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Never Stop Learning How To Improve Patient Lives™

Whatever your area of expertise, we will help you become an even greater expert.

You were inspired to care for others. It’s why you studied hard in school to become a health care professional dedicated to improving lives. And it’s why we’re inspired to help professionals and students improve themselves by continuing their education with fully accredited online courses.

Inspire Health is funded by The Bower Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health outcomes by directing funds and efforts into improving the state’s health policies and education systems. Thanks to The Bower Foundation, Inspire Health helps health professionals and students continue their education.

Available Courses

Breastfeeding | Human Medicine

3.5 Contact Hours

Learn the science behind breastfeeding as human medicine and your role as a practitioner in improving maternal and infant outcomes.

Patchwork of Health Insurance

1.5 Contact Hours

Glean insightful and practical knowledge of Mississippi’s health insurance system that can help you better plan your patients’ care.

Nutrition & Chronic Disease

4.25 Contact Hours

Discover nutrition’s role as the problem and the solution to the chronic diseases affecting many Mississippians.

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Breastfeeding | Human Medicine

This online module includes “real life” video scenarios with entertaining narratives, interactive Q&A, interviews with health care professionals, and short PowerPoint™ slide decks to provide 3 to 4 hours of evidence-based Inter-Professional (IPE) content for health professions students. Students will learn why human milk is critical for infant, maternal, and public health, and how professionals can use a multi-disciplinary approach to support breastfeeding in clinical and community settings. Topics include the human milk microbiome, the impact of sociodemographic factors on breastfeeding rates, and the promotion of breastfeeding as best practice in the hospital and workplace. On completion of the course, the student will have improved knowledge of the bioscience of breastfeeding and a solid knowledge of how health-related professionals can work together to improve patient outcomes, protect breastfeeding, and ensure equitable access to this vital “human medicine.”

OBJECTIVES

Describe national goals and recommendations for breastfeeding in the US.
Describe the evidence base behind the benefits of breastfeeding.
Recognize how a team-based approach impacts breastfeeding success.
Identify best practice in promoting optimal maternal child health outcomes.
Identify sociodemographic factors that underlie current breastfeeding trends.
Describe the scope of different health care professionals as they relate to breastfeeding support, promotion, and success.

CREDITS AVAILABLE:

Certificate of Completion (3.5 contact hours)
- Free for Mississippi college and university students or for those wanting to take the course for a non-CE credit
Continuing Education (3.5 contact hours)- see credits available below
- Free for Mississippi healthcare professionals
- Available for a fee for healthcare professionals outside of Mississippi
  - Fees for non-MS healthcare professionals
  - Physicians: $85
  - Nurse Practitioners: $75
  - Nurses: $65

Physicians – 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 The University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Bower Foundation, Inspire Health, and CHAMPS (Communities Hospitals Advancing Maternity Practices. The University of Mississippi Medical Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Mississippi School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.

Nurses – The University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by The Mississippi Nurses Foundation, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

As an approved provider, the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing awards this activity 3.5 contact hour(s).

CEUs – This activity is approved by the University of Mississippi Medical Center Division of Continuing Health Professional Education for a maximum of 3.5 hours (0.35CEUs) continuing education units.

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Patchwork of Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S. and Its Impact on Mississippians

This one-hour online module examines real world stories of patients who have been served at the Jackson Free Clinic and the gaps in health coverage that left these patients uninsured and seeking help from a free clinic. The course will illustrate how the United States developed a complicated and convoluted “system” of coverage that is difficult to maneuver within and which results in many people “falling through the cracks.” Students will gain a better understanding of the various types of health insurance available, including private employer-based coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, the Health Insurance Marketplace, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Upon completion of the course, students will be better able to converse intelligently with administrative staff and social workers who work with health insurance and public programs on a regular basis. They will also be better equipped to understand the nuances of important policy issues being debated at the state and federal level, as well as in local and state medical associations, that affect their patients.

OBJECTIVES

Provide at least 3 examples of gaps in health insurance coverage that might cause people to seek health care at the Jackson Free Clinic.
Explain how the U.S. health system became so reliant on employer-based health insurance coverage and how that structure affects access to health insurance.
Name the four major publicly funded health coverage programs and the populations they cover.
Describe the group of people in Mississippi who are most likely to be uninsured because they have no source to subsidize their coverage.
Identify three common health care services not typically covered by traditional health insurance policies.
Provide one argument in favor of and one argument in opposition to expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults in Mississippi.

CREDITS AVAILABLE:

Certificate of Completion (1.5 contact hours)
- Free for Mississippi college and university students or for those wanting to take the course for a non-CE credit

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