July 2019 Edition

Training and Technical Assistance Offerings

Happy Health Center Week! August 4-10, 2019  Health Center Week is an annual celebration with the goal of raising awareness about the mission and accomplishments of America's health centers over the past five decades. Today, there are nearly 1,400 HRSA-funded health centers, operating approximately 12,000 delivery sites, across our country. Learn more about the  Health Center Program .

DCPCA Training and Events Calendar See our online calendar for the full list of upcoming DCPCA-facilitated trainings, Peer Groups, and events: http://www.dcpca.org/events

Upcoming Meetings

Integrated Behavioral Health Peer Group Friday, August 9, 2019 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM EST Location: Community of Hope - Family Health and Birth Center, 801 17th Street NE For more information or to join the group contact Megan Loucks, Director of Quality Improvement at mloucks @dcpca.org. Patient Navigators for Cancer Peer Group Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 For more information or to join the group contact Megan Loucks, Director of Quality Improvement at mloucks @dcpca.org.

Billing and Finance Peer Group Monday, August 12, 2019 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 For more information or to join the group contact Tricia Quinn, Director of Policy and External Affairs at pquinn@dcpca.org. Clinical Directors Peer Group Friday, September 6, 2019 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 AM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 * All medical and nursing leads (organization, facility, or department) are welcome * For more information or to join the group contact Megan Loucks, Director of Quality Improvement at mloucks @dcpca.org.

Upcoming DCPCA-Sponsored Trainings

Introduction to BridgeIT Designer Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 Facilitator: Mike Smoot, EHR Data Manager, DCPCA Registration Cost: Free for DCPCA Members *Prerequisite for Day 2 training on 8/15/2019*  Training Overview: Make the most of your BridgeIT reporting with DCPCA's Interactive BridgeIT Designer Training. Participants will learn to create customized BridgeIT reports, learn how to import and customize canned reports from the Warehouse and learn best practices for securely distributing this data to necessary personnel. Who Should Attend: Quality Improvement Staff Population Health/ Public Health Specialist Data Coordinators/Analyst/Managers Billing Managers/Specialist Research Analyst To register, please Mike Smoot, EHR Data Manager at msmoot@dcpca.org.

Follow-Up to Introduction to BridgeIT Designer Thursday, August 15, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 Facilitator: Mike Smoot, EHR Data Manager, DCPCA Registration Cost: Free for DCPCA Members *Attendance required at Day 1 training on 8/14/2019* Training Overview: During this session we will answer follow up questions from the Day 1 training, review the take home BridgeIT Exam, create a 2nd custom report as a group and have a final question and answer period to wrap up.    To register, please contact Mike Smoot, EHR Data Manager at msmoot@dcpca.org.

eCW New Front Office Staff Training Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 Facilitator: Jim Costello, Deputy Director of Operations, DCPCA Registration Cost: Free for DCPCA Members At this session, you will: Navigating eCW and customizing My Settings Registering patients and creating appointments Searching eHX for patients and creating new patients Assigning insurance and sliding fee scale and collecting payments Assigning and managing Patient documents Creating Telephone encounters and Actions Register Now!

eCW New Clinical Staff Training Thursday, September 5, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 Facilitator: Jim Costello, Deputy Director of Operations, DCPCA Registration Cost: Free for DCPCA Members At this session, you will: Navigating eCW and customizing My Settings Importing clinical data from eHX Document in progress note Navigating to CRISP query portal in eCW Creating Telephone encounters and Actions Using Templates and Order sets Register Now!

Emergency Preparedness - BOLD Planning Workshop 1 Wednesday, September 11, 2019 and Thursday, September 12, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST Location: DCPCA Conference Room - 1620 I Street NW, Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20006 Facilitator: James Woulfe, Senior Project Manager, BOLDplanning Training Overview:   The development of comprehensive and user-friendly Healthcare Emergency and Continuity Plan (HCECP) is of vital importance to health centers for emergency preparedness. Health centers must be prepared to continually meet patient care responsibilities in the face of a major disaster as well as during small, routine disruptions. BOLDplanning's Emergency Continuity Plan (ECP) software has been selected to assist with the development of these HCECPs for DCPCA-member health centers. In workshop #1, BOLDplanning will train health center staff on the use of the software tool and health center's will review the first draft of their facility-level plans that have been set up by BOLDplanning using health center's information.  Who Should Attend: Emergency Preparedness Task Force Members Any DCPCA-member health center operations and administrative staff involved in emergency preparedness Registration: The same workshop will be held on two days: September 11th and 12th. Please select the date that works best for your team. Participation in this training is required to receive and use the software for emergency preparedness. Register Now for September 11th! Register Now for September 12!

Ongoing Training and Technical Assistance Opportunities

BridgeIT Designer and BridgeIT Viewer Trainings Make the most of your BridgeIT Reporting with DCPCA's one-on-one interactive BridgeIT technical assistance sessions. To schedule your "BridgeIT Designer/Viewer" technical assistance session, contact Mike Smoot, EHR Data Manager, at msmoot@dcpca.org .

Upcoming External Training Opportunities

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Qual IT Conference - Fall 2019 Monday, September 16 - Tuesday, September 17  Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore, MD Join us at our Qual IT semi-annual conference! This is expected to be our biggest and best conference  yet as we welcome our new member health centers in Maryland and New Jersey to the network! The Qual IT Care Alliance network is a partnership of HealthEfficient, DCPCA, and MACHC. Our network is growing from 27 to 36 member health centers. Join your peers and colleagues to discuss innovations and solutions to advance your health center goals! You will not want to miss this opportunity to hear from outside speakers and meet colleagues new and old. This conference is structured for collaboration and open-discussion so you'll have a chance to learn from and collaborate with your peers.    This conference will feature sessions on exciting topics, including:  Patient engagement through community partners  Oral health integration, including our new large-scale, multi-year, HRSA-funded pediatric oral health project Reducing provider burden  Risk-stratification and care management  Working with payers to maximize revenue and reduce denials  Building or expanding programs to address Opioid Use Disorder  Protecting the information related to substance abuse and compliance with 42 CFR Part 2 The return of our very popular and lively CMO/Medical Director roundtable The kick-off of our new Health Center Controlled Network project period and how it will support your health center We have four "tracks" at this conference, and we encourage people from different departments at your health center to attend:  clinical; operations & rev cycle; executives; and IT.  If your health center is a DCPCA member then you are able to attend this conference for FREE! Further, we will be offering a $500 travel stipend to member health center that sends 3 or more attendees. To secure your spot, register here!

Free Self-Paced Online Trainings on Public Health Topics

Through the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center, c heck out our library of informative and engaging content in the Public Health On Demand training section. These distance accessible training opportunities are available to you anytime, anywhere, and from any device.  Click here .

TEAM Training: Supporting Culturally-Sensitive Cancer Care

The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center offers a new online training, Together, Equitable, Accessible, Meaningful (TEAM) . This no-cost training aims to improve the productivity of patient-provider interactions through individual and systems-level approaches, and it seeks to provide health care professionals with knowledge and strategies to support patient-provider communication and employ culturally sensitive practices. Learning Objectives: Identify factors and barriers that lead to health inequities Describe how implicit bias and assumptions adversely influence patient-provider communication and care Discuss strategies for culturally respectful and affirming interpersonal exchanges with patients T o enroll in this course, visit the Online Academy and use enrollment code TEAMcare.

Free E-Learning Behavioral Intervention for Improving MAT Outcomes

SAMHSA-sponsored Provider Clinical Support Services released a free e-learning program for health professionals, Behavioral Interventions for MAT: Improving Outcomes . It provides information on four evidence-based practices that effectively treat the behavioral aspects of addiction in conjunction with MAT. Participants are eligible to receive continuing education credits upon successful completion of the program.

| DC Primary Care Association (DCPCA) | http://www.dcpca.org/events This publication is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $565,223. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.