NYS Health Care Providers and Continuing Education Opportunities

Continuing Education Information

People with disabilities experience health disparities and are more likely to self-report their health status as “fair” or “poor.” Providers can help recognize barriers and acquire strategies and approaches to provide disability-competent, responsive care. These continuing education opportunities can help.

Responsive Practice: Providing Health Care and Screening to Individuals with Disabilities

• Responsive Practice: Providing Health Care and Screening to Individuals with Disabilities
  Instructions to complete training: Please enter your first and last name, email address, organization, and zip code. You will have 24 hours to complete training after entering your contact information.

Course overview: Online, on-demand & free for a limited time. Helps health care providers to:

• Describe disparities in health experienced by people with disabilities;
• Recognize barriers people with disabilities face when accessing health care & preventive services; and
• Acquire strategies & approaches to provide disability-competent, responsive care.

Nursing:

North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited Approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This activity was approved for 1.0 Nursing Contact Hour. Activity #21

Pharmacy:

This program has been approved for 1.0 continuing education credit(s) through the NH Board of Pharmacy.

Physician:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC and the NH Disability and Health Program Institute on Disability/ UCED, University of New Hampshire.

The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is accredited by the NH Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1.0 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Responsive Practice: Accessible and Adaptive Communication

• Responsive Practice: Accessible and Adaptive Communication Training
  Instructions to complete training: Please enter your first and last name, email address, organization, and zip code. You will have 24 hours to complete training after entering your contact information.

Course overview: Health care providers earn professional credit while learning to:

• Presume that patients with disabilities are competent to understand, communicate, and participate in their own care;
• Identify and use alternative methods of communication; and
• Set clear and reasonable expectations for future communications to be successful.

Nursing:

North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited Approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This activity was approved for 0.5 Nursing Contact Hours. Activity #522

Pharmacy:

This program has been approved for 1.0 continuing education credit(s) through the NH Board of Pharmacy.

Physician:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC and the NH Disability and Health Program Institute on Disability/ UCED, University of New Hampshire.

The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC is accredited by the NH Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The North Country Health Consortium/NNH AHEC designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1.0 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Supplemental Information for Health Care Providers

Learn more about the need for continued education around accessible care.

Studies

• Physicians' Perceptions of People with Disability and Their Healthcare
• US Physicians' Knowledge About the Americans with Disabilities Act And Accommodation of Patients With Disability

Technical Assistance:

• Northeast ADA Center –provides information, guidance, technical assistance, and training on implementation of all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
• NYS Education Department's Adult Career & Continuing Ed Services – provides a list of Independent Living Centers, which provide an array of services that assist New Yorkers with all disabilities to live fully integrated and self-directed lives.

Resources for Health Care Providers:

• Medical Diagnostic Equipment Accessibility Standards – U.S. Access Board – Medical Diagnostic Equipment Accessibility Standards. These standards provide design criteria for examination tables and chairs, weight scales, radiological and mammography equipment, and other diagnostic equipment that are accessible to people with disabilities.
• Health Equity Framework for People with Disabilities – this resource from the National Council on Disability (NCD) includes four core foundational areas for achieving health equity for people for disabilities. Two of these foundational areas include education of health care professionals and requiring the use of accessible medical and diagnostic equipment.
• The American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry (AADMD) – a non-profit, membership organization of interdisciplinary health professionals, including primary physicians, medical specialists, dentists, optometrists, nurses, and other clinicians, committed to improving the quality of healthcare for people with intellectual & developmental disabilities (IDD).
• Resources for Integrated Care - contracts with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offer a participant-centered model of disability-competent care that is designed to treat the whole person beyond a diagnosis or condition. There are three core values to this model, which include a participant-centered approach, respect for the participants’ choice and elimination of medical or institutional bias. Resources for Integrated Care also offers a Disability-Competent Care Self-Assessment tool. The purpose of this tool is to help health plans and health systems evaluate their present ability to meet the needs of adults with functional limitations and to identify strategic opportunities for improvement.
• Modernizing Health Care to Improve Physical Accessibility: A Primer for Providers - the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) developed this primer to support clinical and non-clinical staff in health care settings as they collaborate to improve quality, satisfaction, and physical accessibility for people with disabilities.
• A Toolkit for Primary Care Providers - this resource is offered by Special Olympics Health and the Golisano Foundation and addresses health care for adults with IDD.