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Activity Description:

Please join us in partnership with the Weber-Morgan Health Department to discuss trends, diagnosis and prevention of vaccine preventable diseases, such as measles. We’ll review the current situation of measles activity being seen through various lenses and discuss possible contributing factors or trends in the rise in measles cases recently. We’ll explore available resources, tools, and recommendations for testing and diagnosis of measles for providers and healthcare facilities on the front lines. Most importantly, we’ll review how you can help your clients and community prevent vaccine preventable disease and outbreaks from occurring by looking at vaccine recommendations, services and resources available through Weber-Morgan Health Department and our medical community partners. We look forward to seeing you there!

Target Audience: 

This course is designed for hospitalists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, allied health professionals, physicians and residents.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify potential factors in the recent rise of measles cases
•  Discuss the resources available to providers for guidance and help with measles testing
• Apply guidance and education on MMR vaccination to patients, and provide additional community resources for reliable vaccine information services

Moderator:

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of HCA Healthcare Continental Division and HCA Healthcare Mountain Division. HCA Healthcare Continental Division is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support:  

This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.

Disclosure: 

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidenced-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties involved in content development are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. The HCA Healthcare Continental Division has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity. The CME planning committee who are in a position to control the content of this CME Activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.