The NYS Department of Health’s Asthma Control Program is partnering with the American Lung Association through a state-funded contract to implement the NYS Children’s Asthma Initiative. This five-year initiative broadly aims to improve asthma-related health outcomes and quality of life among children with asthma and their families/caregivers living in New York State.
Project BREATHE NY Goals
Project BREATHE NY aims to improve health outcomes and quality of life for children with asthma and their families and reduce asthma related emergency visits and hospitalizations among children through practice transformation and quality improvement.
Project BREATHE NY enables health systems and community-based partners to collaboratively:
- Drive clinical quality improvement in asthma care by applying Project BREATHE NY’s customizable framework using a structured, sustainable, systems-level approach
- Educate all members of the multi-disciplinary asthma care team to ensure guidelines-based care is delivered to all patients with asthma
- Integrate individually tailored asthma self-management education and referrals for home-based asthma services
- Coordinate care across settings and build linkages to community-based services to support patient and household health-related social needs or social determinants of health
- The Project BREATHE NY framework engages health systems and community-based partners to:
- Deliver Patient-Centered, Guidelines-Based Asthma Care
- Engage a Multi-Disciplinary, Highly Trained Asthma Care Team
- Ensure Asthma Care is Coordinated Across Settings
- Address Patient Health-Related Social Needs
Project BREATHE NY Goals
Project BREATHE NY aims to improve health outcomes and quality of life for children with asthma and their families and reduce asthma related emergency visits and hospitalizations among children.
Project BREATHE NY enables health systems and community-based partners to collaboratively:
- Apply Project BREATHE NY’s customizable framework to achieve a structured,
sustainable, systems-level approach to driving clinical quality improvement - Deliver provider education to expand the multi-disciplinary asthma care team’s capacity to embed NAEPP Guidelines as the standard of care delivered to all patients with asthma
- Integrate comprehensive, individually tailored asthma self-management education and follow-up support to patients, coordinated across settings
- Ensure care linkages and integration of referrals to community-based services that address health-related social needs, also referred to as social determinants of health
- The Project BREATHE NY framework engages health systems and community-based partners to:
- Deliver Patient-Centered, Guidelines-Based Asthma Care
- Engage a Multi-Disciplinary, Highly Trained Asthma Care Team
- Ensure Asthma Care is Coordinated Across Settings
- Address Patient Health-Related Social Needs
Why Project BREATHE NY?
Project BREATHE NY received the American Lung Association’s 2020 ALA Innovation Award, which recognizes Lung Association’s staff members who exemplify the nationwide commitment to innovation in the advancement of the association’s mission to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease.
For more information about Lung Association’s efforts in Health System Improvement, click here.
Nationally recognized asthma guidelines drive the development and implementation of Project BREATHE NY and its asthma care delivery framework.
-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute NAEPP Guidelines
-Global Initiative for Asthma
A team of esteemed physicians serve as clinical advisors, guiding Project BREATHE NY with expertise. See our clinical advisors below.
Our Clinical Advisors
Drs. Kothari, Krishnan, Tsirilakis, and Wooldridge comprise PBNYs Clinical Advisors/Faculty. These providers have graciously devoted their time to provide PBNY with ongoing clinical expertise on asthma and guidance on programming, trainings, and resources.
Sankaran Krishnan, MD, MPH
Pediatric Pulmonologist, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Public Health, Research Director, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, New York Medical College, Children’s Environmental Health Center of Hudson Valley
Ulka Kothari, MD
Ambulatory Director for Quality, Pediatrics, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, NYU Winthrop University and Children’s Medical Center
Kalliope Tsirilakis*, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College
Director of Pediatric Pulmonary and Pediatric Asthma Center at NY Presbyterian Queens
Jamie Woolridge, MD
Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology at University of Rochester Medical Center and Golisano Children’s Hospital
*APNY Co-Chair
Our Clinical Advisors
Drs. Kothari, Krishnan, Tsirilakis, and Wooldridge comprise PBNYs Clinical Advisors/Faculty. These providers have graciously devoted their time to provide PBNY with ongoing clinical expertise on asthma and guidance on programming, trainings, and resources.
Kalliope Tsirilakis*, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College
Director of Pediatric Pulmonary and Pediatric Asthma Center at NY
Presbyterian Queens
Jamie Woolridge, MD
Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology at University of Rochester Medical Center and Golisano Children’s Hospital
Sankaran Krishnan, MD, MPH
Pediatric Pulmonologist, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Public Health, Research Director, Boston Children’s Health Physicians, New York Medical College, Children’s Environmental Health Center of Hudson Valley
Ulka Kothari, MD
Ambulatory Director for Quality, Pediatrics, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, NYU Winthrop University and Children’s Medical Center
*APNY Co-Chair
Benefits of Project BREATHE NY Participation
- Improved health care outcomes among asthma patients
- Technical assistance by American Lung Association staff for 12-18 months
- Evidence-based training tailored to clinical providers and health care staff on asthma guidelines and quality improvement
- Clinical toolkits for providers to guide asthma diagnosis and management
- Materials for teaching asthma self-management education to patients and families
- Valved holding chambers/spacers, allergy proof pillow and bed covers, and educational materials for patients and families
Project BREATHE NY Successes (2018-2022)
Over 3,000 health professionals trained
Over 3,100 children with asthma served
Over 975 families benefitted from home-based asthma services
Awarded ALA’s 2020 Innovation Award
Over 3,000 health professionals trained
Over 3,100 children with asthma served
Over 975 families benefitted from home-based asthma services
Awarded ALA’s 2020 Innovation Award
Current Partners
- Stony Brook Children's Hospital
- Northwell Health
- NYU Langone Health
- Long Island Federally Qualified Health Centers
- NewYork Presbyterian
- St. Joseph's Family Health Center
- St. John's Riverside Hospital