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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...

Shelter-Based Care for Homeless Populations: Healing Hands (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue explores innovative shelter-based health care programs and highlights best practices and lessons learned for effective collaborations with shelter staff and providing person-centered, trauma-informed health care in a shelter. More Details...

Increasing Access To Care thorugh Tele-Dentistry: Promising Practice (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Teledentistry is an emerging trend among health centers to expand access to dental care. This promising practice will discuss the story of Ravenswood Family Health Center in California and their use of the virtual dental home model. More Details...

Introduction to the Health Care for the Homeless Model of Care (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This archived webinar gives an overview of the HCH Program and the models of care used by HCH sites nationwide. Participants will also learn strategies in implementing the HCH model of care in medical practice. More Details...

Improving Diabetes Outcomes: Curated Expert Guidance, Tools, and Resources (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: According to 2016 UDS data, an estimated 14.3% of Federally Qualified Health Center patients nationwide have diabetes. Of these 2 million plus patients living with diabetes, approximately 32% have uncontrolled diabetes, with HbA1c equal to or above 9% or have had no test in the prior year. These statistics bring forth the need for improvement in the care of diabetes; several resources and research outcomes are profiled here with specific takeaways for health centers. As of CDC's 2017 National Diabetes Statistics Report, 30.3 million people, or 9.4% of the total U.S. population, have diabetes. Of these 30.3 million, only 23.1 million are diagnosed - while the other estimated 7.2 million are undiagnosed. Additionally, more than 1 in 3 adults or 84.1 million people in the U.S. have prediabetes. Among adults age 65 and older, nearly half have prediabetes. More Details...

Promising Practices Report: Community Outreach and Education Efforts of the Metta Health Center Program Within the Lowell Community Health Center (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report describes the development of a culturally tailored outreach and health education program through the use of radio and public access TV programming by the Metta Health Center Program in Lowell, MA. The health center has been recognized by the Office of Minority health as an exemplar provider of culturally competent care in meeting and exceeding all the standards set forth in the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care. More Details...

Integrating Community Health Workers into Primary Care Practice: A Resource Guide for HCH Programs (2016). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: The National HCH Council developed this resource guide to share experiences and successful recruitment and supervision strategies with other HCH projects looking to employ CHWs. This guide incorporates current research and uses feedback from administrators, supervisors, CHWs, hospital staff, community members, and clients involved in the HCIA project. More Details...

Accessing your Data: Questions to Consider with your EHR Vendor (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Intended to assist in ensuring full use and understanding of capabilities of current system and assessing the need for additional population health management or data integration tools, this checklist describes the steps health center quality improvement and IT staff can take to ensure they are maximizing the population health management and other capacity of current systems. It Included are questions around the system itself, report generation, training, and resulting data, as well as considerations before and after you contact your vendor. This checklist describes the steps health center quality improvement and IT staff can take to ensure they are maximizing the population health management capacity of their current EHR system. It is intended to assist health centers in ensuring they are utilizing the full capabilities of the current system and assessing the need for additional population health management tools. Included are questions around the system itself, report generation, training, and resulting data, as well as considerations before and after you contact your vendor.  It’s important to note that these questions are just meant for consideration. Not all of the features or aspects discussed will be relevant for your health center, and no system nor approach will check all the boxes. Use this to guide your thinking and discussions so you are able to get a robust understanding of what your EHR is capable of, and what you may need to find elsewhere or find other ways to address. Download the checklist below. More Details...

Patient Centered Health Home - Digital Story (2016). Resource Type: Video. Description: This digital story is a great resource for use by outreach staff to inform the community about the unique features of a Patient Centered Health Home. Through this video, and through the story of Mr. Mendoza, patients learn what they might experience in a health home before, during, and after a visit. More Details...

Promoting Health Care Access to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Farmworkers (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication, jointly developed with The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center, provides an overview of health care challenges faced by LGBT farmworkers and best practices to build trust. More Details...

Outreach and Enrollment Case Study: The Impact of Insurance Enrollment on a Federally Qualified Health Center (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: No annotation provided by the authoring organization. More Details...

Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural America (44453). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar featured key insights and strategies to address vaccine hesitancy in rural communities. This webinar is a part of NNCC's Nurse-Led Forum for Vaccine Confidence series. More Details...

How to Tell Your COVID-19 Vaccination Story (44425). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This interactive workshop walked 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...

How to Address Misinformation & Promote Vaccine Confidence (44407). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses evidence-based strategies to address medical misinformation and have effective vaccine conversations. This webinar is part of NNCC's Nurse-Led Forum for Vaccine Confidence series. More Details...

Health Center Communications Plan - Template (43633). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is to be used as a guide for developing a health center Communications Plan. It may be maintained as a free-standing document or as an annex to your organization’s Emergency Management Plan (EMP). The yellow text in brackets provides directions/placeholders for customizing this plan to align with your health center’s policies and procedures. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Infectious Disease Risk: Risk Communication: Infectious Disease (43481). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Sarah Darcy, Media Relations Manager for South Shore Health System, speaks on risk communication and how it relates to infectious disease. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Infectious Disease Risk: Risk Communication: Infectious Disease (43481). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Sarah Darcy, Media Relations Manager for South Shore Health System, speaks on risk communication and how it relates to infectious disease. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness Communications: Key Considerations (43524). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes key communication strategies for utilization by health centers before, during, and after an emergency and introduces an adaptable template to create an emergency preparedness communications plan. More Details...

Effective Communication With Colleagues and Patients About COVID Vaccines (44351). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses strategies for effective communication across different generational groups, and how you can apply these principles when discussing COVID vaccine information. This webinar is part of NNCC's Nurse-Led Forum for Vaccine Confidence series. More Details...

Diabetes Prevention for Patients of Color at Community Health Centers Webinar (44531). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In the “Diabetes Prevention for Patients of Color at Community Health Centers” webinar, AAPCHO and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) held a 90-minute webinar focused on the unique needs of patients of color in diabetes prevention efforts. More Details...