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Healing Hands: Celebrating Health Center Nurses (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focuses on strategies to support professional growth and care team well-being with special focus on the role of nurse leaders in the workforce. More Details...

Health Centers: Get Ready – PrEP is a Game Changer (Blog Post) (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This short blog post discusses PrEP, or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, as a tool for preventing HIV. More Details...

Implementation Tools and Resources for Enhancing Equity-Focused PrEP Services - Part 4 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Using Data to Enhance and Inform PrEP Practice - The final session focused on strategies for using both process and outcome metrics for program monitoring and improvement. We focused on methods for operationalizing health equity metrics, and the importance of examining disaggregated program data to understand differential access and engagement by highest priority. More Details...

Telehealth Office Hours: Remote Self-Monitoring Blood Pressure Program (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NACHC offers monthly Telehealth Office Hours for health center, PCA, and HCCN staff who have questions or want to share information about telehealth related policy and operational activities. In addition to updates and Q&A, each session will focus on a specific topic of concern. More Details...

Implementation Tools and Resources for Enhancing Equity-Focused PrEP Services - Part 3 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Progress and Pitfalls - In this session, participants reported back on their progress on achieving the SMART goal articulate in session 2 and discussed what went smoothly and what did not. Participants shared strategies for overcoming common pitfalls and roadblocks, and the facilitators reviewed the ways in which additional BLUPrInt resources might be useful in these circumstances. More Details...

Health Centers Are Addressing America's Mental Health Crisis (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This factsheet summarizes health centers’ behavioral health services. It highlights data from UDS that shows growth in patients and staff over the last decade, as well as the variety of behavioral health professionals and services offered at health centers. We discuss the growth in telehealth use to continue behavioral health services during the pandemic. Finally, policy suggestions to support behavioral health services at health centers are presented. More Details...

Eyes on Access: Steps for Integrating Comprehensive Eye Health and Vision Services into Health Centers (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is a Part 2 archive of a 2-part webinar series in Spring 2022 that reviewed the operational activities necessary to implement or enhance vision services in a health center. Learners reviewed planning factors such as provider configuration, cost, volume and supervision. More Details...

National Health Center Training and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report summarizes the key findings of the national training and technical assistance needs assessment fielded to all health centers August-October 2021. Response rate was 36% of all health centers and close to 1500 individual staff responses. More Details...

Considerations for Sustaining a Culture of Cybersecurity: Part II: Cybersecurity Risk and Preparation (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: With the rise in cyberattacks of government agencies and large-scale companies, organizations large and small are questioning if they are doing all they should to protect their data. More Details...

PrEP Guidelines: Excerpt from a presentation given on May 19, 2022​ on PrEP Clinical Practice Guidelines and Strategies for ending the HIV Epidemic in the US (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This video is an excerpt from a presentation given on May 19, 2022​ on PrEP Clinical Practice Guidelines and Strategies for ending the HIV Epidemic in the US. Dr. Daskalakis describes what has and has not changed since the 2017 PrEP Guidelines were issued. He reports on a new recommendation to include PrEP as a topic within primary care. Finally, he speaks about regimens for oral and injectable prophylaxis. More Details...

Implementation Tools and Resources for Enhancing Equity-Focused PrEP Services - Part 2 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Enhancing PrEP Awareness & Engagement in Your Clinical Setting- Building on session 1, this session went into depth about the specific BLUPrInt tools for PrEP Awareness and Engagement, including an overall program guide, templates for standard operating procedures, checklists, staff training, patient education materials. Participants discussed the ways in which these tools can be adapted to address specific challenges at their site. Participants articulated at least one short-term SMART goal that they will attempt to achieve between session 2 and session 3. More Details...

Considerations for Sustaining a Culture of Cybersecurity: Part I: Understanding the Essentials (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: With the rise in cyberattacks of government agencies and large-scale companies, organizations large and small are questioning if they are doing all they should to protect their data. More Details...

Do School-Based Health Models Expand Your Community Reach? Yes! (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Association of Community Health Centers and the School-Based Health Alliance offered two virtual workshops for health centers on the key elements of providing school-based health care. The workshops included a focus on enhancing school-based partnerships and the unique operational considerations for providing school-based health care. More Details...

Telehealth Office Hours: Tele-Behavioral Health Best Practices for Health Centers Now and Into the Future (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this session, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Jonathan Neufeld will review the best practices for building, operating and sustaining a telebehavioral health practice in an FQHC setting. He will cover strategies for improving etiquette, assessing and mitigating patient risk, and updates on telehealth billing and policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergency. More Details...

Implementation Tools and Resources for Enhancing Equity-Focused PrEP Services - Part 1 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This four-session series was designed to provide community health centers with concrete tools and resources to better implement, improve or even begin a PrEP program. The sessions were organized around a new implementation website, called HIV BLUPrInt (www.hivbluprint.org), which synthesizes key research findings, best practices, and implementation resources to promote highest-quality, equity-driven program development and delivery. More Details...

Finance Office Hours: No Surprises Act: Developing Your Good Faith Estimate (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Starting January 1, 2022, The No Surprises Act requires all health care providers and facilities to provide uninsured and self-pay patients with a “good faith estimate” of expected charges before a patient receives services. This webinar reviews the regulatory requirements under the No Surprises Act and best practices for implementing the good faith estimate into your health center’s workflow. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health— Medicaid Coverage and Payment (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides new clarity on Medicaid and SCHIP authority for reimbursement of SDOH screening and interventions in particular circumstances. This publication demonstrates opportunities to use SDOH screening tools such as PRAPARE to improve the delivery of care through enhanced data collection and relationships with safety-net programs. More Details...

Eyes on Access: Introduction to Comprehensive Vision Services in Health Centers (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is a Part 1 archive of a 2-part webinar series in Spring 2022 that reviewed the interconnection of vision, chronic disease and quality of life. Data substantiating community needs, disparities and barriers was reviewed. This webinar series addresses how health centers can integrate vision services into primary care. More Details...

NACHC Veterans Interest Group Office Hour (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This recording is from NACHC's April 14, 2022 all-virtual Veterans Interest Group Office Hour. More Details...

School and Health Center Partnerships (2022). Resource Type: archived webinar. Description: The National Association of Community Health Centers and the School-Based Health Alliance are offering two virtual workshops for health centers on the key elements of providing school-based health care. The workshops include a focus on enhancing school-based partnerships and the unique operational considerations for providing school-based health care. More Details...