ACHIA is happy to announce the launch of its new QI collaborative in December 2023. Healthy Beginnings 2024: An ACHIA Trauma Informed Care and Resiliency QI Collaborative will focus on measurably improving strengths-based messaging and enhancing screening and follow-up for perinatal depression, social determinants of health and social-emotional wellness during early childhood well visits. Led by Dr. Elizabeth Dawson, nine participating practices will learn how to transition from "summing the suffering" to "building the buffering" by promoting resiliency and positive childhood experiences.
by Cason Benton, MD, FAAP
Toward the end of the last century, groundbreaking work by Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda established that adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are much more likely to experience lifelong poor physical and mental health outcomes at the population level. Subsequent research found that unmitigated toxic stress damages and changes the genome resulting in poor health.
Check out the Summer 2023 edition of the ACHIA Newsletter to find out about our newest collaborative. The ACHIA newsletter provides information about current quality improvement initiatives, collaborative outcomes and more.
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by Cason Benton, MD, FAAP
Preventing illness through vaccinations is foundational to pediatric care. During the pandemic, either because of decreased patient visits or through caregiver concerns about vaccines, vaccination rates protecting young teens from tetanus, pertussis, meningococcus, and cancers decreased. The Alabama Department of Public Health’s ImmPRINT registry indicates that for 11- to 13-year-olds, only 17 percent of patients were up to date on the vaccines for this age group: tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap), 60 percent; human papillomavirus (HPV), 17 percent, and meningococcal (MenACWY), 51 percent (data as of July 13, 2021).
Check out the Winter 2023 edition of the ACHIA Newsletter to find out about our newest collaborative.The ACHIA Newsletter provides information about current quality improvement initiatives, collaborative outcomes and more.
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