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In this Issue:
- WCAAP receives AAP's Inspire Change Award for the Second Time
- Equitable Care Question of the Month
- Vax Corner
WCAAP News & Information
- Join us for WCAAP's Relational Health Learning Collaborative
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Recruiting Now: WCAAP's Fall GATHER Cohort
- WCAAP's HPV@9 Program Featured in AMA News Wire
Noteworthy
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Still Time to Complete the HCA's Annual Paying for Value Survey
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Registration Now Open: AACAP 2024 Annual Meeting in Seattle
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Popular Pediatrics Clinical Topics 2024 Conference: Register Now!
Resources
- Free Category II CME from Seattle Children's: Childhood Leukemia 101
- Sign Up for King County Health Alerts
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Additional FAST Training Opportunities
- Now Recruiting AAP Back to School Ready: Supporting Pediatric Mental Health ECHO
Who's Who at WCAAP
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Congrats! WCAAP Awarded Inspire Change Award for the Second Time in Two Years
Late last month, the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (WCAAP), was awarded the 2024 Inspire Change Award at the American Academy of Pediatrics' Annual Leadership Conference. The WCAAP first received the Inspire Change Award in 2022, the first year the AAP district vice chairs granted the recognition.
“The WCAAP Equitable Care Committee is humbled and honored that the Chapter has received the Inspire Change Award for a second time,” says Kathleen Kieran, MD, MSc, MME, FAAP, FACS, and co-chair of WCAAP’s Equitable Care Committee. “As Committee Co-Chairs, we would especially like to recognize our Committee members, whose tireless advocacy and passion for equity have propelled this work forward.”
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Equitable Care Question of the Month
Five-year-old Sophie comes in with her mother for her annual wellness exam. It's early summer and Sophie’s mom worries aloud about the upcoming wildfire season, which seems to be worsening each year. Their rental home doesnʻt have air conditioning and summer temperatures are increasing in your region, which makes it harder for them to stay indoors with windows closed.
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Vax Corner: Back to School! Vaccines! And Exemption Forms!
Maria Huang, MD, FAAP
Vaccine Committee Co-Chair
As much as we would love all WA kids to be fully immunized, we know there remains a sizable vaccine-hesitant population. WA state law allows parents or guardians to exempt their child from the school or childcare immunization requirements by claiming personal/philosophical, religious, or medical reasons. (MMR may not be exempted for personal/philosophical reasons). So to save the time and sanity of our hardworking school nurses, when we are asked to sign Certificate of Exemption (COE) forms, let’s do it correctly. Read on to learn answers to the most common FAQs (and for additional resources)!
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Recruiting Now: WCAAP's Relational Health Learning Collaborative
WCAAP is currently recruiting for our Relational Health Learning Collaborative that will run from September 2024 – August 2025 and is open to all clinics across Washington state with existing or planned pediatric CHW (or similar) roles.
The goal of the learning collaborative is to support pediatric primary care teams with evidence-based practices to promote child, family, and provider wellbeing.
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Ali Goodyear at agoodyear@wcaap.org, or view the attached flyer. To enroll, we are asking interested clinics to complete the below enrollment form no later than August 19, 2024.
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Recruiting Now: WCAAP's Fall GATHER Cohort
Beginning in September, the latest GATHER cohort focuses on improving health equity through 3, 1.5 hour peer conversation sessions with providers from across Washington State. Participants will learn to improve their practice of EDI using a quality improvement framework, self-assessment, and peer discussion. CME and MOC Part 4 is available.
Two cohorts will be available: midday on Thursdays or evenings on Mondays.
Register below, download the flyer to share with your networks, and feel free to reach out to Elexis Jackson with any questions.
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WCAAP's HPV@9 Program and Member Doug Eisert, MD, FAAP Featured in AMA News Wire
Doug Eisert, MD, practices in a rural part of Washington state where vaccination rates for human papillomavirus (HPV) are low and the incidence and mortality rate of HPV-related cancer is higher than suburban and urban areas.
“HPV vaccination is different from others because there is more hesitancy regarding this compared to the other standard vaccinations,” said Dr. Eisert, a pediatrician with the East Wenatchee Clinic at Confluence Health, which is a member of the AMA Health System Program that provides enterprise solutions to equip leadership, physicians and care teams with resources to help drive the future of medicine.
Dr. Eisert played a key leadership role in two immunization collaboratives sponsored by the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Together, they’ve made a significant clinical impact on vaccine rates in Wenatchee Valley, Washington. “WA-CHIP” aims to increase vaccination rates for children and adolescents, whereas “HPV@9” focuses on increasing HPV vaccination for children 9–10 years old.
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Still Time to Fill Out HCA's Paying for Value Survey
The Health Care Authority (HCA) is seeking provider participation in their annual Paying for Value survey. The survey helps track progress toward the statewide goal of paying for health and value, rather than paying for volume of care.
Because provider success is at the heart of value-based care, provider input is essential. Your participation in the survey will help HCA understand your experiences with value-based payment and will inform how we approach value-based initiatives in the future.
HCA invites all provider organizations across Washington State to participate, including hospitals, health care systems, clinics, tribal health care, behavioral health care, and more.
The survey is open until 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, August 31. It is designed to be filled out by an administrative leader, with only one response per organization, and should take less than 30 minutes to complete.
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Registration is Now Open! AACAP's 2024 Annual Meeting in Seattle
AACAP’s Annual Meeting takes place October 14-19, 2024, at the Seattle Convention Center and features top experts in children’s mental health in a diverse CME program, offering up to 90 CMEs, both in-person and virtually. Register for our “weekend rate” for October 18-19, at the significantly discounted rate of $300, including many hours of content applicable to pediatricians. Topics include: aggression, ADHD, integrated and collaborative care, perinatal mental health, preschool mental health, suicide prevention, and much more. Complete details are at: www.aacap.org/AnnualMeeting-2024.
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Free CME from Seattle Children's Hospital: Childhood Leukemia 101
Seattle Children's is offering this free virtual Category II CME event on September 18, 2024 from 12 to 1pm PST. Speaker Amy Tellinghuisen, MD, will:
• Review the types of leukemia seen in childhood and general epidemiology.
• Recognize the clinical presentation childhood leukemia and identify “red flag” features.
• Outline the diagnostic evaluation for suspected leukemia.
• Identify oncologic emergencies that can be present in newly diagnosed leukemia.
• Describe general treatment strategies and late effects caused by treatment.
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In King County? Sign Up for Health Alerts
In light of recent events, including the rise of measles cases, Seattle King County Public Health is encouraging King County healthcare providers, laboratory directors/teams, healthcare leadership and other public health colleagues to sign up for our health advisories. Instructions on how to sign up can be found on our Health Care Advisories and News website. In our alerts, we share important information about outbreaks, emerging infectious disease threats and other communicable disease information relevant to providers in our county.
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Upcoming FAST Training Opportunities
Please register for the waitlist even if these trainings are full. If demand on the waitlist is high enough, we will schedule additional training dates sooner.
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Now Recruiting: AAP Back to School Ready: Supporting Pediatric Mental Health ECHO
This ECHO will increase participant knowledge, confidence, and skills of pediatricians supporting children and adolescents with common mental and behavioral health concerns as they transition into the upcoming school year. Target Audience: Primary care clinicians. Timeline:
- August 19, 2024
- August 26, 2024
- September 6, 2024
- September 9, 2024
- September 16, 2024
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Sarah Rafton, MSW
srafton@wcaap.org
Executive Director Organizational strategy, community partnerships and operations
Board and Executive Committee, multiple WCAAP committees
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Kailani Amine, MHA
kamine@wcaap.org
Director
Grant Oversight, Contract Management
Early Childhood Programs
Early Childhood Committee
First Year Families
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Sarah Nau, MSW
snau@wcaap.org
Communications Director
Internal and external communications, media relations and PR requests, Legislative and Membership Committee
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Elexis Jackson
ejackson@wcaap.org
Operations and Program Manager
Operational and Board support, GATHER, Equity Committee and Legislative, Membership, and Transformation Committee support
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Ali Goodyear, MPH
agoodyear@wcaap.org
Program Manager
Community Health Worker Learning Collaborative
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Marina Martinez
mmartinez@wcaap.org
Program Manager
WA-CHIP
Immunization Learning Collaborative
Vaccine Committee
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Colleen McCarty, MPH
cmccarty@wcaap.org
Program Manager
Parent Involvement
Champions for Youth
Local Health Jurisdiction Programs
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DeAnna Dudley Pittenger, BSN, RN-CPN
ddudley@wcaap.org
Program Manager
Special Projects HPV Immunization Learning Collaborative
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Leslie Graham, MSW, LICSW
lgraham@wcaap.org
Program Manager
Special Projects
Behavioral Health Learning Network
Community Health Worker Learning Collaborative
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Join us! Committees are a great way to meet other members and get involved with Chapter work. Watch this space for upcoming meeting dates and times for Chapter committees and interest groups. Most committees meet by phone or via Zoom for one hour, and we welcome anyone who is interested.
Legislative Affairs Committee
Next meeting September 3, 2024, 7:00-8:00am
Meets weekly via Zoom during the legislative session
Meets monthly via Zoom during the interim + ad hoc as needed
Contact Elexis Jackson for meeting info.
Contact Crystal Shen to learn more about the committee.
Equitable Care Committee
Next meeting August 23, 2024, 12:15-1:15pm
Meets monthly via Zoom
Contact Elexis Jackson for meeting info and to learn more about the committee.
If interested in joining, please fill out this application.
Early Childhood Committee
Next meeting August 14, 2024, 7:00 - 8:00am
Meets every other month via Zoom
Contact Kailani Amine for meeting info.
Contact Mary Ann Woodruff or Emily Ferrell to learn about the committee.
First Year Families Committee
Next Meeting August 30, 2024, 8:30am - 9:30am
(Usually meets monthly via Zoom)
Contact Kailani Amine for meeting details and committee information.
Vaccine Committee
Next Meeting August 16, 2024, 7:00-8:00am
Meets monthly via Zoom
Contact Marina Martinez for meeting info.
Contact Frank Bell or Maria Huang to learn about the committee.
Champions for Youth Committee
Next Meeting: August 21, 2024, 8:00-9:00am
Meets monthly via Zoom
Contact Colleen McCarty for meeting details and Committee information.
Membership Engagement Committee
Contact Sarah Nau for meeting info.
Contact Cora Breuner to learn about the committee.
Health Care Transformation Committee
Next Meeting August 23, 2024 7:30-8:30am
Meets every other month via Zoom
Contact Elexis Jackson for meeting info.
Contact Rick Levine or Sarah Rafton to learn about the committee.
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