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Medical-Legal Partnership as a Community Health Strategy to Improve Maternal Health Access & Outcomes Learning Collaborative: Session 2: Planning and Implementing the Medical-Legal Partnership Workflow (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: These Learning Collaborative sessions are designed to empower participants to develop a deeper understanding of how the social determinants of health impact maternal health. Learn how to use the Medical-Legal Partnership as a way to improve maternal and child health outcomes for health center patients and their communities. Over four informative sessions, this Learning Collaborative will provide T/TA to health center staff to develop strategies and action plans for aligning MLP activities with potential policy and population health approaches. We encourage health centers that work with multiple special populations, including pregnant women and children, to share their insights and strategies that can be adapted to communities’ unique needs. More Details...

Clinical Issues & Health Center Boards: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Care (2024). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: This short resource discusses Adolescent and Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH) care and how a health center board can support this service line through governance-level functions. This article is part of a broader series on ASRH; learn more at https://www.nachc.org/quality4teenshealth/. More Details...

Tips for Effective Health Center Board Meetings (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Board meetings are where a health center board carries out its governance role. This resource provides information on meeting practices used by health center boards and tips for better meetings. It also includes sample tools including a sample board work plan, meeting agenda, board meeting evaluation, and board culture statement. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety: Session 4: Using Peer Review and Competency Assessments to Improve Patient Safety (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. The content will reinforce how focusing on patient safety by all departments and staff positively impacts patients and the organization. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Patient Safety: Session 3: Supporting Patient Safety with Huddles, Reporting, and Surveillance (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. Federal, state, local regulations, and accrediting organizations require the delivery of safe medical care for patients, staff, and visitors. These sessions will also illustrate how the Board of Directors promotes a culture that prioritizes safety and includes safety metrics in its strategic oversight. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Farmworker Health Network (FHN) Key Resources 2023 (PDF) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Farmworker Health Network (FHN) is committed to supporting the development of leadership within Community and Migrant Health Centers and increasing access to care for the farmworker population. This document is a series of resources collected from FHN partners. More Details...

Farmworker Health Network (FHN) Key Resources 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Farmworker Health Network (FHN) is committed to supporting the development of leadership within Community and Migrant Health Centers and increasing access to care for the farmworker population. This document is a series of resources collected from FHN partners. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety: Session 2: Promoting Patient Safety through Patient Centered Care (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. Federal, state, local regulations, and accrediting organizations require the delivery of safe medical care for patients, staff, and visitors. The content will reinforce how focusing on patient safety by all departments and staff positively impacts patients and the organization. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Finance Training for Boards of Directors (Spanish) (2023). Resource Type: eLearning. Description: Esta es una serie de cinco sesiones de capacitación financiera para juntas y miembros de la junta directiva, presentada por la Asociación Nacional de Centros de Salud Comunitarios. Durante este módulo, voy a presentar una visión general del papel de la junta directiva en la supervisión financiera de un centro de salud y discutir las responsabilidades de los miembros individuales de la junta para llevar a cabo esta More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety: Session 1: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. These sessions will also illustrate how the Board of Directors promotes a culture that prioritizes safety and includes safety metrics in its strategic oversight. The content will reinforce how focusing on patient safety by all departments and staff positively impacts patients and the organization. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Health Center Board Roles & Responsibilities (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This two-page resource discusses the three major categories of health center board roles: Strategy, Oversight & Policy, and Board Functioning. It also contains a sample statement of board responsibilities that can be customized by health centers; the sample captures both the general roles of a board and requirements of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program. More Details...

Health Center Board Practices and Needs Assessment 2023 (English and Spanish): Findings Report and Governance Benchmarking Tools (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, “Health Center Board Practices and Needs Assessment 2023: Findings Report and Governance Benchmarking Tools,” includes an overview of the assessment; addresses findings and tips related to the three major categories of board roles: Strategy, Oversight and Policy, and Board Functioning; and provides information on additional training and resource needs. This publication also includes a dashboard tool to allow centers to compare certain governance practices to other center boards across the country. More Details...

COO Competencies and Professional Development Tool (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This tool is appropriate for use by a wide variety of stakeholders, including health center Chief Executive Officers (CEO), COOs and other Leaders; Board of Directors; Human Resources; Search Firms; Primary Care Associations; Training Organizations; and more. It is our hope that this tool will provide the structure and common language to help define, develop, and sustain excellence in operations leadership of health centers across the United States. More Details...

Interoperability Readiness Scorecard: HITEQ Center, July 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Template. Description: Many health centers struggle to reap the benefits of technological advancement and investments in health information technology (health IT), while others embrace them and reap rewards. Interoperability is one such example; requiring health centers assess systems, relationships, and implementation. There are keys to successful interoperability implementation for which health centers must develop processes, stand up infrastructure (within the system, internally and externally, and organization), and then take action. Process refers to structured processes, policies, and procedures within the health center. Infrastructure refers to structural capacity and ability within the health center’s technology and staffing structure. Action refers to full implementation to the point of active and ongoing use and engagement. This scorecard encourages health centers to consider their processes, infrastructure, and action in a number of key areas. Each area key to interoperability are to be self-graded on a scale of 1 through 5, where 1 is poorly or not yet developed and 5 is well developed. Health centers can also use this to guide discussions and monitor progress over time. evaluate once steps have been completed. More Details...

Key Online Resources for Training Health Center Board Members (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH created this guide to key resources to help health centers incorporate online learning into their board governance training plans. More Details...

Consumer Engagement Assessment Tool (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This assessment tool will aid health centers in evaluating their efforts to invite, facilitate, and support consumer input and leadership in the governance of their organizations. For Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs within larger FQHC funding structures or public entities, accurate responses to questions about organizational governance and administrative activities may require input from both organizational leadership and HCH program directors. The purpose of these questions is to evaluate how people with lived experience of homelessness are invited into governance, even for programs that are not HCH standalones. More Details...

The Board's Role in Strategic Planning/La Función de la Junta Directiva en la Planificación Estratégica (2023). Resource Type: Micro-Learning. Description: Strategic planning is the board and management team’s attempt to create the health center’s future, achieve its vision, advance its mission, and exert some influence over an uncertain future. This short module identifies key components of a strategic planning process and discusses the role of the board in strategic planning. More Details...

Key Strategies for Effective Change Management in Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH created this visual resource to illustrate key strategies for effective change management in community and migrant health centers. More Details...

Service Line Expansion: A Guide for Health Center Boards (English and Spanish) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers sometimes consider adding new services. If your health center is considering expanding the services it offers, your board of directors is a critical part of the process. This guide provides health center boards with an overview of service line expansion including why a health center might consider such expansion; information on the board’s role in the process; and questions to help guide decisions around expansion. More Details...

Geographic Expansion: A Guide for Health Center Boards (English and Spanish) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers sometimes consider expanding geographically, often by adding new sites. If your health center is considering expanding geographically, your board of directors is a crucial part of the process. This guide provides health center boards with an overview of geographic expansion. It provides an overview of why a health center might consider such expansion; information on the board’s role in the process; and questions to help guide decisions around expansion. More Details...