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State-level HIV-related Infographics: Identifying opportunities for improvements in health centers (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Health centers currently monitor HIV tests, HIV diagnoses, and Linkage to HIV care for patients newly diagnosed. According to the 2019 UDS data, more than 190,000 patients living with HIV receive medical care services at health care centers, including many sites co-funded by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.r. More Details...

Statewide Medicaid Benefit for Medical Respite Care: Issues Informing Benefit Design and Implementation (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have encouraged states to consider how to address social determinants of health in their Medicaid plans. Washington State Health Care Authority recognizes the benefits of a statewide MRC service, and is proposing it as part of Washington State’s Medicaid Transformation Project Section 1115 Demonstration Renewal Request as a health-related service for Apple Health enrollees in both managed care and FFS delivery systems. More Details...

Status of State Level Medicaid Benefits for Medical Respite Care (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is permitting substantial flexibility in programmatic design in state Medicaid waivers to allow transformative initiatives. At the same time, the federal agency is also establishing new guardrails and conditions—balancing that flexibility with new obligations. The programmatic flexibility and substantial investments associated with these approvals will allow states to stabilize coverage, offer new benefits and services, and focus on whole-person care. This issue brief is intended to provide a current snapshot of the state-level Medicaid activity related to medical respite care. More Details...

Status of State-Level Medicaid Benefits for Medical Respite Care (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief is intended to provide a current snapshot of the state-level Medicaid activity related to medical respite care. As often as possible, the exact language used in the Medicaid waiver requests has been included in this brief. More Details...

Status Verification of Agricultural Workers Policy and Procedures (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This tool is used by health centers to obtain accurate and current information from people seeking health care services in order to establish them as users and determine their agricultural worker status under the Migrant Health Program. More Details...

Staying Hydrated in the Heat (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH developed this resource to provide farmworkers and other outdoor workers who spend long hours working in the heat with information on how to stay hydrated and drink more water and foods to replenish electrolytes when necessary. More Details...

Stepping into the Cost of Care Conversation (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The current state of cost-of-care (CoC) conversations at many clinics leads to frequent misunderstandings and unmet CoC needs, which may ultimately increase the work and costs for both patients and their healthcare providers. More Details...

STIs and Agricultural Workers: What you need to know? (2024). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: This new resource from NCFH provides information about the impact of sexually transmitted infections on agricultural worker health, shares information about the five main STIs that affect this population and shares tips to have open and healthy conversations with partners and health care providers. More Details...

STIs and PrEP: Case-based review of CDC’s 2021 STI Treatment Guidelines (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Many sexual and gender minority people eligible for or taking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and testing and treating STIs are key aspects of providing PrEP. In this clinically focused, case-based webinar, Dr. Kevin Ard will describe important updates in STI management for PrEP patients, based on the 2021 STI Treatment Guidelines from CDC. More Details...

Stopping the Revolving Door: How Health Centers Can Serve Justice Involved Populations: Coordinating to meet the health needs of individuals leaving prison and jails. (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Disproportionate numbers of individuals leaving correctional facilities suffer from substance use, medical and mental health challenges that go untreated when they return to the community. Health centers across the country are working to improve the lives of justice-involved patients. From coordinated discharge planning with jail and probation staff, to proactive post-release health center appointments and assistance with locating housing, health centers are uniquely able to serve this population. More Details...

Stories from the Field: How Health Centers are Addressing Health Disparities for LGBTQIA+ People and People with HIV in Public Housing: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and The National Center for Health in Public Housing held a three-part series on addressing health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people and people with HIV in public housing. More Details...

Storytelling Guide (2017). Resource Type: Other. Description: Storytelling helps share experiences of homelessness, and highlights the services that helped while facing homelessness and transitioning into housing. Sharing these experiences can demonstrate that homelessness can happen to anyone based on a health need, job loss, natural disaster, or domestic violence situation. People experiencing homelessness developed this guide as a tool to be used by others experiencing homelessness. More Details...

Strategic Approaches to Engaging Managed Care Plans to Maximize Continuity of Coverage as States Resume Normal Eligibility and Enrollment Operations: January 2023 Update (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The COVID-19 pandemic and implementation of federal policies to address the resulting public health emergency (PHE) have disrupted routine Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility and enrollment operations. States will have a 12-month unwinding period following tthe end of the PHE to initiate all pending post-enrollment verifications, redeterminations, and renewals. CMS is working closely with states and other stakeholders to ensure, as states resume routine operations, that renewals of eligibility occur in an orderly process that minimizes beneficiary burden and promotes continuity of coverage for eligible individuals, including those who no longer qualify for Medicaid or CHIP and therefore may transition to a different form of coverage, such as through a Marketplace. More Details...

Strategic Cybersecurity Breach Protection and Incident Response: Guidance and Resources for Health Centers (2019). Resource Type: Other. Description: This is Part 2 of HITEQ's Health Center Defense Against the Dark Web presentation series. This presentation provides general knowledge about breach mitigation and planning strategies for incident response. More Details...

Strategic Cybersecurity Investments: Leveraging American Rescue Plan Funding to Enhance Infrastructure and Services: HITEQ Highlights webinar (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Healthcare continues to be the sector most targeted globally by ransomware and related malware attacks and leads in the average total cost of data breach across industries. The FY 2021 American Rescue Plan Funding provides an excellent opportunity for Health Centers to make strategic investments in cybersecurity infrastructure and services. This HITEQ Highlight, presented by Adam Kehler of Online Business Systems provides an overview of assets that can increase Health Center cybersecurity. Topics covered include cybersecurity infrastructure and services that can increase defense-in-depth for health IT, including EHRs, telehealth tools and services, mobile medical devices, patient portals, and related health information software applications. 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...

Strategic Investments in Telehealth and Digital Tools for Health Centers: Maintaining Your Competitive Advantage Beyond the Pandemic (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This short guide describes FQHC telehealth utilization and barriers to adoption pre and during COVID19 pandemic. The document outlines reasons for maintaining or increasing adoption relative to improving health equity through technology access and move to value based care. A checklist is provided to guide technology investment and decision making. More Details...

Strategic Planning for Health Professions Training (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar helps attendees explore the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of developing a strategic workforce plan for health professions education & training (HPET). It provides concrete steps CHCs can take, regardless of where they are in developing HPET initiatives. More Details...

Strategies for Capturing Outside HIV Test Results for Your Health Center (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Providers working with patients coming to or from health centers may need important health information, such as HIV test results, to help physicians provide the best care possible to the patient. What strategies exist to help health centers give and receive data so that providers can render seamless care without interruption? We’re glad you asked. Data sharing agreements, tools, and standard operating procedures (SOP) are a few strategies that health centers can use to ensure a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) is as detailed and up-to-date as possible. More Details...

Strategies for Collecting Social Needs Data (2022). Resource Type: Other. Description: Implementing a social need screening effectively is an iterative process. Many health centers find that their approach evolves as new concerns or considerations arise. The examples in this resource, gleaned from interviews with health centers, illustrate that unique context and needs drive what works. More Details...