January 2025 Adult Call

January Collaborative Call Meeting Minutes

Jan Adult Call FINAL

January 28, 2025, 3:30-pm EST

• Welcome & introductions, Nicole Rioles, MA and Osagie Ebekozien, MD, MPH, CPHQ
• Clinical center presentations
  • Collaborative Updates
  • Grady Memorial Hospital, Georgia Davis, MD
  • Washington University, Kai E. Jones, MD
  • Boston Medical Center, Kathryn Fantasia, MD
• Updates from Coordinating Center
  • Please submit Statements of Work with T1D Exchange; all invoices for deliverables completed on or before December 31, 2024, must be invoiced on or before March 1st, 2025, 5pm EST. Payment for invoices received after 3/1/2025 will be forfeited.
    • Consult your SOW for details.
    • Include terms/timelines of deliverable, PI name, and amount in your invoice
    • Email invoice to: Linda Crasco crasco@t1dexchange.org ; Rene Weathers rweathers@t1dexchange.org ; T1D Exchange Accounts Payable: t1dxap@t1dexchange.org
    • Any questions about invoicing can be sent to Nicole Rioles nrioles@t1dexchange.org
  • Thank you and farewell to Dr. Ebekozien, who is departing the Collaborative after seven years on February 6th. He is excited to continue his work in the diabetes space in a new venture and is excited to share more information with everyone soon.
• Clinic Presentation: Grady Memorial Hospital, Georgia Davis, MD
  • The Grady Memorial Clinic, QI & Research Team is expanding to meet their needs.
  • The center is setting a strategic goal to improve A1c outcomes.
  • Multidisciplinary care teams, education, advanced diabetes technology access, and a T1D patient registry are all QI initiatives being implemented to improve that strategic goal.
  • Expanding the clinic and behavioral health, improved scheduling, CGM classes, a multi-disciplinary appointment, insurance assistance, and including a patient navigator yielded positive results.
• Washington University, Kai E. Jones, MD
  • Depression screenings were very low at 1-3% with an aim to increase that to 50%. The center began with a physician survey, half of whom did not screen a single patient.
  • PDSAs to initiate a prescreening process included a screening of all patients, coaching providers on how to screen/enter results into Epic.
  • Next steps include resources on how to enter screening, including a video.

• Boston Medical Center, Kathryn Fantasia, MD; Corrine Aia, RD, CDCES, BC-ADM
  • Patient Navigators and Pharmacy Liaisons have been helpful in prior-auths, and ensuring the correct devices are covered by insurance.
  • A CGM Basics video was uploaded to the BMC website for patients to reference, and an informational flyer was created, both have QR codes.
  • Additional multi-lingual printed information on CGMs was placed in the office.
  • Barriers to CGM adoption were ranked and addressed, including adoption of a handout created by UPMC. This increased adoption of CGM from 14% to 37% for PwT2D.
  • The goal of increasing CGM usage by 10% was achieved; now they are working to close gaps in health equity between different patient demographics.

Next meeting: Combined Collaborative Call Tuesday April 15, 3:30-5pm EST

Link to Recording:

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