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BPHC All-Programs Webcast Next Week
(From HRSA)
-- Plan to join next week's BPHC webcast to hear Health Center Program updates about awards, diabetes, HIV, continuous compliance, and more.
Tuesday, July 23
2-3 p.m. (Eastern)
To submit questions in advance,
send an email
by Friday, July 19, with the subject line "BPHC All-Programs Question."
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TDH Launches "Tennessee Faces of the Opioid Crisis" Education, Awareness Campaign
(From the Tennessee Department of Health)
-- The Tennessee Department of Health kicked off the new “
Tennessee Faces of the Opioid Crisis
“ public education and awareness campaign on July 16. This project will feature people from every county of Tennessee sharing personal stories of how they have been impacted by the opioid crisis. The campaign also provides resources and information on how everyone can be part of the solution to this problem.
“Our goal is to demonstrate the opioid epidemic is having an impact on people in every community and county in our state - our neighbors, friends, coworkers - and that together we can overcome this crisis,“ said TDH Commissioner Lisa Piercey, MD, MBA, FAAP. “We are so grateful to those sharing their stories as a way to give hope to others who may be struggling with substance abuse and connect people with resources in their communities.“
Campaign participants representing several Tennessee counties attended the launch event, which included the debut of public service announcements and artwork created for the effort. Each county participant will be featured on a poster sharing his or her photo and story. In addition to on-air and digital placement of the videos, TDH will make the videos and posters available to community partners who wish to use the materials to help educate people about the impact of the opioid crisis and resources available in the community to help prevent drug abuse and misuse.
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National Health Center Week
National Health Center Week 2019
is a few short weeks away! From August 4-10, health centers across the state and around the country will be celebrating with the theme, “America’s Health Centers: Rooted in Communities.” If your health center is hosting an event during NHCW, please send details about your event to emily.waitt@tnpca.org. To find an event near you, visit
TPCA’s National Health Center Week page.
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Federal Funding Update
Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released new legislation last month to address health care system costs and surprise billing. The bill,
S.1895, the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019
, also includes five additional years of level funding for health centers, the Teaching Health Center Program, and the National Health Service Corps.
S. 1895 contains the text of bill the HELP Committee released earlier this year,
S.192
, with the addition of a funding mechanism to pay for health center program extensions. S.1895 passed out of the Senate HELP Committee on June 26, and is expected to come up before the full Senate for a vote sometime in July.
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Title X Rules in Effect
(From NACHC)
-- On Monday, July 15, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that most of the new Title X rules that were finalized this past March are
in effect immediately
. The announcement follows weeks of court action during which the status of the rules changed several times. On July 11, the Ninth Circuit Court announced that HHS could begin enforcing the rules.
Health centers that receive Title X funds, either directly or as a sub recipient, are prohibited from referring pregnant women for abortions and are required to refer all pregnant women for prenatal care. Beginning in 2020, Title X-funded organizations will be required to maintain strict physical and financial separation between Title X-funded activities and any abortion-related services they offer.
At 1 p.m. (Eastern) this
Friday, July 19
, Feldesman-Tucker will offer a webinar on how organizations that receive Title X funding can comply with the new rules. The webinar is free, but
pre-registration
is required.
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Registration Open for Grassroots Advocacy Leader Program
Are you interested in creating a culture of advocacy at your health center? Sign up to join the next cohort of The Grassroots Advocacy Leadership Program (ALP). The ALP is an extended skills-building program that will begin before the Community Health Institute and Expo (CHI) on August 16, 2019, and continue through February 2020. It provides intensive training and hands-on experience in all aspects of health center advocacy.
Click here
to learn more and register to attend the breakout sessions before CHI. Contact Kristin St. John at
grassroots@nachc.org
if you have any questions or concerns.
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#ValueCHCs Photo Contest
The lead-up to National Health Center Week is the perfect time to remind your Members of Congress why they should value community health centers and support health center funding. Join in NACHC’s summer photo contest
until July 30
for the chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card!
- Take pictures holding one of these posters (or one of your own creations)
- Post the pictures on social media with #ValueCHCs
- Tag your Members of Congress and @hcadvocacy
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Health Center Profile Updates
(From HRSA)
-- HRSA has updated the UDS health center profile pages with a 2018 Operational Site Visit Badge for those who achieved 100% compliance during calendar year 2018. (2019 badges will be updated in the fall.) You can also see your health center’s project period length, end date, and any program conditions.
Visit the Health Center Program Awardee Data page
to access your health center’s profile.
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HUD Policy Briefs for Health Centers
(From HRSA)
-- Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), a HRSA-funded National Cooperative Agreement (NCA), offers two new HUD policy briefs:
- Health centers can address social risk factors for their patients through partnerships and linkages to local housing and service resources. Health centers are increasingly working with HUD Continuums of Care (CoCs) to refer patients who are unstably housed or homeless to Coordinated Entry for services and housing interventions. One model of this is Rapid Re-housing, described in this HUD Policy Brief on Rapid Re-Housing: Understanding the Impact and Potential for Health Centers.
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NNOHA Sealants Improvement Opportunity
(From NNOHA)
-- The National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA) is currently recruiting 40 health centers to engage in a nine-month Sealants Improvement Collaborative. Past collaborative participants have utilized these methods to help improve their UDS sealants rate.
The aim of the Sealants Improvement Collaborative is to engage health centers in conducting quality improvement in dental programs. Health centers will provide patient-centered and evidence-based oral health care and use quality improvement methods to improve the oral health of health center patients under 21 years old.
To access the application, view additional details, and read what past Collaborative participants had to about their experience,
click here
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Applications are due by Thursday, August 1
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Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice (OHNEP): Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Toolkit
(From OHNEP)
-- The
Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Toolkit
is based on the IPEC Competencies, the NONPF Core Competencies, and the HRSA interprofessional oral health core competencies delineated in the Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice report (2014).
Developed by the OHNEP program, the toolkit is an innovative, web-based, open source product intended to facilitate the integration of oral-systemic health content and clinical competencies into nurse practitioner and midwifery curricula.
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Health Center Security and Compliance System Implementation Guide
(From HITEQ)
-- There are ever-increasing cybersecurity guidelines and protection measures that health centers must navigate and digest. Newer and rurally located health centers can especially benefit from guidance and decision support that assists them in determining how to implement systems in a manner that meets compliance requirements and doesn’t expose information to undue security risk.
Identifying and managing these types of risk can be especially important when procuring new Health IT (e.g., EHRs, medical devices, data warehouses) for the health center. The Health Information Technology, Evaluation, and Quality Center (HITEQ) has assembled a toolkit that provides a framework for health centers to evaluate compliance and security concerns as they purchase, adopt, and implement technology solutions.
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TennIIS: Bi-Directional Messaging Using 2015 Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT)
(From the Tennessee Department of Health)
-- Since 1996 the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) has maintained a secure state-wide Immunization Information System (IIS) for Tennessee residents of all ages. The Tennessee Immunization Information System (TennIIS) provides a consolidated immunization record that includes data from multiple providers across the state. TennIIS is capable of accepting both electronic bi-directional queries and electronic updates from electronic health record (EHR) systems.
Providers who exchange data with TennIIS electronically benefit from the ability to query immunization records for new and existing patients from within their EHR system. EHRs with bi-directional capabilities will receive standard message responses that include an immunization history and an immunization forecast from TennIIS This exchange of immunization information minimizes the possibility of over vaccination or missing vaccinations because the patient’s immunization history in TennIIS includes immunizations reported by the patient’s other providers. Most EHRs can update their patient’s immunization data directly from TennIIS.
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Primary Care and Behavioral Health Integration: Building Workforce Capacities
(From HRSA)
-- During this webinar, HRSA-funded health centers will share their unique approaches to developing behavioral health workforce training programs and practices that provide high-quality, integrated behavioral health care.
Wednesday, July 31
3-4:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Call-in: 877-917-4906
Passcode: 9450742
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Register Now for the TPCA 2019 Annual Conference
TPCA's 2019 Annual Conference will once again provide health center leaders and staff the opportunity to participate in educational workshops, network with peers, and discuss products and services with exhibitors. The conference will take place October 2-4, at the Embassy Suites Murfreesboro.
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Nominations Open for TPCA Awards of Excellence
Is there someone on your staff or in your community who needs to be recognized for contributing to your health center's success? Nominate him or her for a
TPCA Award of Excellence
.
Each year, TPCA honors health center staff, board members, and community supporters for their exceptional gifts of time, effort, and dedication to the community health movement. Nominations are being accepted now for the Awards of Excellence, to be presented at the 2019 Annual Leadership Conference in October.
Award information and nomination forms for the following categories can be found on TPCA’s
website
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Department of Justice: Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) recently released the
Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic Grant solicitation
. BJA is sponsoring this initiative in coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State Justice Institute (SJI). This is part of a series of demonstration projects funded under the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP). These demonstration projects are designed to build local capacity, foster cross-sector collaboration, and support innovation. Under this solicitation, up to eight rural communities or regions will be selected for grant awards up to $750,000, each for a 24-month period.
Applications are due by July 26, 2019.
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PARTNER-SPONSORED EDUCATION & TRAINING
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PCMH Trainings for Health Centers
(From HRSA)
-- HRSA contracts with The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to provide training and TA to health centers on the NCQA PCMH recognition process.
HRSA is sponsoring regional trainings, organized by PCAs, on NCQA’s Introduction to PCMH and Advanced PCMH courses. Learn more about upcoming trainings:
- Region 8: August 7-9, Billings, MT: Intro and Advanced
- Region 1: September 25-27, Worcester, MA: Intro and Advanced
- Region 4: October 22-24, Asheville, NC: Intro and Advanced
- Region 5: November 12-14, Springfield, IL: Intro and Advanced
- Region 9: November 19-21, Sacramento, CA: Intro and Advanced
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FTLF Announces Health Center Compliance Workshops
(From FTLF)
-- Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP will host "Health Center Compliance: Fundamentals," a workshop for new compliance officers or those launching a new program or initiative. The training is designed specifically for health center compliance officers, and will be held July 23-24 and September 30-October 1. The curriculum focuses on understanding the seven elements of a compliance program, developing strategies to assess the compliance risks in your health center, and addressing implementation challenges.
Participants will learn how to:
- Develop and refine a compliance work plan and budget.
- Gain buy-in from management and the board of directors.
- Determine who needs to receive compliance training and how often.
- Identify when and how to conduct a compliance audit.
- Navigate the environment of new requirements and emerging risk areas.
For more information and to register,
click here
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Lincoln Memorial University Hosts "ENT for the Primary Care Practitioner," October 11-13
(From LMU)
-- Many common ear, nose, and throat conditions can be managed at the primary health care level with the potential for decreasing financial burden, reducing referrals, and improving quality and timeliness of care. Using demonstrations, realistic learning experiences, and hands-on skill building techniques, this workshop will provide an appreciation of allergy testing, protocols for evaluating hearing loss and dizziness, Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT), and training for in-office flexible nasolaryngoscopy. After completing requirements, attendees may obtain both a continuing medical education (CME) Certificate and the Certificate of Proficiency in flexible nasolaryngoscopy.
Registration will open in September.
Click here
for more details.
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South Carolina PCA Hosts Cybersecurity Forum
(From the SCPHCA)
-- Registration is now open for the South Carolina Primary Health Care Association's inaugural Cybersecurity Policies and Strategies Forum. The forum will take place on Friday, August 2, in Greeneville, SC.
Creating a security culture within a business is all about training and awareness. Chief information officers and chief information security officers need to ensure that every employee in an organization is aware of the potential threats they could face, whether it’s a phishing email, sharing passwords, or using an insecure network. Compliance officers need to ensure adherence to the policies that are created to help protect organizational information.
This training will feature industry professionals to help you ensure the safety of your organization’s data and other information, and create a culture of security. For more details and to register,
click here
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The deadline to register is Friday, July 26
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