Preventive Services
Using Performance Improvement Methods to Improve Your BMI Follow-up Plan Measure
Available On Demand: Webinar Recording and Slides
ABOUT
The Uniform Data Set has a preventive care measure for BMI screening and a Follow-up Plan. For patients with an elevated BMI outside the normal range, a plan for how to improve their BMI is required. This training provides tips on prioritizing this measure in the quality program, sharing data across the organization, and developing performance improvement activities to ensure that patients with elevated BMIs receive education, counseling, or referrals to encourage healthy lifestyle choices, or referral to specialists to address medical co-morbidities or pharmaceutical interventions. Health Center Performance Improvement domain of Workforce and Quality, Patient Care, and Safety as it discusses healthcare metrics and performance improvement opportunities. This training will be in conjunction with i2i.
PRESENTERS
Director, Clinical Services
Christina Mister has over 13 years of experience as a nurse leader in community, hospital, health insurance, and regulatory settings.
Christina has had a valuable impact on healthcare quality improvement. She has had positions in nursing leadership, nursing management, case management, payer quality programs, program management, regulatory compliance, and nursing education.
Most recently, as a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nurse consultant, Christina has provided accreditation oversight to Medicare’s acute care programs. She serves as the program lead for Diabetes Self-Management Training and Home Infusion Therapy accreditation programs. Additionally, she is the clinical support for Rural Health and Federally Qualified Health Center programs. Christina provides oversight to national accreditation organizations and provides direction in the development of education material for state surveyors for those programs. Additionally, she is responsible for collaborating with other federal agencies and national associations.
As a program manager for Johns Hopkins Healthcare, LLC, Christina aligned measurable program goals with the organization’s mission and utilized quality improvement strategies and measurement to implement changes in the health plan’s programs. Christina has been instrumental in improving the health of the community; as a Program Manager, she collaborated with external stakeholders to improve health outcomes and decrease the high utilization of members within the Complex Case Management and Disease Management Program.
As an FQHC Clinical Manager, she has vast experience in health center operations, care management, health center budgeting, nursing management, and medical assistant supervision.
Christina has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Coppin State University (Baltimore, Maryland) and a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Morgan State University (Baltimore, Maryland).
Senior Director of Quality Management,
i2i Population Health
Josh Glueck began his career as a consultant directly involved in the transfer of a hospital-owned health clinic to the community-based organization, Berks Community Health Center, located in Reading, Pennsylvania. With Josh’s team, this organization became a federally qualified health center (FQHC) through the competitive grant application process. Josh’s core roles consisted of leading strategic planning to ensure a successful transfer, networking with local hospitals and community organizations, establishing and directing the quality improvement/assurance committee, grant writing, establishing contracts with Medicaid managed care organizations, contracting and credentialing physicians with various insurances, managing contract agreements and organizational policies, creating a risk management plan, and many other duties. Josh stayed with Berks Community Health Center for several years, serving a quality improvement and operations role within the organization. In 2014, his organization began to use i2iTracks and since Josh has an affinity for technology and data, he applied to i2i Population Health. He joined the team in April 2015 and served as a Regional Director/Population Health Consultant (PHC) based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until May 2017 when he was promoted to the role of Senior Director of Quality Management. In this role, Josh leads the team of Population Health Consultants training both internally and externally and he works directly with the Product Team in guiding future enhancements of i2i solutions.
The AAFP has reviewed Preventive Services and Chronic Disease Strategies for Health Centers and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. The term of approval is for one year. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Each live session is approved for 1.0 AAFP Elective credits. Elective credits are available for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and medical assistants.
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,485,711 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.