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Addressing Rural Health Inequities through Medical-Legal Partnership: MLP Spotlight featuring McKinney Medical Center & Georgia Legal Services Program: MLP Spotlight 2 (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: New MLP Spotlight explores how McKinney Medical Center and Georgia Legal Services Program have aligned their missions to tackle persistent rural health inequities and justice gaps More Details...

Maternal Health and Essential Community Connections (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will discuss how to connect with local hospitals, obstetrics practices, health departments, and diagnostic imaging groups to improve access to maternal health services in rural and urban communities. The purpose of this training is to introduce ways in which clinicians who care for pregnant people can more easily connect them with local resources to improve outcomes. More Details...

Financial and Operational Benchmarking Trends and Techniques (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Webinar providing an aggregate financial and operational profile of health centers nationally and a framework for identifying financial strengths and challenges for health center performance improvement and reviews the key target benchmarks that support long-term financial sustainability.​ More Details...

Social, Political, and Structural Impacts on Diabetes and Comorbidities Management for AA and NH/PI Populations Learning Series: Module 1: Whole Food Model for Holistic Community Wellness (2024). Resource Type: Micro-Learning. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health organizations (AAPCHO) chronic disease management programs, expertise, and national network in the AA and NH/PI community health center space, will feature research, community intervention strategies, and historical context for diabetes and other co-morbidities among AAs and NH/PIs. This self-paced learning series will feature modules that outline various social, political, and structural drivers of health for diabetes and comorbidities management. Modules will include case studies which promote resources, strategies, and interventions to support health center performance improvement and transformation efforts. This is module 1 and was recorded on March 15, 2024. More Details...

Preparing to Serve MSAWs and Other Vulnerable Populations Through Public Health Emergencies (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join MHP Salud, Project HOPE, Community Health of South Florida, and Healthcare Network for a Zoom webinar designed to equip Federally Qualified Health Centers, particularly Migrant Health Centers, with essential tools for navigating public health emergencies. More Details...

Social and Structural Impacts on Diabetes and Comorbidities Management for AA and NH/PI Populations Learning Series (2024). Resource Type: Micro-Learning. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health organizations (AAPCHO) chronic disease management programs, expertise, and national network in the AA and NH/PI community health center space, will feature research, community intervention strategies, and historical context for diabetes and other co-morbidities among AAs and NH/PIs. This self-paced learning series will feature modules that outline various social, political, and structural drivers of health for diabetes and comorbidities management. Modules will include case studies which promote resources, strategies, and interventions to support health center performance improvement and transformation efforts. This is module 2 and was recorded on March 7, 2024. More Details...

How to mitigate the Impacts of Long- COVID-19 among farmworkers (2024). Resource Type: Other Resource Collection. Description: These videos (Spanish and English versions) were developed in collaboration with farmworkers experiencing Long COVID-19 and Finger Lakes Community Health (a farmworker serving FQHC) to offer suggestions about how to detect if one is experiencing Long COVID-19, how to understand the underlying symptoms related to Long COVID-19, and how to seek medical support and to alleviate symptoms. More Details...

Colorectal Cancer Screening Tool: Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Agricultural Workers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Screening for colorectal cancer is a key preventive measure that can save lives by detecting cancer early when it’s most treatable. However, Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) face unique barriers that make accessing this crucial screening more challenging. Exposure to pesticides can increase their risk for cancers, including colorectal cancer, yet MSAWs often have lower health literacy and may not speak English, making complex medical information difficult to access. More Details...

Rural Health Information (RHI) Hub (2023). Resource Type: Other Resource Collection. Description: This external website includes a repository of potentially-relevant, curated resources from an organization outside of the HRSA-funded training and technical assistance organizations. (Note: resources in such collections do not undergo review by the Clearinghouse). The web hub includes a full online library, state- and topic-specific resources, data visualization tools, case studies, and planning, implementation, and evaluation tools. More Details...

Capital Planning for Addressing Rural Health Needs (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is a webinar we presented on June 22, 2023, with Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, to discuss the unique needs of rural health centers in planning for capital projects. More Details...

Diabetes Continuum of Care: Environmental Impacts on Diabetes Access to Care Webinar: Part 4 of the 2022 Diabetes Special and Vulnerable Populations Task Force National Learning Series (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session was part 4 of 4 in the 2022 Diabetes Special and Vulnerable Populations Task Force National Learning Series. This session was entitled \"Environmental Impacts on Diabetes Access to Care Webinar\" and featured guest speakers from the National Association of Community Health Centers. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Deploying Smartphone Apps to Advance Mental Health in Primary Care: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Patient engagement through electronic health apps are one solution to the need for timely and ongoing patient support. This session discussed a program to support mental health through an integrated behavioral health model using a mental health app at Cambridge Health Alliance. More Details...

Work as a Social Driver of Health: How La Casa Family Health Center Identifies Farmworkers (2022). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: What happens when health center care teams know more about a patient’s occupation? This data can be especially important if the patient is an essential worker, as the Health Choice Network, a health center-controlled network based in Miami, and their partners at La Casa Family Health Center in New Mexico, learned during the COVID pandemic when treating a high-risk group of dairy farmworkers. This episode of NACHC’s podcast, Health Centers on the Front Lines, takes us behind the scenes at a health center and its partner network as they change the culture around disclosure of occupation among patients. More Details...

Capital Financing Strategies for Rurally-Located Health Centers Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, we explore the financing strategies available to rurally-located health centers considering a capital expansion project. Various financing opportunities, including targeted programs such as the USDA, New Markets Tax Credits, and the HRSA Heath Center Facilities Loan Guarantee Program, are discussed. We also highlighted the recent capital expansion project of El Dorado Community Health Center (EDCHC), a rurally-located center serving several mountain communities in El Dorado County, CA. More Details...

Hoja informativa sobre trabajadores agrícolas (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: La hoja informativa provee resultados sobre la información demográfica de trabajadores agrícolas de la Encuesta Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas (NAWS por sus siglas en inglés) del 2015-2016. Esta, provee un resumen de la información demográfica, contribución económica, salarios y beneficios, vivienda, salud, y protección legislativa. More Details...

Coding for Pesticide-Related Illness: A Toolkit for Coding for Pesticide-Related Illness: Toxic Effects of Pesticide, Signs and Symptoms of Effects of Pesticides (Acute Effects) (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This guide details the ICD-10-CM codes for the toxic effects and the signs and symptoms for pesticide-related illnesses. This information is pulled from the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting (and other resources). Please refer to the guidelines for additional information. This guide is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical, healthcare or billing advice. Healthcare providers and billing/coding professionals are advised to seek confirmatory information. This is not an exhaustive list nor does it imply etiology. www.pesticideresources.org/med More Details...

Healthy Sleeping Tips: A Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resource for those in high stress jobs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A one page easy to read healthy sleeping tips handout. More Details...

Capital Project Financing Sources for Rural Health Centers - June 24, 2021 (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session, specifically designed for rural health centers looking to learn more about the various avenues of financing available for capital projects, including USDA, New Markets Tax Credits, and the HRSA Loan Guarantee Program, will highlight a recent case study of a rural health center that has successfully completed a capital development project to provide insight into the facility expansion process. More Details...

Heat-Related Illness Clinician’s Guide: This guide provides information to clinicians on the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness. (2021). Resource Type: Other. Description: Agricultural work, which requires performing physically demanding work for long hours in hot and sometimes humid weather, places workers at high risk. This guide provides information to clinicians on the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness. Since workers may not be familiar with all of the symptoms of heat stress, it is important that clinicians discuss heat illness symptoms and prevention with agricultural workers and others who are at risk. More Details...

Performance Benchmarking Toolkit for Rural Health Centers: Tracking Data to Improve Financial Performance (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This toolkit provides guidance in applying data analysis tools to help rural health centers more effectively track performance, understand key drivers, and incorporate operational insights for financial sustainability. This resource was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration. (Released 2021) More Details...