HIGHLIGHT!! Live webinar: CA surgeon general and DHCS medical director discuss ACE screening training

Laurie Udesky 12/3/1910:45 AM

Join a live webinar with California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

and

Dr. Karen Mark Medical Director, Department of Health Care Services

for a Medi-Cal provider introduction to the new ACEs Aware Initiative and the www.ACEsAware.org website.

The Office of the California Surgeon General and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in the first public unveiling of the initiative, will host a live webinar to share details of the new ACEs Aware Initiative for Medi-Cal providers on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 12:15 p.m., PT.

During the webinar, California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and Dr. Karen Mark, Medical Director for DHCS, will share the approach for creating curriculum and training to prepare providers to screen for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and respond with trauma informed care. They will issue a call to action for Medi-Cal providers to join in the launch of this unprecedented initiative and share details about the larger strategy to ensure that all California communities are ACEs Aware.

Additionally, Dr. Burke Harris and Dr. Mark will explain how providers, beginning January 1, 2020, can collect payment for conducting ACEs screenings with their Med-Cal patients.

We invite you to join this inaugural ACEs Aware event. Don't wait, register today!

For questions or comments, please email the ACEs Aware team.

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Vincent J. Felitti, MDMember

The effect of the above-described approach is summarized this paragraph from the attached article.

"Another example of the research potential of this approach to preventive medicine was demonstrated by an analysis of 135,000 consecutive adults going through Health Appraisal in a 2.5-year period. ACE Study questions relating to traumatic life experiences in childhood had recently been added to the comprehensive medical history questionnaire that patients filled out at home. A major data mining effort revealed that the addition of these trauma-oriented questions, with follow-up in the exam room produced a 35% reduction in outpatient visits and an 11% reduction in Emergency Department visits over the following year compared with that group’s prior year utilization [unpublished data]. We realized that asking, initially via an inert mechanism with later followup in the exam room, coupled with listening and implicitly accepting the person who had just shared his or her dark secrets, is a powerful form of doing. The economic implications of this 135,000-patient finding are clearly in the multibillion-dollar range for KP, Medicaid, and other large systems like the Veterans Administration."