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General & Basic Operations for Clinical Leaders (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Office Hour is led by a subject matter expert to discuss and answer participants' questions about the importance of general and basic operations as part of a clinical leader's core competency development. More Details...

Office Hour: Systems Orientation for Clinical Leaders (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Office Hour webinar brings together subject matter experts to address - and answer participants' questions about - a systems orientation within a Clinical Leader's core competency development. Through real-life examples and case studies, it focuses on enhancing a Clinical Leader's ability to: (1) Utilize both "big picture" and detailed systems thinking when analyzing issues; (2) Align tactical clinical operations with the center's mission, vision, and values; (3) Manage change within the clinical staff as the center moves toward new models of care delivery; and (4) Actively work to integrate Public/Population Health issues with routine primary care. More Details...

Community Health Worker Clinical Integration Toolkit (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: With a long history of successfully and effectively addressing health disparities, Community Health Workers (CHWs) can fill the gaps in services that many health care organizations experience in reaching underserved populations. For instance, six published studies on CHW interventions on the prevention and management of diabetes have shown significant positive outcomes, including changes in HbA1c levels and improved self-reports of dietary changes. 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...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Competencies Domains and Skills/Tasks: CEO Core Competencies (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document outlines 12 domains, related tasks, and behavioral examples for Core Competencies for the Health Center CEO. These domains and related tasks and examples were identified and vetted through a National Advisory Panel made up of key staff who would have interaction with the CEO position in various settings. More Details...

If You Build It, Will They Come?: Recruiting and Retaining Consumers Experiencing Homelessness in Health Center Governance (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication discusses common challenges and offers solutions in how to recruit new consumer leaders, as well as how to create structures and environments that encourage them to continue to engage. Also included are useful lessons on creating healthy group dynamics. More Details...

Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: A Case Study with Hennepin Health (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: State Medicaid agencies are increasingly utilizing ACOs as an approach to redesign their health care delivery systems, and participating care providers in these states will experience significant changes in reimbursements and service organization/delivery. Through the lens of Hennepin Health, this publication examines key challenges, next steps, and lessons learned at one HCH program participating in an ACO. More Details...

Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations: A Case Study with Boston HCH Program (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This case study examines how these changes to ACOs will impact BHCHP and other Massachusetts HCH programs—and how these issues might be common to other states implementing (or considering) ACOs as part of their health care delivery redesign. More Details...

How to Effective Manage Social Media within the Health Center Setting: A HITEQ infographic of key principles (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This article written by Dr. John Halamka, CIO at Harvard Medical School and a Health IT adoption thought-leader, provides examples from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on best practices for healthcare providers in trying to manage social media efforts. This article written by Dr. John Halamka, CIO at Harvard Medical School and a Health IT adoption thought-leader, provides examples from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BIDMC on best practices for healthcare providers in trying to manage social media efforts. Topics covered include communication strategies, responding to positive and negative comments, and staff awareness. These topics, while garnered from Mr. Halamka's experience with being CIO for BIDMC  are discussed in a way that is relevant to all health care settings, including health centers. Included in this article are straightforward policies or concepts that are easily adopted into an organization's social media policies no matter what their size. Click on the link below to gain access to the related article... More Details...

A Quick Guide on Consumer Engagement in Governance of Health Care for the Homeless Programs (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers serving people experiencing homelessness must meaningfully involve consumers with the lived experience of homelessness in their governance, either on their governance Board or through structures like Consumer Advisory Boards. This guide provides practical tips for organizations in setting up effective, empowering consumer governance structures and supports. The ideas in this Quick Guide were developed through conversations with over 20 key informants: consumer leaders, consumer support staff, and executive leaders of HCH projects who have facilitated consumer leadership both locally and nationally. 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...

Plantilla de Notas de la Junta Directiva (2015). Resource Type: Template . Description: Plantilla de reunión para el registro de actas y notas de las reuniones de la junta directiva. More Details...

Interprofessional Practice and Education in FQHCs (42459). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Barbara F. Brandt, Ph.D., Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, leads a discussion about the National Center’s work in relation to Federally Qualified Health Centers. More Details...

Governing Boards: Recruitment Grid (2015). Resource Type: Template . Description: This tool provides governing boards with a quick view of current board members, their characteristics, number of terms, and skills. It also provides an easy way to assess the characteristics and skills needed for future board position openings. More Details...

Governing Board- Record of Health Center Policy Approval At-A-Glance (2016). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: Maintaining appropriate authority to oversee the operations of Federally Qualified Health Centers requires Governing Boards to comply with the PHS Section 330 Program Requirements, including establishing and periodically revising health center policies. The number of policies can be overwhelming and keeping policies current is challenging. This tool provides a non-exhaustive list of these policies and is intended to assist health centers and governing boards to keep track of needed updates and approvals. More Details...

Considerations for Serving Residents of Public Housing During Emergencies and Disasters: Staff and Patient Wellness (44174). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the National Center for Health in Public Housing, this webinar discusses staff well-being and patient wellness during emergencies and disasters. This webinar provides health centers with guidance for developing tools and resources that enable the health center workforce and the patients they serve to navigate the practical and psychological after-effects of disaster events. More Details...

Building Resiliency: Mindful Stress Management (44693). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is part three of three Mini Resilience Skill-Building Sessions that took place in 2022. At each drop-in session, an empirically-supported mindfulness and resilience-building strategy was introduced by an expert in the field. In this session, participants had the opportunity to learn from Rebecca Bromberg, MBA, RYT, Principal Consultant and Founder of Sole Clarity, who discussed how to manage and transcend stress. Participants also practiced an activity designed to support workforce well-being. Additional resources and practices were also provided during the session More Details...

Building Resiliency: Developing a Mindfulness Practice (44574). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is part one of three Mini Resilience Skill-Building Sessions that took place in 2022. At each drop-in session, an empirically-supported mindfulness and resilience-building strategy was introduced by an expert in the field. In this session, participants had the opportunity to learn from Aleezé Moss, PhD (Associate Director, Myrna Brind Center for Mindfulness) about how to develop a mindfulness practice. Participants also practiced an activity designed to support wellbeing. Additional resources and practices were also provided during the session. More Details...

Building Resiliency: Centering Mindful Self-Compassion (44630). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is part two of three Mini Resilience Skill-Building Sessions that took place in 2022. At each drop-in session, an empirically-supported mindfulness and resilience-building strategy was introduced by an expert in the field. In this session, participants had the opportunity to learn from Cassondra Graff, M.S., LCSW (Senior Teacher of MSC and MBSR at the University of California at San Diego Center for Mindfulness) about how to practice mindful self-compassion in your daily life. Participants also practiced in an activity designed to support wellbeing. Additional resources and practices were also provided during the session. More Details...

Board Training Topics and Schedule (2015). Resource Type: Template . Description: Community Health Centers are complex organizations requiring Boards of Directors to be well-oriented to the organization and the Health Center Program, and also equipped, well-versed, and up-to-date on the most significant factors impacting service delivery at community health centers. This requires ongoing training on several important topics. As volunteer Boards of Directors with monthly meetings scheduled, and committee work in between, it is challenging to allocate a large block of time exclusively dedicated to board training. Therefore, to provide the opportunity for all board members to be introduced to selected training topics, it is recommended that a short training session be included as an agenda item at monthly board meetings. This template can help boards determine which topics they prefer to address for each meeting and which ones to schedule for their annual meeting. More Details...