Webinars
Public Health Update: with the Indiana Department of Health Respiratory Infections and Vaccinations
Public health updates with Shireesha Vuppalanchi, MD, Medical Director, Office of Chief Medical Officer, Indiana Department of Health, will be discussing current trends, hospitalizations, and recommended vaccinations for seasonal respiratory infections.
Advancing Health Equity through Immunization
Immunization is key to building a healthy community and reducing health disparities. However, vulnerable populations often face many barriers to vaccine uptake resulting in a disproportionate burden of preventable infections and diseases. In this session, our speakers will highlight successful strategies implemented by their organizations to address vaccination equity within the community.
Pneumococcal Disease: Updates on Symptoms Complications and Prevention Webinar
This webinar will discuss the impact of Pneumococcal Disease in adults and include updated information on pneumococcal vaccines for adults as well as providing resources to determine who needs a pneumococcal vaccine and when.
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives and the New Indiana Overhaul Law
In this webinar session, Chris Brinneman, ACP manager at Parkview Health a Respecting Choices ACP facility, discusses the importance of having person-centered conversations, review advance directives under the prior law, and share changes from Indiana’s new statute.
Adverse Drug Events in Long-Term Care
Guest speaker Jon Pouliot, Associate Professor Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, provides an overview of adverse drug events (ADEs) associated with high-risk medications such as diabetic agents, anticoagulants and opioids in long-term care facilities.
How SHIP Helps You Put Together the Medicare Puzzle
Learn how to navigate the State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) in Indiana. SHIP empowers, educates and assists individuals, their families and their caregivers through objective outreach, counseling and training to make informed health insurance decisions that optimize access to care and benefits.
Self Care: Managing Everyday Professional and Personal Stress and Anxiety During COVID-19
This webinar will address the impact and experience of COVID on staff in the Long TermCare setting. We will explore how to identify stress in yourself and your peers, how to manage stress in healthy ways and how to support your peers and friends as they face challenges during this unprecedented time of global crisis.
Building Community Immunity
Building Community Immunity Series
Our “Building Community Immunity” series of Office Hours calls wraps up for October with the Public Health Update: What To Expect in the Winter. Deputy Health Commissioner and State Epidemiologist and Medical Director for Long-Term Care to discuss the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and address audience questions.
Vaccine Town Hall
Vaccine Town Hall: Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
The COVID-19 vaccines have offered many hope after a year of lockdowns, social distancing and climbing infection and deaths totals. Despite all this, many are hesitant to be vaccinated—both consumers and health care workers. View this panel discussion by clinical experts from the Indiana Department of Health who can give insight into addressing consumer and health care workers’ hesitancy to be vaccinated.
Town Hall Session 2: COVID-19: Virus, Vaccine, and the Value of Herd Immunity
During this presentation the Indiana Department of Health’s Long-term Care Medical Director explains COVID-19, its short and long-term complications on the body, and how the virus has impacted the US and state. Dr. Vuppalanchi provides an overview of each of the vaccines and vaccination rates according to demographics, efficacy and safety during development and post authorization.
Town Hall Session 3: Strategies for Supporting Community Vaccination Efforts During a Pandemic
Qsource provides the results of a statewide environmental scan about the COVID-19 vaccine and discusses activities supporting communities in improving vaccination rates. A panel of community leaders share their efforts being done in their communities and the successes and challenges of vaccination.
Public Health Updates
Public Health Updates with Indiana Department of Health
- Public Health Update – January 11, 2023
- Public Health Updates with the Indiana Department of Health- November 9, 2022
- Public Health Updates with the Indiana Department of Health – September 2022
- Public Health Updates with the Indiana Department of Health – August 2022
- COVID-19 Boosters, Vaccines and Emerging Issues
- Public Health Update – Antimicrobial Resistance
- Emergency Planning and Preparedness
- Outbreak Readiness: What have we learned from COVID-19
- COVID-19: Moving from Pandemic to Endemic
- COVID-19: Seasonal Viruses and Booster Effectiveness
- COVID-19: Omicron Difference and Mask Use
- COVID-19: Booster & Vaccines
- COVID-19: The Omicron Variant