September 8, 2025

Free Training: DIMENSIONS: Tobacco-Free Advanced Techniques Training, October 15 – 16

This one and a half day training covers tobacco fundamentals, tobacco addiction, tobacco treatment strategies and a motivational intervention for tobacco cessation. Trainees will also be trained to facilitate the DIMENSIONS Tobacco Free Group – a 6-week group curriculum.

The Advanced Techniques training is a train-the-trainer model, meaning participants will leave the training with the materials and knowledge to train other at their organization. Every trainee will have download access to the program materials at the completion of training.

Attendees Will:

• Promote tobacco cessation for persons with behavioral health conditions,
• Conduct 30-minute motivational intervention,
• Facilitate the Tobacco Free group,
• Build awareness around tobacco dependence, and
• Make referrals to community resources

Cost: This training is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and is therefore offered at no-cost to qualified participants.

When: October 15, 8:30 a.m. – October 16, 12:30 p.m.

Pre-Registration is Required.

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September 5, 2025

MHA Five-Part Virtual Series: Credentialing: Navigating Risk and Readiness, September 9 – October 7

In the provider lifecycle, every verification tells a story – and every decision leaves a trail. Join MHA for a five-part series that explores how hospital-based professionals can act as both signal and shield: surfacing the truth behind provider data and protecting the organization through smart, coordinated oversight.

You’ll sharpen the thinking that underpins high-stakes decisions and build confidence in the systems that support them.

Schedule of Sessions:

• Tuesday, September 9 – Credentialing Best Practices
• Tuesday, September 16 – Complex Licensing with FCVS
• Tuesday, September 23 – Merging Credentialing and Provider Enrollment
• Tuesday, September 30 – Credentialing Red Flags
• Tuesday, October 7 – Negligent Credentialing

Objectives:

• Strengthen discernment by learning to extract meaning from data and documentation,
• Understand how alignment across departments enhances both efficiency and defensibility, and
• Develop a systems lens that integrates best practices with risk anticipation

Audience:

• Medical service staff professionals
• Credentialing specialists
• Medical directors
• Vice presidents of medical affairs
• Quality improvement professionals
• Medical staff leaders
• Credentials committee members
• Anyone involved with the credentialing and privileging functions

Cost:

$395 MHA Members

$495 Nonmember

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September 5, 2025

Cancer Survivorship ECHO, Begins September 12

The Cancer Survivorship ECHO enhances the capacity of rural primary care teams and community oncologists to deliver high-quality, coordinated, and patient-centered care to individuals who have completed primary treatment for cancer, by increasing knowledge, confidence, and collaboration in survivorship care planning, monitoring, and long-term support.

Primary care professionals, social workers, psychologists, behavioral health clinicians, nurses, and other community healthcare professionals are invited to join a multidisciplinary team of experts and specialists for virtual, collaborative learning sessions every 2^nd and 4^th Friday of the month from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Case-based learning sessions for Cancer Survivorship ECHO will address such topics as:

• Why Cancer Survivorship ECHO?
• Cancer survivorship clinical practice guidelines
• Immunizations
• Continued lab monitoring and imaging
• Healthy eating: finding nutritional balance in survivorship
• Clinically appropriate screenings in the survivor of cancer
• Smoking cessation in individuals with cancer
• Modern therapeutics and toxicities
• Cardiovascular health post cancer
• Fitness strategies
• Fertility and sexual health
• Supplement use and nutrition misinformation
• Signs and symptoms of cancer recurrence
• Side effects
• Support group and resources

What Does this ECHO Offer?

• FREE continuing education for qualifying professionals,
• Collaboration, support, and ongoing learning from specialists and experts across the state, and
• NO COST to participating sites or individuals

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August 28, 2025

Training Opportunity: Tobacco-Free Advanced Techniques Training, October 15-16, Lake Ozark

A training program for healthcare professionals offered by the Behavioral Health and Wellness Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

This one and a half day training covers:

• tobacco fundamentals,
• tobacco addiction,
• tobacco treatment strategies, and
• a motivational intervention for tobacco cessation.

The advanced techniques training is a train-the-trainer model, meaning participants will leave the training with the materials and knowledge to train others at their organization. Every trainee will have download access to the program materials at the completion of the training.

Attendees will:

• Promote tobacco cessation for persons with behavioral health conditions,
• Conduct 30-minute motivational intervention,
• Facilitate the Tobacco Free group,
• Build awareness around tobacco dependence, and
• Make referrals to community resources.

In addition to learning the fundamentals about tobacco, you will gain access to our tobacco-free group curriculum and to numerous handouts (which are also in Spanish) that help facilitate conversations around nicotine/tobacco use. Even if you do not intend to run a group, this will be a valuable training.

DIMENSIONS: Tobacco Free Advanced Techniques Training

This one and a half day training covers:

• tobacco fundamentals,
• tobacco addiction,
• tobacco treatment strategies, and
• a motivational intervention for tobacco cessation.

Trainees will also be trained to facilitate the DIMENSIONS Tobacco Free Group—a 6-week group curriculum. The Advanced Techniques training is a train-the-trainer model, meaning participants will leave the training with the materials and knowledge to train others at their organization. Every trainee will have download access to the program materials at the completion of the training.

DIMENSIONS: Tobacco Free Advanced Techniques Training

This one and a half day training covers tobacco fundamentals, tobacco addiction, tobacco treatment strategies, and a motivational intervention for tobacco cessation. Trainees will also be trained to facilitate the DIMENSIONS Tobacco Free Group—a 6-week group curriculum. The Advanced Techniques training is a train-the-trainer model, meaning participants will leave the training with the materials and knowledge to train others at their organization. Every trainee will have download access to the program materials at the completion of the training.

Cost: Free

This training is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and is therefore offered at no-cost to qualified participants. The content will be presented by University of Colorado, Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Health & Wellness Program. Pre-Registration is required.

Missouri DHSS will reimburse your hotel lodging and is providing lunch on the full day of the event. The training will run from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm CT on 10/15 and from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm on 10/16. Someone from DHSS will contact you to coordinate reimbursement for your hotel.

The Lodge of Four Seasons

315 Four Seasons Drive
Lake Ozark, MO 65049
Reservations: 888-265-5500
Telephone: 573-365-3000

Group Direct Booking Link- No login/Attendee Code needed:

Booking Engine 4.0 URL: https://reservations.travelclick.com/17336?groupID=4848955

Please email motobaccoprogram@health.mo.gov if you have any questions.

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August 27, 2025

2025 Missouri Preceptor Academy

Preceptors play a vital role in orienting new staff to their roles and integrating them into the department and organizational culture. The Preceptor Academy is designed to equip current and aspiring preceptors with essential education, tools and strategies to build strong preceptor-orientee relationships.

This interactive, one-day session will explore real-world scenarios to examine adult learning principles, analyze various learning methodologies, and apply strategies for giving and receiving feedback. Additionally, participants will define emotional intelligence and identify ways to use it for conflict management, coaching and professional development.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Discuss techniques to promote constructive communication between the preceptee and the preceptor,
• Demonstrate how to provide effective and constructive feedback,
• Discuss the appropriate style of conflict resolution to use in specific situations,
• Identify your individual personality type,
• Recognize the importance of the preceptor role in integrating new health care professionals into the work setting,
• Discuss strategies to improve the retention of health care professionals, and
• Identify strategies the preceptor can use to support the development of the preceptee’s clinical judgment.

Target Audience:

Any registered nurse or allied health employee serving as a preceptor in a health care setting should attend. A preceptor is responsible for introducing students and/or new employees to the profession.

Cost: Complimentary for MHA Members

When:

This event takes place throughout Missouri. See the following list of dates, locations and event details:

• Thursday, October 16 – Liberty, Missouri
• Thursday, October 23 – Maryland Heights, Missouri
• Wednesday, December 3 – December 4 – Virtual

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August 21, 2025

Free Training Opportunity: Alpha-gal Training Module from CDC (Free CE)

To help increase awareness of alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) and more rapidly diagnose patients in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a new free online training module for healthcare providers (HCPs), epidemiologists, and public health officials.

The training includes opportunities for FREE continuing education in seven professional categories – CME, CNE, CEU, AAPA, CECH, AABSB/RACE, CPE, and CPH-providing educational credit for:

• Physicians,
• Nurses,
• Pharmacists,
• Physician Assistants,
• Veterinarians,
• Nurses,
• Epidemiologists,
• Public Health Professionals,
• Educators, and
• Health Communicators

Key Learning Objectives Include:

• Describing the epidemiology identifying clinical characteristics,
• Describing appropriate diagnostic testing,
• Promoting appropriate management, and
• Explaining tick bite prevention and its importance in preventing and managing the disease.

AGS is a serious, potentially life-threatening tickborne disease. People with AGS can have an allergic reaction to red meat and other products containing alpha-gal, like dairy and some medications. People can develop AGS after being bitten by some types of ticks, primarily the lone star tick in the United States.

CDC reported that between 2010 and 2022, there were more than 110,000 suspected cases of AGS identified. However, because the diagnosis of AGS requires a positive diagnostic test, and a clinical exam, and some people may not get tested, CDC estimates that as many as 450,000 people might be impacted by AGS in the US.

While suspected AGS cases are increasing each year, a 2022 U.S. Survey found that nearly half (42%) of healthcare providers had never heard of AGS and, among those who had, less than one third (29%) knew how to diagnose the condition. Limited awareness and knowledge of AGS among healthcare providers likely contributes to underdiagnosis of this condition. This can lead to incorrect patient management and underestimating of the number of AGS patient in the United States.

Click Here to Learn More About Alpha-gal Syndrome

Click Here to Read CDC Report

Click Here to Access Free Online Module

August 20, 2025

MHA Webinar: 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guidelines: Best Practices for Pain Management, September 16

This training will review the 12 recommendations outlined in the CDC Clinical practice Guidelines for acute, subacute, or chronic pain as it relates to opioid and other pain management prescribing. The speaker will explore alternatives to opioids and the importance of working alongside patients to determine the right path forward for them.

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify the five guiding principles of the Clinical Practice Guidelines,
• Implement prescribing practices that align with the guidelines, and
• Determine if opioid prescribing is appropriate and what alternatives are best in appropriate situations.

Cost: complimentary for all attendees

When: Tuesday, September 16, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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