Federal Action
The Role of Spiritual Care in Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (CIPM)
This online and downloadable resource was developed as part of the ongoing work of the Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management. This was a collaborative effort among the Spiritual Care subgroup members that initially met in 2018-19 after the...
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to...
The Connector: Spotlight – CMS Approves New HCPCS Codes for Spiritual Care
The codes are non-billable and allow chaplains to be part of the clinical count, nonbillable workload for VA. These codes will become effective on October 1, 2020. With more spiritual care provided in VA facilities, it will make a positive and meaningful difference in the lives of our Veterans.
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15th Annual GWish Art of Presence Healthcare Renewal Retreat [Virtual]
The George Washington Institute for Spirituality & Health will host its 15th Annual GWish Art of Presence Healthcare Renewal Retreat on September 25-27, 2020, 10:00am-2:00pm EDT. Target Audience: Doctors, Nurses, Chaplains, Social Workers, Psychologists--All...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Matt Taylor
Yoga Therapy’s Potential for Filling Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (CIPM) Gaps in Underserved/Remote Locations An interview with Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, C-IAYT Dr. Taylor is an expert who has been involved in AACIPM’s efforts for many years. He brings...
Spotlight: Duke and AACIPM are Aligned in Identifying Clinical Examples of Integrated Pain Management (IPM)
AACIPM unites many stakeholders who are leading important work to advance whole person oriented, integrative and integrated pain management. This includes Duke University where many of their leaders are focused on changing the paradigm in how pain management is being...
Guest Spotlight: Sharad Kohli
Access to Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management for People in the Safety Net An interview with Sharad Kohli, MD You work at People’s Community Clinic – what kind of a clinic is this? People’s Community Clinic (PCC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)...
AACIPM’s First Symposium Builds Deeper “Community” Among Important Leaders
Leveraging Shared Interest in Advancing Person-Centered Pain ManagementOn May 13-14, 2020, AACIPM facilitated its first online symposium titled, Innovation & Progress in Person-Centered Pain Management. Over 950 individuals who represented different stakeholder...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Bob Twillman
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced substantial changes in many aspects of our lives, as witnessed by the soaring unemployment rate, oil prices sinking so low that companies actually were paying people to take oil from them, and the widespread shutdown of social...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Kavitha Reddy
Kavitha Reddy, MD, Whole Health System Clinical Director, Veterans Health Administration, was one of five presenters during the focus group facilitated by AACIPM and Midwest Business Group on Health on March 4 in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Reddy shared some exciting...
Forum provides educational opportunity for employers on importance of comprehensive pain management
by Denise Giambalvo, VP at MBGH and Amy Goldstein, Director at AACIPM The Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM) and the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) convened its first Health Care Purchasers Focus Group on March 4 in...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Jeff Dusek
Dr. Jeffery Dusek is the Director of Research, Connor Integrative Health Network, University Hospitals, Cleveland OH and an Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He also serves as the...
Reflections on the Duke Integrated Pain Management Conference
By: Adam Seidner, M.D., M.P.H., CMO, The Hartford On February 5th I participated in the Implementing Integrated Pain Management: Lessons from North Carolina Health Systems and Beyond conference at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Participants came together...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Vanila Singh
Dr. Vanila Singh is one of AACIPM’s Advisory Committee members and a tireless advocate for patient-centered pain management. She has an important vantage point from her recent position as Chief Medical Officer at HHS and leading to completion the Best Practices Pain...
Be an Agent for Change: A Health Policy Roadmap for Integrative Health Professionals
This interactive and dynamic pre-congress workshop will take place at the 2020 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 28. AACIPM's director, Amy Goldstein, will join esteemed colleagues to focus on what participants can...
Opioid Workgroup: Seeking External Experts
NCIPC’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), a federal advisory committee, is establishing an Opioid Workgroup to provide expert input and observations on a possible update or expansion of the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States,...
Combating the Opioid Overdose Crisis and Alleviating Chronic Pain
This opinion piece is authored by two of AACIPM's advisory and planning committee members. This was published in Morning Consult on December 13, 2020. With more than 47,600 Americans dying from opioid overdoses in 2017 alone, our nation’s opioid crisis is...
Complementary Policy Efforts in Washington, DC
AACIPM participated in two back-to-back meetings in DC this week with key stakeholders focused on policy solutions that promote individualized, multimodal, comprehensive, person-centered, integrative pain care. On December 4, the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management...
Back on Track Annual Advisory Committee Meeting
It is my privilege to be a part of the advisory committee for the PCORI-funded study, called “Back on Track” (see further details below), with Dr. Lynn DeBar, PhD, MPH, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, as principal investigator along with an...
Press Release: Patients, Providers, and Payors Unite to Advocate for Comprehensive Pain Treatment Policies
[Washington, DC] – A group of leading national health care organizations have established the Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM), a first-of-its-kind multi-stakeholder collaborative to promote comprehensive integrative pain...
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