What’s New at Milner-Fenwick

New 2010 E-Catalog Available

Milner-Fenwick has just released our first electronic patient education catalog. The content has been expanded to more than 50 pages to include new releases, a new waiting room DVD, low cost home DVDs, and new diabetes handouts on CD-ROM.

The e-catalog format has customer friendly capabilities that aren’t possible from a printed catalog. For example, if you’re on the phone with one of our reps, they can now e-mail the catalog to you and have it in your in-box before the phone conversation is over. You can save it to your PC for easy reference. And with the click of your mouse, you can go from any program description in the e-catalog to the corresponding page on our website to preview it online.

Download our new PDF catalog now. If you have any questions about using this e-catalog, call us at (800) 432-8433.

Quality of care issues are getting a lot of attention from hospitals these days especially because of accreditation requirements and rules for government compensation. For this reason, Milner-Fenwick has released a new 3-part Hospital Quality of Care series.

Patient Safety: Stay Safe While You Are in the Hospital covers safety strategies that include reducing falls, improving hand washing, and tracking meal trays and medications. Patients learn in Advance Directive: Taking Control that with pre-planning, they can have some degree of control if they become too ill or injured to convey their wishes. Pain Management: It’s Your Right stresses the importance for patients to communicate their pain level to healthcare providers, and explains patients’ rights about pain management.

Click here to see the feature article in this issue.

Updated release, Diabetes: Being Prepared for Sick Days and Emergencies covers issues that patients don’t think about first when they start learning how to manage their diabetes. The program emphasizes the importance of developing a sick day plan with one’s diabetes care team in the event of an illness, infection, or injury.

“We also added a new section on emergency planning. Typically, people don’t plan for events like hurricanes, floods, power outages, or blizzards until the last minute,” observes producer Carrie Beaudoin. “But planning ahead for these kinds of events is especially important for people with diabetes.”

The program gives detailed information on supply kit preparation and what to do when illness or emergency situations are at hand.

Stroke

Stroke Stroke: Reducing Your Risk was developed because according to the National Stroke Association, “Stroke is the third leading cause of death in America and a leading cause of adult disability. Up to 80% of strokes are preventable.”

Consultant Connie Parliament, RN is Clinical Program Director of Neuroscience Services with the Michigan Stroke Network. She says this program is an important resource for educators because many potential stroke victims are uninformed when it comes to newer treatments and medication, including clot-busting drugs.

After a Stroke will help stroke survivors and their families learn to cope with their condition and live as full a life as possible after the event. The patients appearing in the program were chosen for their positive attitude and their progress. Even though each stroke and the recovery timeline is different, the focus is on patient empowerment.

Click here to see the feature article in this issue.

An updated version of Living with Asthma lets patients know that if they take their medications properly, avoid triggers, and monitor their peak flow daily, they can control their condition much more safely and effectively.

According to producer Lee Ricketts, “Patients are taught if they take their controller medication daily, they shouldn’t need to use quick relief medications as frequently.”

“We also stress monitoring their peak flow every day. Viewers learn that their peak flow will help tell them how well they are controlling their asthma, may give advanced warning of an attack, and provide valuable data for their healthcare provider.”

Our new digital friendly product line, HealthClips, is expanding to over 400 clips with the June 2010 release of 50 new videos:

Stroke (12 clips)
Patient Safety (6 clips)
Advance Directives (5 clips)
Pain Management (4 clips)
Breastfeeding (5 clips)
New Baby Care (8 clips)
Pneumonia (8 clips)

Previous releases include 140 clips in heart disease, 110 in diabetes, 90 in wellness, and 30 in asthma. Each clip averages 3 minutes making information easier to find, understand, and remember. This helps your patients better prepare for medical treatment, manage chronic conditions, and make healthier lifestyle choices. A companion transcript, thumbnail photo, and short description comes with every clip for use on your website.

HealthClips for the Waiting Room, Wellness and Disease Prevention Edition is a DVD designed for continuous play in any public area of your facility. 34 short clips averaging 3 minutes each are interspersed with 10 healthy lifestyle tips. The 2 hour DVD covers a variety of topics including healthy eating, stress, cholesterol, smoking, high blood pressure, and diabetes.