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Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value: Establishing Pay Equity Principles to Advance Workforce Financial Wellness (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Pay equity ensures that employees receive equal pay for work of equal value, and the modern workforce expects a timely and sincere commitment to these principles from their employers. This ACU STAR² Center white paper examines existing literature to detail organizational processes and practices that champion compensation equity and provides a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a pay equity audit. More Details...

Strategies to Improve Staff Retention in Health Center Settings: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The rate of staff turnover at health center facilities is staggering and was exacerbated by the complexities and stressful circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the important implications of staff turnover, health centers have made significant attempts to understand its underlying reasons and devise solutions to decrease it. More Details...

STAR2 Center Health Professions Education and Training Financial Impact Assessment Tool (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The STAR² Center Health Professions Education and Training Financial Impact Assessment Tool is designed to help you understand how a health professions training and education (HP-ET) program can financially affect your health center, including estimating impact to staff development and satisfaction, which can be harder to calculate using discreet figures. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar Series - May 18, 2023: The Changing Landscape of Behavioral Health Care: What is the “new normal” going to look like? (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant shifts in the mode of care from face-to-face to virtual interactions. Join us as we discuss the challenges currently facing behavioral health care and at least one strategy for each. Along with these strategies, panelists will go over what integrated behavioral health care was and is before and following COVID-19, as well as what actions should be taken going forward to increase access to comprehensive care. 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...

Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol. 3 (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the (4) sessions of the “Acting on SDOH Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” Learning Collaborative. This Learning Collaborative shared strategies to respond to SDOH data through enabling services staff, culturally and socially appropriate interventions, and internal and external organizational capacity. More Details...

Optimize Your Care Team to Improve Chronic Hypertensive Disease Management (2023). Resource Type: Online Self-Paced Learning Modules. Description: This webinar focuses on advancing the mgmt of hypertension & improving patient outcomes through optimization of care teams. We explore how care team optimization, grounded in evidence-based practices, enhances health outcomes & provides vital support for our workforce. During this session, you hear from Ingrid Andersson from Mary’s Center on using RNs to enhance chronic care management, with a special emphasis on patients dealing with hypertension. Through comprehensive discussions & case studies, you explore the latest promising practices that focus on the pivotal role of collaborative teams in achieving superior patient outcomes. More Details...

Academic Partnerships to Foster Multidirectional Learning and Reinforce our Health Center Workforce: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Partnerships focusing on improving the health of individuals and communities through alliances among academic associations and health centers are essential to develop workforce innovation projects, serve as a conduit for public health workforce activities, and enhance population health education for medical, nursing, and public health students. More Details...

Navigating Leadership Roles: 8 Compass Points (2023). Resource Type: elearning. Description: NACHC has developed an 8-part series of modules that supports your understanding of what’s required of an effective leader. These fundamentals can be used to orient you as you prepare for your leadership journey. Topics include core characteristics, foundational management skills, influencing without authority, communication, SMART goals, employee motivation, ethics, and professional networking More Details...

Eyes on Access: Billing for Vision Services (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is a continuation of the 2022 vision services webinar series. With a deep dive into billing for vision services, this webinar series addresses how health centers can align their billing procedures for vision services with their existing service lines. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar Series - May 2, 2023: Health Professions Student Training Webinar: Assessing Organizational Capacity (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In order to provide a high-quality educational training experience at your health center, Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) recommends assessing your capacity and infrastructure to effectively host health professions students. In the midst of competing priorities, best practices and tools will support this strategic workforce planning. Along with these best practices, panelists will discuss faculty’s roles and responsibilities, as well as hear directly from CHC staff. Additionally, this webinar will introduce the Readiness to Train Assessment Tool (RTAT™), a tool developed by HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAP) at CHC to better understand organizational readiness to host health professions student training programs. More Details...

Creativity and Healing: The ArtStreet Experience (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Gain insight into the ways art can become a valuable resource for trauma informed care inhealth centers. The ArtStreet program at Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless regularly uses art therapy and inspirational art exercises to both address a patient’s trauma and provide whole-person healthcare. More Details...

Preparing Mental Health Leaders (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Mental health practitioners are highly-trained individuals uniquely positioned to excel as leaders. During this webinar, presenters will provide knowledge, tips, and tools that highlight the importance of leadership training and career pathways focused on the advancement of the mental health workforce. More Details...

Abt Conversations: Insights from Community Health Leader Lathran Woodard (2023). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide essential healthcare to people who are uninsured or underinsured. Increasingly, FQHCs are answering the call to bolster what have traditionally been public health and social services, and the question of how we support and enhance these resources is becoming more pressing. More Details...

Clinical Quality Measures for Eligible Professionals: 2023 Update: A crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures for UDS and other reporting from The HITEQ Center (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This spreadsheet developed by the HITEQ Center provides a crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures and their electronic specifications as defined in the 2023 update for Eligible Professionals (Clinicians). Fields include the crosswalk of measures with related information about CMS, NQF, and MIPS ID, and Telehealth Eligiblity, as well as inclusion in HRSA BPHC Uniform Data System (UDS) CY2023, Million Hearts, CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) - APM Performance Pathway (APP) Measures, Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)/ CMS ACO Shared Savings Program, CMS Core Set (Child Core Set Medicaid / CHIP): HEDIS Specified, CMS Core Set (Adult Core Set Medicaid): HEDIS Specified, Core Quality Measures Collaborative (ACO / Primary Care). Links are included throughout. More Details...

Clinical Data Elements for UDS eCQMs and their Lookback Timeframes: Useful for EHR transition planning; developed in 2023. (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Each electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) is composed of data elements in the EHR or health IT system that are evaluated according to the measure specifications. It is important to identify what data elements need to be transitioned to any new EHR for clinical quality measure continuity and accuracy. This resource identifies clinical data elements in eCQMs that should be considered when transitioning EHRs. These data elements are used in reporting or calculating eCQMs, so their availability or lack thereof in any new EHR system will impact reporting accuracy. More Details...

Preparing the Health Center Workforce for the Post COVID-19 Era: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The first priority during the COVID-19 pandemic was crisis response and emphasizing health, safety, and essential services. Now is the time for health centers to turn their attention toward concerns over staffing shortages in primary care, which is a public health crisis. More Details...

Navigating Ethics & Equity in a COVID-Aware World (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Over the last three years, there has been an increasing awareness of the inequities baked into our systems. Ethical dilemmas with a lack of resources have exacerbated the moral injury Health Care for the Homeless providers face daily. The intersectionality of the COVID pandemic increased the impact on marginalized communities and the provider(s) who care for them. In a “Post COVID-19” world, how do we navigate the path ahead? Join us for a discussion with others as we learn to navigate ethics, equity, and moral injury together. More Details...

Health IT and Cybersecurity Positions and Salaries: Descriptions and Ranges (2023). Resource Type: Field-Generated Publication. * Description: Below is a list of job descriptions that can be used to help describe various health information technology, as well as cybersecurity, employment options. A variety of health information and technology positions are represented. This information is intended to assist health centers in understanding the many different domains of the profession as well as possible job descriptions that could be useful when drafting duties or during recruitment. This information was compiled in early 2022. More Details...

Implementation of Timely and Effective Transitional Care Management Processes (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us to discuss best practices for integrating daily follow-ups for patients recently hospitalized for health emergencies. Effectively following up with patients is a critical responsibility for integrated care teams. More Details...