Learn how Fairview Health Services uses the PHQ-2 and PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaires for depression screening of patients in primary care and how they developed their current process for depression screening. See how Fairview’s process and methods might be a model for your clinic.

Audience

Physicians and other medical staff in primary care.

Objectives­

• Understand the use of PHQ-2 and PHQ-9 screening tools.
• Understand the process for depression screening in primary care.
• Understand the roles of physician, other medical staff, and support staff in depression screening in primary care.

Speakers

Chris Beamish, LICSW, is a manager for Fairview Counseling Centers (FCC) and Clinical Systems Integration, which is a part of the M Health academic health system. He is responsible for the clinical, operational, and financial performance of a team of outpatient clinic therapists and integrated primary care behavioral health clinicians. Chris provides consultative and managerial support to the Fairview and M Health system related to integrated behavioral healthcare model innovation, such as: the integrated behavioral health primary care model, behavioral health home, population health, RARE, patient activation, and patient and provider engagement. He is also the lead motivational interviewing trainer for Fairview and M Health and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

Linda Damman, Senior Epic Engineer, Fairview Health Services. Linda is an experienced project specialist and systems analyst supporting patient care, ancillary processes and associated applications. Specialties: meaningful use, project management, process improvement, SDLC, electronic medical records, laboratory information systems, HL7 interfaces, clinician order entry, ordersets, electronic orders and results, problem analysis, risk analysis, and issue resolution.

Register

1. Click or Copy and Paste this URL to your web browser: https://qualitynet.webex.com
2. This should bring you to the QualityNet e-University webpage.
3. Locate the event you wish to register for.
4. Click on Register.
5. Enter the requested information.
6. Click Submit.
7. Once approved, you will receive a confirmation email with the meeting information and the registration ID that will be used to log into the WebEx portion of the meeting. Please note, this email may go to your spam or junk folder. It will come from the email address messenger@webex.com.
8. Please join the event 15 minutes prior to the start time to ensure the automatic system set-up has been properly established.

Call In

1. Click or Copy and Paste this URL to your web browser: https://qualitynet.webex.com
2. This should bring you to the QualityNet e-University webpage.
3. Locate the event you wish to join and click “Join” (located to the right of the event title).
4. Enter your registration ID as prompted.
5. Enter the password: PHQ.
6. The automatic system set-up should start at this point. If a dialogue box appears, click run. Please note, the automatic system set-up does take a few minutes to complete.
7. Dial in to the teleconference:
   • Teleconference Number: 888-427-2535
   • Access Code: 42104130
8. If you have any questions or problems accessing the web portion of this meeting, please call the Ventech SolutionsWebExHelpline at 571-598-1988.

Handouts

Download slide handouts PDF.

Contact

If you have questions or concerns, contact Jenna Kornberg, 952-853-8583, jkornberg@stratishealth.org.