News & Updates
HBOM Partner: MOQC and a New Joint Program in Nutrition During Cancer Care
HBOM and MOQC are together again! In 2022, we tackled tobacco cessation together, with some custom tobacco cessation outreach materials designed to reach members of the oncology care community. Now in 2023-2024, the collaboration is back. Together, we will take...
HBOM Partner: The Michigan Cardiac Rehabilitation Network (MiCR)
Mike Thompson, PhD, MPH, Co-Director of the Michigan Value Collaborative and Co-Director of the Michigan Cardiac Rehabilitation Network (MiCR) at their Bi-Annual Meeting in October 2022. HBOM is proud to partner with the Michigan Cardiac Rehabilitation Network (MiCR)...
Introducing New Beat: A program to increase access to cardiac rehab
HBOM is proud to announce a new program to bolster successful referrals to cardiac rehabilitation in Michigan. The program is called New Beat and is culmination of a community of stakeholders who are committed to removing barriers to successful cardiac rehab adoption across the state.
New Beat is designed to deliver heartfelt, pragmatic support to new cardiac rehab patients. This new initiative combines HBOM’s participatory design methods and expertise in evidence-based behavior change strategies, with the goal of increasing enrollment in Michigan cardiac rehabilitation programs and reducing transportation barriers to some of the most underserved patients.
January 2023 Newsletter
Welcoming 2023 with new tobacco cessation support materials in Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic—a new healthy eating blog with tips for how to eat healthy on the road and on a budget. Plus support for your VBR goals
Launching our Quit Smoking Guide in Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese
Our popular Quit Smoking Resource Guide is now available in Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. In 2022 as we launched our suite of tobacco cessation provider resources, we heard from you, our CQI partners, that translations were an important part of reaching your patient communities.
Download in Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese.
Participate in the Great American Smokeout November 17th
s a trusted partner in tobacco cessation, team up with HBOM, the American Cancer Society, and hundreds of organizations across the country for the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, November 17. We invite you to Download our oncology, surgery, and specialty-specific graphics to post for #GreatAmericanSmokeout social media and order additional tobacco cessation provider materials.
Fall 2022 Newsletter
Fall 2022 updates from Healthy Behavior Optimization for Michigan.
New partnership with Shipt, MCT2D, and MSHIELD to address food insecurity for people with type 2 diabetes
Same-day delivery service Shipt today announced new initiatives to address food insecurity, including a new partnership with the Healthy Behavior Optimization for Michigan (HBOM) program and our collaborators at MCT2D and MSHIELD, part of the Blue Cross Blue Shield CQI portfolio.
Catch up with our 2022 Summer Collaborative Meeting video
The Healthy Behavior Optimization for Michigan (HBOM) program held its first summer collaborative meeting on June 21, 2022. HBOM invited representatives from our 9+ partnering Michigan CQIs in a virtual conversation on tobacco cessation value-based reimbursement strategies and implementation across the State of Michigan. We were joined by invited guest Alisha Lussiez, MD, from the department of surgery at the University of Michigan. Dr. Lussiez is a key player in a tobacco cessation screening and referral service that has been implemented as part of the pre-operative consultation process at Michigan Medicine.