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A Compendium of Veteran Oral Health Best, Promising, and Emerging Practice Approaches (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NNOHA partnered with the American Institute for Dental Public Health to collect current practices to increase access to oral health care for veterans. This guide describes strategies to engage and serve veterans in the community for oral health care. More Details...

Updated Analysis: A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, an updated version of A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (released in 2022), was developed with support from Cedars-Sinai and HealthLandscape. In this analysis, we review more than 100 factors for the 57 FQHC members of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) for 2017-2021. (Released in 2023) More Details...

Social Determinants of Health - From Screening to Action: An Interactive Video Session (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This short, animated video provides insight on how to set up effective referral networks and processes to use the collected data in a meaningful way. More Details...

Optimize Your Care Team to Improve Chronic Hypertensive Disease Management (2023). Resource Type: Online Self-Paced Learning Modules. Description: This webinar focuses on advancing the mgmt of hypertension & improving patient outcomes through optimization of care teams. We explore how care team optimization, grounded in evidence-based practices, enhances health outcomes & provides vital support for our workforce. During this session, you hear from Ingrid Andersson from Mary’s Center on using RNs to enhance chronic care management, with a special emphasis on patients dealing with hypertension. Through comprehensive discussions & case studies, you explore the latest promising practices that focus on the pivotal role of collaborative teams in achieving superior patient outcomes. More Details...

Assessing Provider Capabilities, Attitudes, and Preferences about Telehealth: HITEQ Center Question Bank, April 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: As health centers are charting their path forward with telehealth after the public health emergency ends, it will be critical to have methods in place to comprehensively assess the current experiences, capabilities, attitudes, and preferences of providers. Telehealth program improvements should be grounded in a real understanding of these factors to ensure readiness of all providers. More Details...

Screening for Safe Infant Sleep Habits in Public Housing: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Sleep-related injuries are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in infants, this is disproportionately true for traditionally marginalized groups, including residents of public housing. More Details...

Eyes on Access: Billing for Vision Services (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is a continuation of the 2022 vision services webinar series. With a deep dive into billing for vision services, this webinar series addresses how health centers can align their billing procedures for vision services with their existing service lines. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar Series - May 2, 2023: Health Professions Student Training Webinar: Assessing Organizational Capacity (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In order to provide a high-quality educational training experience at your health center, Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) recommends assessing your capacity and infrastructure to effectively host health professions students. In the midst of competing priorities, best practices and tools will support this strategic workforce planning. Along with these best practices, panelists will discuss faculty’s roles and responsibilities, as well as hear directly from CHC staff. Additionally, this webinar will introduce the Readiness to Train Assessment Tool (RTAT™), a tool developed by HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAP) at CHC to better understand organizational readiness to host health professions student training programs. More Details...

Healing Hands: Intersections of Homelessness and Human Trafficking in the United States (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The latest issue of Healing Hands, the publication curated by and for our HCH Clinicians’ Network, is designed to deepen clinicians’ and other health care providers’ understanding of the intersections between homelessness and human trafficking in the U.S. More Details...

A Framework for Medical Respite Care (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Medical respite care is defined as acute and post-acute care for people experiencing homelessness who are too ill or frail to recover from a physical illness or injury on the streets or in shelter, but who are not ill enough to be in a hospital. While programs vary in size and structure, they all share the same fundamental elements: short-term residential care that allows people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to rest, recover, and heal in a safe environment while accessing medical care and other supportive services. Medical respite care (also referred to as recuperative care) has grown substantially since its inception in the 1980’s, as more communities are recognizing the need for programs that address gaps in affordable housing and health care. As the field grows, so does the need for resources for programs and providers to ensure the clients* who access medical respite services are receiving safe and quality care. More Details...

Impacto del COVID-19 En Los Trabajadores Agrícolas (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH has updated the COVID-19 Impact on Agricultural Workers fact sheet. It has new data and statistics surrounding cases and vaccine implementation among the group. More Details...

Creativity and Healing: The ArtStreet Experience (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Gain insight into the ways art can become a valuable resource for trauma informed care inhealth centers. The ArtStreet program at Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless regularly uses art therapy and inspirational art exercises to both address a patient’s trauma and provide whole-person healthcare. More Details...

Traditional Food, Culture, and Diabetes in the United States: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Members of ethnic and racial populations living in the United States experience unique challenges in preventing or managing their diabetes, including language barriers, cultural beliefs, and traditional foods, particularly among first generation immigrants.  More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: The Federal Telehealth Policy Landscape After the PHE: What's Staying (For Now) and What's Going: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Worried about what the end of the Public Health Emergency Act will mean for your telehealth services? This session covered what the status of the various temporary federal telehealth policies will be once the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) ended on May 11, 2023. As health services have increasingly been provided through virtual care, one important policy discussed was the proposed rules that impact the prescribing of controlled substances using telehealth. More Details...

Exploring Promising Practices on Diabetes Management and Prevention: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In 2021, health centers reported over 2.8 million patients that were diagnosed with diabetes and over 91,000 among Public Housing Primary Care grantees (HRSA, 2022). This data signifies the need to explore what strategies health centers are implementing to improve the overall diabetes health outcomes for their patients. More Details...

Utilizing Community Health Workers for SDOH Screening and Housing Navigation (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) is essential to screening and addressing for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) such as housing. More Details...

Community-Centered Approaches to Racial and Social Justice: Change from the Outside In With CCHH (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This was a two-part webinar series in partnership with the Prevention Institute, with part one exploring the CCHH model and part two diving into operationalizing a community-centered approach. This was our Second session in the series. More Details...

Abt Conversations: Insights from Community Health Leader Lathran Woodard (2023). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide essential healthcare to people who are uninsured or underinsured. Increasingly, FQHCs are answering the call to bolster what have traditionally been public health and social services, and the question of how we support and enhance these resources is becoming more pressing. More Details...

The Managed Care Data Set - Video: Developed with Starling Advisors in 2022 (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This is the second in a three module value based care basics series from the HITEQ Center. This module was developed by Starling Advisors in 2022. More Details...

Clinical Quality Measures for Eligible Professionals: 2023 Update: A crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures for UDS and other reporting from The HITEQ Center (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This spreadsheet developed by the HITEQ Center provides a crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures and their electronic specifications as defined in the 2023 update for Eligible Professionals (Clinicians). Fields include the crosswalk of measures with related information about CMS, NQF, and MIPS ID, and Telehealth Eligiblity, as well as inclusion in HRSA BPHC Uniform Data System (UDS) CY2023, Million Hearts, CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) - APM Performance Pathway (APP) Measures, Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)/ CMS ACO Shared Savings Program, CMS Core Set (Child Core Set Medicaid / CHIP): HEDIS Specified, CMS Core Set (Adult Core Set Medicaid): HEDIS Specified, Core Quality Measures Collaborative (ACO / Primary Care). Links are included throughout. More Details...