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Managed Care Data Checklist: Companion Document to Video Module: Payer Data: The Managed Care Data. Prepared by Starling Advisors for the HITEQ Center in July 2022. (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: How to Use This Checklist: This is a supplement to our Module 2: The Managed Care Data Set, which uses the HCP-LAN APM Framework as its basis. Review both before using this checklist. There are terms used throughout that may be new to you or may benefit from detailed explanations—please visit our Value Based Payment Glossary for basic definitions for a host of key terms. More Details...

Eyes on Access: Children's Vision and Eye Health in Community Health Centers, Part 1 (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join Prevent Blindness, the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, and the School-Based Health Alliance to learn about common vision disorders among children, best practices for vision screening and assessment by primary healthcare providers (PCPs), and strategies for completing referrals for eyecare. More Details...

BPHCurates: Child and Adolescent Health and Social Resources: Targeted Resources on Food Insecurity, Behavioral Health, Oral Health, Staffing Shortages, and Telehealth to Support Child and Adolescent Health (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource packet provides health centers with resources to develop processes for improving service delivery and outcomes for children and adolescents, specifically related to telehealth, food insecurity, mental and behavioral health, oral health, and staffing shortages and retention. In addition, links to general child and adolescent health center technical resources are provided. More Details...

Infectious Disease Hub (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This hub is designed to provide information and resources for farmworkers and their families on some of the most common infectious diseases and their associated vaccines such as COVID-19, influenza, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and tuberculosis.  The resources included in this hub provide information on the symptoms, transmission, prevention, and the importance of vaccination available in English, Spanish, and low-frequency and Indigenous languages such as Mam, Haitian Creole, K’iche, Purépecha, Mixteco, Triqui, among others.  Materials have gone through a process of assessment to ensure they are culturally and linguistically appropriate for agricultural workers.  More Details...

Eyes on Access Case Study: An Optometry Workforce Pipeline for Massachusetts Health Centers: Spotlight on the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and the New England College of Optometry Partnership (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This case study highlights the partnership components of the 50-year workforce pipeline program between a state Primary Care Association, a school of Optometry and local health centers. More Details...

At the Core of Care Podcast (2023). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: This Podcast highlights the consumer experience of patients, families, and communities and the creative efforts of nurses and other partners to better meet their health and healthcare needs through diversity, leadership, and practice innovation. More Details...

CHW Certification, Opportunities and Readiness for Employment (CORE) self-paced training (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: The purpose of this training program is to increase the number of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Health Support Workers in Pennsylvania and New Castle County in Delaware. With online training and placement at a trusted community health organization, this training program will equip participants with the skill set to provide effective community outreach, build trust, and act as a bridge between their communities and health service providers. More Details...

The Role of Community Health Workers in Breast Cancer Screening Equity (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar examines the intersections of social determinants of health, breast cancer screening interventions, and the use of Community Health Workers in care settings. Through peer learning and interactive web materials, participants hone in on social determinants of health, increasing mammography utilization, and care team support among low-income women who are residents of public housing. More Details...

Strategies for Emergency Management of Chronic Conditions Among Agricultural Workers (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: People living with chronic conditions, and especially Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs), can encounter particular threats to their health during an emergency event. NCFH has developed a resource to assist health center staff, clinical coordinators, and emergency managers with tools to assist MSAW chronic care patients, so that the worst outcomes of these events can be avoided. This checklist includes risk factors for chronic care patients during an emergency, action items to help patients prepare, and disease-specific recommendations for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease. This resource also includes some additional outreach and communication strategies to reach MSAWs with chronic conditions during emergencies. More Details...

Oral Health Access for Residents of Public Housing (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses promising practices to increase access to oral health care for residents of public housing. Viewers will gain strategies for integrating oral health into primary care at health centers serving residents of public housing and other special populations and how care teams can support oral health education and treatment. More Details...

El Rol de los Promotores de Salud en la Detección Equitativa del Cáncer de Mama (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Este webinar explora la interseccion entre intervenciones de cancer de mama, determinantes sociales de la salud y la utilizacion de los promotores de salud en contextos de cuidado. Nuestros expertos presentan buenas practicas para apoyar a miembros del equipo de cuidado para aumentar el acceso a servicios de cancer y el compromiso de los pacientes y cuidadores, haciendo énfasis en centros de salud que atienden a residentes de viviendas publicas. More Details...

Stratifying Quality Measures by Housing Status and Location (2023). Resource Type: Online Self-Paced Learning Modules. Description: In this training, we learned how to impact communities meaningfully by utilizing data to improve screening, care quality, and health outcomes. NNCC and the Primary Care Development Corporation partnered to conduct a webinar that guided health centers serving public housing residents and other special groups on using UDS data for QI, care coordination, and care model design. More Details...

Guia para viviendas seguras y adecuadas para los trabajadores agricolas (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Un recurso desarrollado por el Centro Nacional para la Salud de los Trabajadores Agrícolas para proporcionar información sobre los tipos de vivienda de los trabajadores agrícolas en los EE.UU. y compartir recomendaciones y estrategias específicas para los centros de salud, las organizaciones de servicio a los trabajadores agrícolas, los empleadores agrícolas, los propietarios de granjas y otros defensores de los trabajadores agrícolas para reducir los riesgos para la salud y promover entornos de vida seguros y saludables para los trabajadores agrícolas migratorios y de temporada (MSAWs). More Details...

Behavioral Health and Community Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This factsheet summarizes health centers’ behavioral health services. It highlights data from UDS that shows growth in patients and staff over the last decade, as well as the variety of behavioral health professionals and services offered at health centers. Finally, policy suggestions to support behavioral health services at health centers are presented. More Details...

Assessing Patient Satisfaction with Telehealth at Community Health Centers: A Policy Brief (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This brief describes findings from a national assessment of health center patients’ experiences with telehealth and the policy implications of these findings. The assessment focused on three key aspects of telehealth utilization, including 1) ease of use, 2) interaction with the clinician, and 3) overall comfort/satisfaction. More Details...

Getting Candid: The Importance of Trust in Youth Substance Prevention (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Trust is a crucial component for effective conversations with youth surrounding substance use. Collaborative conversations with trusted adults are more important than ever given youth are reporting elevated stress, lack of belonging, and mental health concerns. Join the National Council for Mental Wellbeing for a webinar highlighting Getting Candid: The Importance of Trust in Youth Substance Use Prevention Initiative, the role of trust in conversations with youth substance use and identifying 3-4 substance-specific messages to utilize with youth. More Details...

Community Health Worker (CHW) Workforce Development: Methodologies for CHW Use in Addressing the SDOH in Vulnerable Populations (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, Dr. Kevin Lombardi from NCHPH, Jason Amirhadji from HUD and our FQHC partners at Albion Community Health Centers discussed the frameworks, methodologies and promising practices that guide efficient, effective and person-centered care using CHWs. More Details...

Community Health Worker (CHW) Workforce Development: Methodologies for CHW Use in Addressing the SDOH in Vulnerable Populations: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Evidence increasingly emphasizes the importance of the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in supporting the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in vulnerable populations. This is particularly true for health and housing partnerships and their associated supports. More Details...

Health Benefits and Considerations of Sports Participation and Physical Activity for Transgender and Gender Diverse People (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will present the unique barriers to and benefits of physical activity and sports participation for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) persons. Presenters will discuss the legal, social, and medical barriers to engagement, including accessibility and safety. The webinar will highlight medical and mental health benefits specific to TGD persons, including with regard to osteopenia/osteoporosis, obesity, hypertension, minimization of gender dysphoria, and other mental health benefits. Participants will hear directly from a transgender athlete about their experience navigating sports participation and from a clinician on best practices for engaging TGD patients with compassionate informed support and connecting them to affirming sports-related resources. More Details...

The Role of Community Health Workers in Breast Cancer Screening Equity: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCHPH and NNCC hosted a webinar (Spanish language) that explored the intersection between breast cancer interventions, social determinants of health, and the use of health promoters (promotoras) in care settings. More Details...