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COVID-19 Employee Vaccine Mandate Operational Resource Guide (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This guide assembles resources to help you implement employee vaccine mandates at community health centers. It includes documents debunking myths about the COVID-19 vaccine, sample policy and procedures for employee vaccines, and a guide to recognizing exemptions. This guide includes detailed health center samples that may be utilized to help draft policies and procedures. More Details...
Building the Evidence Base for Medical Respite Care: A Participatory and Inclusive Research Agenda (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC), a special initiative of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, planned and implemented a year-long stakeholder engagement project, Identifying Strategies to Engage Medical Respite Care Programs and People Experiencing Homelessness, to explore opportunities for advancing patient-centered outcomes research within the field of MRC. This research agenda is based on the cumulative activities leading to and including a two-day project summit involving various stakeholders (many of whom had lived experience of homelessness) from more than 22 MRC programs and communities nationwide. More Details...
STIs and PrEP: Case-based review of CDC’s 2021 STI Treatment Guidelines (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Many sexual and gender minority people eligible for or taking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and testing and treating STIs are key aspects of providing PrEP. In this clinically focused, case-based webinar, Dr. Kevin Ard will describe important updates in STI management for PrEP patients, based on the 2021 STI Treatment Guidelines from CDC. More Details...
A Framework for Health and Housing Partnerships for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution: Health and Housing Partnerships build community capacity to bridge barriers to health equity. (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Addressing the COVID pandemic through vaccine distribution gives communities the opportunity to find strategies and activities that ensure communities with limited access all are included. Health and housing partnerships can work to break down structural barriers to ensure there is access to vaccines, vaccine boosters and other therapies that move the country moves health equity. More Details...
Primary Care Association (PCA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Core Competencies (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This document outlines 12 domains, related tasks, and behavioral examples for Core Competencies for the Primary Care Association CEO. These domains and related tasks and examples were identified and vetted through a National Advisory Panel made up of key staff who would have interaction with the PCA-CEO position in various settings. More Details...
The Value Transformation Framework: Applied to Diabetes Control in Federally Qualified Health Centers (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Diabetes and pre-diabetes impact more than 114 million Americans. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide care to some of the most high-risk and underinsured individuals throughout the US, twenty-one percent of whom report being told they have diabetes, compared to 11% of the general adult population. It is widely agreed our health care system requires a transformation to effectively address diabetes and its complications. More Details...
Telehealth Office Hours: Optimizing Telehealth Workflows (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us as we hear from the Telehealth Resource Centers as we discuss new trends in telehealth optimization, funding & reimbursement. We will review the current federal landscape as it relates to Telehealth in addition to highlighting recent trends in telehealth to include hybrid care models. More Details...
STAR² Center – Definition of a Comprehensive Workforce Plan (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document provides a definition of a comprehensive workforce plan that has been reviewed and approved by the Bureau of Primary Health Care. The robust definition is followed by the essential components that health centers can use as part of their ongoing workforce planning issues. More Details...
Promising Practice: Teledentistry by Finger Lakes Community Health (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication, in Spanish, shares out Finger Lakes Community Health uses Teledentistry to increase access to care. The promising practice shares how they implemented teledentistry and lessons learned. More Details...
Supporting Older LGBTQIA+ Adults during COVID-19 (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Participants of this webinar will discover strategies for engaging internal and community resources for supporting older LGBTQIA+ patients during a pandemic. Facilitators from The LGBTQIA+ Aging Project will discuss methods for connecting with communities, and best practices for attending to the mental health and social determinants of health needs of LGBTQIA+ older adults during COVID-19. More Details...
Affordable Care Act Factsheet (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Factsheet provides information for patients to help them understand how to enroll in the ACA health insurance, become familiar with important words, learn about the enrollment process and important dates, and identify where they can find help and resources for them and their family! Also, it includes testimonials of two people who were able to benefit from the ACA during the COVID-19 pandemic. More Details...
Building Back Better: Utilizing Lessons Learned During COVID-19 for Inclusivity and Retention (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center and experts from Ainey Volion Consulting for a webinar series on inclusivity in the workplace for people with physical disabilities, people that are d/Deaf, blind, and visually impaired, and neurodiverse people. According to Fortune, this autumn, 65 percent of employees are seeking new jobs, up from 36 percent in May. These workers are requiring equitable compensation, flexible work environments, and inclusive cultures – making justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion more critical every day. This webinar series provides participants with information and tools to use for increased inclusivity. Taking the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, folks will be able to work toward building a culture of belonging for everyone, with a focus on individuals with disabilities and neurodiverse people. More Details...
Checklist for Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This document is a resource for health centers to assess their readiness to administer COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5-11. Widespread vaccination is a critical tool to help combat the pandemic. Pediatric vaccinations will be administered in accordance with all requirements and recommendations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). More Details...
Asian Patients Confront Multi Pandemics: Racism, Immigration, and COVID-19 Advocacy Brief (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The brief, Asian Patients Confront Multi Pandemics: Racism, Immigration, and COVID-19, is based on a KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) survey conducted in-language of more than 1,000 health center patients at AAPCHO member health centers—Asian Health Services (AHS), International Community Health Services (ICHS), HOPE Clinic, and North East Medical Services. More Details...
Self-Care is Quality Care: Resiliency for Mental Health Providers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Knowledge is the best defense against burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. This webinar, brought to you by the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center, is led by expert trainer on trauma-informed care, Matt Bennett, and goes further than other self-care and workforce well-being trainings by addressing the critical elements of health to enhance productivity and quality of work on both an individual and organizational level. More Details...
Privacy Principles for Protecting Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Healthcare Settings (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Included here are guiding principles that should be applied by healthcare providers, administrators, policy makers and developers when designing, building, utilizing or regulating health information systems that will hold or exchange sensitive health information. More Details...
Interim Adapted Clinical Guidelines for Post-COVID Conditions (Long-COVID) (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The CDC recently released interim guidance for supporting individuals with Post-COVID conditions, also known as “Long-COVID.” The purpose of this guide is to adapt the CDC clinical guidance for health care providers to meet the unique needs and challenges that people experiencing homelessness may face while managing Long-COVID. More Details...
Filling the HCH Gap: Case Studies of Non-HCH Health Centers Serving People Experiencing Homelessness (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication highlights five health centers that do not have Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) designation but provide excellent services to people experiencing homelessness regardless. More Details...
Addressing Tobacco Dependency to Reduce COVID-19 Risks and Complications Webinar Series (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Smoking is a major risk factor for most respiratory related infections. The early evidence in this area found that compared with non-smokers, smokers are more likely to develop serious COVID-19 disease. Recent studies also show that current smokers have been more likely to access various forms of smoking cessation assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. This offers an opportunity for Health Centers to offer smoking cessation services, referrals, and in-house psychological and pharmacological interventions. These two webinars provided examples of cessation plans and resources that can be shared with patients trying to stop smoking. More Details...
Trauma-Informed Care (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this talk from the 2021 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health conference, Dr. Potter and Samara Grossman discuss components of trauma-informed care for transgender and gender-diverse clients. More Details...
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