Resources
Informational Materials
General
- Complex Technical Assistance Referral Form
- Acentra Health HCQU Brochure
- Acentra Health HCQU Training and Resource Catalog
- Acentra Health HCQU Online Training Brochure
- ODP Everyday Lives – Values in Action Publications
- ODP Resource Guide for Supporting Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing Individuals (Summer 2024)
- ODP Incident Management Family Guide (2021)
- ODP Services Overview Quick Guide
- ODP Services Overview Quick Guide (in Spanish)
- Positive Approaches Journal (ODP/OMHSAS)
- Provider to Provider Pre-Admission Transition Checklist
- StationMD Brochure
- Suicide Prevention Lifeline - "988" (ODPANN 22-062)
Care Guides & Resource Lists
- Behavior is Communications: Strategies for Understanding Challenging Behaviors
- Caring for People with Medical Needs: A Resource for Developing Care Guides
- Diet Modification Resources
- Person-Directed Language: A Guide to Becoming Person-Directed
- Sexuality Resources
- Sexuality Resources for People with I/DD (Western HCQUs collaboration)
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- CDC: COVID-19 Clinical Care Considerations
- CDC: COVID-19 Materials for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Care Providers
- CDC: COVID-19 Vaccinate with Confidence
- CDC: Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
- Coronavirus Test Rehearsal Guide
- Long-haul COVID in People with IDD (developed by IntellectAbility)
- Mayo Clinic: Treating COVID-19 at home: Care tips for you and others
- Non-traditional Infection Control Consulting (NICC) Team Flyer & Info Sheet (PA DOH)
- ODPANN 23-019 COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Ending May 11 2023
- Reducing the Spread of Infection Rehearsal Guide
- Sequence for Putting on and Removing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Fact Sheet
- Updated Recommendations Regarding the Monovalent and Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines (2023-PAHAN-693-04-28-ADV)
- [Vaccinations] Flu RSV and COVID-19 Vaccinations Holiday Guidance (ODPANN 24-113 11/14/2024)
- Wearing a Mask Rehearsal Guide
Fatal Five
Wellness
- Accompanying Individuals to Emergency Rooms (ODP Health Alert Oct2024)
- Avoid Hypothermia and Frostbite (CDC)
- Call 911 in a Medical Emergency (ODP Health Alert)
- Lyme Disease and Other Tickborne Diseases in Pennsylvania (ODP Health Alert)
- Move Your Way® Into Spring! (ODP)
- Move Your Way® Social Story Resources (ODP)
- Move Your Way® This Winter! (ODP)
- Nutrition Fact Sheet: Cholesterol and Triglycerides
- Nutrition Fact Sheet: Types of Fat
- Oxygen: Supplemental Use Fact Sheet
- Skin Care: Preventing Pressure Injuries Booklet (All HCQUs)
- Sleep Hygiene Fact Sheet
- Summer Heat Safety (ODP Health Alert)
- Vaccines for Respiratory Viruses (ODP Alert - Oct2023)
- Winter-2025 Cold Weather Alert (ODP Health Alert)
Self-Advocate Resources
Activity Booklets
- Activity Book #1 for Self-adv - Let's Keep It Clean
- Activity Book #2 for Self-adv - Let's Eat Healthy
- Activity Book #3 for Self-adv - Let's Be Safe in the Kitchen
- Activity Book #4 for Self-adv - Let's Think and Create
- Activity Book #5 for Self-adv - Let's Move
- Activity Book #6 for Self-adv - Celebrate Me
Empowering Self-Advocate Handbook Series and Rehearsal Guides
- Blood Work Rehearsal Guide
- Cancer Treatments: Chemotherapy Rehearsal Guide
- Cancer Treatments: Radiation Rehearsal Guide
- Cataract Surgery Recovery Rehearsal Guide
- Colonoscopy Rehearsal Guide
- Coronavirus Test Rehearsal Guide
- Cystoscopy Rehearsal Guide
- Dentist Visits Rehearsal Guide
- DEXA Bone Scan Rehearsal Guide
- Doctor Visits Rehearsal Guide
- EEG Rehearsal Guide
- EKG Rehearsal Guide
- Getting a Shot Rehearsal Guide
- Gynecology Exam Rehearsal Guide
- Hearing and Ear Exam Rehearsal Guide
- Hemodialysis Rehearsal Guide
- IV Therapy Rehearsal Guide
- Mammogram Rehearsal Guide
- MRI Rehearsal Guide
- Prostate Exam Rehearsal Guide
- Reducing the Spread of Infection Rehearsal Guide
- Sleep Study Rehearsal Guide
- Surgery Care Rehearsal Guide
- Swallow Test Rehearsal Guide
- Ultrasound Rehearsal Guide
- Upper Endoscopy Rehearsal Guide
- Upper GI Test Rehearsal Guide
- Vision and Eye Exam Rehearsal Guide
- Wearing a Mask Rehearsal Guide
- X-Ray Rehearsal Guide
Newsletters
HCQU CARES Newsletter
- Spring 2025 HCQU CARES - Medical Emergencies
- Spring 2024 HCQU CARES
- Spring 2023 HCQU CARES - Special "Fatal Five" Edition
- Spring 2022 HCQU CARES
- Spring 2021 HCQU CARES
- Fall 2020 HCQU CARES
- Spring 2020 HCQU CARES
- Fall 2019 HCQU CARES
- Spring 2019 HCQU CARES
- Special Edition 2018 HCQU CARES - "The Fatal Four"
- Fall 2018 HCQU CARES
- Spring 2018 HCQU CARES
- Fall 2017 HCQU CARES
- Spring 2017 HCQU CARES
- Fall 2016 HCQU CARES
HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition Newsletter
- 2025 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition - Education of Caregivers
- 2024 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- 2023 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- 2022 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Spring 2021 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Spring 2020 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Spring 2019 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Fall 2018 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Spring 2018 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Fall 2017 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Spring 2017 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
- Fall 2016 HCQU CARES: Nursing Edition
Acentra Health is the service provider on behalf of Westmoreland County Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania