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Key Patient Safety Concepts For Health Center Performance Improvement Goals (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication provides a practical overview of how organization can provide a culture of safety and how that lends to improvement of patient safety. It focuses on health center staff members\' roles and responsibilities; national organizations with patient safety definitions, guidance, and requirements; regulatory expectations to consider-including in health center patient safety programs, and success measures. More Details...

Colorectal Cancer Screening Tool: Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Agricultural Workers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Screening for colorectal cancer is a key preventive measure that can save lives by detecting cancer early when it’s most treatable. However, Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) face unique barriers that make accessing this crucial screening more challenging. Exposure to pesticides can increase their risk for cancers, including colorectal cancer, yet MSAWs often have lower health literacy and may not speak English, making complex medical information difficult to access. More Details...

Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Agricultural Workers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet supplies background information about Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and data regarding these infections among the agricultural worker population. This fact sheet is helpful when wanting to understand the infection numbers, risk factors, and knowledge and behaviors surrounding STIs. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Improving Patient Safety in Health Centers Using Technology-Driven PDSA Methods: Session 1: FOCUS on Using Data to Prioritize Patient Safety Improvements (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is the first session of a four-part series, which will discuss improving patient safety in health centers using technology-driven Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) methods. This session will FOCUS on using data to prioritize patient safety improvements through identifying technologies that capture measures related to patient safety, prioritizing improvement efforts using FOCUS, and using a prioritization tool to select a PDSA project. More Details...

Increasing Equity in Pain Management, Substance Use Disorder Treatment, and Linkages to Care (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this Resource Guide is to support health center care teams in providing equitable, compassionate, high-quality care for patients in the contexts of pain management, substance use disorders (SUDs), and meaningful linkages to care. Inside, you will find actionable strategies and resources to help your care team reduce health disparities and advance health equity among minoritized and stigmatized people who, due to historical and structural injustices, are more vulnerable to undertreatment and mistreatment of pain and SUDs. More Details...

HRSA's Loan Guarantee Program: An Overview (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides an overview of the benefits, eligibility, and application process of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program (LGP). We will also review our upcoming Loan Guarantee Program Learning Collaborative, which will begin at the end of February. More Details...

How EHRs Can Be Leveraged to Streamline Social Needs Screening (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Learn how screening for housing status and other Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) measures can be introduced or better integrated into health center clinical workflows. Presenters share guidance on implementing and systematizing social needs data collection in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), followed by a panel of expert health center representatives who that speak about their programs’ journeys with social needs screening programs. While this webinar will focus on health care for the homeless (HCH) health centers, anyone involved directly in social needs screening or interested in improving screening processes are welcome. Learning Objectives After this webinar, attendees will… ○ Describe the importance of capturing social needs screening data and how they relate to overall health center services. ○ Appraise their organization’s social needs screening workflow based on promising practices and examples of peer health center examples. ○ Describe strategies that could be applied to their health center to improve or streamline social needs screening process. ○ Identify which strategies demonstrated in the webinar can be introduced at their health center. More Details...

Culturally Responsive Depression Screening and Referral for LGBTQIA+ Patients (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar aims to increase the capacity of health centers to conduct culturally responsive depression and mental health screening and referral for LGBTQIA+ communities. This webinar will support health centers in population needs assessment and management, community needs and resource mapping, and clinical effectiveness of care for LGBTQIA+ patients, with an emphasis on social determinants of health. More Details...

Advancing the use of SDOH Data to Support Value Based Care: National Training for Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center interested in learning about how collection of social needs data can support your performance in providing value based care? This one-hour webinar, presented by Washington Association for Community Health, CHAS Health, and the HITEQ Center taught about best practices in SDOH screening and how health centers have used SDOH data for patient care, population health, and value based care. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions and share the specific challenges they face regarding SDOH screening and use of data. All health center staff, particularly those involved in screening clients for social needs, connecting them to resources and using data to inform care, were welcome to attend. More Details...

Suicide Risk Assessment: How to Incorporate Into the Workflow Asynchronous Learning Module (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This asynchronous learning module will provide training on how to develop organizational policies and procedures to incorporate suicide risk assessment screenings into practice, standardizing the approach of screening in the health center environment. Participants will learn to develop, implement, and follow policies and procedures emphasizing a team-based approach to suicide risk screening and response. More Details...

Mental Health Needs Affecting Agricultural Workers: Cultivating Mental Health: The Community Health Worker's Role with Agricultural Workers (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: “Boosting Mental Health in Agriculture: The Vital Role of Community Health Workers,” a crucial conversation hosted by MHP Salud. This enlightening session, recorded on January 17th, sheds light on the significant mental health challenges faced by agricultural workers and the empowering role Community Health Workers (CHWs) play in addressing these issues. More Details...

Stepping Toward Prevention (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication offered interprofessional team considerations for assessing fall risk and strategies for tailored interventions for community-dwelling older patients. More Details...

Quality Improvement Strategies for LTBI Prevention and Care in A/AA and NH/PI-Serving Health Centers: National Clinical Quality Measurement - January 2024 (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: AAPCHO and the Tuberculosis Elimination Alliance held a learning collaborative, funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Health Resources & Services Administration, in April 2023. More Details...

Integrated Mental Health (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: We invite you to join the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) for a one-hour webinar on Integrated Mental Health to address care coordination, partnerships, and evidence-based care strategies for school-aged children. More Details...

Health Centers Serving Veterans: ECRI’s SALUTE Program (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar features a new, evidence-based programmatic approach compiled by ECRI that community health centers can implement to (1) engage military veterans as partners in their own care and (2) increase the military cultural competence of healthcare providers. Participants also will learn about a Primary Care Association (PCA) state-wide effort to implement the SALUTE program in health centers. More Details...

Rising Strong: Community Resilience in the Face of Long COVID (2024). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: In this episode from our podcast "The COVID-19 Pandemic and What it Taught Us: Collective Trauma and Moving Forward", the host Aba Anison-Amoo invites guests from MHP Salud to dive deeper into Long COVID with the primary focus on raising awareness. More Details...

Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Programs: Ten Steps for a Successful Quit (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, participants learned the ten essential steps anyone wanting to quit smoking should take to ensure success. We also discussed how to help patients implement these steps as they prepare for and engage in their quitting journey. More Details...

Building Relationships with Hospitals (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Attendees for this webinar will learn about the current landscape for America's Essential Hospitals and challenges they are facing in a post-pandemic landscape. Panelists from Cook County Health and Regional One Health will join to share how their hospitals partner with or operate medical respite programs. Strategies for communicating and collaborating with hospital systems to meet the needs of their community will be presented. More Details...

Culturally Responsive Cervical and Breast Cancer Screenings for LGBTQIA+ Communities (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will discuss performing cervical and breast cancer screening exams in a way that is affirming for LGBTQIA+ patients. We will review patient communication, preparation and completion of the exams, and gender affirming clinical documentation. This session will support health centers in population needs assessment and management, community needs and resource mapping, and clinical effectiveness of care within the population health and social determinants of health domain. 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...