Many thanks for all the supportive emails I received after yesterday’s HPC. I’m glad to see you all are as excited about Go! Garrett County as we are. @john is still developing so its a great time to give us your feedback by visiting gogarrettcounty.com Remember, we have to wait on final approval of the funding before we can build out the…[Read more]

CDC released the, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Data Summary & Trends Report: 2009-2019, which provides an in-depth look at trends in sexual behavior, high-risk substance use, experience of violence, mental health, and suicide. Risk behaviors co-occur, and many students experience multiple risks across these four priority areas that are closely…[Read more]

Raw data + was updated by Kathaleen Skipper.

Performance Management settings were updated by Shelley Argabrite.

Performance Management settings were updated by Shelley Argabrite.

Raw data + was updated by Kathaleen Skipper.

Great news! We found out last week during a meeting run by the Center for Population Health Initiatives from the Maryland Department of Health that the LHIC Redesign funding is now available. Looking forward to a discussion about the best way to use the funds at our next virtual HPC on Sept. 24 at 8:00 am.  We were also promised a Fellow from the…[Read more]

Hi! @kessesmjsbns48arl just wrote a piece about this workgroup for possible publication to the newspaper! We think it would be a great letter to the editor and would serve as a kick-off for our campaign. I will post the draft in the docs section. Please feel free to comment. Thanks, Karl for doing the hard work- has anyone started writing?

Hello!  The HSCRC diabetes measures workgroup has met twice since I asked for feedback. The discussions have been comprehensive with thoughtful in-depth points made from people of various backgrounds. There is still work to be done but it seems as a group we are landing toward measuring diabetes incidence although it does yield some measurement c…[Read more]

Raw data + was updated by Kathaleen Skipper.

Shout out to Mitzi and Victoria from the Diabetes program at GRMC who let us know that they are actively holding classes (evidence- based lifestyle change programs) various target populations and what they need most are physician referrals!  Anne Langley’s next meeting isn’t until next week so please jump on and let us know your thoughts.

An HSCRC diabetes measures workgroup has been organized by Anne Langley, JD, MPH from the Center for Population Health Initiatives.  Our job is to identify the measures, milestones, and targets that will be used by CMS to evaluate Maryland’s performance in the Diabetes priority area under Total Population Health.  Critical questions for the g…[Read more]

Raw data + was updated by Kathaleen Skipper.