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Population Health Management Task Force National Learning Series 2024 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This national learning series, sponsored by HRSA, takes a deeper dive into issues related to HIV, Diabetes, and Chronic comorbid disease management, which all impact population health management. More Details...

Improving Hypertension Management: Applying Standing Orders and the Role of Medical Assistants (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Presented by Mary Blankson, Chief Nursing Officer for Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI), this session will cover how to implement standing orders using CHCI's hypertension guidelines and other national best practices. It will emphasize the key role of Medical Assistants (MAs) and demonstrate how standing orders support broader healthcare initiatives. Participants will gain knowledge on how to apply standing orders for hypertension management in their own health centers to improve patient care and streamline clinical processes. More Details...

Developing Curriculum in Line with Accreditation: Best Practices for Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Postgraduate Training Programs (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Presented by Charise Corsino, Program Director of CHC's Postgraduate NP Residency Program, and Kerry Bamrick, Executive Director of the Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers, this activity session will explore curriculum development in the lens of accreditation standards. More Details...

Navigating Comprehensive Care for Refugees: Integrating Clinical Care, Cultural Sensitivity, and Community Collaboration (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Presented by Kasey Harding, Director of the Center for Key Populations at Community Health Center, Inc., this webinar will explore clinical and cultural considerations depending on the country of origin, patient education, challenges in documentation, and care coordination with community organizations. This webinar will also include clinical and support staff to discuss lessons learned and best practices for operational aspects of refugee health clinics. More Details...

Weaving the PCMH Model of Care into Your Operations Learning Collaborative: Session 4: Tools to Organize Your PCMH Operations (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is a way to organize healthcare delivery, coordinate care for patients, ensure the patient's needs are identified, and optimize healthcare outcomes. Despite the various certifications, many feel that a true PCMH is not attainable. This learning collaborative provides a first step in assisting health centers with organizing their approach to communication of the model with their healthcare teams and incorporating the standards into everyday operations. This Learning Collaborative aligns with the Health Center Performance Improvement domain of Quality, Patient Care, and Safety as it reviews how to improve operations to positively impact healthcare outcomes. Each session is 90 minutes. More Details...

Beyond Screening: Using SDOH Data for Effective Care Solutions (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Are you interested in learning more about how your Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) health center can address positive social need screens? Watch the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the HITEQ Center's webinar and learn how to support timely social needs referrals and care planning and operationalize social needs data. More Details...

Addressing Mental Health Experiences Among Subpopulations of Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Workers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This two-part article series highlights the vital role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in addressing mental health challenges faced by Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs). CHWs leverage their deep understanding of community needs and cultural sensitivities to facilitate open discussions about mental health, combat stigma, and connect individuals to essential resources. By encouraging open dialogue and mutual support, communities can effectively tackle mental health disparities. More Details...

Pediatric Dental Care: Building a Successful Program (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides health center information on access to dental care by pediatric patients, the importance of integrating dental care into primary care practices, and the visualization of data to measure success of a pediatric oral health program. This training was in conjunction with National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA). More Details...

Pediatric Dental Care: Building a Successful Program (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides health center information on access to dental care by pediatric patients, the importance of integrating dental care into primary care practices, and the visualization of data to measure success of a pediatric oral health program. More Details...

Babies Born With Congenital Syphilis: What Happens Next? (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Congenital syphilis cases are on the rise. The transmission of spirochete Treponema pallidum from a pregnant individual to a fetus is the main method of infection. Evaluation for congenital syphilis is warranted in all infants born to mothers who have reactive nontreponemal and treponemal tests for syphilis during pregnancy More Details...

Weaving the PCMH Model of Care Into Your Operations Learning Collaborative: Session 3: Care Management, Care Coordination, and Care Transitions (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is a way to organize healthcare delivery, coordinate care for patients, ensure the patient's needs are identified, and optimize healthcare outcomes. Despite the various certifications, many feel that a true PCMH is not attainable. This learning collaborative provides a first step in assisting health centers with organizing their approach to communication of the model with their healthcare teams and incorporating the standards into everyday operations. More Details...

Healthy Eyes, Healthy Lives: Community Approaches to Children’s Vision and Eye Health (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar hosted by the School-Based Health Alliance in partnership with the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved and the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness identified common vision disorders among school-age children and adolescents while sharing various models of school-based vision care programs. Featured presenters will also address the impacts of inequity in vision health, share strategies to address social determinants of health, and strategies to remove barriers to care. More Details...

Patient-Centered Telehealth for LGBTQIA+ Communities (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this publication is to educate health center staff on how to reduce barriers to LGBTQIA+ patient care by improving telehealth programming. More Details...

Disaster Equity: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery for LGBTQIA+ Patients of Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Climate change and natural disasters pose substantial threats to communities, the effects of which are exacerbated by inequalities in vulnerable populations—particularly those with intersectional marginalized identities (e.g., LGBTQIA+ people who are Black, Indigenous, and/or have a disability) and are disproportionately affected by chronic disease. It is vital that health centers pay special attention to the marginalized communities who have been historically forgotten in emergency preparedness and response plans. Social determinants of health such as stigma, discrimination, violence, neighborhood characteristics, transportation, and a lack of recognition of families and relationships in institutional policies dramatically impact the effects of natural disasters on LGBTQIA+ people. This publication will summarize the issues at hand and provide strategies for health centers to promote disaster management equity for LGBTQIA+ patients. More Details...

Weaving the PCMH Model of Care into Your Operations Learning Collaborative: Session 2: Team-Based Care and Practice Organization (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is a way to organize healthcare delivery, coordinate care for patients, ensure the patient's needs are identified, and optimize healthcare outcomes. Despite the various certifications, many feel that a true PCMH is not attainable. This learning collaborative provides a first step in assisting health centers with organizing their approach to communication of the model with their healthcare teams and incorporating the standards into everyday operations. More Details...

Building the Case for Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner (NP) and/or Physician Associate (PA) Training Programs (Delivered in Spanish): Collaboration with Asociación de Salud Primaria de Puerto Rico, Inc. (ASPPR) (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Presented in Spanish by Catherine Hinojosa, an alum of CHCI’s Postgraduate NP Residency Program and CHCI PCP, this 60-minute session outlined a strategic roadmap for developing a Postgraduate NP/PA Training Program at your health center. This session also provided practical insights into the current landscape for NPs and PAs in Puerto Rico delivered by the Operational Program Lead at ASPPR and the Chief Operating Officer of NeoMed Health Center, a local health center. More Details...

El Transporte es un Tema de Equidad en la Salud (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Spanish translation of the Transportation is a Health Equity Issue factsheet investigates how transportation impacts access to care & other social drivers of health, analyzes unmet needs & gaps in laws or policies affecting access to transportation, uncovers the structural factors predisposing marginalized populations to reduced access to transportation and provides recommendations to health centers on addressing patient transportation inequities & barriers. More Details...

Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States, First Steps for Health Centers Webinar (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy provides an update to the HIV National Strategic Plan (2021) and intends for the HIV epidemic to end by 2030. In addition, the strategy sets forth expectations to ensure patients living with HIV are treated, HIV health outcomes are improved, and health disparities are reduced. To aid in this effort, health centers have an opportunity to use their multidisciplinary teams and community partners to provide adequate support for individuals living with HIV and newly diagnosed with HIV. This webinar will provide an opportunity for health center staff to learn approaches to coordinating care for those newly diagnosed with HIV and identify how to measure success with their HIV program(s). This training will be in conjunction with the National LGBTQIA+ Education Center, The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health. More Details...

Weaving the PCMH Model of Care into Your Operations: Session 1: The Benefits of a Patient-Centered Medical Home (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is a way to organize healthcare delivery, coordinate care for patients, ensure the patient's needs are identified, and optimize healthcare outcomes. Despite the various certifications, many feel that a true PCMH is not attainable. This learning collaborative provides a first step in assisting health centers with organizing their approach to communication of the model with their healthcare teams and incorporating the standards into everyday operations. More Details...

School-Based Health Centers 101: Partnerships and Pathways to Expand Students’ Access to Healthcare (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The School-Based Health Centers 101: Partnerships and Pathways to Expand Students' Access to Healthcare webinar aimed to increase the audience's knowledge and capacity to understand the key components of school-based health center start-up, share insights on successful partnership-building, financial sustainability strategies, and delivering high-quality care. In addition, the webinar highlighted resources available to support school-based health center planning teams, including a no-cost learning collaborative. While targeted at Health Center professionals, this session was open to anyone interested in school-based health center start-up. More Details...