Happy Holidays!!!

Affiliate News

2010 Record Breaking Year

This has been a record breaking year for new affiliates with 8 new affiliates – AtlantiCare, OSF Bloomington, Cypress Fairbanks, SETMA, Temple, Brookwood, Deborah Heart and Lung, and Hallmark Health. The power of the network is growing.

Deborah Heart and Lung Center

We are pleased to welcome aboard Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ to our Joslin Affiliates family. Deborah Heart and Lung Center is a 139 bed hospital with a full-service ambulatory care center and Deborah Hospital Foundation, the fundraising arm for the Center with about 16,000 volunteers supporting the Deborah mission. Deborah offers the latest surgical techniques and non-surgical alternatives for diagnosing and treating all forms of cardiac, vascular and pulmonary diseases in adults, congenital and acquired heart defects in adults and children. http://www.deborah.org/general-health/history.html

Hallmark Health

We also want to welcome Hallmark Health System of Melrose, MA to the Joslin family of Affiliates.

Hallmark Health system is the premier, charitable provider of vital health services to Boston's northern communities and is the official healthcare partner of the Boston Bruins. The system includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford and Melrose Wakefield Hospital, Melrose. Hallmark Health System is committed to building and sustaining a strong, vibrant and healthy community and dedicates appropriate resources to collaborations with community partners and the utilization of community member's input toward improving health services. http://www.hallmarkhealth.org/

SETMA opening

Our new affiliate, Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA) in Beaumont, Texas, celebrated their Grand Opening on Tuesday, November 30. Over 450 people attended including SETMA patients, staff and physicians. Mr. Jack Isaacson, a life-long friend of Dr. Holly’s, received his Joslin 50-Year Medal, given to him in recognition of his many years of successful living with diabetes. Dr. Martin Abrahamson, Chief Medical Officer from Joslin Boston, gave the keynote address and the Mayor of Beaumont, Ms. Becky Ames, cut the ceremonial ribbon. SETMA PCPs completed certification training over the next two days. Welcome SETMA to the Joslin family of Affiliates!

http://www.setma.com/index2.cfm

Editor’s Note

Error in November newsletter - Linda Humphrey, MS, RD, CDE of St. Mary’s Evansville, IN not Diana Emmick was the author of Healthy Tips for Holiday Eating in the Walgreens Magazine. Linda, we sincerely apologize for the error.

Save the Date

Upcoming Conference Calls (Noon EST)

To join the call: 800-351-4871 Password 90978204#

Date / Topic / Facilitator
Jan 12
Noon-1 PM EST / Follow Up from Annual Meeting – Center Administrators and Education Coordinators / Janice Murphy
Carole’ Mensing
Emily Englander

Orientation in Boston

·  March 13-14, New Physician & Nurse Practitioner

·  March 13-15, New Educator & Center Administrator

Details will be coming by email in January.

New - RVUs for Diabetes Educators

The 2011 final rates for the physician fee schedule were published in the Federal Register on Monday, November 29, 2010: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-27969.pdf We are happy to report that for the first time ever, physician work RVUs (relative value units) have been assigned to diabetes self management HCPCS codes G0108 and G0109 (starting on page 73293). Stakeholders such as the AACE, AADE and JDRF requested that physician work RVUs be included when valuing DSMT services in the manner that work RVUs have been used to value MNT (medical nutrition therapy codes 97802, 97803 and 97804). This means that reimbursements for DSMT should reflect a prospective increase and importantly allow for productivity modeling in the same manner as applies to physicians.

Minor Revision to Clinical Guideline for Pharmacological Management of Type 2

The FDA regulatory action related to use of Rosiglitazone was added to the Joslin pharmacological guideline on page 8. No other changes were necessary. Please print the revised guideline and replace the one in your Joslin Affiliates Policy and Procedure Manual, CG-02.

Professional Education Department Seeking Help

Joslin’s Professional Education Department would like to involve our Affiliate partners in two upcoming projects related to elder care and glycemic/cardiometabolic goals. Our aim is to recruit group PCP practices that refer to our Affiliates to participate in the 6-month program. If interested, please contact or call 617-226-5933.

Check it Out

The Spanish version of HealthSeeker is now available.

http://diabetesnewshound.com/type2/facebook-game/

Type 1 Patient Education Pathway

Boston recommends scheduling individual appointments for new Type 1 patients with the physician, nurse and dietitian on the same day. For newly diagnosed be sure to have an educator follow up by phone within 24-48 hours. Try to schedule nurse and dietitian appointments 1 week later. Then think about appropriate classes for follow up.