New Resources

Added: 09/25/2024
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...

Added: 09/23/2024
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...

Added: 09/23/2024
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...

Added: 09/20/2024
Team-Based Primary Care in Health Centers Book (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: There are many paths to improving health and health care—to making healthcare a universal right, not a privilege. Sharing our knowledge and expertise is one way, and we hope this concise and practical book, Team-Based Primary Care in Health Centers, gives you strategies, tools, and encouragement to do just that! More Details...

Added: 09/20/2024
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...

Added: 09/18/2024
Planning Guidance for Extreme Heat and Table Top Exercise (2024). Resource Type: Table top Exercise. Description: The Table Top exercise is an emergency preparedness exercise that can be completed to help health centers meet Emergency Preparedness requirements More Details...

Added: 09/18/2024
FQHC Financial Readiness and Projection Tool (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This tool is provided to assist community health centers in evaluating their financial readiness for value-based payment models as well as estimates of projected revenues, costs and returns on investment for various alternative payment arrangements. More Details...

Added: 09/14/2024
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in Oral Health Care: A Step Towards Health Equity for Older Adults (2024). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: Identifying and addressing social determinants (also known as social drivers) of health (SDOH) is a key part of a health center’s approach to providing comprehensive care in their communities. Non-medical factors such as housing, income, transportation, behavioral health, and intimate partner violence can directly contribute to disparities in access and utilization of health care for the whole body, including a person’s mouth. As part of an interprofessional team, dental providers and staff have an opportunity to participate in SDOH screening and documentation to reduce barriers between older patients and oral health services. More Details...

Added: 09/14/2024
San Ysidro Health's Kimball-Highland Project, National City, CA (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: San Ysidro Health's latest project—accommodating affordable housing, a modern senior center, and a comprehensive health center clinic—sets a benchmark for integrated capital projects for health centers nationwide. The project includes a dedicated Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) facility, delivering medical, dental, lab, radiology, and comprehensive programs for over 500 seniors, exceeding the average PACE program size. More Details...

Added: 09/13/2024
Learn the Signs. Act Early (2024). 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). This website repository contains over 350 downloadable resources developed by CDC's "Learn the Signs. Act Early" project. The overall program encourages parents and providers to learn the signs of healthy development, monitor every child’s early development, and take action when there is a concern. Resources include milestone tables, information on what to do when issues arise, tools to support developmental surveillance for healthcare providers, tools for early childhood educators to track milestones and engage families, resources for WIC staff, and training for early care and education providers. More Details...