The West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention Program (AEPP) has a wide range of partnerships throughout the state in order to facilitate our mission and vision.  AEPP is striving to provide the most current literature and education on Asthma to every corner of the state with the help of others. Some of our partners who share our vision include: 

PARTNERSHIPS 

American Lung Association of West Virginia  

The American Lung Association is the oldest voluntary health organization in the United States, with a national office and constituent and affiliate offices around the country. Founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis, the American Lung Association today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health. The ALAWV was formed in 1954, serving all 55 counties in the state through education, community service, advocacy and research. 

Through a subcontract with the AEPP: ALA-WV manages the West Virginia Asthma Coalition; works closely with AEPP in the development and facilitation of World Asthma Day, Asthma Awareness Day at the State Capitol, and other activities. 

West Virginia University School of Medicine’s Office of Health Services Research and Department of Pediatrics  

Through subcontracts with the AEPP: conducts the Clinic-based Asthma Management Program (C-bAMP) in community health centers. C-bAMP promotes utilization of The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma Expert Panel Report 3, and empowers health care practitioners to provide the highest quality of care for their patients with asthma. This is possible through a patient disease registry system called CDEMS that OHSR manages and provides technical support.

Since 2003, the OHSR has been working with the West Virginia Asthma Education and Prevention Program (AEPP) to aid in achieving the following:

• Enhanced surveillance of West Virginians with asthma, improved data on work-related asthma, and improved data on the uninsured/underinsured population with asthma;
• The implementation of school-based interventions for children with asthma, through the West Virginia American Lung Association and their use of the Open Airways for School and Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools programs;
• The implementation of clinic-based intervention for patients with asthma for improved patient care by enhancing provider education and making available to providers an electronic patient registry enabling them to track patients on an individual and population level. 

Please view the C-bAMP Brochure  and the OHSR website concerning C-bAMP and the CDEMS patient disease registry.

View the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma

West Virginia Department of Tobacco Prevention

AEPP in partnership with the Department of Tobacco Prevention (DTP) created two 30-second commercials about Asthma and the effects of Second-Hand Smoke and Cigarette Smoking.  The commercials have been part of a pilot intervention that were broadcast in Wood County in 2008, reaching approximately 20% of the West Virginia population along with residents of Ohio. The commericials can be viewed on the DTP website: www.wvdtp.org. Also, the DTP in cooperation with AEPP developed an asthma section in their Smoking and Your Health brochure and Tobacco Use & Asthma  brochure that are currently available and are distributed to the public for free.

Please view them here: SMOKING AND YOUR HEALTH  and Tobacco Use & Asthma Trifold

Charleston Area Medical Center

CAMC Health Education and Research Institute, Inc. (CAMC Institute) is part of the CAMC health system, which is largest not-for-profit health system in West Virginia, and is the organization within responsible for research, continuing education, and oversight of external funding. CAMC Institute applied for funds on behalf of the CAMC Pulmonary Rehabilitation program specifically for WVChAMPS, a self-care management program for seniors with asthma. A Pulmonary Handbook for patients has been developed as well as a complete education and follow-up policy. The goal of this program is to reduce the burden of asthma in Southern West Virginia and with the senior population.

 

Also, CAMC Institute has partnered with AEPP and the WVDHHR and AEPP to update, produce, deliver and archive modules associated with the on-line education programs titled: Asthma Education for Primary Care Providers. This web-based curriculum is open to the public and is provided to healthcare providers at CAMC Hospital Systems and for others to offer for CME's for physicians and CEU's for nurses and respiratory therapists.

 

Click on Asthma Education for Healthcare Providers to view the CAMC educational CE tool.

 

Asthma Education for the Primary Healthcare Provider flier