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Emerging Topics in Trans Medicine – Expert Panel Discussion (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this panel from the 2021 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health conference, experts in transgender and gender-diverse patient care discuss emerging topics in the field. More Details...

Decolonizing Gender: How Mental Health Providers Can Break Out of the Binary (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this talk from the 2021 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health conference, Dr. Chang covers how to break out of the binary when approaching behavioral health care for clients. More Details...

Questions for staff to address current organizational tensions: A Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resource for those in high stress jobs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A one page easy to read resource used for strategic planning around reducing workplace stress. More Details...

Preguntas para que el personal empiece a dialogar sobre situaciones actuales que produce tensión (Questions for staff to address current organizational tensions): A Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resource in Spanish for those in high stress jobs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A one page easy to read Spanish resource for strategic planning regarding staff stress reduction. More Details...

Healthy Sleeping Tips: A Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resource for those in high stress jobs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A one page easy to read healthy sleeping tips handout. More Details...

Consejos para un sueño saludable (Health Sleeping Tips): A Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resource for those in high stress jobs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A one page easy to read healthy sleeping tips handout in Spanish. More Details...

Behavioral Health Self-Help Handouts in Spanish and English: The Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resources (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: These Behavioral Health Self-Help handouts available in Spanish and English. Topics include: Questions for Staff to Address Current Organizational Tensions, Position of the Facilitator, Healthy Sleep Tips, Coping with Moral Distress, How to Re-establish Safety When You Have been Jolted into a Stress Response, and A Daily Practice to Restore Equanimity. 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...

HITEQ Highlights: Is Zero Burnout Possible in Primary Care? Insights from Recently Published Findings Among 715 Practices (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Drawing on recently published research from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s EvidenceNOW initiative, Dr. Samuel Edwards shared insights for primary care practices seeking to assess and address provider burnout. More Details...

Regional Stream Forum Impact Report 2021: Impact Report: 2021 Virtual Forum for Migrant and Community Health (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The 2021 Regional Stream Forum Impact Report offer summaries of the three annual Regional Stream Forum training events including the conference programs, participant demographics, conference sponsors, planning committee members and conference highlights. More Details...

Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Improve Diabetes Outcomes (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In this blog, NCHPH discusses how various social determinants of health can affect persons living with diabetes, in addition to best practices taken to address these social determinants of health. More Details...

Heat-Related Illness Clinician’s Guide: This guide provides information to clinicians on the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness. (2021). Resource Type: Other. Description: Agricultural work, which requires performing physically demanding work for long hours in hot and sometimes humid weather, places workers at high risk. This guide provides information to clinicians on the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness. Since workers may not be familiar with all of the symptoms of heat stress, it is important that clinicians discuss heat illness symptoms and prevention with agricultural workers and others who are at risk. More Details...

Strategies for Youth: COVID-19 Vaccination (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Weitzman Echo special one-time session to discuss Community Health Center Inc.\'s approach on the most reassuring and expedient ways to reach youth and their parents during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout. More Details...

Strategies for Supporting Health Center Patients Experiencing Food Insecurity (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Food insecurity has doubled since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, and has tripled among families with children. Not having enough access to food is a key contributor to negative health outcomes for adults and children alike, and it is important now more than ever for health centers to identify and support patients who are experiencing food insecurity. This resource is designed to support health center efforts to identify and assist patients who are experiencing food insecurity. It outlines key considerations around integrating social determinants of health (SDoH)-related screening and intervention into the electronic health record (EHR) workflow, highlights standardized screening tools and data elements to monitor the prevalence of food insecurity among patients, and describes several strategies to meet food-related needs. The downloadable guide, available in the Documents to Download section below, is split into the following sections, each of which draws on foundational work from health centers and national partners: Integrate your screening strategy into your EHR workflow-- several case studies are included Select a standardized tool to identify food insecurity-- several tools with their related EHR integration and workflow considerations are outlined Monitoring food insecurity among patients-- tips about coding and dashboarding are provided Connecting patients to available resources More Details...

Who Wants To Be A Vaccinator: Volunteers, Students, and Other Professionals (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: To meet the demand for knowledge on COVID-19 vaccines, CHCI and its Weitzman Institute is moving back to weekly COVID-19 national webinar sessions! More Details...

Staff Roles, Responsibilities, and Training Throughout the Vaccination Cycle (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: To meet the demand for knowledge on COVID-19 vaccines, CHCI and its Weitzman Institute is moving back to weekly COVID-19 national webinar sessions! More Details...

Getting Started with HITEQ Dashboards for Clinical Quality Measure Comparison: Video and instruction guide, created Dec. 2020 (2021). Resource Type: Other. Description: Getting Started with HITEQ Dashboards for Clinical Quality Measure Comparison Video and instruction guide 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...

Military Lessons Drive Covid-19 Vaccine Plan at Philadelphia Health Center (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Retired Major Dr. Robert Heininger was responsible for health policies on his military base in Georgia and is now applying what he learned to operation of five Federally Qualified Health Centers, specifically around administration of COVID-19 vaccines. More Details...

Talking About the COVID-19 Vaccine with Patients (2021). Resource Type: Field-Generated Publication. * Description: The first step to getting patients to consider getting the COVID-19 vaccine is to talk with them and listen to their concerns. Below is a short script to do that. It is intended to be a guide, so after you get comfortable, feel free to create your own approach based on it. After the conversation, you can offer to help patients make an appointment or get more information, but let them make up their own minds. Did you have a respectful conversation? Mission accomplished! More Details...