First STEPS
2014 Harvest Meeting
September 11, 2014 Harraseeket Inn, Freeport
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Paul Miles is the past President of the American Board of Pediatrics and is now a Senior Quality Advisor.
His presentation will focus on "Quality Improvement - Past, Present
and Future: Where Are We Going Nationally?"
Afternoon Speaker
Dora Anne Mills, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, University of New England
Her presentation will focus on preparing practice and community teams to improve care in Maine.
Harvest Conference Materials:
· First STEPS “Holding our Gains through Shared Learning” Agenda
· Welcoming Powerpoint
· What Matters Most: The M5 Formula to Leading and Sustaining First STEPS Quality Improvement Powerpoint
· “Quality Improvement: Past, Present and Future, Where Are We Going Nationally” Powerpoint
· Checklist for Holding the Gains Made During First STEPS Powerpoint
o Leading from all Chairs Sheila Adell
· Rapid Fire: Updates on Best Practices and Stories from the Field Powerpoint
o Childhood Immunization – How Can It Be That Hard? Powerpoint
§ Immunization Rates Generation Using ImmPact
o Developmental & Autism Screening
§ Maine’s Early Childhood Birth to Three Developmental Screening, Identification and Assessment Terminology Chart
§ “DRAFT” Universal Consent for Referral and Release of Information Form Prenatal and Children Through Age Five
§ Building “Piece of Mind”
o Road to Success: Going from Hanging Posters to Treating Kids Powerpoint
o Pediatric Oral Health in Primary Care Practices: Keys to Success Powerpoint
· Leadership Questions
· Lesson Learned from the Pediatric Practice Patient Centered Medical Homes and First STEPS
o Health Information Technology and Quality Improvement Powerpoint
o Evaluating First STEPS: What have we learned? Powerpoint
· Harvesting our Work in First STEPS and Planting the Next Quality Improvement Crop Powerpoint
Other Handouts:
First Steps Harvest Meeting: Sustainability Survey
Primary Care: Improving Oral Health Outcomes for Children Improving Immunization Rates Change Package
Improving Care for Children w/Developmental Delays and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Your Child’s Early Development is a Journey
Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care
IHOC MaineCare Announcements – March 2013 (revised 9/05/2014) Developmental, Autism, and Depression Screening
New CPT Modifier for Preventive Services
Maine Healthy Homes & Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
IHOC List of Pediatric Measures
First STEPs Evaluation Report Phase I
First STEPS Evaluation Report Phase II
Posters:
First STEPS to Better Health
First STEPS Periodicity Schedule for Primary Care
Conference Reading Materials
PCNA MOC and Quality
PEDS article Future of Networks
Peds article on network
PEDS article – Physician Accountability
Keynote Speaker Bios
Paul Miles, MD is Past President of the American Board of Pediatrics and a Senior Quality Advisor. Dr. Miles graduated from Stanford University, completed medical school at UCLA and pediatric training at Harbor/UCLA. He was in private pediatric practice from 1975 to 1999 in Twin Falls, Idaho and served as Director of Clinical Quality Improvement and Co- Director of the Center of Excellence in Rural Healthcare at Magic Valley Regional Medical Center. He held adjunct faculty positions at Case Western University School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Medicine.
From April 1999 to April 2002, Dr. Miles served as Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director of the Center for Clinical Improvement and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He was responsible for directing quality improvement efforts for the medical center.
In May 2002, Dr. Miles joined the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as Vice President, Director of Quality Improvement and Assessment Programs in Pediatric Practice, retiring in 2013. He is a former Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Miles currently serves as the president of the Academy for Healthcare Improvement (AHI) in addition to his role as the Program Director of the Portfolio Program.
Dr. Mills is a graduated from Mt. Blue High School, Bowdoin College, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Pediatric Internship and Residency Program, and the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a board-certified pediatrician who practiced as a hospitalist in Los Angeles (two years) and in a pediatric practice in her hometown of Farmington (four years). She also practiced medicine in several rural international locations, including Tanzania and Nepal. For nearly 15 years, from 1996-2011, she served as Maine's State Health Officer, for the administrations of Governors Angus S. King and John E. Baldacci. As the Director of the Maine CDC (formerly Bureau of Health), She is currently the Vice President for Clinical Affairs for the University of New England
Dr. Mills' work has been well recognized. Among her awards are: the 2007 American Medical Association's Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service; the 2003 National Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Award for tobacco work in Maine; the 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award for her work addressing the 2009 H1N1 pandemic by distributing vaccines through Maine's schools; the 2010 McCormack Award from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers for her national leadership during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic; the 2004 University of New England Deborah Morton Award; the highest awards by the Maine Public Health Association, the Maine Medical
Association, and the Maine Development Foundation; and a 2011 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Maine Augusta.