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Oral Health - Full Partners on the Team (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, experts will discuss the clinical, organizational, data and technical opportunities and challenges to advancing or enhancing your model of oral health in team-based care. More Details...

Growing a Robust Behavioral Health Department (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: One of a health center's most valuable resources is its care provider network. Without a healthy and committed workforce, health centers don’t have sufficient access to meet patient demand for timely appointments or providers with the skill set to treat specific illnesses. In today's healthcare environment, many organizations struggle to build and maintain a provider profile that is diverse, comprehensive, and responsive. This webinar identifies barriers to recruiting and retaining behavioral health providers and strategies and explores common challenges faced by behavioral health leaders in providing clinical supervision and support for their department while balancing patient care and administrative responsibilities. 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...

Health Center Data Validation Tool: Tool to Validate Adult BMI UDS Clinical Measure Reporting from EHR (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Excel-based tool is designed to support validation of EHR reporting for the Adult BMI clinical measure by comparing results from EHR to results from chart reviews or examination of underlying data. This assists in identifying specific data elements that are not being captured appropriately, either as a result of workflow or EHR report logic, and thereby effecting compliance rates. More Details...

The Health Equity Starter Kit: A Brief Tutorial: Coffee Break Webinar (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Coffee Break Webinar is intended for anyone interested in using HOP’s free online tool, the Health Equity Starter Kit. In this session we describe how to best navigate our Health Equity Starter Kit, and highlight examples of some of the available resources within each section. More Details...

Health Centers as Assets in Their Community: Assessing Your Environment (Market Assessment) (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session is designed to provide attendees with a tour of the range of research resources available for health centers to assess market opportunities (many of them are free for all to use). We will review techniques for how to determine the size and location of the low-income, uninsured and under-served population, estimate the level of unmet need, and translate this information into workforce needs and a preliminary capital project budget. More Details...

Looking at PACE...An Opportunity for Community Health Centers (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us to learn more about Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) and how to implement a program at your health center to better serve the growing population of patients aged 55 and older with chronic conditions, while supporting their independent living in the community. More Details...

UDS Sealant Measure FAQ (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the HRSA UDS Sealant Measure for children ages 6-9 for dental caries. Developed in consultation with oral health specialists and HRSA staff. More Details...

Promoting Oral Health in Schools: A Resource Guide (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource guide features descriptions of and links to materials on care, dental sealants, education, fluorides, program development, surveillance, and federally funded project final reports. It also includes descriptions of organizations that can provide additional support for activities to promote oral health in schools. More Details...

Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Cyber threats to healthcare entities put patient health, business continuity, and IT systems at risk. Under the auspices of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (CSA), Section 405(d), HHS convened the CSA 405(d) Task Group to enhance cybersecurity and align industry approaches by developing a common set of voluntary, consensus-based, and industry-led guidelines, practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes that healthcare organizations can use to enhance cybersecurity. More Details...

Bilingual Greetings for Monolingual Staff (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The List of English Greeting Words & Phrases for Monolingual Front Office Staff is a two-page document providing a list of commonly used English greeting words and phrases with Spanish translations and a phonetic pronunciation guide. The list is a product of the Language Access More Details...

Behavioral Health Workforce Development; Training Across the Various Behavioral Health Disciplines (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: During this webinar, you will hear from the CHCI’s Chief Behavioral Health Officer and CHCI Behavioral Health Staff as they provide insight into the crucial components of effectively training behavioral health students working toward different behavioral health degrees. More Details...

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...

Screening and Interviewing Candidates (2018). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: In this course, we will walk through the steps of the recruitment processes involving phone screening and interviewing candidates. More Details...

Advertising and Sourcing Candidates (2018). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: In this course, we will walk through some of the first steps of the recruitment process involving advertising and sourcing candidates. More Details...

Addressing Diabetes in the Homeless Population: The Audacity to Be Bold (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This presentation discusses how a community health center, which includes Health Care for the Homeless funding, tracked and improved the health outcomes of their diabetic patients. The use of process improvement tools, team-based care, and additional clinical care activities were targeted to improve the A1C. This improvement journey was highlighted in the health center’s recent HRSA operational site visit. More Details...

NNOHA Health Center Workforce Survey Analysis of 2018 Results (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NNOHA conducts a survey every 5 years to its members on the trends of the dental workforce in health centers. The most recent survey is from 2018. This document provides an analysis of the results from this survey. More Details...

Managing Your Health Center's Cost of Care (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session focused on the factors that influence the cost of care, providing information from new resources – a Capital Link study examining four-year trends across a series of cost-focused ratios and an updated NACHC issue brief providing a methodology for calculating costs. More Details...

Effective Onboarding Strategies (2018). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This is a course about the important topic of onboarding. You'll learn the differences between orientation and onboarding, why onboarding is a vital part of retaining your employees and even gain ideas about implementing your own onboarding program. More Details...

Administrative Strategies for Increasing Retention (2018). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course focuses on steps you can take to increase retention at your health center. There are many things you can do to increase retention at your health center. While there is not a "one size fits all" recipe to increase retention, it is important to look at all aspects of retention. More Details...