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Using Data to Promote Health Equity (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report provides practical guidance for Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) centers by conducting a comprehensive examination of financial and operational benchmark trends, empowering HCH to leverage their data resources to effectively address health equity concerns. More Details...

2025 NAP Grant Opportunity Available: The HCH Helpdesk Blog (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In light of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) long anticipated release of the 2025 New Access Point (NAP) grant opportunity, this post will review the Health Center Program, HCH designation, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's technical assistance offerings building off a previous HCH Helpdesk blog post and publication "So You Want to Start a Health Care for the Homeless Program." More Details...

Net Zero Health Centers: How Solar Microgrids Help Cut Costs and Build Climate Resistance (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This case study delves into the pioneering journeys that four distinct health centers have embarked on to achieve renewable energy production. This is part of the overall, high-level goal of eventually reaching Net Zero - where the amount of energy used is equal to the amount of renewable energy created. More Details...

Health Center Stories: Penobscot Community Health Center, ME (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: As the largest health center in Maine, Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) faced unforeseen contractor cost overruns and supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, testing the resolve and resourcefulness of all parties involved. Innovative financing solutions, coupled with the HRSA’s Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program, helped PCHC overcome significant financial and regulatory hurdles. More Details...

Financial and Operational Benchmarking Trends and Techniques (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Webinar providing an aggregate financial and operational profile of health centers nationally and a framework for identifying financial strengths and challenges for health center performance improvement and reviews the key target benchmarks that support long-term financial sustainability.​ More Details...

Federally Qualified Health Centers Financial and Operational Performance Analysis 2019-2022 (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report, prepared with support from the Health Resources and Services Administration, provides an aggregate financial and operational profile of Federally Qualified Health Centers nationally. More Details...

How are we going to pay for it? Developing a Budget and Identifying Funding for my Health Center’s Medical-Legal Partnership: Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series-Part 1, Conversation 4 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Another installment of the Health Center Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Planning, Implementation, and Practice (PIP) webinar series, explored the burning question: “How are we going to pay for it?”. It will help participants answer that question by learning how to develop a comprehensive budget and identify sources of funding for their MLP. More Details...

Solar Powered Healthcare: Resilience and Cost-Savings (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Learn why health centers are choosing solar power with battery backup as an affordable solution for both emergency and year-round use. Along with our CHARGE partners, the National Association of Community Health Centers and Collective Energy, we review how a solar+battery microgrid works and explore the cost-benefit analysis, new and proposed rules and rebates, the various incentives and initiatives, and financing options. We also share examples of health centers' experiences in choosing this affordable option. 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...

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...

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...

Status of State-Level Medicaid Benefits for Medical Respite Care (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief is intended to provide a current snapshot of the state-level Medicaid activity related to medical respite care. As often as possible, the exact language used in the Medicaid waiver requests has been included in this brief. More Details...

CalAIM Implementation of Recuperative Care Services: Lessons Learned (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this issue brief is to document what is working well with the implementation of the CalAIM recuperative care service to date, what remains a challenge, action steps California should consider moving forward, and advice for other states looking to add a statewide Medicaid benefit for recuperative care. This issue brief is based on interviews with leadership and staff at eight recuperative care programs, as well as several hospitals and MCPs from across the state (see appendix for list of participants). These interviews took place between June and August 2023, and their feedback is presented in the sections below. More Details...

Webinar: Strategic Planning: Preparing in Times of Uncertainty (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This training assists health centers in preparation for changes and growth through various strategic planning methods and ideas. By utilizing Capital Link’s publication, the Strategic Business Planning Handbook for Health Centers, we guide participants through the three key components of the strategic planning process and provide tools and information based on extensive experience working with health centers, as well as readily available external resources. More Details...

The Early Project Planning Phases of a Capital Development Project (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session addresses health center needs related to developing facilities that provide access to comprehensive, affordable, culturally and linguistically appropriate health services in a timely manner, focusing on the early phases of capital planning. We also review our upcoming Capital Development Learning Collaborative - Early Project Planning Stages, which provides practical direction and tools for planning, financing, and completing a capital project. More Details...

HRSA Loan Guarantee Program, An Overview for Lenders (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource provides an overview of the HRSA Loan Guarantee Program for Lenders, updated from 2019. More Details...

HRSA Loan Guarantee Program, An Overview for Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, updated from a previous version, provides an overview of the HRSA Loan Guarantee Program for Health Centers. More Details...

HRSA Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program: A Handbook for Lenders (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource is an updated version of Capital Link's 2021 HRSA Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program: A Handbook for Lenders under the same name. More Details...

Health Center Fundraising: Requirements and Strategies to Achieve Compliance (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This information bulletin provides an overview of the potential pitfalls that health center fundraising campaigns should avoid and suggests strategies for conducting a fundraising campaign in compliance with applicable law. More Details...

Establishing a Related Foundation: Does it Make Sense for a Health Center? (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief discusses the reasons that a health center may want to establish a “related foundation” and addresses how a health center can establish a related foundation, including the measures that should be taken to minimize risk to the health center in doing so. More Details...