Award Winners

Milner-Fenwick was recently honored as a multiple winner at the 2011 National Health Information Awards. This year there were nearly 1,000 entries which showcased the nation's very best materials developed for the healthcare market. Our winners included:

• Stroke: Reducing the Risk (Silver Award)
• Anticoagulant Medication: Taking It Safely (Bronze Award)
• Type 2 Diabetes and Exercise (Merit Award)

 

Milner-Fenwick has released a new carb counting video series:

• Everyone Can Carbohydrate Count
• Carbohydrate Counting: Skills Into Practice
• Carbohydrate Counting: Insulin Ratios

According to consultant, Linda Zeitzoff, CRNP, CDE, "This series provides the nutritional foundation for managing diabetes. It will help patients understand the impact of what they are eating, how much they can eat, and the relationship of food to blood glucose control."

Also released are new editions of the 3-part PowerPoint® diabetes teaching series. An Overview of Diabetes and Its Management, 4th Edition. The new edition features 2 new medication slides, and revisions to 27 slides and 36 leader's notes pages. Also released is Healthy Eating for People with Diabetes, 2nd Edition, which includes new content including new USDA MyPlate icon. The Diabetes Epidemic, 2nd Edition will be released in January 2012. All 3 units units are available in Spanish.

Living with Heart Failure: A Home Video Guide has been released to reduce hospital readmissions and keep heart failure patients on track. This home reference video resource provides essential self-care guidelines for patients at hospital discharge or for those attenting heart failure classes. Nancy Mannion, RN, Team Leader Preventative Cardiology at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD says, "Putting real patients in the video is huge. Being able to see someone else who has gone through what they are going through is very beneficial."

These new products are part of the growing Heart Failure Library along with five in-facility videos averaging 15 minutes in length. The titles are:

• What is Heart Failure?
• Heart Failure: Managing Day to Day
• Heart Failure: Nutrition and Exercise
• Heart Failure: Medications
• Heart Failure: Leaving the Hospital

Heart Failure: Take Control for a Healthier Life (formerly called Congestive Heart Failure), our popular 16-page booklet has just updated. It's an ideal take-home summary for newly diagnosed patients and their caregivers. In addition, it fulfills the Joint Commission’s Heart Failure National Inpatient Quality Measures for providing heart failure patients with written instructions and educational materials on  required topics at discharge. These include activity level, diet, discharge medications, follow-up appointment, weight monitoring, and what to do if symptoms worsen. The medication section now gives patients an overview of all types of medications including ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), beta blockers, diuretics, aldosterone antagonists, and digitalis. A key theme, quitting smoking, is brought to the front of the booklet for greater emphasis.

MyPlate

Milner-Fenwick is revising its nutrition programs adding the new USDA MyPlate icon and 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. MyPyramid references are being removed. Three in-facility videos and eight HealthClips will include the new MyPlate approach as an important tool in making healthy food choices. In-facility program Overweight: Who's in Control? has been released. Nutrition: Healthy Eating for Life and Diabetes and Nutrition: Eating for Health will be released in February 2012.

Many health educator friends visited us at the 2011 AADE Annual Meeting held in Las Vegas in early August. We had three winners of patient education programs in our daily drawings. They included:

Jeanine Hinman, Lakeview, NY (Veterans Health Administration)
Tammy Clayman, Smyrna, GA (St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta)
Cheryl Schneider, Muskegon, MI (Access Health)

Award winners Jeanine Hinman and Tammy Clayman.

The HealthClips library has expanded to over 400 clips. Recently added modules include Anticoagulants, Pre-Diabetes, and Physical Activity (Diabetes). A new category New Mom—New Baby is made up of 3 modules (17 video clips) covering Post-Partum Care, Newborn Care, and Breastfeeding.

The first phase of Spanish availability is complete with the release of 42 clips including Pre-Diabetes, Smoking Cessation, Pneumonia, Advance Directive, Pain Management, Patient Safety, Anticoagulants, and Physical Activity (Diabetes).

To see sample clips from the HealthClips library, go to www.healthclips.com

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Prize Winner

Naomi Ward, RD, LD of the Education Dept. at Alton Memorial Hospital in Alton, IL was the grand prize winner in a drawing featured in our recent mailing. She'll receive a free DVD player and 6 patient education videos of her choice. Congratulations Naomi!

Now in production

New Videos to Educate Patients on Regulatory, Quality of Care Issues

As part of our on-going commitment to produce content to fulfill your need for regulatory and patient safety programming, 4 new videos in our Hospital Quality of Care (QOC) series are now in production:

• Taking Your Medications Safely
• Your Role in Infection Control
• Understanding Your Discharge Plan
• Fall Prevention in the Hospital and at Home

These new DVDs, averaging 15 minutes, are expected for release in February 2012. They will join others currently in the QOC series: Patient Safety, Pain Management, Advance Directive, Anti-coagulants, and Pneumonia.

"Our Hospital Quality of Care series has been a priority for us as we produce programs that educate patients on their roles relevant to the National Patient Safety Goals and requirements for discharge planning," says David Milner, Milner-Fenwick President. "It helps patients understand the importance of taking a pro-active role in their hospital experience. Knowing that, they can help prevent adverse outcomes and hospital re-admissions." 

Click here to be notified when these Quality of Care programs are released.

If you'd like to participate in evaluating these productions before they are released, contact Karen Rosenberg at krosenberg@milner-fenwick.com or call her at 800 432-8433 ext. 286.