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Enabling Services at Health Centers: Eliminating Disparities and Improving Quality: Challenges and Opportunities for Health Centers in Collecting Data on Enabling Services (2006). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report describes a pilot study conducted by AAPCHO and four member health centers. Through this project, a uniform dataset on enabling services was created and a standardized method for collecting data was implemented. The data demonstrates that a high percentage of patients at health centers utilize enabling services (ES), and each user receives more than one ES. The data is able to provide information on the variations in utilization of enabling services and user characteristics at each health center. More Details...

Providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Care in Emergency Responses: Stories and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy (2005). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This second edition of AAPCHO's emergency preparedness compendium highlights the value and need for sharing best practices that are sensitive to the specific needs of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA&NHPIs) in emergency management efforts. More Details...

Preparing for Value-Based Care: A Guide for Health Centers (43402). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication serves as a primer on value-based care for community health centers, specifically in treating chronic diseases. More Details...

Navigating the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule: A Step-by-Step Guide (43397). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide serves to help health centers navigate CMS requirements. More Details...

Interprofessional Practice and Education in FQHCs (42459). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Barbara F. Brandt, Ph.D., Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, leads a discussion about the National Center’s work in relation to Federally Qualified Health Centers. More Details...

Integrating Team-Based Care to Improve Clinical Outcomes (43403). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication serves as a primer on care team formation for community health centers, specifically as a means of treating chronic diseases. More Details...

Health, Schools, and Public Housing: Uniting for Young People's Success (43186). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses the needs of children and adolescents within public housing and successful health center strategies for creating partnerships between the housing and education sectors. More Details...

Health Center Emergency Management Plan - Template (43633). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is to be used as a guide for the development of a health center emergency management (EM) plan, or EMP. Health centers should modify suggested language, policies, and/or protocols to reflect current operations and organizational approach to the EM program’s structure and ongoing maintenance. The yellow, highlighted text that appears in brackets provides direction/placeholders for customizing this plan to align with your health center’s policies and procedures. More Details...

Health and Public Housing: Supporting Smoke-Free Public Housing in Health Centers (43307). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This one-pager describes HUD's Smoke-Free Housing Rule in detail and provides the next steps for health centers. More Details...

Enhancing Health Center & Housing Authority Partnerships with AmeriCorps VISTA (42836). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes the AmeriCorps VISTA program and the ways in which VISTA members can support health center and housing authority partnerships. 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: Health Center Perspective: Protecting our Workforce and Patients from Emerging Infectious Disease (43481). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Bernadette Thomas, DNP, Chief Operations Officer for Lynn Community Health Center speaks on protecting our workforce and patients from emerging infectious disease More Details...

Considerations for Serving Residents of Public Housing During Emergencies and Disasters: Staff and Patient Wellness (44174). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the National Center for Health in Public Housing, this webinar discusses staff well-being and patient wellness during emergencies and disasters. This webinar provides health centers with guidance for developing tools and resources that enable the health center workforce and the patients they serve to navigate the practical and psychological after-effects of disaster events. More Details...

Building Resiliency: Mindful Stress Management (44693). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is part three of three Mini Resilience Skill-Building Sessions that took place in 2022. At each drop-in session, an empirically-supported mindfulness and resilience-building strategy was introduced by an expert in the field. In this session, participants had the opportunity to learn from Rebecca Bromberg, MBA, RYT, Principal Consultant and Founder of Sole Clarity, who discussed how to manage and transcend stress. Participants also practiced an activity designed to support workforce well-being. Additional resources and practices were also provided during the session More Details...

Building Resiliency: Developing a Mindfulness Practice (44574). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is part one of three Mini Resilience Skill-Building Sessions that took place in 2022. At each drop-in session, an empirically-supported mindfulness and resilience-building strategy was introduced by an expert in the field. In this session, participants had the opportunity to learn from Aleezé Moss, PhD (Associate Director, Myrna Brind Center for Mindfulness) about how to develop a mindfulness practice. Participants also practiced an activity designed to support wellbeing. Additional resources and practices were also provided during the session. More Details...

Building Resiliency: Centering Mindful Self-Compassion (44630). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is part two of three Mini Resilience Skill-Building Sessions that took place in 2022. At each drop-in session, an empirically-supported mindfulness and resilience-building strategy was introduced by an expert in the field. In this session, participants had the opportunity to learn from Cassondra Graff, M.S., LCSW (Senior Teacher of MSC and MBSR at the University of California at San Diego Center for Mindfulness) about how to practice mindful self-compassion in your daily life. Participants also practiced in an activity designed to support wellbeing. Additional resources and practices were also provided during the session. More Details...

Bio-Personal Protective Equipment for Community Health Centers (43517). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes the bio-protective equipment health centers can use to prepare for and appropriately deal with bio-hazardous events. More Details...

The Puzzle: Piecing Together Patient Centered Medical Care and School-Based Health Centers (n.a.). Resource Type: Publication. Description: No matter the challenges of earning patient-centered medical home (PCMH) accreditation, the careful documentation of policies, procedures, and practices that constitute high-quality primary care is beneficial to SBHCs.Such a comprehensive assessment can foster better quality improvement processes, clinical practices, care coordination, and coding and billing, and ultimately, greater sustainability for SBHCs over time.Regardless of the specific path chosen, this guide aids SBHCs in adopting key performance and quality improvement strategies that align with national and state-specific PCMH measures and standards. More Details...

The Puzzle: Piecing Together Patient Centered Medical Care and School-Based Health Centers (n.a.). Resource Type: Publication. Description: No matter the challenges of earning patient-centered medical home (PCMH) accreditation, the careful documentation of policies, procedures, and practices that constitute high-quality primary care is beneficial to SBHCs.Such a comprehensive assessment can foster better quality improvement processes, clinical practices, care coordination, and coding and billing, and ultimately, greater sustainability for SBHCs over time.Regardless of the specific path chosen, this guide aids SBHCs in adopting key performance and quality improvement strategies that align with national and state-specific PCMH measures and standards. More Details...