Asthma Management and Reducing Health Disparities - Spring 2026

Active project dates

June 8, 2026 - September 11, 2026.

This 3-month MOC improvement project is intended for our internal Primary Care clinicians.
Access code required to register.

Learning Objectives

Following this improvement project, participants will: 

  • Define the optimal asthma care measures including patients of color and by payor
  • Review and analyze optimal asthma control quality measure data to identify health disparities that exist in your personal practice
  • Adopt strategies, tools and resources to close health equity gaps in optimal asthma control rates
  • Report an increase in optimal asthma control rates and in use of the asthma management plan
  • Report a decrease in disparity gap rates
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 20.00 Attendance
    This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
Course opens: 
04/27/2026
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Rating: 
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Steps to Earn and Claim CME Credit:

  1. Reflect on your current practice and practice data identifying barriers to improvement.
  2. Watch Asthma Management and Reducing Health Disparities recording and related education available in CMEcentral.
  3. Throughout the project, review patient data and identify and apply strategies to reduce barriers.
  4. Reflect on outcomes to determine whether the intervention strategies resulted in improvement. If no improvement occurred, reflect on potential reasons.
  5. Complete the MOC - CME evaluation, attestation and credit verification in CMEcentral by November 27, 2026
 Faculty* and Planning Team
 Britt Ehlert, MD*
 Co Leader Asthma Expert Panel; Clinic Medical Director
 St. Louis Park Internal Medicine and Thrombosis Clinics
 Allison Mentink, RN
 Co Leader Asthma Expert Panel; Clinic Manager
 Amery Primary Care
 Teri Middendorf, RN
 Co Leader Asthma Expert Panel; Senior Clinical Project Manager
 Quality and Measurement 
 Ann Tarnowski
 Program Manager, Continuing Certification & PI CME
 Continuing Medical Education

The presenters and members of the planning committee have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Disclosure link: 
Disclosure and Content Validation

HealthPartners is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

HealthPartners Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this PI CME activity for a maximum of 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements for advanced practice nurses. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
 

MOC Board equivalent credits
This 3-month improvement project meets the following medical boards’ MOC Part IV* requirements for Physicians and Category 1 PI-CME credit:

  • *Family Medicine (ABFM): Performance Improvement Activity (20 Points)
  • *Internal Medicine (ABIM): Practice Assessment (30 Points)
  • *Pediatrics: MOC Part IV (25 Points)
  • *NCCPA: 30 PI-CME Credits

Available Credit

  • 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 20.00 Attendance
    This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
Please login or register to take this course.


This activity is intended for our internal audience only.
A login using the HealthPartners Login with your network credentials is required.

Once you are logged in to your account, enter the access code and click Start to continue.

If you have already registered and are returning to the project, click Start to continue.

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Select HealthPartners Login and enter your employee network ID and network password. Even if this is your first time using CMEcentral, simply log in and complete your profile. Do not create a new account!

Internal Audience applies to all HealthPartners Employees and Contract Staff, including HealthPartners, Park Nicollet, TRIA, Westfields Hospital, HPCMC, Hudson Hospital, PNBConline.Com, Lakeview Hospital and Clinics, Amery Medical, HutchHealth

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