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Four Fundamentals of Value-Based Payment for Health Center Boards (2022). Resource Type: eLearning. Description: This brief video outlines four fundamental things boards and board members should know about value-based payment. This resource might be helpful for new board member orientation or for a full board to view as part of their ongoing board education. More Details...

Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE)-Primary Care HIV Prevention (PCHP): Training and Technical Assistance Resources for PCHP Awardees (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource list contains training and technical assistance (T/TA) materials developed by BPHC-supported T/TA Partners and curated by BPHC to address the following top four TA areas requested in the FY 2021 PCHP applications. Also included are links to more general BPHC-supported and Federal EHE resources. More Details...

CalAIM: Major Components and Current Implementation Status (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar reviews the major components of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiatives, including: Enhanced Care Management, Community Supports, Behavioral Health (Criteria to Access Specialty Mental Health and No Wrong Door), and the Population Health Management Strategy and Roadmap. Presenters will provide an overview of the initiatives, timeline, and strategic implications for health centers. This conversation is meant to be a high-level overview of the most impactful initiatives to health centers. More Details...

“Acting on Social Determinants of Health Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: AAPCHO, Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) hosted a HRSA-sponsored webinar to explore strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services (ES). More Details...

Achieving Mindfulness at Work (2022). Resource Type: Micro-Learning. Description: This module is intended to provide basic information on being mindful and how it can impact satisfaction and productivity at work. In this lesson, learners will understand the reality and problem of partial attention, learn what mindfulness is, and how to apply it at work. Estimated Length: 10-12 minutes More Details...

Reentry, Referrals, and Responsive Care: How Health Care Centers Can Support Justice-Involved LGBTQIA+ Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The goal of this panel webinar is to increase the capacity of health centers to meet the health care and support needs of LGBTQIA+ patients who have experienced incarceration or who are justice-involved. Participants will learn from an expert panel about how to improve screening, support, and referral services as well as explore opportunities and promising practices in developing community-based partnerships for reentry support. More Details...

Primer on Health Center Pharmacy Operations (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this resource is to orient new readers to pharmacy operations at health centers with a specific call-out section for the 340B program. Target audiences are health center C-Suite, Board Members, new health center 340B program staff, pharmacy leaders and new health center staff. More Details...

Manufacturer Restrictions on Contract Pharmacies (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This NACHC Brief explains how Gilead’s new “Contract Pharmacy Integrity Initiative” leads to manufacturer restrictions which require health centers and other covered entities to provide claims-level data from contract pharmacies. Merck has recently included Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in their contract pharmacy restrictions when previously only hospital covered entities were impacted. Restrictions do not apply to in-house/entity owned pharmacies. More Details...

How Health Care Centers Can Support Justice-Involved LGBTQIA+ Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The goal of this panel webinar is to increase the capacity of health centers to meet the health care and support needs of LGBTQIA+ patients who have experienced incarceration or who are justice-involved. Participants will learn from an expert panel about how to improve screening, support, and referral services as well as explore opportunities and promising practices in developing community-based partnerships for reentry support. More Details...

Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This tip sheet provides advice as well as key resources to help staff of health centers and look-alike programs quickly improve their understanding of the important role they can play in helping to identify discrimination at its earliest stages and how to mitigate it by leveraging their own medical authority and resources within the community. More Details...

Pharmacy Models: An Introduction for Health Center Boards (2022). Resource Type: eLearning. Description: This short video is intended to provide board members with a high-level overview of various pharmacy models and some of the strategic considerations related to these models. More Details...

Quality Management and Patient-centered Medical Home for Clinical Leaders & their Care Teams: A System-based Approach (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will feature two of the national organizations offering PCMH Recognition/Accreditation. The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) program will discuss strategies and tools that support QI. Faculty from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) will describe why accessible, team-based primary care practices that understand both their patients’ medical/behavioral needs and their life challenges can conduct more thorough analyses of key performance data and make more informed choices on how and when to intervene to make improvements. More Details...

Best Practices for Adapting to the Remote and Hybrid Workforce in Team-Based Care (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Telehealth and remote work are going to continue to be a “way of life” even after the continuing COVID-19 pandemic is over. This less traditional setting allows health center leadership to be creative in recruiting and retaining staff to meet their organization’s needs. These new settings also require new approaches to supporting staff engagement. More Details...

Ramping Down Operations: Clinic Licensing Considerations (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In response to COVID-19, under the authority of Executive Order N-35-20, the California Department of Public Health waived specific licensing requirements to ease the administrative burden on Primary Care Clinics. This training session includes updates on the state of clinic licensing in California, and an in-depth look at how to license a site after the expiration of the waiver. More Details...

We Can Do This: Educating Nurses and Pediatric Staff about New COVID-19 Vaccines for Children (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses vaccine benefits, administration, and avaialability, as well as sharing new provider and patient education materials on pediatric COVID-19. 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...

The Unique Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships in Helping Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination | Webinar Series (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP), in collaboration with Health Outreach Partners (HOP), offered four 90-minute webinars designed to help health centers address and redress discrimination against people living with disabilities or chronic disease. Given the prevalence of chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, HIV/AIDS, depression, heart disease, and others, many health center patients face discrimination at work or school, when accessing services or public places, or otherwise navigating daily life because of these conditions. While different groups of people have unique experiences with this discrimination—for example, migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and individuals with immigration status—health center patients facing disability discrimination may have limited access to quality, informed legal services. Health centers play a key role in identifying discrimination at its earliest stages and will learn how to mitigate it by leveraging their own medical authority and resources within the community. This series explored: Disability Discrimination 101: Understanding the Legal Protections, Common Barriers, and the Role of Health Centers in Ending Discrimination (April 27, 2022) – Download the Slides Disability and Chronic Disease Discrimination with Kids: Navigating the Health Center’s Role in Securing Legal Protections for Pediatric Patient (May 11, 2022) – Download the Slides The New Kid on the Disability Block: COVID-19 and Emerging Issues (May 25, 2022) – Download the Slides Building a Disability/Chronic Disease MLP (June 8, 2022) – Download the Slides More Details...

Farmworkers and the Climate Crisis: Farmworker Justice\'s Environmental Justice Symposium Summary Report (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: On May 17 and 18, Farmworker Justice hosted an Environmental Justice Symposium, featuring subject matter experts and participating representing health, legal, academic, environmental, and other organizations. This report summarizes the Symposium\'s content as well as promising practices and policy recommendations to address the impacts of the climate crisis on farmworkers. More Details...

Bright Spots in HIV Screening: Health center examples, developed June 2022 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Since 2020, health centers have reported the HIV Screening clinical quality measure on Table 6B of the UDS. This measures the portion of medical patients aged 15 through 65 who have at least one HIV test recorded between their 15th and 66th birthday. HITEQ hosted discussions with health centers in fall of 2021 to find out how they have made progress on this particular clinical quality measure. More Details...

Non-Clinical Approaches to Diabetes Prevention: Lessons Learned from Health Centers and Community Partners (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this publication is to share lessons learned from health centers and other community-based partners that are implementing new strategies for preventing diabetes in their communities. More Details...