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Update on the HRSA UDS Sealant Measure - December 2018 (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In 2015, HRSA introduced the first oral health clinical quality measure to the UDS, with the UDS Sealants Measure. This session will highlight the 2017 UDS data results for the dental sealants measure. Topics to be included: common challenges health centers have experienced in developing, modifying, and/or implementing clinical workflows and procedures to report on the measure. Best practices and work-arounds to address data collection and reporting challenges will be shared for those health centers that are not yet using the EDR vendor-developed solutions for reporting on the measure. More Details...

Update on Trans-Competent Primary Care (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This talk is from the 2022 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health Care Conference. More Details...

Updated Analysis: A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, an updated version of A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (released in 2022), was developed with support from Cedars-Sinai and HealthLandscape. In this analysis, we review more than 100 factors for the 57 FQHC members of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) for 2017-2021. (Released in 2023) More Details...

Updated Analysis: A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, an updated version of A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities, released in 2022, was developed with support from Cedars-Sinai and HealthLandscape. In this analysis, we review more than 100 factors for the 57 FQHC members of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) for 2017-2021, with the goal to utilize the findings to make informed recommendations for how to best address and improve patient equity and inclusion efforts across health centers in Los Angeles County and the Nation overall. More Details...

US Blood Pressure Validated Device Listing (2021). Resource Type: Website. Description: Uncontrolled high blood pressure (“BP”) is the leading risk factor for death and disability. The accurate measurement of BP is essential for the diagnosis and management of hypertension. One important aspect of accurate measurement is whether the BP measurement device has been validated for clinical accuracy. This website lists blood pressure measurement devices that have been validated for clinical accuracy as determined through an independent review process. More Details...

User's Guide for Integration of Behavioral Health and Oral Health (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication provides guidance on how to implement a behavioral health and oral health integration program. The User's Guide includes a description of NNOHA's systems-based framework for behavioral health integration, promising practices from community health centers, and workflow examples. There is also a readiness assessment to help community health centers determine their level of preparedness to implement a behavioral health integration program. More Details...

User's Guide for the Implementation of In-House Dental Assistant Training Programs (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This new publication describes strategies for community health centers to implement their dental assistant training programs. These programs can help enhance dental assistant recruitment and retention. They can also build community capacity by increasing the dental assistant workforce. More Details...

Using AI, Data, and Tech to Move from Screening to Solving for Social Needs: The Digital Transformation in Social Determinants of Health (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The first of five webinars in the Weitzman Institute\'s Path Forward \"The Digital Transformation in Social Determinants of Health\" fall series focusing on addressing why SDoH matters and innovations in using AI, data, and tech to move from screening to solving for social needs. Panelists for this session include: Dr. Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM; Chief Transformation Officer, Innovaccer, Margaret Flinter, PhD, APRN, FNP-c, FAAN, FAANP, Senior Vice President and Clinical Director, Community Health Center, Inc., April Joy Damian, PhD, MSc, CHPM, PMP; Associate Director, Weitzman Institute, Nancy Lopez, PhD, Director & Co-founder, Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice, University of New Mexico, and David Kulick, MPH, Co-founder, Adaptation Health More Details...

Using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funds to Build Health Center Value Based Payment (VBP) Capability (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document provides guidance on ways that FQHCs can utilize American Rescue Plan Act funds to develop and expand their VBP capabilities. Areas of focus for short-term investments include improving data and IT, integrating services, and improving access and health equity. More Details...

Using Data to Manage Population Health Under Risk-Based Contracts: A background on what you need and how to use it (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource will equip health center stakeholders with the understanding of what data-related capacity is needed to succeed under risk-based payment models.   This brief walks health centers through three key questions related to using data to succeed under risk-based contracts: 1 What data do I need and how do I get it?  2  How should I analyze the data? and 3 How should I use the data to manage quality and cost? Understanding the answers to these questions assists health centers in understanding the data-related capacities needed to participate successfully in risk-bearing payment models. Download the brief below! 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...

Using Health Center Needs Assessments To Address Legal Needs (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet outlines how health centers can use community needs assessments to understand and meet their patients’ health-harming civil legal needs. More Details...

Using Health Information Technology to Facilitate SBIRT Service Delivery in Health Centers: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The webinar discussed the use of health information technologies (IT) to facilitate the workflow of providing SBIRT services. Focus areas included: coding and billing for SBIRT services, using health IT to enhance SBIRT screening, communication, data capture and documentation, clinical decision support, and information sharing and reporting. The webinar presented examples and experiences of health centers currently using health IT to facilitate effective SBIRT service delivery. More Details...

Using Health IT and EHRs to Address the Burden Providers Experience: Takeaways for primary care safety net settings including federally qualified health centers and look-alikes. June 2022. (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Providers are burnt out and most expect it to get worse. Burnout is typically defined as a psychological response to job stressors characterized by emotional exhaustion, detachment, and a sense of ineffectiveness. Investigations of burnout in primary care have usually focused on factors associated with burnout among individual clinicians. But, it may be more useful to think about organizational-level burnout, which can shift the focus from individual responsibility to organizational solutions. More Details...

Using Human Resource Metrics (2019). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: The purpose of this course is to provide examples of Human Resource (Metrics) to help your organization measure the effectiveness and efficiency of your HR policies and help indicate areas that require additional analysis to improve the Employee Life Cycle (ELC). More Details...

Using Legal Services as Part of a Community Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health | 2022 Learning Collaborative (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In Using Legal Services as Part of a Community Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health participants from health center and civil legal service providers developed and improved strategies to integrate legal services as part of the clinical practice to address the social and legal needs of maternal and child patients. In this four-part course, participants were asked to consider specific aspects of establishing MLPs and were be given access to resources designed to increase learning about the impact of unmet legal needs on maternal and child health. The collaborative brought together legal service providers and health centers to learn from each other and faculty advisors ​​representing the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance and the Center for Children’s Advocacy/Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital partnership. More Details...

Using MLP to Address the Legal Needs among Racial & Ethnic Minorities Living with HIV (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, the presenters discussed recent HIV epidemiological data and the current landscape of healthcare and social needs for this patient population. Presenters also shared best practices and examples for health center and MLP staff to improve screening and implementation of legal interventions that are designed to help reduce and prevent racial disparities and health inequities for people living with HIV. More Details...

Using Non-Billable Staff in Care Teams for Quality Outcomes (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Non-traditional support staff are critical to a care team and can add efficiencies to workflows for improved patient care. This webinar explores different care team formations with non-billable staff working at the top of their licensure, with special attention on workflows related to pre-visit planning and standing orders. The webinar centers on NCQA 2017 PCMH Standards, specifically the Team-Based Care and Practice Organization concept, which measures how practices provide continuity of care, communicate roles and responsibilities of the medical home to patients/families/caregivers, and organize and train staff to work to the top of their license and provide effective team-based care. More Details...

Using Non-Traditional Technology for Telehealth During COVID-19 Pandemic: Issue Brief for implementing commercial applications for telehealth consistent with March 2020 OCR Guidance (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the entity responsible for enforcing regulations under HIPAA, stated, effective immediately, it will exercise enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for HIPAA violations against covered healthcare providers if patients are served on a good faith basis during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency. OCR has clarified that, during this public health emergency, these technologies can be used for any services, not only those specific to COVID-19. More Details...

Using Outreach Data to Support Health Center Board Engagement (2016). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Outreach programs have unique access to community data that can enhance a health center’s governing board’s ability to make strategic decisions about providing appropriate and responsive care to patients in a financially sustainable manner. This webinar will address how to leverage outreach data to support health center planning and decision-making. HOP will present two effective tools that health center leadership, including board members, can use to inform their work: needs assessments and the Outreach Business Value Toolkit. More Details...