Park Nicollet Medical Foundation 

The Health Education Program 

Evaluation Documentation

Reinertsen, J.L., "What's Next After Managed Care? A Minnesota Experiment", Group Practice Journal, Jan./Feb. 1993.

Terry, P., "The Effect of a Materials-Based Intervention on Knowledge of Risk-Based Clinical Prevention Screening Guidelines", Journal of Occupational Medicine, 1994, 36(3):365-371. 

Pheley, A.M., Terry, P., Pietz, L., Fowles, J., McCoy, C., Smith, H., "Evaluation of a Nurse-Based Hypertension Management Program: Screening, Management and Outcomes"., In Press, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Terry, P., Pheley, A., "The effect of self-care brochures on use of medical services". Journal of Occupational Medicine, 1993, 35(4):422-426.

Terry, P., Wegleitner, T., Bikowski, D., McCoy, C., "Does Health Education Work?", The Bulletin, 1994, Vol. 24(2),95-109.

Health Services Research Center, "Evaluation of the PNHEP SHAPE Program", Independent Report, Funded by the Northwest Area Foundation, April, 1983.

Terry, P., "The Result of an Educational Intervention for Physicians Providing HIV-Antibody Testing and Counseling." Minnesota Medicine, Vol. 75, April, 1992.,37-39. 

Mittlemark, M.B., Luepker, R., Jacobs, D.R., "Community-wide Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Education Strategies of the Minnesota Heart Health Program." Preventive Medicine, Vol 15, 1986, 661-672.

Perry C, et al. "Communitywide smoking prevention: long-term outcomes of the Minnesota heart health program and the class of 1989 study." Am J of Pub Health 1992;82(9):1210-1216.

Terry, P., Fowles, J., "How Well is Your Wellness Program?", Business and Health, Vol. 7, No. 12, Dec. 1989.,11-14.

Erfurt, J., Foote, A., Heirich, M., "Worksite wellness programs: incremental comparison of screening and referral alone, health education, follow-up counseling, and plant organization." Am J Health Promotion 1991; 5(6):438-447. 

Trandermal Nicotine Study Group, "Transdermal Nicotine for Smoking Cessation-Six-Month Results from Two Multicenter Controlled Clinical Trials", Journal of the American Medical Association, Dec. 11, 1991, Vol.66, No.22.

Schoenbach, V.J., Orleans, C.T., Beery, W.L., Pearson, D.G., Short, E., Woomert, A., "Randomized trial of self-help smoking cessation strategies in an HMO." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC., November, 1985.

• Improve the health of our customers. 
• Facilitate learning about the practice of Medicine for primary care physicians and other health professionals; 
• Develop and implement innovative educational programs that contribute to more effective health care delivery systems; 
• Provide leadership in health promotion, disease prevention and chronic illness management. 
• Positively impact health care utilization. 

We will know we are achieving our Mission when

• We offer a comprehensive schedule of health education and continuing medical education services that meet and exceed our customers expectations and surpass all of our local competition. 
• For those programs we develop and deliver with Health Education Center staff, we will have more documentation of program effectiveness than any other health education program provider in the Upper Midwest. 
• As an extension of our Park Nicollet program offerings, we will have the Nations largest catalogue of health education program materials and training resources with documented health improvement outcomes.