CCOs and care team members play important roles in helping their members quit smoking, including: accurately assessing member tobacco use status; designing benefits (expanding coverage and reducing barriers); promoting benefits; implementing tobacco-free campus policies; and fostering partnerships with local public health agencies and other community stakeholders to create tobacco-free community environments.
Current opportunities
Free, quick online tobacco cessation counseling training (with CME)
- What: This short online course will improve your care team’s ability to help patients quit tobacco. The course focuses on Brief Tobacco Intervention and Motivational Interviewing techniques.
- Who: All members of the care team committed to supporting their patients quit tobacco.
- When: The course is self-paced and takes approximately 45 minutes. The course can be started, paused and resumed later as needed.
- CMEs: This training has been reviewed and is accepted for up to 1.0 prescribed credit from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). For other licensing boards that may not pre-approve continuing education credits (for example, the Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists), please submit the certificate of participation to your accrediting body.
- Access the training: https://tcrc.rapidlearner.com/3462253711
- Questions? Please contact Anona Gund (Anona.E.Gund@dhsoha.state.or.us or 971-673-2832)
Webinar series: Treating tobacco dependence in behavioral health settings
The OHA Transformation Center and Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Section recorded a series of webinars focused on treating tobacco dependence in behavioral health settings. Presenters are from the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Behavioral Health and Wellness Program. Audience: All types of care team providers, quality improvement staff, and non-clinical staff working in behavioral health settings. See full details and links to the recordings.
Questions? Please contact Anona Gund (Anona.E.Gund@dhsoha.state.or.us or 971-673-2832).
Past opportunities
CCO Tobacco Prevalence Reduction Learning Collaborative
The Transformation Center hosted a half-day event for CCOs that focused on evidence-based practices for reducing tobacco prevalence, including clinical and community-based interventions.
Webinar recordings
Additional opportunities through OHA
E-referrals to the Tobacco Quit Line (Public Health)
The OHA Public Health Division is investing in e-referral functionality for the State Tobacco Quit Line. OHA-PHD is working with partners across the state to support e-referral buildout implementation through investments in local and state systems. A recent pilot e-referral project in central Oregon successfully created an e-referral pathway within the OCHIN EPIC platform, and resulted in an over 4,000% increase in referrals to the Quit Line.
- Next steps for OCHIN EPIC health systems - If you are interested in turning on the e-referral functionality within your OCHIN EPIC system, contact OCHIN directly and enter a support ticket (Interface JIRA) to initate the conversation. As a result of this initial buildout, there will be minimal costs for any OCHIN EPIC health system, which may vary depending on internal technology capacity.
- Next steps for health systems using other EHR systems - For general questions about how to get started with e-referral buildouts to the Oregon Tobacco Quit Line, contact Shira Pope, Health System Policy Specialist, OHA Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, 971-673-1052, shira.r.pope@state.or.us.
Contact
Anona Gund: Anona.E.Gund@dhsoha.state.or.us or 971-673-2832
CCO incentive measure technical specifications and guidance documents