Patient Education
Family Health Radio
Family Health is produced at the WOUB Center for Public Media with support from the Osteopathic community. Now in its 30th season, the series reaches 11 million listeners on more than 250 domestic stations and an international audience in about 180 nations via the American Forces Network Radio.
The program's format remains simple and effective- daily segments of two and a half minutes, with practical, easy-to-understand answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about health and health care. The host, Harold C. Thompson III, D.O., assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, also includes timely, practical, and consumer-orientated information about how to evaluate health information on the internet. Family Health Radio is supported in part by the Ohio Osteopathic Association.
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Every Patient Counts
America's health care system is in crisis. In communities nationwide, citizens are losing access to quality medical care, and no one is immune. Before our health care system flatlines, we must take action to ensure that our lawmakers know Every Patient Counts.
Cancer Survivorship Resource Guide
The Ohio Osteopathic Association is a member of Partners for Cancer Control, which is a statewide coalition of organizations working to reduce the burden of cancer among Ohioans. Click here www.ooanet.org/pdf/cancersurvivorshipresource.pdf for a PDF of the coalition's Cancer Survivorship Resource Guide, listing national, state and local resources available to patients and their families. For additional information visit the coalitions website at www.ohiocancercontrol.org
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute has a new, reliable source for risk information about six common cancers, steps to reduce risk, tips for understanding cancer news stories, and tools to use with doctors to manage cancer risk. Find the site at http://www.cancer.gov/.
Risk Calculator for Death Due to Diseases and Enviormental Hazzards
Exposures to behaviors and our environment offer all sorts of risks. Use the American Council on Science and Health Riskometer to see a full spectrum of exposures that caused American deaths with the actual number of deaths attributed to each exposure for the base year 2002. You can also see the odds of dying from the 15 leading causes of death. Click here for more information http://riskometer.org/index.html.
Pain Management
The Purdue Web Site -- www.PartnersAgainstPain.com -- contains useful information for patients and caregivers in the following categories: (1) Pain Assessment/Measurement/Scales, (2) Pain Documentation/ Journals, (3) Pain Advocacy, and (4) Pain Resources.
Ohio Tobacco Quit Line
The Ohio Tobacco Quit Line is now housed at the Ohio Department of Health and continues to provide invaluable assistance to smokers who want to kick the tobacco habit. Tobacco counselors are available to help you from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Soon-to-be-former smokers can also leave a message 24 hours a day and request a call-back time that is convenient for them. Call the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line today at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669). Service is available in 150 language and TTY service is available for the deaf and hard of hearing at 1-888-229-2182.
Beginning July 1, 2011, Ohioans with employer-provided benefits (insured or self funded) or Medicaid Managed Care coverage will not receive quit line assistance paid for by the Ohio Department of Health. However, through Ohio’s Tobacco Collaborative, ODH is sharing its purchasing power with Medicaid and commercial health plans. The Tobacco Collaborative was created as a way to help health plans and employers comply with federal legislative mandates to provide tobacco cessation benefits while helping public health maintain tobacco cessation infrastructure in the face of budget cuts.
The Tobacco Collaborative Overview provides additional specifics regarding the cost and services offered by the program. The attached Tobacco Collaborative Cost Comparison to PMPM Benefits compares the Tobacco Collaborative costs to per-member-per month costs. The attached Guidance for Employers clarifies what is now required by federal law and provides guidance regarding how to assess tobacco coverage options. For additional resources for employers and insurers on tobacco cessation and health reform, please go tohttp://healthyohioprogram.org/healthylife/tobc2/oh_cbt.aspx
Advance Directives and End of Life Planning
The decisions a person makes regarding their healthcare preferences and treatment wishes at the end of life are extremely important. As a result, the Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (OHPCO), in collaboration with the Ohio State Bar Association, the Ohio Hospital Association, the Ohio Osteopathic Association and the Ohio State Medical Association have published two documents to help patients have discussions and complete forms on how to deal with life threatening situations when a patient cannot speak for him/herself.
Conversations That Light the Way is a workbook designed to assist you in making choices about the kind of health care you want as you journey through the final phases of life. Although this subject can be uncomfortable for many people to address, it is important that each person has the opportunity to make these important choices for themselves. The workbook contains questions, prompts and information designed to help you consider and discuss choices at the end of life. You may want to revisit this workbook over the years as these conversations take time and your decisions and choices may change.
The complete advance directive booklet, Choices: Living Well at the End of Life, and companion guide, Conversations That Light the Way, are currently being updated and are not available for purchase at this time. However, existing publications and other useful information can be obtained from the OHPCO by clicking here:
http://associationdatabase.com/aws/OHPCO/pt/sp/livingwills
Ohio Legal Services offers a self-guided interview to prepare Ohio Advance Directors. To utilize this on line tool, click here.
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