Do you have patients with Colorado HealthOp?

Colorado HealthOp will no longer be offering insurance coverage after 12/31/15. Colorado HealthOp is continuing coverage until 12/31/15. Patients should be encouraged to start the enrollment process into a new healthcare plan now and complete enrollment prior to 12/15/15 in order to ensure coverage on 1/1/16. More information can be found on their website.

Webinar: Breast Cancer. Genetic Counseling. A Firsthand Account

Date and time: Wed, Nov 11, 2015 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MST

"I was diagnosed in June 2013 when my son was 18 months old. After I stopped breastfeeding one of my breasts did not go down, which is abnormal, so I got my mammogram. I was devastated when I got my diagnosis of breast cancer." 

Join the Office of Minority Health Resource Center and Dr. Lori Wilson, Howard University Hospital & College of Medicine Surgical Oncologist and Surgery Residency Program Director, for a presentation on her personal experience with cancer. PPEs will learn about Dr. Wilson's unique firsthand experience with cancer as an oncologist and a patient. Nicole Thompson, genetic counselor, will provide lessons on genetic counseling. Both will be available to address all questions.

Register now.

Updated BCCP Medicaid step list

We notified you last week with the new Presumptive Eligibility (PE) telephone number for BCCP Medicaid. The step list is now updated to reflect the new phone number. It can be located under the "Treatment" heading on the WWC provider resources web page.

Webinar recording: CCADV's Intimate Partner Violence

Family Planning and Colorado Coalition Against Dometic Violence (CCADV) have graciously agreed to share Amy Pohl's archived version of CCADV's Intimate Partner Violence webinar with WWC staff.

Amy Pohl wanted staff to know that they can access the Batterer 101 Training on CCADV’s Online Learning Center for FREE for 90 Days (until December 31) if they would like some follow up training on the issue of domestic violence (DV). Email Amy Pohl with your interest, and she will follow up with you directly.

Amy provided this description of the course “Understanding Batterers:”

Who are batterers? Why do batterers hurt others? Does alcohol cause physical violence? This course explores the reasons why batterers hurt the important people in their lives, lists the types of battering most often used against victims, dissects the myths and facts about battering, and much more. This course will enhance the participant’s skills around safety planning and advocacy with victims/survivors of domestic violence by increasing the participant’s knowledge and understanding of batterers as well as Colorado requirements for offender management. Course review provided by Cheryl Davis, Program Manager of the Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board (DVOMB). Time Frame: approx. 1.5 hours.

Contact information:

Amy Pohl
Communications and Membership Director
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence
1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 900
Denver, CO  80203
(303) 962-0936 ▪ Tollfree: (888) 778-7091 x824
www.ccadv.org ▪ apohl@ccadv.org

ASCCP Comprehensive Colposcopy in Tampa, Florida

Date:  January 20-23, 2016

Location:  Hilton Tampa Downtown
Tampa, FL

Are you a beginning or intermediate colposcopist? Do you need an update on the cervical cancer screening guidelines? Then this course is for you!

This course will include:

• 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines 
• Updated Consensus Guidelines for Managing Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and Cancer Precursor. 
• New concepts about HPV screening and triage, treatment methods, and HPV epidemiology. 
• Hands-on workshops to apply what you have learned 

Upon completion of this course you can earn 22.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ASCCP Members receive discounted registration rates.
Not an ASCCP member? Join or renew today.

Register today.

New progress report is ready for you!

The new progress report is available for your submissions! Reports are due through the Survey Monkey tool by end of business on November 16. You will be reporting on clinical services and/or care coordination contracts. To assist in completing all sections, a training video and worksheet were developed available for download here: https://www.colorado.gov/cdphe/wwc-progress-report. 

This report submission will cover: June 30, 2015 through October 31, 2015

The format is much different than you are used to with WWC. Our goal through this change was to empower your agency to take ownership of your award and streamline requests from your agency for additional information throughout the fiscal year. Please use this time to thoughtfully communicate your struggles and successes. 

If you have not already done so, please coordinate with your agency staff to ensure only one report is submitted per agency. 

If you have questions or concerns, contact your program coordinator as soon as possible!

Funding opportunity: WWC request for applications (RFA) now open!

The Women’s Wellness Connection (WWC) program is currently accepting Request for Applications (RFA) for both clinical services and care coordination funds as part of an Open RFA. The intention is to increase the number of women screened for breast and cervical cancer in the state of Colorado. For more information about the two funding opportunities, please see below:

Clinical Services Program

This program provides financial support to clinical services organizations to provide breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services for uninsured and under insured women who meet WWC’s age, income, and lawful presence criteria as outline in the WWC Provider Toolkit.

Care Coordination Grant Program

This program provides financial support to clinical services organizations to increase care coordination related to breast and cervical cancer screening for insured women who otherwise meet WWC’s age, income, and lawful presence criteria as outlined in the WWC Provider Toolkit.


Applications are due by November 16, 2015 and March 14, 2016
Application documents and information can be found at www.colorado.gov/cdphe/wwc-funding. 

Please forward this information to any organization that might qualify and be interested in this funding. If you have any questions, please email them to the WWC program staff at cdphe_wwc@state.co.us.