Health Care Professionals

We help health care professionals improve the health care experience for both their patients and their staff. To ensure positive change across nearly every aspect of providing, tracking and reporting physical and integrated behavioral health services and outcomes, we support improved, sustainable, system-level solutions through tailored technical assistance, training programs, readily available resources and peer-to-peer learning.

Health care professionals include:

Critical access hospital leadership/staff

Prospective payment system hospital leadership/staff

Nursing home/long-term care facility leadership/staff

Clinic and medical office staff

Tribal and Indian Health Service facility and clinic leadership/staff

Pharmacists

Physical and occupational therapists

Public health workers

Community health workers

Social workers

Environmental services staff

Focus Areas supportING HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS:

3D ECHO

Mountain Pacific and Frontier Psychiatry jointly launched 3D ECHO, a telementoring initiative to deliver medical education and health care management to clinicians in remote settings throughout our region.

The newest Project ECHO hub is called 3D ECHO to reflect the importance of supporting the three dimensions of health care: biological, psychological and social.

3D ECHO RESOURCES

Medication Safety and Adverse Drug Events

An adverse drug event, or ADE, describes any incident in which a person is harmed by a medicine. People who are 65 years or older are more than twice as likely to end up in the emergency department because of an ADE.

While many medicines can cause an ADE, a few drugs are most often responsible for creating an emergency situation:

Anticoagulants, also known as blood thinners
Diabetes medications, such as insulin
Opioids, which are used to treat pain

Mountain Pacific works with health care professionals to support medication safety and prevent ADEs.

MEDICATION SAFETY AND ADE RESOURCES

Behavioral Health and Opioids

Mountain Pacific builds networks and helps connect providers and patients to community resources and support, including providing processes and solutions that integrate behavioral health into primary care services. Behavioral health initiatives include:

Treating substance use disorders, including opioid use disorder and the misuse and abuse of prescription opioids.
Improving care for nursing home residents with dementia, providing alternative, evidence-based treatment strategies other than the use of antipsychotic medications.
Improving access to behavioral health services to help those with depression and prevent suicide.

Behavioral Health Resources

Antibiotic Stewardship

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization say antibiotic resistance is one of the most serious problems facing our national and global health systems today.

Mountain Pacific partners with health care communities to implement antibiotic stewardship programs and with outpatient health care settings to incorporate the CDC Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship:

Commitment: demonstrate dedication and accountability to improve antibiotic prescribing and patient safety.
Action for policy and practice: implement at least one policy or practice to improve antibiotic prescribing, assess whether it is working and modify if needed.
Tracking and reporting: monitor antibiotic prescribing practices and offer feedback to clinicians.
Education and expertise: provide resources to clinicians and patients and ensure access to needed expertise on optimizing antibiotic prescribing.

Together, we can help stop the threat of antibiotic resistance and protect patients.

ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP RESOURCES

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