COVID-19 News
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NACHC Conferences, Webinars, and Trainings |
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Save the Date for the 2022 Policy & Issues Forum!
Marriott Marquis, Washington, DC
Conference: February 14-17, 2022
Committee Meetings: February 12-13, 2022
Hybrid Event
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Thursday, December 16, 2021 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Please join NACHC for an overview of the latest 340B Litigation and Federal legislation. This webinar will provide an overview on 340B contract pharmacy litigation, and the impact on health centers; an update on the 340B Alternative Dispute Resolution litigation; federal legislation and advocacy; and insights into 2022 and the road ahead.
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Thursday, December 16, 2021 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET
The December Office Hours will revisit an earlier presentation by focusing on creating a Patient Assistant Program (PAP) at health centers. This outlines the processes that need to be established to identify patients, gather information, and track services from submission to reordering.
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Friday, December 17, 2021 | 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET
NACHC will host a facilitated discussion going over the main areas of the "No Surprise Billing Act" and the Good Faith Estimate provision challenges. This webinar will provide insight into this regulation that will go into effect in January 2022.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET
Combatting the spread of misinformation of the COVID-19 vaccine and other health issues among busy parents requires health centers to leverage many different types of partners and communication platforms to meet parents where they are online. In this webinar session, learn about micro-influencer culture and how your health center can build its capacity to successfully engage with local or “micro” social media influencers in disseminating health information to parents in your communities. Featured panelists include influencer marketing expert Morra Aarons-Mele, EVP, Social Impact, Geben Communication and award winning parent blogger and story teller, Elayna Fernández, founder of thePositiveMOM.com.
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January 19 – 20, 2022 | All-Virtual
Early bird registration deadline: January 5, 2022
NACHC's Starting with Success: Building and Enhancing Your Health Center is a “Health Center 101” training designed specifically to provide health center leaders with a foundational and comprehensive overview of HRSA’s Health Center Program. Whether you are new to the Health Center movement or a seasoned leader seeking a refresher training. |
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April 13 – 14, 2022 | All-Virtual
Early bird registration deadline: March 30, 2022
FOM 1 provides an in-depth understanding of grants management, budgeting, profitability, and Medicare cost reporting. This basic-level seminar approved for up to 8.5 CPE credits.
May 25 – 26, 2022 | All-Virtual
Early bird registration deadline: May 11
FOM 2 provides mid-career level and established CEOs, CFOs, COOs, Controllers, Finance Managers, and accountants with insight and understanding of the core qualities needed to approach the business aspects of financial operations, management, and service delivery. This is an intermediate-level seminar approved for up to 11.4 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.
June 22 – 23, 2022 | All-Virtual
Early bird registration deadline: June 8
FOM 3 provides established CEOs, CFOs, COOs, Controllers, Finance Managers, and accountants with high-level approaches to concepts of management and leadership, leveraging data for decision-making, creating high-performing teams, and defining the principles of an effective compliance program for health centers. This is an advanced-level seminar approved for up to 9 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.
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Call for Grassroots Awards Nominees
During the upcoming Policy & Issues Forum in Washington, DC, NACHC will recognize the 2022 Grassroots awardees. Do you know someone that has gone above and beyond in their efforts to ensure that their Members of Congress actively supported health centers, or established and expanded grassroots advocacy efforts for their health center or in their state? Please send your nominations to Susan Burton ([email protected]) by Friday, December 17. Your nomination should include a few sentences explaining why you are nominating them.
There are two different awards:
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NACHC Grassroots Hall of Fame – The NACHC Grassroots Hall of Fame members have all made lasting contributions to ensuring the creation, survival, and strength of health centers and the Health Center Movement through their dedicated and tireless efforts over many years.
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The Elizabeth K. Cooke Advocacy MVP Award - The NACHC Grassroots MVP Award is named in honor of the late Elizabeth K. (Betsey) Cooke whose constant effort and unflagging persistence as an advocate for America’s health centers and health center patients set an example for all health center advocates to follow.
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Our newest podcast episode focuses on how School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are approaching vaccinating kids against COVID-19. We spoke with experts from the School-Based Health Alliance; and NACHC’s Senior Fellow Jennie McLaurin, MD, to learn more about SBHCs and why they are critical to protecting the health and well-being of pediatric populations.
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This action bolsters recent efforts by many states since mid-2020 to make Medicaid telehealth policies permanent. The CMS Toolkit both makes clear that states have maximum flexibility to design their Medicaid telehealth policies as they see fit – which includes permitting audio-only services – and that health centers must be receive their federally mandated reimbursement for these services. NACHC and health center advocates had been raising this issue with Members of Congress and CMS.
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NACHC is pleased to announce that three veteran clinicians have joined the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) as Senior Fellows for Public Health Integration and Innovation. Their efforts will focus on key public health priorities that span equity, health disparities, public health integration, system transformation, innovation, and fostering new models of care that improve patient outcomes. The Senior Fellows are essential to NACHC’s work in providing clinical guidance, training, and support to health centers in an effort to improve the quality of care and widen access to services at health centers. The NACHC Senior Fellows have longstanding public health experience, credentials, and experience with health centers.
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EXTENDED THROUGH JANUARY 20, 2022! Americares and NACHC Release Mental Health First Aid Instructor Training Opportunity
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an initiative to expand understanding of mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) and make resources available to those who need them. The 8-hour training teaches individuals how to identify risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.
Click here to learn more about MHFA and how it can benefit your community.
NACHC and Americares are awarding MHFA Instructor Adult Training Scholarships to ten Community Health Centers and/or Primary Care Associations to sponsor one staff member each to become a certified MHFA instructor through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The Americares scholarship will provide the organization:
- $2,500 at the completion of the MHFA Instructor Adult Training
- $1,250 following the receipt of a report describing the completion of the first MHFA class with a minimum of five (5) and a maximum of thirty (30) attendees to include impact stories and photos
- $1,250 following the receipt of a report describing the completion of the two additional MHFA classes with a minimum of five (5) and a maximum of thirty (30) attendees to include impact stories and photos
To be considered for Instructor Adult Training, candidates must be selected to receive the scholarship from Americares and NACHC and then will be directed to submit an application to the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. This is not due until you are notified you have been selected. MHFA Instructor Adult Training consists of in-person or virtual training. Certified MHFA instructors are required to deliver a minimum of three (3) MHFA 8-hour course trainings over the course of a year to maintain instructor certification.
This application must be completed in its entirety and submitted via the application link below by January 20, 2022, at 8 pm EST to be considered for this training. Decisions will be made in early February, and all applicants will be notified shortly after. If you have any questions, please contact Binta Ceesay at [email protected].
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The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is conducting a comprehensive environmental scan to identify initiatives aimed at improving the care of Black patients living with serious illness, and their families. Your response will help CAPC identify and disseminate promising practices. Please be part of the first scan of its kind on this topic. The questionnaire should take less than 5 minutes to complete.
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Health Centers are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic response and thus received a tremendous amount of support in the form of grant funds from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This publication reviewed five health centers' grants management processes for COVID funds and checked for compliance with the federal rules and regulations.
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Learning Collaborative Database
Looking for small group learning opportunities with other health centers around the country? HRSA’s National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAPs) design and implement Learning Collaboratives. Learning Collaboratives allow health center peers to come together to study and apply operations, leadership, and quality improvement methodology to focused topic areas.
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