U009--Foundations in Integrative Health Online Curriculum

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The Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation is looking for a contractor to provide locally delivered online Integrative Health curricula that is critical to reducing travel cost for Education Champions, increasing the speed of educational delivery to the field, and creates the ability to reach a far larger audience than traditional site to site trainings. Additionally, online delivery of training allows Primary Care staff be allowed to use their CME time to work from home completing these modules to promote staff self-care, increase knowledge and skills in Integrative Health, and facilitate greater support for Whole Health from primary care staff, who traditionally have been a hard but strategically critical target audience to reach.

Objective To provide institutional licensing to its online Foundations in Integrative Health (FIH) curriculum for VHA Providers whom are approved to take the training. The training in Integrative Health will address the core Integrative Health competencies in inter-professional teams and will help develop skills needed to synergize complementary skills and address gaps in Integrative Health knowledge and skills. The Foundations in Integrative Health curriculum has been approved for accreditation by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, hours (AMA APRA Category 1 for Physicians (31.6 hours), CNE for Nurses (31.6 hours), ACPE for Pharmacists (3.16).

The online Foundations in Integrative Health curriculum includes:
Orientation: 1.15 hours
Introduction to Interprofessional Integrative Health in Primary Care: 2.0 hours
Prevention and Lifestyle Behavior Change Through Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: 3.6 hours
Interprofessional Healthcare Wellbeing: 4.5 hours
Addressing Primary Care Patients Through an Interprofessional/Integrative Lens: 6 hours
Collaborative Interprofessional Integrative Interventions: 6.35 hours CEU
Interprofessional Practice in Community Settings and Systems at Large: 6 hours
Final Reflection: 2 hours

31.6 hours total (FIH supports a certificate of completion and CEUs by course)

Unique Qualifications
VHA s Office of Patient-Centered Care & Cultural Transformation (PCC&CT) will provide the Contractor with the information needed to enroll the VHA participants in the online FIH training. The PCC&CT Office estimates that about 6,000 VHA participants will take the training during the 3-year life of the contract (or about 2,000 per year).

Period of Performance
The period of performance shall be for one base period and two 12-month option periods. Option periods are exercised as required and are not guaranteed. The Period of Performance reads as follows:

Base Period (Award date): 2/01/2025 1/31/2026
Option Period 1: 2/01/2026 1/31/2027
Option Period 2: 2/01/2027 1/31/2028
If anyone requests additional information, please contact: Tara Davis tara.davis4@va.gov

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