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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 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...
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...
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...
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 (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 (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...
Becoming a Teaching Health Center: Tips for Health Center Boards (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource offers tips for boards when a health center is considering starting the process to become a Teaching Health Center. It offers a case example of how one board used these strategies. More Details...
Tips for Boards on Health Center Workforce Challenges and Opportunities (2023). Resource Type: Elearning. Description: NACHC has developed two resources – an article and companion video – related to workforce for health center boards. The article provides tips that a board can consider in partnership with the CEO to help address workforce challenges and opportunities through board-level functions, including strategic planning, budget approval, policy approval, and other forms of oversight and board development. A companion video provides a summary of the article. Boards may find it helpful to watch the companion video to generate discussion about the board’s role related to workforce challenges and opportunities. More Details...
Engaging Leadership and Organizational Change (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This talk is from the 2022 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health Care Conference. More Details...
Tips for Health Center Boards for Evaluating the Sliding Fee Discount Program (2022). Resource Type: Microlearning. Description: Health center boards are required to adopt, review and evaluate at least once every three years, and, as needed, approve updates to the Sliding Fee Discount Program as noted in Chapter 19: Board Authority in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program Compliance Manual. This short video provides tips on how boards can work with the health center CEO to evaluate and approve updates to the Sliding Fee Discount Program. It contains sample data and questions a board may wish to ask as part of this process. More Details...
Sliding Fee Discount Program: The Fundamentals for Health Center Boards (2022). Resource Type: Microlearning. Description: This short video outlines the fundamentals of the Sliding Fee Discount Program that is required under the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program. This video is intended for health center boards and addresses the following topics: What is the Sliding Fee Discount Program and why is it important? What does a health center board need to know about the Sliding Fee Discount Program? Tips for boards related to the Sliding Fee Discount Program More Details...
Four Fundamentals of Value-Based Payment for Health Center Boards (2022). Resource Type: eLearning. Description: This brief video outlines four fundamental things boards and board members should know about value-based payment. This resource might be helpful for new board member orientation or for a full board to view as part of their ongoing board education. More Details...
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