For Your Health
Do you have patients who need help and encouragement to follow your treatment plan for their chronic condition, smoking cessation efforts, or high-risk pregnancy? Rocky Mountain Health Plans For Your Health can help!
The guidelines in each area describe an evidence-based approach to care management. Each physician still must use his/her discretion and independent medical judgment in caring for patients based on the patients’ own medical condition and needs.
You have permission to download and copy any of the materials listed below.
EVIDENCE-BASED SUPPORT
Evidence-based clinical guidelines, decision support tools, patient education materials, and patient self-management tools are designed to help you and your patients.
- Consistent support to change behaviors necessary to better accomplish the treatment plan you have devised for them.
- Timely reminders encouraging proactive self-care activities to help your patients manage their chronic conditions according to your treatment plan.
- Reinforced understanding of the meaning and significance of the treatment goals you have established for them.
- Encouragement to get the medicines and stay on the medication regimen you have prescribed for them.
- Accurate information about nutrition, stress, depression, and available community services.
- Personal Health Management services from registered nurses and certified case managers working one-on-one with your patients.
- Decision support tools for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, as well as atrial fibrillation and valve disease anticoagulation.
CHRONIC CONDITIONS
Evidence-based guidelines and tools will help you develop a treatment plan for your patients who have asthma, cardiovascular disease, depression, or diabetes. RMHP encourages our members to manage their chronic condition by following their doctor’s treatment plan, becoming educated about their disease, and learning what affects their condition.
If you have an RMHP member with a chronic condition that you would like to refer for chronic disease health education or case management, contact a health educator at 970-248-5106 or 800-843-0719, ext. 5106.
Click on the links below for helpful information and self-management tools:
Asthma
Asthma Action Plan (PDF, 1MB)
Asthma Care Flowsheet
Asthma Care Guidelines
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular Flowsheet
Coronary Heart Disease Checklist (PDF, 1MB)
Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Prevention Guideline
Depression
Diagnosis & Treatment Guidelines
Depression & Treatment Guidelines - Short From
Depression Patient Flowsheet
For the treatment of depression, see guidelines available through the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative at http://www.coloradoguidelines.org.
Diabetes
Diabetes Care Checklist (PDF, 1MB)
Diabetes Care Flowsheet
Diabetes Care Guidelines
Diabetes Resource List
Diabetes Resource List - Spanish
Foot Evaluation
Patient Foot Care Contract
PREGNANCY
RMHP offers pregnant members a screening to determine if they might be at risk of delivering early and personalized help for those who are at risk. Our nurses work with delivering physicians to provide education and support on such issues as multiple gestation, premature labor, bed rest, breast feeding, and gestational diabetes.
If you have an RMHP member who is pregnant please use the Pregnancy Notification/Procedure Form to let us know about the pregnancy, or contact one of the RMHP Obstetrical Nurses listed below:
Janice Ferguson, BA, RNC
Prenatal Care Coordinator
970-244-7890
800-843-0719, Ext. 7890
Heather Stephens, RN
OB Screener
970-244-7804
900-843-0719, Ext. 7804
Click on the links below for helpful information and self-management tools:
Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Order Form
Planning a Tobacco-Free Pregnancy
Pregnancy Resource List
Pregnancy Resource List (Spanish)
Pregnancy Guidelines
Prenatal Care Checklist
Prenatal Care Checklist (Spanish)
Reducing Chances of Preterm Labor
Reducing Chances of Preterm Labor (Spanish)
Treating Nausea and Vomiting
Treating Nausea and Vomiting (Spanish)
Congratulations - You are in the third trimester of your pregnancy!
Congratulations - You are in the third trimester of your pregnancy! (Spanish)
SMOKING CESSATION
Rocky Mountain Health Plans encourages our members to stop using tobacco. Find information on a Tobacco-Free Pregnancy Program using the 5 A’s approach (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange) and the stages of change. You can also link to Colorado QuitNet, a free professional telephone counseling/support service or call the Colorado Quitline at 800-639-QUIT (7848).
PREVENTIVE CARE
Helping our members maintain a healthy lifestyle is a primary goal for Rocky Mountain Health Plans. We encourage our members to have regular well-care visits, to keep track of key health indicators, and receive preventive care. Below you will find:
- Well-care guidelines for infants, children and adolescents, and adults.
- Screening guidelines for breast cancer, Pap smears, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancer.
- Guidelines for influenza vaccine, pneumococcal vaccine, and childhood immunization.
Rocky Mountain Health Plans participates in the Colorado Immunization Registry. Click here to go to their website: http://coloradoimmunizations.info/ciis/index.htm.
Click on the links below for helpful information and self-management tools:
CDC Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule
CDC Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule
Colorado Immunization Registry
For preventive care recommendations, see guidelines available through the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaberative at http://www.coloradoguidelines.org.
Managing Your Health (PDF, 2MB)
PERSONAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT
At no additional cost, Rocky Mountain Health Plans offers registered nurses and certified case managers to work one-on-one with your patients to help them in:
- Following your treatment plan
- Understanding their diagnosis and treatment options
- Managing their chronic conditions
- Coordinating their health care services
- Understanding their RMHP benefits
If you have a Rocky Mountain Health Plans member who could use personal health management services, call Rocky Mountain Health Plans Customer Service at 970-248-5036 or 800-854-4558 and ask for a personal health management evaluation