630 hospitals
across 50 states were assigned letter grades based on a range of patient
safety measures and ranked based on their percentage of “A” hospitals,
according to Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit health care ratings
organization.
READ MORE
WRSP-TV
Young patients at HSHS St.
John's Hospital are using a new piece of equipment that appeals to the
senses. The sensory cart is new to the pediatrics department. It's funded
through a $35,000 donation from the Downtown Kiwanis Club of Springfield. READ MORE
Contemporary
Pediatrics
Vaccine refusal is a real
challenge to many pediatricians today, with up to 13 percent of parents
requesting alternative vaccination schedules and roughly 3 percent
refusing them altogether. Now, a new study from a team of military
physicians examines the effects of vaccine refusal on the relationship
between pediatricians and their patients. READ MORE
Medical Xpress
Ask adults of all ages if
today's children are healthier than children of their own generation. Too
often, the answer is "no." Less than one-third of adults
believe that kids are physically healthier today compared to kids in
their own childhoods, according to a new study in the journal Academic
Pediatrics. And fewer than 25 percent think the mental health status of
children is better now. READ MORE
Reuters
Children with asthma who are
also obese are admitted to the hospital more often for asthma
complications, according to a recent study in Japan. Among children ages
3 to 8 hospitalized for asthma, the obese patients were also more likely
to be re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days and to stay at the
hospital for a longer period of time, researchers found. READ MORE
By Dorothy L.
Tengler
 Opioid
addiction is a big problem in the U.S. — and not just among adults.
Although alcohol and cigarette abuse is far more prevalent among teens,
as of 2014, about a half-million adolescents reported using prescription
drugs for nonmedical purposes. The prescribing rates for prescription
opioids among adolescents and young adults nearly doubled from 1994 to
2007. And now an increasing number of children who are addicted to
opioids are arriving at emergency departments. READ MORE
News-Medical.net
Pregnant women who received
vaccine information through an interactive website monitored by a
clinical expert were more likely to vaccinate their children than those
who did not use the web resource, according to a Kaiser Permanente study
published today in the journal Pediatrics. The research finding
builds upon a previous Pediatrics study (2011) that found 10 to 15
percent of parents chose to delay or refuse one or more vaccines for
their children and a Kaiser Permanente study in JAMA (2013) that
found an increasing number of parents were choosing to delay or refuse
one or more vaccines for their children. READ MORE
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