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The Role of Dental Providers in Vaccine Delivery and Policy Recommendations (August 18 2021). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: This NNOHA publication describes COVID-19 vaccine delivery strategies developed by health centers in states across the country who are utilizing dental providers for vaccine administration. It also highlights policy opportunities to consider for the future that support medical/dental integration and whole-person care in health centers. More Details...

The Evolving Role of Nurse Practitioners in Health Centers and Considerations for Provider Satisfaction (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication discusses the evolving role of nurse practitioners and reccomendations to improve job satisfaction and prevent burnout among nurse practitioners. More Details...

STAR² Center PCA TTA Self-Assessment (2020). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: This self-assessment tool has been designed to help PCA teams assess your organization’s strengths and challenges in delivering a robust workforce training and technical assistance program to health centers. The tool includes questions based on ACU’s Core Components for a healthy health center workforce including: Leadership Investment, Workforce Planning, Recruitment and Retention Strategies, Compensation, Culture, Diversity, Managers and Health Professions Training. This assessment will provide a number of opportunities for discussion and confirmation of alignment for PCA TTA teams. Users will receive a snapshot of their organization’s TTA program as it relates to these components. More Details...

Integrated Care Models Survey Results: Embedded Dental Providers: Survey Results (2019). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: Integration of oral health and primary care practice is a strategy to increase access and improve health outcomes. There is an emergence of a new and alternative model, embedding a dental provider in the medical clinic. This document summarizes the results of the 2019 NNOHA Integrated Models survey and the subsequent focus group findings. More Details...

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...

Communicate Like a Leader (2021). Resource Type: Micro-Learning. Description: These micro-learning lessons explore strategies that will elevate one's communication to the next level. allowing for greater motivation, clarity, and sense of purpose. More Details...

NNOHA Teledentistry User’s Guide (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Teledentistry is an emerging trend to help improve access to oral health care, improve the dental care delivery system, and lower costs. NNOHA has worked with health centers since Spring 2020 to develop and test a variety of strategies to deliver dental services via synchronous teledentistry. This User’s Guide gives an overview of teledentistry, describes its use in health center dental programs, and includes practical tools for implementing teledentistry. More Details...

Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data (Fall 2020) (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, Chris Grasso, Vice President for Health Informatics and Data Services and Mason Dunn, Deputy Director for the Division of Education and Training at Fenway Health, discuss best practices for health centers to collect patient Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data and document SOGI in electronic health records. The training will focus on analyzing and using SOGI data for clinical decision-making and monitoring health disparities, and if, when, and how the collection and analysis of employee SOGI data can inform practices in HR, including policies for hiring, onboarding and retention. 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...

Outreach and Enrollment Job Description Templates (2021). Resource Type: Template. Description: Customizable Job Description Templates for Health Center Insurance Navigators, Outreach and Enrollment Coordinators, Managers, or Specialists. More Details...

Leading Effectively Articles: Make Leadership Happen with DAC Framework: Direction + Alignment + Commitment (DAC) = Leadership (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Center for Creative Leadership provides evidence based resources to support the building of leadership capacity throughout an organization. While CCL stops short of building a customized leadership development solution specific to the unique culture and challenges of a health center, their research, resources, and leadership concepts are highly transferrable to health center organizations (health centers, PCAs, HCCNs, NTTAPs, etc.). This specific resource speaks to a \"whole system\" approach to leadership, rather than putting the weight of leaders on an individual manager or executive. More Details...

Manager Training Toolkit (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The purpose of the Manager Training Toolkit is to provide a training and development resource for managers at health centers to equip them with skills and tools to lead their teams, increase engagement and reduce turnover. More Details...

6 Steps for Leading with Resiliency (2021). Resource Type: Micro-Learning . Description: This micro-learning course outlines six resilient leadership skills and how to use them, especially in times of crisis. It is designed to introduce strategies that will allow you to navigate your team through challenges and crises. 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...

Retention of Mental Health Providers (2021). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: In this course, you will learn about the key concepts of retaining mission-driven mental health providers. More Details...

Recruitment of Mental Health Providers (2021). Resource Type: Online Self-Paced Learning Modules. Description: In this course, you will learn about the key concepts of recruiting mission-driven mental health providers. More Details...

Laying the Foundation for Lawyers on the Health Center Team Part III: Advancing workforce goals for health center and legal services staff (2021). Resource Type: In-Person Training. Description: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is launching a 5-part Webinar Series to disseminate the Health Center Guide toolkit that provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership. The toolkit will help health centers to 1) have the important conversations to plan for a MLP’s long term success; 2) understand the specifics on developing screening, referral, and service delivery workflows for a MLP; 3) to look at how integrating legal services can support health center workforce development; and 4) move upstream to address social determinants of health and health equity at a policy level. More Details...

Laying the Foundation for Lawyers on the Health Center Team Part II: Funding, MoUs & Sustainability (2020). Resource Type: In-Person Training. Description: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is launching a 5-part Webinar Series to disseminate the Health Center Guide toolkit that provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership. The toolkit will help health centers to 1) have the important conversations to plan for a MLP’s long term success; 2) understand the specifics on developing screening, referral, and service delivery workflows for a MLP; 3) to look at how integrating legal services can support health center workforce development; and 4) move upstream to address social determinants of health and health equity at a policy level. More Details...

How to Tell Your COVID-19 Vaccination Story (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This interactive workshop will walk nurses through how to tell their personal COVID-19 vaccine story, how to construct a meaningful narrative, and how to share their story for the benefit of others. More Details...

OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard:: Clinical, Operational, and Compliance Impact for Health Centers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Please join NACHC and Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell, LLP (FTLF) for an overview of the ETS and a discussion on COVID-19 safety precautions that recognize workforce fatigue. NACHC will provide insight on finding the appropriate balance between regulatory requirements and workforce capacity. More Details...