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2016 HealthInsight Award

Canyon View Family Medicine and Canyon View Pediatrics have earned a 2016 quality recognition award from HealthInsight, a nonprofit, community-based healthcare organization. To qualify for the 2016 Physician Office HealthInsight Quality Award, applicants were required to meet the criteria of five components:

• Exemplary performance on nationally-recognized clinical quality measures

• Participation in data reporting

• Population management

• Patient engagement tools and strategies incorporated into care processes

• Innovation in care

Our family medicine group completed all the requirements and went even further by achieving additional quality measures beyond the 5 required for the award. Some of those measures included improving patient health as measured by Hemoglobin A1C, blood pressure, and antibiotic avoidance. As part of the Innovative care measure, the clinic participates in regular staff training from a registered diabetic educator or a registered respiratory therapist. The educators provide training to our staff for the purpose of helping our staff better understand disease states such as diabetes, asthma, and COPD. The award represents our providers and staff’s commitment to improving the health of our patients.

Some of the pediatrics group measures included adolescent well-care visits, antidepressant medication management, appropriate testing for children with pharyngitis, BMI assessment in children, childhood immunization status, and well-child visits in the first 15 months of life (6 or more well visits).

Pictured above from left to right are John Taylor, MD; Patrick McVey, MD; and Tracy Frandsen, MD

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Children and the Inversion

Should I send my kids outside for recess when there is an inversion? This is a question many parents ask themselves when it is a ‘red’ burn’ day. Is it bad for my child to breath the air? The answer is not so simple. If a person has a lung problem that is exacerbated by the particulates in the air, then they should stay inside. Older adults with emphysema or chronic bronchitis, should not be in the polluted air. For children, it is not clear cut. Cough is one of the symptoms of lung problems with dirty air. But, cold air by itself is an irritant to the lungs and can make people cough. So, the cough may not be related to the air at all, but to the temperature. On the other hand, there are studies to show that children who are not active but sit, for example, in front of a screen for up to 3 hours at a time at age 3 will have a doubled risk of having asthma at age eleven. Being active and expanding the lungs helps keep the lungs healthy. My advice: Work to keep the air clean. But, unless being outside induces a cough or difficulty breathing, it is not necessary to keep your children from participating in recess activities.

Additional Resources: http://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/outdoor/air-pollution/children-and-air-pollution.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

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