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Lead the Way: Engaging Youth in Health Care (2016). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Lead the Way: Engaging Youth in Health Care is the School-Based Health Alliance’s online youth engagement toolkit. This resource is designed for individuals who work in school-based or community health centers who want to engage youth in their mission and work. In these sections, you will find practical strategies, resources, and reflections from the field to help you empower youth to be productive actors in their health care and their future. More Details...

Leadership Training for Clinical Staff - Leading a Diverse Staff (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The clinical environment presents specific challenges to effective leadership and teamwork—and it is critical that clinical personnel have the skills and tools to lead effectively. Good leadership and a cohesive, supportive team environment fosters mental health, resiliency to challenges, reduces burnout, and improves patient care. More Details...

Leading Curiosity, Creativity and Innovation (2020). Resource Type: Micro-Learning. Description: These micro-learning modules address how to create a culture ripe for creativity and innovation. It examines ways in which leaders can encourage creativity thinking and foster curiosity through exercises, brainstorming, mind mapping, and other proven techniques. More Details...

Leading Effectively Articles: Make Leadership Happen with DAC Framework: Direction + Alignment + Commitment (DAC) = Leadership (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Center for Creative Leadership provides evidence based resources to support the building of leadership capacity throughout an organization. While CCL stops short of building a customized leadership development solution specific to the unique culture and challenges of a health center, their research, resources, and leadership concepts are highly transferrable to health center organizations (health centers, PCAs, HCCNs, NTTAPs, etc.). This specific resource speaks to a \"whole system\" approach to leadership, rather than putting the weight of leaders on an individual manager or executive. More Details...

Leading with Optimism in Challenging Times (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this national webinar you will hear New York Times Best Selling Author, Shawn Achor, talk about his research in positive psychology, Jordan Voigt, president of Genesis Medical Center, Davenport, who will share the story of Genesis Health System, recently featured in Harvard Business Review, and we will explore “what leading with optimism really looks like” in times of significant challenge. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Coordinating Care and Safety for Patients: Navigating the Intersection of Behavioral Health and Intimate Partner Violence (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Join Health Partners on IPV and Exploitation and The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health for a 4-part learning collaborative focusing on the intersection of behavioral health, intimate partner violence (IPV), and mental health and substance use coercion. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Improving Patient Safety in Health Centers Using Technology-Driven PDSA Methods: Session 1: FOCUS on Using Data to Prioritize Patient Safety Improvements (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is the first session of a four-part series, which will discuss improving patient safety in health centers using technology-driven Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) methods. This session will FOCUS on using data to prioritize patient safety improvements through identifying technologies that capture measures related to patient safety, prioritizing improvement efforts using FOCUS, and using a prioritization tool to select a PDSA project. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Improving Patient Safety in Health Centers Using Technology-Driven PDSA Methods: Session 2: Technology to Monitor Improvements in Patient Safety | Patient-Centered AIM Statements and SMART Goals (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The purpose of this session is to review the importance of establishing AIM statements and the influence of the electronic health record in quality improvement. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Improving Patient Safety in Health Centers Using Technology-Driven PDSA Methods: Session 3: Tools for Implementing the Path to Improving Patient Safety (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The purpose of this third session of the Learning Collaborative is to enhance health center staff proficiency in employing technology-driven Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to implement patient safety improvements systematically and efficiently. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety: Session 1: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. These sessions will also illustrate how the Board of Directors promotes a culture that prioritizes safety and includes safety metrics in its strategic oversight. The content will reinforce how focusing on patient safety by all departments and staff positively impacts patients and the organization. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety: Session 2: Promoting Patient Safety through Patient Centered Care (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. Federal, state, local regulations, and accrediting organizations require the delivery of safe medical care for patients, staff, and visitors. The content will reinforce how focusing on patient safety by all departments and staff positively impacts patients and the organization. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Improving Patient Safety: Session 4: Using Peer Review and Competency Assessments to Improve Patient Safety (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. The content will reinforce how focusing on patient safety by all departments and staff positively impacts patients and the organization. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Introduction to Patient Safety: Session 3: Supporting Patient Safety with Huddles, Reporting, and Surveillance (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative will cover various aspects of safe patient care, including safety measure/metric identification, data collection, leadership commitment, facility requirements, regulatory requirements, external collaborations, and governance involvement. Federal, state, local regulations, and accrediting organizations require the delivery of safe medical care for patients, staff, and visitors. These sessions will also illustrate how the Board of Directors promotes a culture that prioritizes safety and includes safety metrics in its strategic oversight. Participants will identify a hypothetical patient safety event that could occur at their health center and will be asked to draft a plan for investigation and response. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Suicide Prevention and Risk Assessment Strategies: Session 4: Office Hours (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The office hours summarizes salient points covered in Learning Collaborative Sessions 1: Taking Action with 988-Equipping Your and Your Team, Session 2: Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Training Certificate, and Session 3: Implementing Risk Assessment Tools into Practice. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: Suicide Prevention and Risk Assessment Strategies, Session 3: Session 3: Implementing Risk Assessment Tools into Practice (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is a series of four live, interactive learning collaborative activities focusing on suicide prevention and risk assessment. Participants will be guided through a series of care strategies and be given tools and time to engage with experts. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: The Role of Identifying Social Drivers of Health In Advancing Health Equity: Session 3: Returning Citizens (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative sessions will cover how to assess health outcome disparities and barriers experienced within four different communities. Trainings will cover evidence-based health-risk assessment tools and how to use a team-based approach to incorporate them into patient care. Additional information about using these tools to identify social drivers of health and connect individuals to community-based resources and services that meet those needs will be shared. Participants will be asked to draft a workflow on how their organization will identify special populations and the process of making referrals (internal and external referrals) to address Social Drivers of Health More Details...

Learning Collaborative: The Role of Identifying the Social Drivers of Health In Advancing Health Equity: Session 1: Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative sessions will cover how to assess health outcome disparities and barriers experienced within four different communities. Trainings will cover evidence-based health-risk assessment tools and how to use a team-based approach to incorporate them into patient care. Additional information about using these tools to identify social drivers of health and connect individuals to community-based resources and services that meet those needs will be shared. Participants will be asked to draft a workflow on how their organization will identify special populations and the process of making referrals (internal and external referrals) to address Social Drivers of Health. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: The Role of Identifying the Social Drivers of Health In Advancing Health Equity: Session 4: Children and Youth in Foster Care (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative sessions will cover how to assess health outcome disparities and barriers experienced within four different communities. Trainings will cover evidence-based health-risk assessment tools and how to use a team-based approach to incorporate them into patient care. Additional information about using these tools to identify social drivers of health and connect individuals to community-based resources and services that meet those needs will be shared. Participants will be asked to draft a workflow on how their organization will identify special populations and the process of making referrals (internal and external referrals) to address Social Drivers of Health. More Details...

Legal Lessons Learned from the Pandemic for Health Center Boards (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Some of the health center board governance practices adopted during the pandemic may ensure improved governance for the foreseeable future and beyond. This short resource highlights legally-focused governance lessons learned during the pandemic. It also details considerations for assuring and maintaining a reasonable level of flexibility in the health center’s bylaws and key board-approved policies. More Details...

Legal Requirements and Issues Concerning Wraparound Payments to FQHCs (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The federal law addressing the Medicaid FQHC PPS contains special provisions regarding payments to FQHCs for services rendered under contract with a Medicaid managed care organization (MCO). In essence, states are required to make payments to FQHCs to cover the difference between amounts paid to the FQHC by a Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) and the FQHC’s PPS rate (if the latter is higher).3 These supplemental payments, which are made directly from the state to the FQHC, are sometimes referred to as “wraparound” payments. This Issue Brief provides an overview of the law relating to wraparound payments to FQHCs, and identifies several current key policy issues relating to FQHCs’ participation in Medicaid managed care. More Details...