Marshall University School of Medicine
Department of Family and Community Health
1600 Medical Center Dr
Suite 1400
Huntington,
WV
USA
45669
Email:
shurst@marshall.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Ms Hurst is a T Trainer for the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP). She has trained over 100 Master Trainers and Program Leaders in the Appalachian Region over the course of the last five years. In conjunction with this work, she has worked with rural primary care centers to implement quality improvement programs in diabetes care, including group medical visits. She led the integration of self-management supports into the group medical visit, including the process of patients making their own self-managment goals and action plans. Based on this experience, she and her collegues developed a starter kit to help other health centers implement group medical visits.
Another aspect of her work is training nursing staff and medical assistants in patient self-management skills. The training includes training them as leaders in CDSMP, and then helping them learn how to apply self-managment skills training in a clinical setting. Currently she is working with rural primary care centers to implement systems changes to integrate self-management supports into clincal care using the PCRS tool. Clinic staff have completed the PCRS assessment and are using the findings to implement a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) quality improvement process.