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Key Considerations in Planning Your Facility for Integrated, Comprehensive Care (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides an overview of the most important factors to consider when planning a facility that will accommodate various types of integrated care. More Details...

Introduction to the Planning and Financing a Capital Project to Accommodate Integrated Care Learning Collaborative (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join Capital Link for an introductory webinar to learn more about our upcoming Planning and Financing a Capital Project to Accommodate Integrated Care Learning Collaborative and to gain insight on organizational readiness, select financial and operational benchmarks, financial capacity, and how to begin planning for your capital project. More Details...

Planning a Capital Project to Facilitate Integrated Care: A First Steps Overview (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us to learn the essential steps for preparing your project for success, including principles for planning facilities that support team-based, integrated care and techniques for completing internal and external assessments that will ensure your project aligns with your patient, staff, and community needs. Participants will be equipped to begin a planning process that will build a strong foundation for their capital project. More Details...

Creating a Safer Environment for Patients and Staff: Architectural Design and Engineering Solutions – Part Two (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Part Two of this series focuses on engineering solutions as we explore best practices in building systems design and management as well as facility maintenance. Strategies for addressing challenges in HVAC and air flow, room/space capacity and equipment selection (air scrubbers, filtration, UV lights, HEPA filters) as well as key factors in disinfection including the role of negative pressure and temperature setting will be presented by senior engineers. More Details...

Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practical Guide for Community Health Centers (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Many health centers are exploring acquisitions and mergers as a means to ensure sustainability, expand services, and maintain patient access to basic health care services. This detailed guide, published by the California Health Care Foundation, is designed to help you navigate the process to consummate an effective merger or expansion so you and your new partner can get back to the essential job of providing high-quality health care and enhanced access to the communities you serve. More Details...

HRSA Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program Toolkit: Application Tips ​​​​​​and Tools for Health Centers (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Developed with support from HRSA, the Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program Toolkit provides health centers with a detailed outline for preparing a capital project, collecting the materials needed to submit a LGP application, and tips to help navigate the application process efficiently. (Released in 2020.) More Details...

Creating a Safer Environment for Patients and Staff: Architectural Design and Engineering Solutions – Part One (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Part One of this series focuses on architectural design as we explore opportunities for the re-organization and utilization of space to incorporate lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic; preparing us to respond to new challenges with solutions for indoor/outdoor entry zones, team work spaces and patient engagement/exam spaces. More Details...

Developing a Business Plan and Financial Forecast for a Health Center Capital Project (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is designed to assist health centers planning new or expanded facilities in developing a detailed business plan for their capital project. More Details...

Project Highlight: Hill Country Health and Wellness Community Clinic (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This summary describes the Hill Country Health and Wellness Community Clinic (Hill Country) expansion efforts in Redding, CA, highlighting the planning, financing, and community impact of an estimated $24 million health center capital project More Details...

Project Highlight: Care Resource Community Health Centers (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This summary describes Care Resource Community Health Center\'s capital expansion efforts in Miami, FL, highlighting the planning, financing, and community impact of an estimated $34 million health center capital project. More Details...

Are You Ready?” Essential Preparation Activities to Move Your Capital Project Ahead (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session covers essential steps to prepare your project for success, including incorporating facilities goals in your strategic plan, understanding your patient base and community trends, analyzing your current operations to determine the space you need, and ensuring your center is financially sound before proceeding. We’ll also describe resources available to help you plan. More Details...

Developing a Community Health Center Capital Project Plan and Budget – Part One (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: We will discuss how to estimate service area demand, workforce needs, and space requirements so you can build a realistic budget. We will also describe how to calculate your debt capacity and measure financial feasibility. More Details...

Prepare Now, Save Later - New Markets Tax Credits Can Save Millions on Your Future Capital Project (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: We will provide a general overview of the NMTC program, the timing of upcoming funding rounds, the process of completing a NMTC transaction and the myriad benefits of doing so. We’ll also review other sources of financing that can be leveraged along with NMTCs. More Details...

So You Want to Start a Health Center? (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication is a guide for health care providers and organizations, public agencies, or community-based organizations and individuals interested in becoming part of the Health Center Program. This guide outlines the many considerations and recommended steps a community must consider for assessing readiness to apply to become a community health center. It also provides links to resources and toolkits that support each step of the process. More Details...

Project Highlight: The Floating Hospital, NY (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This summary describes The Floating Hospital, Inc.’s (TFH) expansion efforts in Long Island City, NY, highlighting the capital project planning, financing, and estimated community impact of a new $7.5 million health center capital facility. More Details...

Project Highlight: Primecare Community Health, IL (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This summary describes PrimeCare Community Health, Inc.’s expansion efforts in Chicago, IL, highlighting the capital project planning, financing, and estimated community impact of a new $8 million health center capital project. More Details...

Achieving Social Determinants of Health Goals through Capital Expansion (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) can be a powerful framework to help health centers become an integral part of a community that sets the foundation for health. Health centers are increasingly addressing SDOH through their capital projects, such as co-located health and housing units, community gardens, gyms, and building space for financial counseling. More Details...

Adding Mobile Dental Services to a Pediatrics Clinic: Promising Practice (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Harbor Health Services in Massachusetts identified the need for dental services at a primary care location at their health center that did not have a dental clinic. The health center decided to add portable dental equipment to the medical site. This promising practice will discuss how the program was developed and lessons learned. More Details...

Using Financial and Operational Data to Plan for Growth (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Develop a framework for identifying strengths, challenges, and opportunities for performance improvement in preparation for growth, including best practices from Capital Link's one-on-one work with health centers. More Details...

Health Centers as Assets in Their Community: Assessing Your Environment (Market Assessment) (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session is designed to provide attendees with a tour of the range of research resources available for health centers to assess market opportunities (many of them are free for all to use). We will review techniques for how to determine the size and location of the low-income, uninsured and under-served population, estimate the level of unmet need, and translate this information into workforce needs and a preliminary capital project budget. More Details...