WeTHRIVE!

WeTHRIVE!^sm Hamilton County Healthy Kids Ohio Learning Collaborative is a primary care practice improvement collaborative created to help primary care practices test and implement proven concepts for improving obesity screening, assessment and management.  Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is collaborative with Hamilton County Public Health to conduct this project.

The Centers for Health Care Quality and Child Policy Research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center will be recruiting primary care practices in Hamilton County to participate in this collaborative beginning in early November, 2010.  Collaborative activities will begin in January 2011.

Project Overview

The aim of this collaborative is to help primary care practices establish systems to ensure that every child receives proper preventive care, evaluation, and treatment for pediatric obesity, and that each child is linked with needed community resources.  Participating practices will receive the tools and coaching needed to assist them with implementing changes based on the needs of their practice.

Parent surveys will be conducted at the beginning and end of this collaborative to determine how practice changes regarding nutrition and physical activity counseling affect the patient and parent experience.

Upcoming Workshops

For Hamilton county practicies unable to participate in the full collaborative, Cincinnati Children's will be offering two evening workshops that will provide:
1. Useful tools and materials to help practices improve pediatric obesity care
2. Strategies from national and local pediatric obesity experts to help physicians, nurses, and office staff implement these tools in practices.

All physicians, nurses, and practice staff are welcome to attend. Dinner will be served and there is no cost to participate.

Dates: November 17, 2011 and February 15, 2012
Times: 6:30-7:30pm
Location: Cincinnati Children's (room information will be provided closer to date of workshop)

   About us 

Questions? Please contact Jessica McAuliffe

Read a Physician member's testimony of the HKO Pilot Collaborative that is the basis for WeTHRIVE! Obesity Collaborative

WeTHRIVE! Funders

Sponsored in partnership by Hamilton County Public Health with funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant.