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Specialty Care Access in Health Centers - What is the Potential of eConsults?: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Access to care is the essential work of health centers, and one pain point is how to ensure specialty access for health center patients. This webinar will discuss innovation in specialty care access using technology and e-Consults. Electronic consultations (“e-consults”) are asynchronous, consultative, provider-to-provider communications within a shared electronic health record (EHR) or web-based platform. E-consults are intended to improve access to specialty expertise for patients and providers without the need for a face-to-face visit. More Details...

Diabetes Continuum of Care: Improving Emergency Preparedness for Diabetes Management: NCHPH Learning Collaborative (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other emergencies can happen at any moment. Managing diabetes can be difficult during these events because they may cause widespread and long-lasting impacts on supplies, and health services. More Details...

Funding for Grant Programs Supporting the Health Care for the Homeless Community (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Table showing funding for grant programs supporting the Health Care for the Homeless community. More Details...

2022 Caucus on Homelessness Program Summary (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In 2022, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council chaired the development of the Caucus on Homelessness (CoH) program for the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2022 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of the annual meeting was: \"150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the Path Toward Equity.\" More Details...

Clinical Decision Support and Care Plan Adjustment for Social Risks: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: When clinical teams have information on patients\' social risks (adverse social determinants of health), they can make care plan adjustments to account for those risks, e.g., by prescribing lower-cost medications. More Details...

The Road to Health:​ How to Prevent or Delay Type 2 Diabetes in your Community​: NCHPH Learning Collaborative (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The epidemic of type 2 diabetes is exacting a staggering toll on individuals, families, and communities in the United States and, increasingly, around the world. In the United States, the burden is disproportionately borne by American Indian and Alaska Natives, African Americans, Hispanic or Latino Americans, and Asian and Pacific Islanders. More Details...

Unwinding of Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement: State-by-State Tracker (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This tracker examines whether the following information can be found on the state Medicaid or state Marketplace website or in public documents: 1) the state’s unwinding plan or a summary; 2) an alert to update contact information; 3) communications materials/toolkits for partners; 4) an unwinding FAQ; and 5) whether the state plans to launch an unwinding data dashboard or publicly post key unwinding data. More Details...

SDOH Screening & Referrals to Support Diabetes Control (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this three-part webinar series hosted by the National Nurse-led Care Consortium (NNCC), participants can expect to learn about the importance of SDOH screenings and whole-person wellness to improve diabetes management and outcomes. Presenters will share their knowledge of executing patient-centered SDOH screening tools and referrals to support services while managing diabetes. This series will discuss implementing best practices for patient-centered approaches to care by utilizing SDOH screening and care team optimization and coordination. Participants will learn best practices for replicating these patient-centered care plans and how to best use their staff for team-based management. More Details...

2023 FY Spending Bill and the Medicaid Unwinding: Implications for the HCH Community (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet describes how the HCH Community should prepare for Medicaid redeterminations which will resume by April 1, 2023. More Details...

Trauma-Informed Approaches to COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course will provide an overview of the concepts of trauma and trauma informed care for patients who are interacting with Vaccine Ambassadors seeking to help with vaccine hesitancy for the COVID-19 vaccination. Learn the fundamentals of trauma, trauma-informed principles, and secondary trauma and how to identify and utilize these skills within the Vaccine Ambassador Project. More Details...

Safety and Security Series: Organizational Culture of Safety (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This introductory course provides an overview of organizational safety in health care for the homeless (HCH) health centers. The course will define organizational safety and provide an overview of the four components of an organizational culture of safety: leadership, policies and procedures, communication, and staff supports. This course is intended for all staffing levels within HCH health centers and will include information on how everyone can play a role in developing and maintaining a culture of safety. More Details...

Safety and Security Series: How and When to Call 911 (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Prepare for an emergency situation by learning when and how to call 911 from a health center. Explore training and planning strategies that equip health centers for crisis situations. Consider how partnerships can contribute to community safety. Learn to identify and appropriately respond to each type of emergency. Prepare to act in the event of an emergency. Consider the events and scenarios that require urgent response and whether a call to 911 is appropriate. More Details...

Safety and Security Series: Conflict Resolution (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Conflict is a normal part of life and relationship, but conflict can cause patients and staff to feel vulnerable, threatened, and out of control. How we feel about conflict and how we seek to resolve conflict can have an enormous impact on our ability to engage patients in crisis as well as our co-workers and team members. Discover principles of conflict resolution that can equip staff to discuss and problem solve disagreement in a functional, healthy manner. More Details...

Medical Respite Care: The Role of Case Managers, Community Health Workers, and Peers (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Case managers, community health workers (CHWs), and peers are often the primary staff responsible for care coordination and implementation of care plans in medical respite. Beyond this, they build relationships and safety for medical respite care clients. This course provides an overview of each role within the medical respite program and recommended best and promising practices for staff within these roles. More Details...

Medical Respite Care: Harm Reduction (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Integrating harm reduction practices within medical respite programs reduces barriers to care and improves services for those using substances. This course provides guidance and strategies for implementing harm reduction within the medical respite care setting. More Details...

Medical Respite Care: Discharge Planning and Processes (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Discharge planning is a challenging but important part of the medical respite care process. This course covers recommended best and promising practices for discharging planning and transitions within medical respite care. More Details...

Harm Reduction (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course introduces harm reduction as a philosophical approach and public health intervention. The course will review the foundational principles of harm reduction, details of harm reduction practices, and supporting change through harm reduction. We will review a case study as a practical way to explore how you can integrate harm reduction into your work. Finally we will work on dispelling myths through reviewing current research. More Details...

Demonstrating Quality in Medical Respite Care: The Importance of Data (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Identifying and tracking outcomes in medical respite is an important way to identify program progress and demonstrate effectiveness of medical respite care. This course provides an overview on ways to identify and track outcomes within medical respite care programs. More Details...

Action to Ensure Americans Receive Critical Information on Health Care Coverage (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Federal Communications Commission in January 2023 provided guidance to federal and state governmental agencies, as well as their partners, to enable them to make Medicaid enrollment calls and send text messages without violating robocall and robotext prohibitions. More Details...

More than a Database: Understanding Community Resource Referrals within a Broader Framework: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Addressing patients’ social determinants of health via community resource referrals has historically primarily been the domain of social workers and information and referral specialists; however, community resource referral technology platforms have more recently entered the market. More Details...