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National Health Center Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Needs Assessment 2023 Listening Moments Summary Report (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This short report summarizes the methodology and key findings based on over 350 individual health center staff responses More Details...

Exploring the Six Domains of Health Workforce Equity - Session 2 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join ACU's STAR² Center program as it presents expert faculty from the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, at the George Washington University, for a dynamic webinar series that explores their cutting-edge research on the Six Domains of Health Workforce Equity. The second session addresses who the workforce serves, how they practice, and under what conditions they work. By exploring these various questions, participants will gain a better understanding of ways to improve workforce equity and ultimately support the complex needs of their health center clinical staff. More Details...

Exploring the Six Domains of Health Workforce Equity - Session 1 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join ACU's STAR² Center program as it presents expert faculty from the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, at the George Washington University, for a dynamic webinar series that explores their cutting-edge research on the Six Domains of Health Workforce Equity. This first session of the series will explore research on who enters the workforce, how are they educated and trained, and where they practice. By exploring these various questions, participants will gain a better understanding of ways to improve workforce equity and ultimately support the complex needs of their health center clinical staff. More Details...

The Health Of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2022 Uniform Data System Report (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report was developed by Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations using the 2022 Uniform Data System data from health centers to examine the current state of health center performance and provides recommendations for how health centers can improve. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Integrating Patient Self-Monitoring Blood Pressure Within Office-Based Hypertension Management: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session included topics such as the evidence base for a self-monitoring blood pressure program, best practices in hypertension management through a self-monitoring program, and technology barriers and challenges to remote blood pressure monitoring. More Details...

Digital Health Strategy to Enable Comprehensive Care: Navigating Regulatory Waters- Compliance and Considerations: Virtual Learning Collaborative (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session took a critical look at the regulatory environment surrounding digital health, including understanding HIPAA, data privacy laws, telehealth regulations, and navigating the evolving regulatory landscape. More Details...

Digital Health Strategy to Enable Comprehensive Care: Digital Health in Action- Use Cases and Success Stories: Virtual Learning Collaborative (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session showcased real-world examples and case studies of successful digital health strategies in primary care settings. There was a review of specific use cases, lessons learned, success factors, and the impact on patient care and clinic operations. More Details...

Clinical Quality Measures 101: Applying This to Practice: Virtual Learning Collaborative (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As health centers engage with more quality programs through payers, funders, and others there is a pressing need for health center staff to have a foundational understanding of clinical quality measures, quality programs, and how these fit together and fit into the patient care provided in health centers. This learning collaborative is appropriate for health center personnel looking for a simple, foundational understanding of the quality measures and related programs. More Details...

The Role of Community Health Workers in Breast Cancer Screening Equity (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar examines the intersections of social determinants of health, breast cancer screening interventions, and the use of Community Health Workers in care settings. Through peer learning and interactive web materials, participants hone in on social determinants of health, increasing mammography utilization, and care team support among low-income women who are residents of public housing. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar Series (Activity Session) - June 6, 2023: Using the RTAT to Assess Organizational Capacity (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Improve educational training experiences at your health center by assessing your capacity and infrastructure to host health professions students. Join the upcoming hands-on interactive activity session to learn how to utilize the Readiness to Train Assessment Tool (RTAT). This tool was developed by HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAP) at Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) to understand organizational readiness to host health professions student training programs. More Details...

Clinical Quality Measures for Eligible Professionals: 2023 Update: A crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures for UDS and other reporting from The HITEQ Center (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This spreadsheet developed by the HITEQ Center provides a crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures and their electronic specifications as defined in the 2023 update for Eligible Professionals (Clinicians). Fields include the crosswalk of measures with related information about CMS, NQF, and MIPS ID, and Telehealth Eligiblity, as well as inclusion in HRSA BPHC Uniform Data System (UDS) CY2023, Million Hearts, CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) - APM Performance Pathway (APP) Measures, Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)/ CMS ACO Shared Savings Program, CMS Core Set (Child Core Set Medicaid / CHIP): HEDIS Specified, CMS Core Set (Adult Core Set Medicaid): HEDIS Specified, Core Quality Measures Collaborative (ACO / Primary Care). Links are included throughout. More Details...

Clinical Data Elements for UDS eCQMs and their Lookback Timeframes: Useful for EHR transition planning; developed in 2023. (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Each electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) is composed of data elements in the EHR or health IT system that are evaluated according to the measure specifications. It is important to identify what data elements need to be transitioned to any new EHR for clinical quality measure continuity and accuracy. This resource identifies clinical data elements in eCQMs that should be considered when transitioning EHRs. These data elements are used in reporting or calculating eCQMs, so their availability or lack thereof in any new EHR system will impact reporting accuracy. More Details...

A How-To Guide: An Overview of the 2021 National Health Center Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment Development, Fielding and Analysis: A collaborative project of the 21 National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAPs) (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This "how-to" guide summarizes the operational phases (development, design, fielding, data collection, analysis, application of findings) of the 2021 National Health Center Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Needs Assessment. The Assessment is a collaborative project of the 21 National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAPs) funded by HRSA to provide TTA to health centers across the country. More Details...

STAR² Center Financial Assessment for Provider Turnover Tool (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The purpose of this Financial Assessment for Provider Turnover Tool (previously released as the Financial Impact Tool) is to assist you in realizing the actual costs of provider turnover. These costs can include direct costs, such as advertising and recruiting services, but also indirect costs, such as staff time dedicated to finding locum tenens (temporary) and permanent providers. Wherever separate data are available for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians, they are parsed into separate tabs for “Non-Physician Providers” or “Physicians”. More Details...

ACU Workforce Self-Assessment Tool (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This self-assessment tool (updated in 2022) has been designed to assist your health center in exploring your organization’s strengths and challenges in your workforce program. More Details...

Using Health IT and EHRs to Address the Burden Providers Experience: Takeaways for primary care safety net settings including federally qualified health centers and look-alikes. June 2022. (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Providers are burnt out and most expect it to get worse. Burnout is typically defined as a psychological response to job stressors characterized by emotional exhaustion, detachment, and a sense of ineffectiveness. Investigations of burnout in primary care have usually focused on factors associated with burnout among individual clinicians. But, it may be more useful to think about organizational-level burnout, which can shift the focus from individual responsibility to organizational solutions. More Details...

“Acting on Social Determinants of Health Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: AAPCHO, Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) hosted a HRSA-sponsored webinar to explore strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services (ES). 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...

Quality Improvement Strategies for LTBI Screening, Testing, and Treatment in AA and NH/PI-serving Health Centers: EHR Template Development Learning Collaborative – June 2022 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Tuberculosis Elimination Alliance held a learning collaborative, funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Health Resources & Services Administration, in February 2022. In the learning collaborative, health center clinicians and/or enabling services providers explore quality improvement strategies for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening, testing, and treatment on electronic health record (EHR) template development. The learning collaborative goals included the development EHR templates, education on the 12-dose regimen, guidance on TB as a national clinical quality measure, and training for clinical and enabling services providers who focus on LTBI screening, testing, and treatment. More Details...

National Health Center Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report summarizes the key findings of the national training and technical assistance needs assessment fielded to all health centers August-October 2021. Response rate was 36% of all health centers and close to 1500 individual staff responses. More Details...