Greater Flint Health Coalition

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) Project 2001–2003 AFRICAN 2004–2007 Back Pain Management Task Force Cardiac Catheterization Initiative 1998 – 1999 Depression in Primary Care Partnership Project Diabetes Detection Initiative 2003 – 2005 Diabetes Task Force Friendly Access 2002-2007 Friendly Access Infant Mortality Initiative 2004 – 2007 Genesee Health Plan (Founded in 2001) HbA1c 2000-2003 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Summit 2004 Join Together! / Demand Treatment! 2002-2007 Just A Bit Gets You Fit / Just A Bit Gets YouTH FIT Campaigns 2000 – 2003 MIChild / Healthy Kids 1998-2003 Mid-Michigan Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) – Heart Failure 2003-2007 Nursing Task Force Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Regional Perinatal System Planning Committee 2008-2009

In 2002, the Coalition convened a Back Pain Management Task Force to address variations in spine care—and the unusually high numbers of spinal surgeries within Genesee County. With a charge to assess the current system of treating back pain, identify causes, develop interventions, educate patients and employers, and implement best-practice guidelines, members of the task force went to work.

In 2003, the group released its Back Pain Management Report, which outlined a comprehensive strategy to address the problem. Highlights of the report included recommendations that physicians become familiar with Clinical Practice Guidelines and limit spinal surgery to those patients carefully screened and experiencing chronic spine pain.

The Back Pain Management Report received much attention locally as well as throughout Michigan. Requests were made to the Coalition to report these results to health care professionals across the state.

	ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Back Pain Management Study (2003) PDF Document