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Enabling Services: Gateways to Better Care (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet was developed by AAPCHO and the National Association for Community Health Centers (NACHC). It provides an overview of the leading role health centers play in providing enabling services, or non-clinical services that improve access to care, and the important and positive impacts these services can have on health outcomes, costs, access and patient satisfaction. More Details...

Managed Care and Homeless Populations: Linking the HCH Community and MCO Partners (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The brief includes the health care needs of this group, describes Health Care for the Homeless projects and the patients receiving care in these venues, a description of managed care, common goals between both entities, and issues that both providers and plans should consider when creating or strengthening partnerships. Because health care providers and insurance plans use different language, the terms “patient” and “member” are used throughout this brief to refer to the individuals being served. More Details...

Health and Housing Partnership Profiles - Washtenaw MI: Case Study on Frequent User Intiatives in Washtenaw MI (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Profile focuses on Washtenaw MI, and the multiple health sector providers joined with local government and housing providers to target resources and services for the most vulnerable in the community as part of a series of real Health Center Case Studies engaged in effective Frequent User Initiatives in communities around the country. More Details...

Finding Resources for Health and Housing Partnerships: Partnerships to Create New Funding Mechanisms (2016). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Looking for resources to support your health center partnerships? This webinar highlights funding sources to seek out to support health partnerships with housing providers in their community More Details...

Agricultural Health Safety Bilingual Picture Dictionary: "Seguridad en Palabras/ Safety in Words" (2016). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: MCN's Bilingual Picture Dictionary, "Seguridad en Palabras/ Safety in Words," illustrates work place hazards and best practices for health and safety in agriculture. Developed with support from the OSHA Susan Harwood Grant Program, this resource will bolster Hispanic workers' English vocabulary and will help prevent agricultural injuries. More Details...

Patient Centered Health Home: New Things are Happening in Health Care! (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In an effort to help health centers educate their patients on the Patient Centered Health Home service delivery model, NCFH has created a tool for patients to learn what they might experience in a health home before, during, and after a visit. In an easy-to-read format, and through the story of Mr. Mendoza, readers learn about the unique features of a patient centered health home. More Details...

Patient Centered Health Home - Digital Story (2016). Resource Type: Video. Description: This digital story is a great resource for use by outreach staff to inform the community about the unique features of a Patient Centered Health Home. Through this video, and through the story of Mr. Mendoza, patients learn what they might experience in a health home before, during, and after a visit. More Details...

Health and Housing Partnership Profiles - Houston TX: Case Study on Frequent User Intiatives in Houston TX, (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Profile focuses on Houston TX and Healthcare for Homeless - Houston as part of a series of real Health Center Case Studies engaged in effective Frequent User Initiatives in communities around the country. More Details...

Colorectal Cancer Screening Digital Story (2016). Resource Type: Video. Description: This digital story, narrated in Spanish with English subtitles, educates the viewers about Colorectal Cancer Screening, the types of tests, the guidelines and the importance of getting the screening done according to guidelines to prevent/ early detect colorectal cancer. The story follows Maria, a 52-year-old woman who is advised by her doctor to take a Colorectal Cancer Screening test during a routine health visit. ​ As one of the Clinical Performance Measures, Health Centers must document and track the percentage of patients aged 50-75 who have completed the appropriate screening for colorectal cancer. This is a useful tool for any outreach and clinical staff at Community/Migrant Health Centers. More Details...

Accessing Care in a CHC (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This easy-to-read, 4-page brochure, explains to patients the steps they should follow to access services at the health center and have a good experience during their visit. It guides the reader on making and get ready for an appointment, what to expect during the visit, and how to pay for services. More Details...

Strategic Guidance for Health and Housing Partnerships: Step by Step Strategies for Health and Housing Partnerships (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This indepth resource guide explores the importance and value of partnering with supportive housing providers, partner perspectives and goals, how to assess your organization's and your partner organization's readiness, and how to make partnerships last. More Details...

Who Are Frequent Users in Health and Housing Systems?: A Closer Look at Definitions Used by Communities to Identify the People Cycling Through the Crisis Care Systems (2015). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Are frequent users costing your crisis care systems and not producing positive houtcomes? Is your community looking at how to identify the frequent users across multiple crisis care systems in an effort to deliver more effective services and save resources? This webinar highlights how various communities develop the criteria to define 'frequent user' across the systems of care and how to match data to identify those individuals. More Details...

Spotlight: The Health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Served at Federally Qualified Health Centers (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report examines patient demographics, utilization, and highlights the differences between AA&NHPI serving health centers when compared to national health center averages. Data analysis from this report highlight the multiple needs and barriers experienced by AA&NHPIs seen in AA&NHPI-serving health centers. AA&NHPI-serving health centers serve a statistically significant higher proportion of low-income, Medicaid, limited English proficient, prenatal, and AA&NHPI patients. These patients are also more likely to have TB, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, asthma, and abnormal breast and cervical findings. To address these social and medical needs, AA&NHPI-serving health centers are providing comprehensive primary medical and culturally and linguistically appropriate enabling services (ES) to improve quality and patient health outcomes More Details...

Health and Housing Partnership Profiles - Los Angeles CA: Case Study on Frequent User Intiatives in Los Angeles CA (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Profile focuses on Los Angeles CA and a multi-sector partnership to identify, house and provide services to the most vulnerable in the community as part of a series of real Health Center Case Studies engaged in effective Frequent User Initiatives in communities around the country. More Details...

Improving Care through the Voices of Our Patients: Patient Engagement Programs at Health Centers Serving Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report highlights Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI)-serving health center experiences facilitating patient engagement and leadership programs to improve care and services for this vulnerable population. It spotlights the patient engagement efforts of International Community Health Services (ICHS), the largest AA&NHPI-serving health center in Washington State who successfully implemented a Patient Advisory Council (PAC) to encourage its patients to become active partners in their health care. More Details...

In Language Resource Evaluation Toolkit (2015). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit is designed to help health centers assess and design health education materials and communications that will be respectful and responsive to a patient's health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs. This toolkit includes an evaluation process individuals can use when assessing the appropriateness of non-English health education materials for limited-English populations, criteria to consider when selecting reviewers, and a score card to help reviewers evaluate and rate materials. More Details...

Data Sharing Between Health Centers and Supportive Housing Providers: Strategies for Sharing Health and Housing Data (2015). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar highlights the benefits and opportunities for health centers sharing data with housing providers serving the same population More Details...

Promoting Health Care Access to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Farmworkers (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication, jointly developed with The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center, provides an overview of health care challenges faced by LGBT farmworkers and best practices to build trust. More Details...

How To Get Care at Your Health Center Tool (2015). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: To support health centers’ outreach and registration efforts, NCFH has created an educational tool titled How to Get Care at Your Health Center. With the use of photos, this easy-to-read, 4-page brochure, explains to patients the steps they should follow to access services at the health center and have a good experience during their visit. It guides the reader on making and get ready for an appointment, what to expect during the visit, and how to pay for services. More Details...

How To Get Care at Your Health Center Digital Story (2015). Resource Type: Video. Description: NCFH has also produced a digital story as a companion tool to the printer-friendly document. Narrated in Spanish with English subtitles, and easily accessible from YouTube, this digital story is a great resource to display in the health center waiting areas, or for the use of outreach staff when promoting health center registration and use. More Details...