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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...

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...

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...

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...

Postpartum Connections and Education (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides an overview of postpartum care coordination and education as an effective intervention for improving maternal and infant health. The webinar will discuss evidence-based home visiting models, connection to and establishment of a primary care medical home, and health insurance coverage. Participants learn about the importance of postpartum education for infant safe sleep, family planning, and chronic and behavioral health issues. More Details...

Resource: Health Center Stories: San Ysidro Health, CA (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The inclusion of a dedicated Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) facility within San Ysidro Health's Kimball-Highland project addresses the complex needs of seniors and enables them to live independently while accessing the comprehensive care they require. PACE programs can also be very financially sustainable, generating revenue that supports the broader mission of health centers while providing essential care to seniors. To learn more about the Kimball-Highland project and the benefits of PACE programs, please read the full case study here. More Details...

Diabetes Care Management: The Right Way-Part 2 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: After understanding the roles and responsibilities of health center staff in care management, this session will focus on the tools required to document longitudinal care management activities. The session speakers will review two (2) common electronic health record systems and provide details on how to document care plans and care management activities that meet Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) standards. More Details...

User's Guide for Integration of Behavioral Health and Oral Health (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication provides guidance on how to implement a behavioral health and oral health integration program. The User's Guide includes a description of NNOHA's systems-based framework for behavioral health integration, promising practices from community health centers, and workflow examples. There is also a readiness assessment to help community health centers determine their level of preparedness to implement a behavioral health integration program. More Details...

Servicios de salud a bajo costo para trabajadores agricolas y sus familias! (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH desarrollo este recurso para proporcionar a los trabajadores agricolas, incluidos los trabajadores con visa H-2A, informacion sobre los programas y servicios disponibles que ofrecen los centros de salud y como conectarse a estos servicios. More Details...

Low-Cost Health Services for Farmworkers & their Families! (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH developed this resource to provide farmworkers, including H-2A visa workers, with information about available programs and services that health centers offer and ways to get connected to these services. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol. 3 (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the (4) sessions of the “Acting on SDOH Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” Learning Collaborative. This Learning Collaborative shared strategies to respond to SDOH data through enabling services staff, culturally and socially appropriate interventions, and internal and external organizational capacity. More Details...

Healing Hands: Intersections of Homelessness and Human Trafficking in the United States (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The latest issue of Healing Hands, the publication curated by and for our HCH Clinicians’ Network, is designed to deepen clinicians’ and other health care providers’ understanding of the intersections between homelessness and human trafficking in the U.S. More Details...

Study Shows Involuntary Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness May Cause Significant Spikes in Mortality, Overdoses and Hospitalizations (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study that shows encampment sweeps, bans, move-along orders and cleanups that forcibly relocate individuals away from essential services will lead to substantial increases in overdose deaths, hospitalizations and life-threatening infections as well as hinder access to medications for opioid use disorder (along with other detrimental impacts). More Details...

Reframing Trauma Informed Care as a Systems Approach (2022). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) invites you to listen to the final episode in their Fall podcast series where we speak to community health professionals Kathleen Metzker and Sara Reid about centering trauma literacy in the health center medical home and how health systems can cultivate trauma-aware practices as part of their delivery of care. Metzker and Reid are interviewed by Jillian Bird, NNCC’s Director of Training and Technical Assistance. More Details...

Improving Care Coordination and Health Outcomes for Diabetic Patients through Medical and Dental Integration: Promising Practice (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: CommUnityCare in Texas shares how their organization implemented medical and dental integration through NNOHA Integration of Diabetes and Oral Health Learning Collaborative to help improve the health outcomes of patients with diabetes. More Details...

Promising Practices: Providing Behavioral Health Care in a Medical Respite Setting (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report presents a summary of the findings and highlights promising practices in behavioral health care that are currently being implemented in medical respite care (MRC) programs across the country. It outlines strategies and approaches that can be replicated and adapted to other programs’ unique contexts, equipping them to deliver high-quality care that is consistent with the Standards for Medical Respite Care and is responsive to the needs of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in their communities. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol. 2 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the (4) sessions of the “Screening Methods and Strategies for Using Data on Outreach and Enabling Services to Address Social Determinants of Health” Learning Collaborative. This Learning Collaborative explored strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and successfully utilize data to build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services. With these lessons learned, AAPCHO, HOP, MHP Salud, and NHCHC will continue this work with a webinar and successive learning collaborative in 2022-2023. More Details...

Rebuilding Systems: Adapting Housing Assessments to Prioritize Health, Equity, and Belonging (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is designed to provide a framework communities can use to create equity within their CE process. There is no one tool that can accommodate the unique resources of all communities but applying this guidance will help achieve equity in the process. More Details...

Integrating Oral Health and Primary Care for Patients with Diabetes (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice features Horizon Health Care, Inc. in South Dakota. This health center implemented a medical and dental integration program for patients with diabetes while participating in NNOHA\'s Integration of Diabetes and Oral Health Learning Collaborative. More Details...

Oral Health and Behavioral Health in Patients Experiencing Homelessness (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NNOHA and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council developed this publication to bring awareness to the intersection of oral health and behavioral health concerns or cognitive impairment in people experiencing homelessness. The publication will share the impacts of behavioral health illness on oral health and how behavioral health and dental providers can work together to address this intersection in their practices. More Details...