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WVPCA Weekly Outlook
A Newsletter on Community Centered Healthcare
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WVPCA News - Outreach and Enrollment -Workforce Development
Emergency Management News - State News - National News
Funding and Financial Resources - Training Opportunities
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West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine celebrates 50 years of educating rural physicians
Read the entire article from WVNews here.
Omicron-specific Covid boosters appear to work well, new data says—regardless of the side effects you experience
Read the entire article from CNBC.com here.
Progress on W.Va. federally funded broadband projects ongoing
Read the entire article from WVNews here.
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Register Today
2022 Uniform Data System Training
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The WVPCA, in conjunction with HRSA/BPHC will be hosting the 2022 Uniform Data System Training, presented by Ellen Radis, M.M.H.S., senior program manager at Advocates for Human Potential (AHP). The 2022 UDS Virtual Training event will be conducted in a series of 2 trainings with a Q&A session included on November 2nd. Participants should plan to attend all sessions for a full and comprehensive understanding of the complete UDS report. During the training, attendees will gain an understanding of reporting the UDS including; the patient profile, reporting clinical services and quality of care indicators, operational and financial tables, and other required UDS reporting forms.
The annual training will be conducted virtually, via ZOOM, in a series of 2 trainings as follows:
- Session 1 - Tuesday 11/01/2022 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
- Session 2 - Wednesday 11/02/2022 | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Registration closes on October 28 at 5:00PM EST.
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Reminder! 2023 Assister Certification
Training Modules Now Available
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2023 Assister Certification Training is available now on the Marketplace Learning Management System (MLMS). This annual training is mandatory, and Assisters should plan to complete their training by November 1st to be able to assist consumers for PY23 Open Enrollment.
The training is hosted on the Marketplace Learning Management System (MLMS); the online web-based training platform for assisters providing application and enrollment assistance to consumers in Federally-Facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs) and State-based Marketplaces using the Federal platform. The MLMS can be accessed through the CMS Enterprise Portal.
Please note: If you have accessed MLMS before and taken assister certification training in the past, please be sure to login vs. creating a new account. If you have had changes to your status, or changed organizations, you do not need to create a new account. You can update your information in your existing account.
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Extended CDO Application Window |
The CDO application window typically runs from June 1 to August 31, annually. To support organizations in FFM states during the Unwinding period, the Marketplace will extend the current CDO application window to November 1, 2022, and will open another CDO application window once the Medicaid Unwinding begins. These application window extensions will enable eligible organizations in FFM states to apply to become a CDO, which will provide them with access to FFM and Medicaid Unwinding technical guidance, training materials, and consumer support resources such as the Complex Case Help Center (CCHC).
CMS invites new applicant organizations who want to become a CDO for Plan Year 2023 to apply during CMS’ Open Season, which has been extended to November 1, 2022.
Any organization operating in an FFM state seeking to provide certified application counselor (CAC) enrollment assistance to consumers for Plan Year 2023 must apply to become a CDO and enter into an agreement with CMS, if they are not a current CDO.
CDOs are a vital component of the assister community. In the FFM, CDOs oversee CACs, who are annually trained and able to help consumers seeking health coverage options through the Marketplace.
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Register Now - HRSA Virtual Job Fair |
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) November Virtual Job Fair will promote 30 health care facilities with vacancies in rural areas. This Virtual Job Fair offers live networking and the perfect opportunity to showcase your health care facility's vacancies.
Additional benefits include:
- Reach your target audience and engage with hundreds of interested healthcare professionals.
- Highlight your vacancies by uploading videos, images and PDF files for attendees to view and download.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | 6:00-9:30 p.m. ET
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U.S. Extends COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declaration |
The COVID Public Health Emergency (PHE) has officially been extended for another 90 days, through mid-January. The extension was announced by U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra last week. The Biden Administration has committed to giving the public 60 days’ notice if it will not extend the PHE; thus, we will know in mid-November if it will be extended again, through April 2023. |
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Health Equity In Cancer Virtual Series |
Join your colleagues in Ohio and West Virginia for a virtual learning session focusing on health equity in lung cancer screening with an emphasis on addressing disparities in prevention and early detection.
The Health Equity In Cancer Virtual Series is presented by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - The James and Harry C. Moores Foundation. This program is hosted by the American Cancer Society and with support from the Ohio Partners for Cancer Control and Mountains of Hope. This webinar will be November 3, 2022 from 9-11AM.
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2022 West Virginia HIV and Hepatitis C Provider Prevention and Care Survey |
The 2022 West Virginia HIV and Hepatitis C Provider Prevention and Care Survey is now is ongoing through the month of October. Your participation in the survey is voluntary and anonymous.
This data is being collected by the Bureau for Public Health (Bureau) at the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources as they are currently developing the 2022-2026 HIV and Hepatitis C Elimination Plan as required by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The plan aims to accelerate progress toward meeting national goals while allowing West Virginia to design a service delivery system that reflects local vision, values, and needs.
The results of this survey will be used to assist the Bureau’s Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), HIV, Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis in better understanding the service needs and gaps within the state and informing the priorities of the state plan.
The data submitted through this survey are confidential. Only a summary report will be published. No individual respondent information will be released.
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Bridge of Hope Application Now Open |
The Bridge of Hope Application is now open and can be found on The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation’s website at https://tgkvf.org/special-initiatives/bridge-hope-scholarship/. This scholarship is for those who are in active SUD recovery and interested in pursuing a training or education program. The application closes on November 1st.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month |
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. Breast cancer is one of the most common kinds of cancer in women after skin cancer.
Breast cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in women. About 1 in 8 women born today in the United States will get breast cancer at some point. The good news is that most women can survive breast cancer if it’s found and treated early. A mammogram — the screening test for breast cancer — can help find breast cancer early, when it’s easier to treat.
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National Academy of Medicine Publishes
Call-to-Action for Workforce Well-Being
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The National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being outlines seven priority areas on which the National Academy of Medicine recommends industry leaders focus to address healthcare workers’ mental health. |
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Learn How Behavioral Health Apps Can Help Meet Your Patients' Needs Webinar |
Join the Health Information Technology Training and Technical Assistance Center (HITEQ) for this exciting event. It's called "Deploying Smartphone Apps to Advance Behavioral Health in Primary Care", and it's happening on Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT.
Join HITEQ to discuss a program to support behavioral health through an integrated behavioral health model using health apps at Cambridge Health Alliance, a health center in MA. They will be talking about how apps can address gaps in behavioral health care, the lessons learned in effective implementation of an app in a safety-net clinic, and provide a rubric for evaluating health apps for your patients and use in your behavioral health service.
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Don't Miss the Teaching Health Center
Planning and Development Webinar
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The Teaching Health Center Planning and Development (THCPD) Program makes awards to establish new accredited community-based primary care medical or dental residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, or geriatrics to address shortages in the primary care physician and dental workforce shortages and challenges in rural and underserved communities.
Join Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to learn about this funding opportunity, including eligibility and application requirements. This webinar will be October 26, 2022 from 1-3:00PM.
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Providing Care to People with
Substance Use Disorders Webinar
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Please join the AETC National Clinician Consultation Center in partnership with the AETC National Coordinating Resource Center, Health Resources and Services Administration’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA HAB) and Bureau of Primary Health Care (HRSA BPHC) for the Providing Care to People with Substance Use Disorders webinar developed for clinicians and other health care providers. This webinar will be October 26, 2022 from Noon to 1PM.
The newly released National HIV/AIDS Strategy Federal Implementation Plan (2022-2025) calls for a coordinated and re-energized national HIV response at multiple levels, acknowledging people who inject drugs as one of several priority populations which continue to experience disparities across various HIV-related outcomes. Substance use and HIV care integration is one approach to provide comprehensive, person-centered medical services – yet clinics encounter differing challenges and opportunities when trying to implement an integrated model of care.
Objectives of this presentation:
- Review how newly curated AETC toolkits were designed to assist clinical teams with integration of behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) services into a wide variety of practice settings.
- Identify opportunities where the National Clinician Consultation Center’s Warmline services could help bridge the gap to increase access to treatment and improve health outcomes of people who use drugs.
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Funding and Financial Resources |
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Call for Applications: Grants To Start or
Expand Eye Health & Vision Care Programs
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The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) with the generous support of the Centene Corporation is now accepting applications from federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and look-alikes for $25,000 grants to help start or expand permanent and comprehensive eye health and vision care programs.
Vision loss causes substantial social and economic tolls, and eye health is critical to patients' overall health. However, many individuals in medically underserved areas face significant barriers to accessing eye health and vision care. Health centers are ideally suited to help patients access these vital services due to their focus on integrated care, but many organizations lack the resources to provide these services.
Since 2018, ACU has assisted 24 health centers in establishing and expanding permanent eye health and vision care programs. Descriptions of many of these programs are available on ACU's website. This year, we are excited to award up to five health centers with these new grants. Each organization will receive:
- $25,000 for the start-up or expansion of permanent and comprehensive eye health and vision care programs.
- Direct training and technical assistance from members of ACU's Vision Services Committee and other subject matter experts.
- Flyers to promote a patient-story program: each participating patient will receive a $100 gift card.
Interested in learning more? Read the flyer for more details and grant requirements.
Applications are due by December 31, 2022.
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HRSA Makes $25 Million Available to Reduce Health Disparities in Maternal Health Care |
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), made up to $25 million available for HRSA-funded health centers to increase equitable access to maternal health care in underserved communities. Award recipients will develop and pilot innovative models of care delivery to improve health outcomes and address clinical and health-related social needs for patients at the highest risk of maternal morbidity and mortality. This funding will advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis by ensuring better access to comprehensive, coordinated health care, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.
These awards will be made through HRSA’s Quality Improvement Fund (QIF), which supports primary care innovation. The QIF allows health centers to propose and test out new ideas, learn from each other, and identify solutions that can be scaled across the entire Health Center Program. Award recipients will engage patients and communities in their projects to better understand and address challenges that contribute to disparities in maternal care and health outcomes.
Applications from HRSA-funded health centers are due in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, December 5, and in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks on by 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, January 13, 2023. Visit HRSA’s fiscal year 2023 Quality Improvement Fund-Maternal Health webpage for the notice of funding opportunity, technical assistance (TA) information, and other resources. Join the QIF-Maternal Health applicant TA session:
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
If you prefer to join by phone: 833-568-8864 | Webinar ID: 160 401 5570
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Million Hearts® Health Equity
Implementation Funding Opportunity
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Million Hearts® team released the Million Hearts® Health Equity Implementation Funding Opportunity in partnership with the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) Cardiovascular Health Team. This one-time opportunity is available to fund up to 6 organizations at up to $50,000 per recipient for implementing evidence-based strategies to improve cardiovascular health and advance health equity through a focus on priority populations in alignment with the Million Hearts® 2027 framework. The implementation period runs from January through July of 2023. The application period runs from October 3 through 8:00pm ET on November 1, 2022.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Improve use and access to Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring (SMBP) among pregnant/postpartum women with hypertension, people with lower incomes, or people from racial and ethnic minority groups
- Support the use of telehealth for SMBP in access deserts
- Implement Medication Therapy Management (MTM) in trusted spaces offered to low income or racial/ethnic minority groups, etc.
- Promote aspirin use to prevent pre-eclampsia for pregnant women with hypertension
- Tailor / implement protocols to increase cholesterol and/or hypertension medication intensification.
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Upcoming Training Opportunities |
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Healthcare & Community Development: Leveraging Partnerships to Improve Health |
The WVPCA is pleased to be co-sponsoring a Lunch & Learn Webinar with the West Virginia Hospital Association and the West Virginia Rural Health Association. The "Healthcare & Community Development: Leveraging Partnerships to Improve Health" webinar with Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH will be on November 2, 2022.
In this webinar, participants will learn about the scale and scope of the community development sector and explore examples of successful and innovative partnerships with healthcare that accelerate and maximize the impact of these dollars in reducing poverty, increasing equity, and improving population health.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET
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We've Decided To Offer Vision Services in Our Health Center, Now What? |
Join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, Prevent Blindness, & NACHC to learn more about the feasibility of opening an optometry department at your CHC. Explore budgeting, best practices for hiring and staffing, and how to overcome challenges in providing vision services.
In this webinar, we will take a deeper dive into the feasibility of opening an optometry department within a community health center. You’ll learn about what it takes to create an optical, budgeting, best practices for hiring and staffing, and how your peers have overcome challenges in starting up vision services in their own health centers.
Learning objectives:
- Raise awareness of the feasibility of opening an optometry department within CHCs; creation of an optical; and hiring/staffing needs
- Build skills in operationalizing the integration of vision services into health centers; and
- Learn from peers how to overcome challenges in the process of integrating vision services into health centers.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
3:00 PM ET
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Concurrent Treatment of Smoking Cessation and SUD in Primary Care |
Join the National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) and the National Nurse-led Care Consortium (NNCC) in a webinar focused on strategies to support smoking cessation and substance use disorder (SUD) in primary care for residents of public housing. Speakers will present gaps in knowledge regarding policy related to public housing and smoking, more recently around the increased use and concern of vaping. Subject matter experts will discuss the importance of clinical interaction, readiness to change, and implementation of motivational interviewing in mental health treatment while addressing substance use disorder. This session is intended for clinicians, RN care managers, social workers, and intake coordinators.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
2:00 PM ET
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UDS: Strategies for Successful Submission |
Better understand the importance of UDS data collection and reporting, specifically focusing on assessing data for accuracy and quality. The session will cover utilizing available electronic handbooks (EHBs) reports and tools (i.e., health center trend report, comparison tool, etc.), working through your review (data audit report, edits, including how to utilize the EHBs system for review), and working with your reviewer for a successful submission.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
1:00 PM ET
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Community Health Center Resources |
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Jackson Kelly attorneys provide limited consultation to all members of the WVPCA at no charge, as part of the WVPCA contract. There is no limit to the number of calls which any member may make. All inquiries within the scope of professional competence of firm attorneys will be addressed. Inquiries which require expertise not available through the firm will be promptly identified and, when requested, Jackson Kelly will assist in referring the matter to accounting firms, insurance agents, or others as circumstances warrant.
All inquiries, responses and consultation services provided by the firm lawyers will be provided without additional charge beyond the retainer amount, except for matters which require formal opinions, representation of record in litigation, transactional work, e.g. the purchase or sale of real property, or matters which require continued representation, research or consultation beyond a single inquiry or document review.
Justin M. Harrison is a labor & employment lawyer with Jackson Kelly PLLC. He is available for consultation through a special retainer relationship with the WVPCA. Justin can be reached at 304.340.1358 and via email at justin.harrison@jacksonkelly.com.
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Risk Management Manual for Health Centers Now Available! |
The Risk Management Manual for Health Centers is now available on the ECRI Institute Clinical Risk Management Program website! Designed to support a proactive approach to risk management at health centers and free clinics, the Manual provides background, tips, and how-tos in a manageable format.
Specific areas that are covered include:
Risk Management Programs & Plans
Claims and Lawsuits
Role of the Risk Manager
Patient Grievances and Complaints
Communication with Patients
Credentialing and Privileging
Communication among Providers, Staff, and Community Partners
Tracking Systems for Diagnostic Tests, Referrals, and Hospitalizations
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This project is/was supported partially/fully by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U58CS06834 State and Regional Primary Care Associations. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government. |
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