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Telehealth Learning Bundle (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This resource provides context, learning opportunities, and implementation resources to support the effort of reimagining how training and technical assistance (TTA) and the operating environment can be strengthened to build a sustainable future for telehealth across the health center community. 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...

Environmental Scan of Telehealth Technical Assistance Resources: Updated January 2024 (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NACHC and the Center for Connected Health Policy provide a curated list of top telehealth technical assistance resources for FQHCs interested in implementing, operating, expanding or sustaining a telehealth program. This is an update to the 2022 version. More Details...

E-Consult Trends Across Medicaid Programs and Impact on FQHCs (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NACHC and the Center for Connected Health Policy examine the current state of eConsult Medicaid policies in relation to FQHCs. This paper looks at a sampling of states to examine trends in eConsult policies that allow, exclude or do not specify the policy specific to FQHCs, resulting in reimbursement and telehealth operational implications for health center. More Details...

Outreach and Unsheltered Homelessness: Strategies for Health Centers and Service Providers (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Due to limited resources, fewer community connections, and more exposure to the elements, people experiencing unsheltered homelessness have a heightened risk of injury and severe health issues. This is especially true during times of disaster and public emergency. As many communities learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, meaningful outreach and linkage to care for unsheltered individuals is vital for public health. This national webinar highlighted emerging practices in reaching unsheltered populations, with a focus on the importance of peer specialists with lived expertise. Attendees learned and discussed relevant strategies for health and housing-focused outreach to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. More Details...

Quality Improvement Fund (QIF) Primary Care Innovation Forum (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This online Forum featured presentations from the first QIF cohort of Optimizing Virtual Care (OVC) health center awardees and special guest speakers, as well as the launch of new Technical Assistance to support health center innovation. Presentations will focus on virtual care strategies using technology and innovation to enhance access to care, clinical quality and coordination, and promote health equity. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness in School-Based Telehealth (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Emergency Preparedness in School-Based Telehealth webinar was designed for health center and health center look-alike staff. The webinar aims to increase the audience's knowledge of and capacity to define how health centers can partner effectively with schools to implement telehealth care, identify how to provide students with care through telehealth, and reduce barriers to telehealth services. More Details...

Best Practices for Phone & Virtual Interpretation (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication provides evidence based best practices for phone and virtual interpretation for farmworkers and other who are Limited-English proficient in health centers and clinics. This publication provides many resources to other publications with best practices resources for available interpretation services. We hope this can be applied to support farmworker patients who speak Indigenous languages to increase their access to health care services. More Details...

Nurturing Mothers: A Two-Part Webinar Series on Breastfeeding Support and Maternal Mental Health (2024). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: In Part Two of this series, experts from Affinia Healthcare led a discussion on delivering sensitive and supportive care and fostering a nurturing environment for breastfeeding mothers. Affinia Healthcare shared their approaches to lactation and breastfeeding education, emphasizing their impact on maternal mental health during the perinatal period. Attendees gained practical guidance on developing and implementing effective breastfeeding support initiatives tailored to the needs of diverse communities, focusing on addressing disparities in breastfeeding rates among populations of color. We also discussed emerging Maternal and Infant health concerns and HRSA’s response and recommendations. More Details...

Expanding Access: Integrating Telebehavioral Health and Telehealth Solutions for Communities Served by Health Centers: Part One (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium hosted a three-part webinar series focused on the growing role of telehealth in expanding access to behavioral health (BH) and substance use disorder (SUD) services at health centers serving residents of public housing and other underserved populations. This series was designed for health center staff and others interested in learning key aspects of telebehavioral health and SUD care. More Details...

Nurturing Mothers: A Two-Part Webinar Series on Breastfeeding Support and Maternal Mental Health (2024). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: In Part One of this series, experts from HRSA’s Division of Healthy Starts and Perinatal Services led a discussion touching on the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline and related resources for health center staff and patients. We also heard from Milwaukee’s Choice Neighborhood Initiative and their community-based program, Best Babies Zone, which works to ensure that babies born survive and thrive with the help of their engaged and healthy community. More Details...

Engaging Partners and Technology to Support Care of Justice-Involved Patients: Virtual Webinar (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this session, participants learned from Harris Health (Texas) and Community Medical Centers Inc. (California) to hear about their expanded services for behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment for justice-involved community members. Attendees learned from these two healthcare providers that have made a commitment to offering care to justice -involved patients, and their journeys to build positive partnerships improving access to service. More Details...

Telehealth for LGBTQIA+ Patients (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, Emily Phillips will discuss best practices in telehealth for LGBTQIA+ patients including information on expansion, implementation and quality improvement. Participants will learn strategies aimed at increasing access and engagement for marginalized communities in telehealth programming and ways to ensure continuous quality improvement. More Details...

Closing the PrEP Care Gap with TelePrEP: Training for Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This training session was delivered by the HITEQ Center in collaboration with Housing Works, a health center based in New York City. Staff from Housing Works provided an overview of the TelePrEP model, considerations for implementation, and successes and barriers their TelePrEP program has faced. All health center staff were welcome to attend, and the content will be useful for all seeking to expand PrEP access for HIV prevention in their health center and community. More Details...

Leveraging Telehealth for Use in Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Recent studies have indicated that telehealth can serve as a critical tool in providing nicotine and tobacco-use cessation counseling. However, organizations often struggle to promote, market and provide these resources in an efficient manner. Fortunately, there are frameworks, research and protocols available that can help us to leverage and promote our telehealth resources while maximally supporting our patients and taking full advantage of staff resources.  More Details...

Integrated Mental Health (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: We invite you to join the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) for a one-hour webinar on Integrated Mental Health to address care coordination, partnerships, and evidence-based care strategies for school-aged children. More Details...

Using Your EHR to Improve Your Diagnosis and Follow Up of Obesity (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ webinar, health center staff will learn tips for capturing the Body Mass Index (BMI) value, documenting a follow-up plan, capturing data, and reporting. The speakers will discuss the roles and responsibilities of care team members in the BMI documentation workflow, data capture, reporting, and best practices. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Crossing The Chasm of Innovation - One FQHC's Journey to Operationalize its Telehealth Strategy: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this HITEQ Highlights webinar, we focused on the intersection of telehealth strategy and operations. One health center\'s experience of leveraging telehealth as a tool for expanding service delivery and patient access will be a jumping off point from which to consider the benefits (and challenges) of dedicated telehealth resources within an organization. Participants learned how telehealth might benefit recruitment efforts and review relevant resources for ongoing telehealth support. More Details...

Innovative Methods for Delivering Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Care (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Presented by Dr. Kevin Ard, participants will learn about innovative approaches to HIV prevention using a status-neutral framework with information on telehealth for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), PrEP On Demand, and more. The webinar also provides the most recent information about how to implement long-acting injectable PrEP at health centers. More Details...

Best Practices for Phone and Virtual Interpretation in Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is provided in conjunction with a newly created best practices resource in response to the demand for more language access services in health centers especially for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients. This project is HRSA-funded. Presented on 11/30/2023 More Details...