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Hypertension Control and Cholesterol Management Communications Toolkit (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This communications toolkit is designed to provide evidence-based messaging on hypertension and cholesterol management. It includes materials developed through NACHC's Million Hearts® initiative. More Details...

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...

Quick Guide: Scope of Project Considerations for Aspiring Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide provides aspiring health center leaders with an overview of key considerations, tools, and strategies for ensuring your organization has the systems in place to carry out HRSA’s complete Scope of Project. More Details...

Health Centers Serving Veterans: The US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Graduate Medical Education (GME) Pilot (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focuses on teaching as a vital component of the health center mission. It specifically addresses the opportunities available through the Mission 403 GME Pilot and explores whether these opportunities fit with the health center’s workforce plan. More Details...

Health Center 2030: 5 Critical Skills for Leading the Digital Transformation (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses 5 critical skills that will enable health centers to address current and emerging challenges. More Details...

Maternal Mortality Fact Sheet (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This infographic summarizes the racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and infant perinatal outcomes and summarizes NACHC's efforts to improve maternal health and post-partum care, providing up-to-date data, resources, and promising practices. More Details...

NACHC UDS+ Testing Forum (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NACHC in partnership with the Uniform Data System Test Cooperative (UTC) will convene a UDS+ Testing Forum for Community Health Centers, Primary Care Associations (PCAs) and Health Center Controlled networks (HCCNs). The UDS+ Testing forum will allow HIT vendors an opportunity to share their current experience with the testing process and assist Community Health Centers and other stakeholders in preparing for upcoming submission opportunities. More Details...

Clinical Issues & Health Center Boards: Maternal Mortality and Reducing Pregnancy-Related Deaths through Quality Obstetrical Care: Maternal Mortality and Reducing Pregnancy-Related Deaths through Quality Obstetrical Care (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource discusses maternal mortality. It highlights how health centers can help prevent pregnancy-related deaths through primary care services – especially obstetrical care – and how a health center board can support such services through governance-level functions. More Details...

Clinical Issues & Health Center Boards:: Family Healthy Weight Programs (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource discusses Family Healthy Weight Programs and how boards can support such programs through appropriate governance-level functions. More Details...

Clinical Issues & Health Center Boards: Hypertension Management (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource discusses hypertension management and how boards can support this through appropriate governance-level functions. More Details...

Emergency Management: Sharing Best Practices and Listening Session (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides firsthand experiences and best practices in health center emergency management, while facilitating a listening session for health center staff to share their experiences, challenges, and successes in planning for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and disasters. More Details...

Health Center Environmental Health and Climate Change QuickStart Guide (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide supports health center clinical and operations staff in addressing heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding, which are key environmental health and climate change issues faced by health centers and their patients. Each section of the guide will: share an overview of why the issue is important for health centers, discuss what health centers can do, provide a list of curated resources, and share an infographic of 5 to 6 important steps. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness Compliance = Disaster Resilience (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar reviews essential emergency preparedness concepts for Health Centers, provides an overview of emergency preparedness requirements for FQHCs and explores ways to build emergency preparedness compliance and Survey Preparation. More Details...

Health Centers Serving Veterans: Improving Identification of Military Veteran Patient Characteristic (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focuses on key aspects of identifying miltary veteran status, including a discussion of why the wording of screening questions matters and how to apply more accurate patient counts to needs assessment and service delivery to military veterans. In addition, the webinar presents evidence-based, recommended screening techniques. More Details...

Fostering Effective Mental Health Services in Community Health Centers: Parts 1 and 2 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar series provides a foundation for the continuum of severity of mental health needs. Part 1 focuses on community health center case studies to illustrate workflow and interventions, while part two provides health center models of services implemented to provide substance use disorder and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (SUD-MOUD) services. More Details...

Understanding & Overcoming Barriers to CEO Succession Planning (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: CEO succession planning is an important board role but one that boards can struggle with. This resource defines CEO succession planning, as well as identifies some obstacles to CEO succession planning and offers suggestions for overcoming them. 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...

2024 Coding & Documentation Webinar Series, Part 2: ICD-11 Readiness, HCC Risk Adjustment, & SDOH Coding Webinar (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: This webinar reviews the definitions, documentation, and coding requirements for reporting both Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) to support accurate coding capture for reporting on CHC claims now and in the future. 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...

2024 Coding and Documentation Webinar Series, Part 1 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar session, we will review opportunities for Community Health Centers to improve their clinical documentation, professional coding, and medical billing, focusing on the unique CMS rules and regulations we face when reporting our valuable health services to various insurance entities. More Details...