The annual update to the individual health center recruitment and retention Data Profile Dashboards was released on June 30! Health center CEOs received information via email on how to log in and access their Data Profile Dashboard through a secure link on our site. Health center workforce staff are encouraged to work with their CEOs to review this resource to support data-informed recruitment and retention planning. PCA teams will have the opportunity to access Data Profile Dashboards and State Aggregate Reports from health centers in their state once they have signed an updated Data Use Agreement. Please contact Mariah Blake for more information on this step.
The final episode of the latest season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast is out now! In this episode, Desireé Kelly, Workforce Strategies and Evaluations Manager at the Tennessee Primary Care Association in Nashville, TN discusses living with grace for one’s self and others as a form of self care, and more! Tune in to this season to hear first hand from experts about what self-care means to them and how they support their teams in bolstering their self-care practices for a sustainable workforce.
One of the most critical—but often overlooked—aspects of self-care is the need for organizations to take the lead in creating an environment that lessens stressors and is conducive to practicing individual techniques. This new publication aims to be a starting point for health center leadership and staff needing to better understand different techniques, tools, and practices for self-care and a guide to create systemic changes to support them.
"Clinician well-being is essential for safe, high-quality patient care." As rates of burnout continue to rise, it's important to support clinician well-being at individual, organizational, state, and national levels. To bolster this support, the National Academy of Medicine convened Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, a network of organizations providing visibility, understanding, and solutions for burnout and increasing clinician well-being.
Make plans to join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved at the 2022 Conference “Resilience & Transformation in Care,” on July 31-August 2! Taking place in Washington, D.C. at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and virtually, this hybrid symposium will unite hundreds of clinicians, public health and industry leaders, advocates, and administrators from across the U.S. to explore strategies to support the healthcare workforce and bridge gaps for a more equitable, just, diverse, and inclusive post-pandemic healthcare system.
Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HP-ET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Visit the archived series on building HP-ET programs at health centers featuring discussions on the challenges, solutions, and benefits of building an HP-ET program at your health center.
The Health Center Resource Clearinghouse is designed as a one-stop online repository of training and technical assistance resources developed for health centers by the National Training and Technical Assistance Partners. Topics include finance, operations, workforce, quality improvement, capital development, HIT/data, governance and emerging issues.
