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Successful Practices in Accountable Care Series: Numbers 1-24 (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication combines individual documents in the Successful Practices in Accountable Care series, which ran from 2016-2020. The volume includes case studies from successful organizations, as well as discussions of focus areas. More Details...

Assessing Telehealth Maturity in Health Centers: A report out on the progress of Massachusetts health centers in advancing telehealth during a pandemic (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar gave participants the opportunity to learn about the successes and ongoing work to advance telehealth in Massachusetts and critical areas for continued focus and resources to enable equitable access to telehealth. More Details...

Social Risk Coding and Documentation Module (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, President and CEO at HealthBegins, and Sarah DeSilvey DNP, FNP-C, Director of Clinical Informatics at The Gravity Project as they discuss the importance of social risk coding and documentation. Learn about the new Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding guidelines, how to identify and code for social risk and health equity using the new guidelines, and opportunities for social risk coding to improve the care of your patients and increase access to revenue. More Details...

Pharmacy Access Office Hour: What’s Your Capture Rate? Tools for Growing Your In-House Pharmacy (2021). Resource Type: Archived webinar. Description: Presenters: David Christian, DPh, Pharmacy Director, Central Virginia Health Services, Inc. Karen Dann, PharmD, Director of Pharmacy, Jericho Community Health Center: Brandon Jones, Health Center Operations & HR Training, NACHC Tim Mallett, RPh, 340B TTA Consultant, NACHC VP of Pharmacy Services, 340Basics Keith Sinay, RPh, Vice President Pharmacy Services, HealthPoint Community Health Center More Details...

Housing Insecurity and Health Centers: The Case for Screening and Beyond (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Housing insecurity was on the rise across the country even before the pandemic, which destabilized so many lives. If health centers are serious about the Social Determinants of Health, they should prioritize housing as a profoundly influential SDOH, regardless of HCH designation. This webinar featured two leaders whose health centers do NOT have HCH funding but provide quality services for people experiencing homelessness all the same. We discussed data on homelessness across the country, what UDS shows on screening for housing insecurity among non-HCH health centers, strategies for screening inclusively, and the breadth of the HRSA definition of homelessness. We concluded by highlighting a new HRSA-funded publication that goes deeper on all of these issues. More Details...

Planning a Capital Project to Accommodate Integrated Care: A First Steps Overview - Nov. 4, 2021 (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center considering building new facilities to incorporate team-based, integrated care? This session will cover essential steps to prepare your project for success, including incorporating facilities goals in your strategic plan, understanding your patient base and community trends and analyzing your current operations to determine the space you need. We’ll also describe resources available to help you plan. More Details...

Fundamentals of Comprehensive Care (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us as we discuss the core concepts of team-based care and introduce elements of team-based care that builds upon these basics to support your teams in advancing their capability to provide satisfying and effective care to complex patient populations. We are joined by Margaret Flinter, Senior Vice President/Clinical Director for Community Health Center, Inc., and both Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, Physician and Founding Director, and Rachel Willard Grace, Director, from the Center for Excellence in Primary Care. More Details...

HIV and Injectable Drugs (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Long-acting injectable antiretrovirals are currently available for treatment of HIV, and approval for HIV prevention is anticipated soon; these developments may significantly change the landscape of HIV treatment and prevention. In this case-based webinar, Dr. Kevin Ard will discuss injectable antiretrovirals for HIV treatment and prevention. By the end of the webinar, participants will be familiar with the most up-to-date evidence for injectable antiretrovirals and will be able to describe programmatic changes that may be necessary to implement long-acting injectable medications in clinical practice. More Details...

C.A.S.E. Method for Community Health and Outreach Workers (2021). Resource Type: Other. Description: This bilingual educational video “C.A.S.E. Method for Community Health and Outreach Workers” offers tips and strategies to health workers on how to have one-on-one conversations with patients to address concerns about a specific topic in a compassionate and scientific way when providing information More Details...

Supporting Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: Opportunities for Oral Health Providers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar identifies strategies that can promote health and safety outcomes for patients and their children. Oral health providers play an important role in supporting survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). More Details...

Identifying Outcomes for Medical Respite/ Recuperative Care Programs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is intended to help programs identify specific outcomes and variables that they can feasibly track within their program. 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...

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...

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. 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...