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Nurse Closer Process: Using Nonclinician Staff to Make Patient Visits More Efficient (2019). Resource Type: Other. Description: The Nurse Closer process was designed and implemented to use non clinician staff to make patient visits more efficient. The model drives quality by combining team-based care with technology and allows all team members to work at the maximum capacity of their license. The goal of the process is to achieve higher value care with out increasing clinical expenses or provider burn out. More Details...

Provider Health IT Experience Survey: Health Center Connections HCCN (2021). Resource Type: Template. Description: Health Center Connections, the HCCN organized and supported by the Community Care Network of Kansas, created this survey to ask clinicians at participating health centers about their work environment, productivity, health IT in use, and health IT interventions. The intent of the survey is to collect information from clinicians that can identify opportunities to reduce provider burden through the use of health IT. More Details...

Growing Our Own: Cultivating the Next Generation of Primary Care Physicians in Community Health Centers (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: It is critical to advance policies and programs that help community health centers (CHCs) become Educational Health Centers (EHCs)2 and “grow their own” primary care training opportunities. This paper explores several pathways for promoting CHCs as teaching environments - enhanced partnerships between Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and CHCs (with either the AMC or the CHC as the sponsoring institution3), and CHCs participating in HRSA Teaching Health Center (THC) funding opportunities (with sponsorship either by the CHC alone or by a consortium body) - and posits a spectrum of options and costs associated with each of these pathways to train medical residents. More Details...

Using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funds to Build Health Center Value Based Payment (VBP) Capability (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document provides guidance on ways that FQHCs can utilize American Rescue Plan Act funds to develop and expand their VBP capabilities. Areas of focus for short-term investments include improving data and IT, integrating services, and improving access and health equity. More Details...

Strategic Cybersecurity Investments: Leveraging American Rescue Plan Funding to Enhance Infrastructure and Services: HITEQ Highlights webinar (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Healthcare continues to be the sector most targeted globally by ransomware and related malware attacks and leads in the average total cost of data breach across industries. The FY 2021 American Rescue Plan Funding provides an excellent opportunity for Health Centers to make strategic investments in cybersecurity infrastructure and services. This HITEQ Highlight, presented by Adam Kehler of Online Business Systems provides an overview of assets that can increase Health Center cybersecurity. Topics covered include cybersecurity infrastructure and services that can increase defense-in-depth for health IT, including EHRs, telehealth tools and services, mobile medical devices, patient portals, and related health information software applications. More Details...

Rural Federally Qualified Health Centers Financial and Operational Performance Analysis 2016-2019 (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report, prepared by Capital Link with support from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), provides an aggregate financial and operational profile of rural Federally Qualified Health Centers. More Details...

Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Federally Qualified Health Centers (2021). Resource Type: Other. Description: The Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Federally Qualified Health Centers report highlights the net projected losses of Rural FQHCs from April 2020 through June 2021, after taking into account critical federal support made available through December 2020. (Released in 2021) More Details...

Financial Impact of COVID-19 on California Federally Qualified Health Centers - Infographic (2021). Resource Type: Other. Description: Created with support from the California Health Care Foundation, this infographic highlights California FQHCs’ net projected losses from April through December 2020, after taking into account critical federal support made available through December 2020. More Details...

Federally Qualified Health Centers Financial and Operational Performance Analysis 2016-2019 (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report, developed with support from the Health Resources and Services Administration, offers a framework for identifying strengths, challenges, and opportunities for performance improvement in a rapidly transforming health care landscape. (Released in 2021.) More Details...

Financial and Operational Benchmarking Trends and Techniques Webinar (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Learn how to effectively assess your health center’s financial and operational performance using benchmarking and comparative metrics from Capital Link’s audited financial database and data from the federal UDS reporting system, as referenced in Capital Link’s soon-to-be-released Federally Qualified Health Centers Financial and Operational Performance Analysis and our Performance Benchmarking Toolkit. More Details...

Understanding Your Costs in an Evolving Payment Environment - A Four-Part Webinar Series for Behavioral Health Providers: Focus on Behavioral Health: Utilizing Cost Data to Drive Programmatic Change (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As the final webinar of this four-part series, we will review the key take-aways from the first three sessions and apply these concepts to several scenarios in which behavioral health providers are seeking to understand their costs in an evolving reimbursement environment. We will focus on how to model costs related to these scenarios and emphasize the use of this information for decision-making and guiding programmatic change. More Details...

Understanding Your Costs in an Evolving Payment Environment - A Four-Part Webinar Series for Behavioral Health Providers: Focus on Behavioral Health: Cost Allocation Methodology for Value-Based Payment Systems (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: During our third session, we will describe how to identify and calculate costs in a value-based reimbursement environment. Beginning with a high-level overview of value-based reimbursement concepts, we will discuss methodologies for identifying costs related to care pathways and clinical outcomes and provide examples that translate this effort into identifiable costs. More Details...

Understanding Your Costs in an Evolving Payment Environment - A Four-Part Webinar Series for Behavioral Health Providers: Focus on Behavioral Health: Preparing Internal Systems for Gathering Cost Data (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The second webinar in the series will provide insight from a former behavioral health provider CFO into the ways health centers can set up charts of account, practice management systems/electronic health records, and HR/payroll systems to facilitate an accurate understanding of cost. More Details...

Planning a Capital Project to Facilitate Integrated Care: A First Steps Overview (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us to learn the essential steps for preparing your project for success, including principles for planning facilities that support team-based, integrated care and techniques for completing internal and external assessments that will ensure your project aligns with your patient, staff, and community needs. Participants will be equipped to begin a planning process that will build a strong foundation for their capital project. More Details...

Intro to Capital Link's Upcoming HRSA Loan Guarantee Program Learning Collaborative (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar session will provide detailed information about the benefits of the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA’s) Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) and Capital Link’s upcoming LGP Learning Collaborative. More Details...

Developing a Business Plan and Financial Forecast for a Health Center Capital Project (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is designed to assist health centers planning new or expanded facilities in developing a detailed business plan for their capital project. More Details...

Creating a Safer Environment for Patients and Staff: Architectural Design and Engineering Solutions – Part One (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Part One of this series focuses on architectural design as we explore opportunities for the re-organization and utilization of space to incorporate lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic; preparing us to respond to new challenges with solutions for indoor/outdoor entry zones, team work spaces and patient engagement/exam spaces. More Details...

$3.55 Billion NMTCs Just Awarded – How to Pursue NMTC Funding for Your Project (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: With the CDFI Fund having announced $3.55 Billion in New Markets Tax Credits Awards, this timely webinar will help your health center determine if NMTC financing could be a good fit for your capital project and the steps you need to take in order to capitalize on this opportunity. More Details...

California Federally Qualified Health Centers: Financial & Operational Performance Analysis, 2016-2019 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report, prepared by Capital Link with support from the California Health Care Foundation, provides an aggregate financial and operational profile of California Federally Qualified Health Centers. The report offers a structure for recognizing the financial strengths, challenges, and benchmarks that support opportunities for health center performance improvement through an analysis of multi-year statewide trends and median outcomes. More Details...

California Federally Qualified Health Centers: Financial & Operational Performance Analysis, 2016-2019 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report, prepared by Capital Link with support from the California Health Care Foundation, provides an aggregate financial and operational profile of California Federally Qualified Health Centers. The report offers a structure for recognizing the financial strengths, challenges, and benchmarks that support opportunities for health center performance improvement through an analysis of multi-year statewide trends and median outcomes. More Details...