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Telehealth Office Hours: Telehealth Reimbursement (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NACHC Telehealth Office Hours targets 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...

Retention & Recruitment of Specific Populations Webinar Series – Session 1 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the ACU STAR² Center for the first session in the two-part series focused on the retention and recruitment of specific workforce populations that highlight experts from the field to help give viewers the tools to start the work or continue in the process of building a more inclusionary and welcoming organization. More Details...

The Covid-19 Impact on Agricultural Workers fact sheet (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Covid-19 Impact on Agricultural Workers fact sheet has been updated with new information surrounding Mental Health and Access to Care as well. Covid-19 vaccination and case data has been updated as well. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar: Postgraduate NP/PA Residency: Discussing your Key Program Staff and Responsibilities (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Expert faculty will discuss the drivers, benefits, and processes of implementing a postgraduate residency training program at your health center. This session will dive deeper into a discussion on the responsibilities of key program staff, preceptors, mentors, and faculty for successful implementation. This webinar will equip participants with a road map to go from planning to implementation and offer an opportunity for coaching support. More Details...

Health Center & Justice System Collaboration to Improve Mental Health (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Recognizing the potential link between HCs and the justice system, Shannon Mace and James Teufel worked with a host of key informants to write the 2022 issue brief Connecting Community Health Centers & Courts to Improve Behavioral Health of People & Communities, which explores the further integration of and partnership between health centers, certified community behavioral health clinics, and courts to improve the continuum of care. Attendees heard from the authors and Patti Tobias (National Center for State Courts) on October 11, 2022 as they discussed their findings and the ways in which Health Centers and Justice Systems can collaborate to improve the mental health of patients and justice-involved individuals. More Details...

Work as a Social Driver of Health: How La Casa Family Health Center Identifies Farmworkers (2022). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: What happens when health center care teams know more about a patient’s occupation? This data can be especially important if the patient is an essential worker, as the Health Choice Network, a health center-controlled network based in Miami, and their partners at La Casa Family Health Center in New Mexico, learned during the COVID pandemic when treating a high-risk group of dairy farmworkers. This episode of NACHC’s podcast, Health Centers on the Front Lines, takes us behind the scenes at a health center and its partner network as they change the culture around disclosure of occupation among patients. More Details...

Health Center Role in Housing Innovations: Coordinated Entry (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Building upon the original CSH Coordinated Entry publication, this paper will examine the current state of CE and the importance of health center involvement in the homeless response system. CE is a process that assesses, prioritizes and refers people experiencing homelessness with community housing resources. More Details...

ACU STAR² Center – Health Center Comprehensive Workforce Plan (2022). Resource Type: Template. Description: The HC Comprehensive Workforce Plan (CWP) (previously released in 2016 as the Retention & Recruitment Plan Template) includes an instructions guide, a template, and an action plan. More Details...

Flu Outreach and Social Media Toolkit for Agricultural Workers (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit provides information and tangible tools to support health centers and other community-based organizations on using social media platforms to share effective messaging about the flu to agricultural workers and their families. This toolkit will assist outreach educators, community health workers and other staff members in assessing current social media efforts and outcomes and help identify new opportunities for increasing agricultural worker engagement through tailored social media messaging and cross-promotions with partners. More Details...

Excelling in Your Role as a Health Center Leader (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This 4-part series provides the essential skills and tools needed to be an effective leader and not just “the boss.” Learn how to motivate employees and how to manage relationships. Learn the keys to effective communication, become a listening leader, and how to develop a culture ripe for curiosity and innovation. More Details...

Business Continuity Planning Interactive Learning Modules (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: These interactive learning modules are intended to provide community health centers and primary care associations with self-guided learning tools to create and/or improve their business continuity plans and programs. More Details...

Telehealth Sustainability Worksheet (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This worksheet is provided as a basic tool to assist in basic business model development for FQHC/RHC/IHS and is based on the model of purchasing blocks of time by the hour with a specialty care or primary care provide. This tool is to help guide decisions related to contracting with a provider and how selecting a service provider will likely affect sustainability. More Details...

Telehealth Classroom - Online Training Course (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This Telehealth Classroom training portal has been developed by the federally funded Northeast Telehealth Resource Center (NETRC), to assist regional stakeholders, including health systems, health centers, providers, and health professions students to successfully implement telehealth. More Details...

Teledentistry Readiness Assessment (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document outlines key areas for the successful implementation of teledentistry. It also includes a readiness assessment for community health centers to determine the level of readiness in their organization for teledentistry. More Details...

State Telehealth Laws and Medicaid Program Policies, Fall 2022 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Center for Connected Health Policy’s (CCHP) Fall 2022 Summary Report of the state telehealth laws and Medicaid program policies provides a summary of the current status of telehealth policy in the states as of October 2022. CCHP provides these bi-annual summary reports in the Spring and Fall each year to provide a snapshot of the progress made in the past six months. CCHP is committed to providing timely policy information that is easy for users to navigate and understand through our Policy Finder. The information for this summary report covers updates in state telehealth policy made between July and early September 2022. More Details...

Medicaid Redeterminations & the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Implications for the HCH Community (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet describes how the HCH Community should prepare for Medicaid redeterminations as part of the PHE unwinding. More Details...

Connections to Housing: Everything You Need to Know on HMIS and Becoming a Coordinated Entry Access Point (2022). Resource Type: Webinar. Description:  Homelessness Continuum of Care (CoC) is the primary resource for individuals experiencing homelessness or housing instability in their local community. Access points within a CoC are vital organizational partners that conduct assessment and screening for prioritization of housing resources. This pre-recorded module and accompanying resource document will provide information to health centers interested in becoming an Access Point within their CoC. More Details...

CMS Changes for 2022: Mental Health Visits via Telehealth, Expanded Flexibilities for Rural Health Clinics, COVID-19 Vaccines and Monoclonal Antibody Therapy, FAQs (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Starting January 1, 2022: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) get payment for hospice attending physician services when provided by specific providers (pages 5 & 6). CMS allows mental health services using telecommunications (pages 5 & 12). CMS allows concurrent billing for chronic care management (CCM) and transitional care management (TCM) services (page 5). CMS changed G2064 and G0265 to 99424 and 99426, respectively (page 8). CMS added COVID-19 shot and monoclonal antibody therapy administration information (page 9) More Details...

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH): Targeted Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Resources for Health Care for the Homeless Centers (HCH) Considering Adopting SDOH Screening (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) invests in T/TA to support health center clinical, operational, and fiscal excellence. To increase awareness and utilization of the T/TA resources developed by BPHC-funded T/TA providers, BPHC staff have created targeted (T/TA) resources, which include curated resources in high-need areas. More Details...

Health Center Environmental Scan Kickoff Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Throughout the public health emergency, health centers have adapted and evolved to serve their communities amid a confluence of factors. As such, it is becoming crucially important to understand the different strategies and partnerships that have emerged from this crisis. Health centers have an important and essential role in addressing the health-harming social and legal needs of their patients. The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) is conducting an environmental scan of health centers with the main goal of establishing, expanding, and sustaining the accessibility and availability of medical-legal partnerships to meet the evolving social needs of patient populations. On September 29, NCMLP staff gave an overview of the data we have so far, why it's so important to complete the scan, and how to actually participate. More Details...