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Strategies to Increase Diabetes Screening Among Asian American (AA) Populations – Learning Collaborative (March 2021) (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Strategies to Increase Diabetes Screening Among Asian American (AA) Populations Learning Collaborative was hosted by the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO). Participants gained in-depth knowledge about diabetes and BMI screening for AA populations. More Details...

Clinical Quality Measures for Eligible Professionals: 2021 Update: A Crosswalk Comparison of Clinical Quality Measures from The HITEQ Center (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This spreadsheet developed by the HITEQ Center provides a crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures and their electronic specifications as defined in the 2021 update for Eligible Professionals (Clinicians). Fields include the crosswalk of measures, with related information about MIPS ID, Telehealth Eligiblity, as well as inclusion in CY2021 UDS, Million Hearts, NCQA eCQM, CMS Adult / Child Medicaid Core Measures Set, HEDIS 2021, and CPC+ eCQMs. Both a PDF and spreadsheet are available for download below. More Details...

Memorandum of Understanding Template / Memorándum de Entendimiento o Acuerdo Colaborativo: A Partnership-Building Resource for Community Health Centers and Domestic Violence Programs (2021). Resource Type: Template. Description: The purpose of this model Memorandum of Understanding is to provide a model that contains best practices for building and sustaining health center and domestic violence program partnerships. More Details...

Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care Series: The Future State: Data Integrity (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is the third webinar in a three-part series -- Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care. During these webinars, hear how HCCNs and health centers are collecting and aggregating data on patient populations and leveraging data to support clinical quality improvement initiatives. More Details...

Partnering for the COVID Vaccine: Lessons from the Flu-LEAD Project (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, the National Center for Health in Public Housing, and subject matter experts from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development hosted a webinar about leveraging health center and housing authority partnerships for COVID vaccine distribution. Speakers discussed lessons learned from the HUD/HRSA Flu-LEAD (Linkages to End Access Disparities) project. More Details...

Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care:: The Current State of HCCNs (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is the second webinar in a three part series -- Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care. During these webinars, hear how HCCNs and health centers are collecting and aggregating data on patient populations and leveraging data to support clinical quality improvement initiatives. Medical informaticists from leading organizations such as the Duke Institute for Health Innovation and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will present. Clinicians, quality improvement and data leads, Chief Executive Officers as well as Chief Information Officers will find this series useful to their every day work. More Details...

Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care:: Looking Back: The Birth of the HCCNs – the Vision for Data (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Join NACHC for a three part series -- Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care. During these webinars, hear how HCCNs and health centers are collecting and aggregating data on patient populations and leveraging data to support clinical quality improvement initiatives. Medical informaticists from leading organizations such as the Duke Institute for Health Innovation and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will present. Clinicians, quality improvement and data leads, Chief Executive Officers as well as Chief Information Officers will find this series useful to their every day work. More Details...

Medical Respite/ Recuperative Care Organizational Self-Assessment (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A medical respite program should strive to meet each of the Standards’ criteria to ensure quality care. Medical Respite/Recuperative Care Organizational Self-Assessment was developed to allow programs to self-assess their fidelity to the Standards. With this tool, programs can identify aspects of their practice that align with the Standards, and also to inform strategic planning and goal setting for the growth of the program. The Organizational Self-Assessment tool identifies specific criteria to meet each of the Standards, and provides programs with a way to determine if they meet specific criteria, and if not, barriers or limitations to doing so. More Details...

Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking: Building Partnerships Between Community Health Centers And Domestic Violence Advocacy Programs (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will feature the critical role of domestic violence advocacy programs in supporting patients on intimate partner violence/human trafficking (IPV/HT) and how to build meaningful collaborations including initiating Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) and bidirectional warm referrals. More Details...

Quality Improvement Starter Kit (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This resource, developed by AFL Enterprises, includes virtual training resources that can be used to share quality improvement techniques and practices more widely within your health center. More Details...

Culturally Competent Care: Learning Collaborative (2020). Resource Type: Other. Description: This is a learning collaborative series of 4 sessions where Health Center staff learned about standards for providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) to their patients. Slides and recordings for all sessions are available here as well as resources to facilitate the implementation of CLAS in health center settings. 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...

Creating a Safer Environment for Patients and Staff: Architectural Design and Engineering Solutions – Part Two (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Part Two of this series focuses on engineering solutions as we explore best practices in building systems design and management as well as facility maintenance. Strategies for addressing challenges in HVAC and air flow, room/space capacity and equipment selection (air scrubbers, filtration, UV lights, HEPA filters) as well as key factors in disinfection including the role of negative pressure and temperature setting will be presented by senior engineers. More Details...

Isolation & Loneliness: The Digital Transformation in Social Determinants of Health (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The third webinar in the Weitzman Institute\'s Path Forward \"The Digital Transformation in Social Determinants of Health\" fall series focusing on addressing isolation and loneliness as an important public health issue. The content expert for the webinar is Gretchen Alkema, PhD; Vice President of Policy and Communications, The SCAN Foundation. Presenters for the webinar includes: Andrew Parker, Founder & CEO of Papa; Cindy Jordan, Founder & CEO & Christina Myren; Chief Operating Officer of Pyx Health; and Ashwin Patel, Co-Founder & CEO of InquisitHealth. More Details...

Bringing lawyers onto the health center care team to promote patient & community health: A planning, implementation and practice guide for building and sustaining a health center-based medical-legal partnership (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The toolkit has four parts: 1. Outlines nine conversations that a health center team should have with its legal partners to plan for an MLP’s long-term success and to integrate it into the health center’s operations. 2. Is a deep dive into the specifics of how to develop screening, referral, and service delivery workflows. 3. Looks at how integrating legal services can support health center workforce development, with a particular focus on training. 4. Illustrates the types of projects MLPs can engage in to help your health center move upstream to address SDOH and health equity at a policy level. More Details...

Leveraging the electronic health record (EHR) to link health center patients with MLP services (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief provides concrete examples of how health centers in Iowa, Montana, and Texas are leveraging the EHR to complement their screening for the social determinants of health as well as to increase their capacity to deliver targeted MLP-related interventions. More Details...

GUIDANCE Sliding Coinsurance for CMS/Medicare Care Management Services (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: While health centers are required to impose Medicare coinsurance for CMS/Medicare care management services, the coinsurance may be “slid” commensurate with the sliding fee discount program (SFDP) policy of the health center. Federal anti-kickback statutes and beneficiary inducement prohibitions include exceptions allowing health centers to discount coinsurance for patients who are eligible for the health center’s sliding fee discount program without violating Medicare rules. More Details...

FY2020 Primary Care HIV Prevention Reporting: Crosswalk of FY2020 PCHP reporting to CY2020 UDS Requirements, July 2020 (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: To support Primary Care HIV Prevention funded health centers, HITEQ has prepared a crosswalk that maps PCHP tri-annual reporting metrics to UDS measures and/ or fields. This assists health centers in leveraging UDS reporting functionality in their EHRs to inform completion of the tri-annual progress report to HRSA. The PCHP metrics listed in the first column crosswalk to specific data definitions in the CY2020 UDS, which are specified in the second column, and then further detail is provided in the third column. More Details...

Using Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI) to Address Oral Health for Older Adults Living with Diabetes (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this guide is to provide practical information to interprofessional health center teams using a practice-based learning and quality improvement (PBLI) approach for assessing and continuously improving oral health and diabetes management of older adults. More Details...

Finding Healthy Food: The Effects of ‘Food Deserts’ on Public Housing Residents Living with Diabetes (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This blog post by NCHPH highlights the adverse effects of food deserts, and describes how food deserts can impact diabetic residents living in public housing communities. More Details...