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Foundation joins Alzheimer’s Outreach and Registry Program Partnership
The West Virginia Medical Foundation has joined with several partners to help implement the Alzheimer’s Outreach and Registry Program at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) at West Virginia University.
This initiative brings together the Foundation, the West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services, the Alzheimer’s Association, West Virginia Chapter and the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.
The aim of the initiative is to reach every physician and other healthcare providers in the state to improve the diagnosis, treatment and support for the more than 44,000 Alzheimer’s disease patients and their 85,000 caregivers in West Virginia.
The initiative has three components:
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a continuing medical education course to keep physicians informed and proactive in the latest diagnostic techniques and treatments available for Alzheimer’s Disease;
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a continuing medical education program to connect the medical community, and through them caregivers, with local resources to better link treatment and care; and
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the first-ever West Virginia Alzheimer’s Disease Registry to collect data on patients and the disease in order to better inform state allocation of resources and to help guide BRNI research.
The West Virginia Medical Foundation is committed to seek ways to help mitigate the burdens families face while dealing with Alzheimer’s by reaching out to physicians, nurses, social workers and caregivers. That is why on September 14 the Foundation, along with the Blanchette Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, the Alzheimer’s Association, West Virginia Chapter, and the West Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association launched a comprehensive outreach program to educate the medical community on diagnostic techniques, how to better link treatment and care, and to collect data that will better inform diagnosis, treatment and research.
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