2024 ACA Nashville Program Book_154th Congress of Correction
Learning Objectives: • Participants will be able to identify potential security risks related to using the finger stick method versus continuous glucose monitoring, identify clinical outcomes of continuous glucose monitoring and open a dialogue between operations and health care team to discuss mitigation of security risks and clinical outcomes related to continuous glucose monitoring. • Participants will be able to identify deterrents to patient self-efficacy while using the finger stick method of glucose monitoring, identify enhancements to patient self-efficacy while using continuous glucose monitoring and open a dialogue with the transitional coordinator/liaison to discuss transitional care of patients with diabetes and how transition from incarceration to the community may be improved by initiating continuous glucose monitoring while incarcerated. • Participants will be able to understand the improvement in diabetes related outcomes while using continuous glucose monitoring seen in the community, open a dialogue between the operations and the health care team to identify measurable diabetes related outcomes, appreciate staff and patient perceptions and create a plan for tracking identified diabetes related outcomes across time. Moderator: Jennifer L. West , Biostatistician, Centurion Health, Sterling, Virginia Speakers: Jennifer L. West , Biostatistician, Centurion Health, Sterling, Virginia; John P. May , Chief Medical Officer, Centurion Health, North Miami, Florida; Amanda Gentry , Deputy Chief of Prisons, Idaho Department of Corrections, Boise, Idaho Addressing Inmate Suicide in the NJ DOC: Lessons Learned [ Y CE/CE/CME/CEU] Room 209C Primary Area of Focus: Special Population Primary Community of Focus: Prisons Suicide rates in the incarcerated population remains higher than in the general public. With
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Thursday, Aug. 15 ▼ 2:15–3:30 p.m.
• Participants will be able to discuss the use of telehealth services to expand care within correctional facilities. • Participants will be able to identify ways to reduce cost, increase efficiencies and improve public safety using technology. Moderator: Valerie Langley , RN, Chief Nursing Officer, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina Speakers: Greg A. Heath , RN, Telehealth Director, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina; Letitia Owen , RN, Services Operation Director, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina; Rebecca Greene , RN, Assistant Director of Nursing, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Raleigh, North Carolina Continuous Glucose Monitors as a Diabetes Care Option for Incarcerated Patients [CE/CME] Room 209B Primary Area of Focus: Healthcare/Wellness Primary Community of Focus: Adult Corrections The purpose of this presentation is to discuss our success using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices in Minnesota Department of Corrections prisons as published in Diabetes Spectrum: A Pragmatic Rethinking of Glucose Monitoring for the Incarcerated and provide an outline for other correctional systems to offer CGM as a diabetes care option as just adopted in the Idaho Department of Corrections. While CGM has been demonstrated to improve diabetes related outcomes in the community, the finger stick method is the norm in prisons.
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