The 9th Ward Community Meeting is Tuesday, 6/28/2016

Please Join Us! 9th Ward Alderman Anthony A. Beale and City Department Representatives present a 9th Ward Community Meeting Tuesday, June 28, 2016 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Pullman Presbyterian Church 550 East 103rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60628 9th Ward Alderman Anthony A. Beale 34 East 112th Place Chicago, Illinois 60628 773.785.1100

Memorial Day Flash Sale

It's A Memorial Day Weekend Sale! Ellana Boutique "A Place Where Casual and Elegance Meet" 7511 S. Cottage Grove 10 am - 7 pm 773-846-8221 773-259-0264 www.facebook.com/ellanaboutique Thursday, May 26th thru Saturday, May 28th Unbeatable Purse Special- Buy ONE Purse and Get the Second One ½ Off! We offer sizzling designer purses for day, night and weekends, with a splash of summer colors! All Jewelry Accessories: Buy ONE Get the Second One ½ Off Get Your Spark On! Sassy Necklaces, Diva Bracelets, Goddess Earrings & Rings All Church Attire 50% Off! Be THE FIRST LADY on Your Block & Shop Our Gorgeous Church Ensemble. A Wide Selection! GET YOUR CLASSY SUIT NOW! We Specialize In Ultimate Sophistication & Style Bring a friend! We look forwarding to seeing you! SALE! SALE! SALE! STAY CONNECTED:

Free Credit and Financial Goals Workshops

Dear Friends of Genesis,

Please help us get the word out… We are holding one of our quarterly Credit and Financial Goals Workshops series this June:

• “Financial Coaching and Wealth Building” a two-day class: Saturday, June 4, 2016 and Saturday, June 11, 2016; from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Savoy Square - 4448 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60609, see the flyer for more details…

Referrals are welcomed.

Thank you in advance!

Steeve Kidd

Program Director

Genesis Housing Development Corporation

Community Empowerment & Education Division

(773) 994-6670 x 214 – Office

(773) 994-6673 – Fax

(312) 217-9903 – Cell

Free Credit and Financial Goals Workshops

Dear Friends of Genesis,

Please help us get the word out… We are holding one of our quarterly Credit and Financial Goals Workshops series this June:

• “Financial Coaching and Wealth Building” a two-day class: Saturday, June 4, 2016 and Saturday, June 11, 2016; from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Savoy Square - 4448 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60609, see the flyer for more details…

Referrals are welcomed.

Thank you in advance!

Steeve Kidd

Program Director

Genesis Housing Development Corporation

Community Empowerment & Education Division

(773) 994-6670 x 214 – Office

(773) 994-6673 – Fax

(312) 217-9903 – Cell

AHRQ Electronic Newsletter, May 24, 2016

May 24, 2016, Issue #519 AHRQ Stats: Exercise Advice From Health Professionals The portion of obese adults between ages 18 and 44 who received exercise advice from a health professional increased from 47 percent in 2002 to 52 percent in 2012. (Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, Chartbook on Healthy Living.) Today's Headlines: AHRQ Toolkit Helps Health Care Organizations and Providers Communicate With Patients and Families When Harm Occurs New Tool Identifies Harms Among Children Due to Hospital Care Patient Reporting of Safety Events Feasible, Prototype Shows New AHRQ Views Blog Posts AHRQ Publishes Notice Prioritizing Research on Patient Data To Improve Ambulatory Care Featured Case Study: AHRQ Resources Promote Health Literacy and Evaluate Patient Experiences at Johns Hopkins AHRQ Toolkit Helps Health Care Organizations and Providers Communicate With Patients and Families When Harm Occurs A new online toolkit from AHRQ is designed to help hospital and health system leaders and clinicians communicate accurately and openly with patients and their families when something goes wrong with their care. The toolkit will help expand use of an AHRQ-developed communication and resolution process called Communication and Optimal Resolution, or CANDOR, which gives hospitals and health systems the tools to respond immediately when a patient is harmed and to promote candid, empathetic communication and timely resolution for patients and caregivers. The toolkit, which includes facilitator notes, slides and online videos, enables health care organizations to make care safer by implementing the CANDOR process to encourage proactive, open communication with patients and their families when harm occurs. For more information, read the press release and the blog post by AHRQ Director Andy Bindman, M.D. New Tool Identifies Harms Among Children Due to Hospital Care A newly developed “trigger tool”shows promise in flagging adverse events in children, according to a new study published in the May edition of Pediatrics. The Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) trigger tool, which can use electronic data to identify adverse events in pediatric patients, was developed and tested with AHRQ support. Trigger tools are commonly used to identify adverse events after they occur. A trigger tool scans a health record system and flags entries that indicate that an adverse event may have occurred. However, most existing trigger tools are not designed for pediatric patients. Read the abstract for more information about how this tool was developed and tested and its potential impact on pediatric patient safety. Patient Reporting of Safety Events Feasible, Prototype Shows An AHRQ-funded contract to develop and pilot test a prototype for capturing patient-reported patient safety events has demonstrated that such a system is challenging but feasible. Researchers were able to capture information on safety events from the patient and family perspective – a viewpoint that has previously been unavailable to hospitals and others. Most patient safety event reporting systems capture information from the clinician or provider perspective. Including the patient perspective gives patient safety experts a more complete understanding of the event that happened. The Health Care Safety Hotline was developed and implemented in two hospital systems over 15 months. A total of 37 reports were successfully submitted by patients. A final report from the project includes lessons learned and the materials used to develop and deploy the prototype. Read about the report’s findings and their importance to patient safety in a blog post by Jeff Brady, M.D., M.P.H., director of AHRQ’s Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. New AHRQ Views Blog Posts Working Together To Tackle Health Care's "Voltage Drops" Health Datapalooza Highlights Key Challenges for Ongoing Research AHRQ Publishes Notice Prioritizing Research on Patient Data To Improve Ambulatory Care AHRQ has published a Special Emphasis Notice to support research on how health information technology can facilitate the collection and use of patient-reported outcomes and patient contextual data to improve the quality of care in ambulatory settings. Although collection of patient-reported outcomes and contextual data is advancing rapidly, little is known about how to best use the information in primary care and with diverse populations in ambulatory settings. Patient-reported data provide important information for clinical decision making, quality measurement, practice improvement and research. This special emphasis notice will support work to understand how patient-reported outcomes can be used to improve quality and outcomes in clinical care. Featured Case Study: AHRQ Resources Promote Health Literacy and Evaluate Patient Experiences at Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins HealthCare uses brochures and videos from AHRQ’s “Questions Are the Answer” campaign to promote effective communication between medical providers and 320,000 health plan members. Johns Hopkins also uses AHRQ's Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)®.Read the case study. AHRQ in the Professional Literature Development and validation of prognostic indices for recovery of physical functioning following stroke: part 1. Bates BE, Xie D, Kwong PL, et al. PM R. 2015 Jul;7(7):685-98. Epub 2015 Jan 26. Access the abstract in PubMed®. Development and validation of prognostic indices for recovery of physical functioning following stroke: part 2. Bates BE, Xie D, Kwong PL, et al. PM R. 2015 Jul;7(7):699-710. Epub 2015 Jan 26. Access the abstract in PubMed®. Bringing it home: expanding the local reach of dissemination and implementation training via a university-based workshop. Morrato EH, Rabin B, Proctor J, et al. Implement Sci. 2015 Jul 4;10:94. Access the abstract in PubMed®. Electrocardiogram in preparticipation athletic evaluations among insured youths. Burns KM, Encinosa WE, Pearson GD, et al. J Pediatr. 2015 Oct;167(4):804-9.e1. Epub 2015 Jul 3. Access the abstract in PubMed®. Sometimes more is more: iterative participatory design of infographics for engagement of community members with varying levels of health literacy. Arcia A, Suero-Tejeda N, Bales ME, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 Jan;23(1):174-83. Epub 2015 Jul 13. Access the abstract in PubMed®. Oral mechanical bowel preparation for colorectal surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis. Dahabreh IJ, Steele DW, Shah N, et al. Dis Colon Rectum. 2015 Jul;58(7):698-707. Access the abstract in PubMed®. The Affordable Care Act and expanded insurance eligibility among nonelderly adult cancer survivors. Davidoff AJ, Hill SC, Bernard D, et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2015 Jul 1;107(9). Print 2015 Sep. Access the abstract in PubMed®. Health promotion text messaging preferences and acceptability among the medically underserved. Albright K, Krantz MJ, Backlund Jarquin P, et al. Health Promot Pract. 2015 Jul;16(4):523-32. Epub 2015 Jan 13. Access the abstract in PubMed®. Contact Information Please address comments and questions about the AHRQ Electronic Newsletter to Bruce Seeman at: (301) 427-1998 or Bruce.Seeman@ahrq.hhs.gov.

Genesis Housing Education June Events 2016

June 2016 Genesis Upcoming Free Housing Education Events: “Good Tenants, Good Landlords, Great Neighborhoods Workshop” Renters Know Your Rights and Your Responsibilities Thursday June 2, 2016 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Savoy Square 4448 South State Street Chicago, IL 60609 Click Link to Register: https://renterworkshop2016.eventbrite.com “Financial Coaching & Wealth Building Training” The Two-Day Class Part 1 - Saturday June 4, 2016 & Part 2 -Saturday June 11, 2016 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at Savoy Square 4448 South State Street Chicago, IL 60609 Click Link to Register: https://financialcoachingjune2016.eventbrite.com “Refinancing and Equity Options” Saturday - June 4, 2016 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at Genesis Housing Development Corp. 7735 S. Vernon, Chicago, IL 60619 Click Link to Register: http://yourhomeyourasset.eventbrite.com “Refinancing and Equity Options” Thursday -June 23, 2016 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Genesis Housing Development Corp. 7735 S. Vernon, Chicago, IL 60619 Click Link to Register: http://yourhomeyourasset6-23-2016.eventbrite.com “Homebuyer Education Training” A HUD Approve Certificate Training – Saturday, June 25, 2016 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at Mercy Hospital 2525 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60616 Click Link to Register: http://homebuyerjune2016.eventbrite.com · Help Genesis Housing Development Celebrate 20 Years of Service!!!

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You get to choose how you will handle MS. 05/24/2016 10:00 AM EDT Read the inspirational words of an Air Force Veteran who eloquently describes how he lives every day with Multiple Sclerosis. His courage and resolve serve as a valuable example to us all. Read the full story

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