Certify Your Staff In Mental Health First Aid!

Prepare your patient-facing staff with tools to address their safety concerns and compassionately support individuals struggling. Benefits of this OPCA-led training include:

• Addressing common mental health concerns encountered by adults.​​
• Reducing stigma.
• Encouraging an open dialogue about mental health.​​
• Helping people recognize the signs and symptoms of mental health or substance use challenges and offer support.​​
• Learning self-help strategies for staying mentally well.​​
• Increasing literacy for mental health and substance use.​

Virtual and in-person options are available!

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Registration for Oregon's 2024 Summer PrEP Connect is Open

Join the Oregon AETC on June 28th as we reconvene stakeholders to learn about HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) updates and identify evolving opportunities for innovation and collaboration in Oregon.

Clinicians, pharmacists, social workers, program administrators, public health, STI/HIV Outreach Workers, and individuals working with people who use substances are encouraged to attend.

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Upcoming Webinar | From Volume to Value: Preparing for Value-Based Payment Coding

As we move closer to Value-Based Care – it is important to understand how coding will be affected. Capturing the most specific and descriptive diagnosis codes will be vital to accurately portray the patient encounter.

In this session, you will learn about health equity and why it is important, how risk adjustment and HCC coding will play a role, and about SDOH Z codes and CPT II codes, what they are, where to find them, and the documentation requirements to use them. The aim of the presentation is to raise awareness of value-based payment and how it will impact coding.

Learning Objectives

• What is health equity and why is it important?
• Importance of value-based coding.
• Understanding SDOH Z codes and CPT II codes.

Tuesday, June 18th | 11:00am-12:00pm PST

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Expanded Hours Funding Opportunity

HRSA is making available $60 million for approximately 120 grants to help HRSA-funded health centers expand their operating hours to make it easier for patients to get health care.

Expanded hours may include early weekday mornings, weekday evenings, and weekends when access to primary care may otherwise be limited or nonexistent in a community. By offering more times for patients to receive primary care, health centers will serve more people throughout the day and reduce wait times to see providers.

Applications are due in Grants.gov on Monday, June 24, and in HRSA's Electronic Handbooks on Tuesday, July 23. Visit the Expanded Hours webpage for the Notice of Funding Opportunity, technical assistance (TA) information, and other resources. 

HRSA will host a TA webinar for applicants:

Thursday, June 6 | 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET

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Upcoming Webinar Series: Value-Based Payment

NACHC has announced the launch of a FREE Value-Based Payment (VBP) learning series designed to meet health centers and health center partners along the VBP readiness continuum – from Planning, to Implementing, to Optimizing.

This series is designed for individuals who are directly supporting health center VBP activities such as those in leadership, finance, clinical, and quality improvement. 

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Notice of Funding Opportunity for New Access Points Now Available

HRSA recently announced that applications to establish New Access Points (NAPs) are now open to expand access to affordable, high-quality primary health care, including mental health and substance use disorder services, for underserved communities and populations. HRSA will only be able to make awards for this Notice of Funding Opportunity if Congress appropriates additional funds for the Health Center Program in fiscal year (FY) 2025.

HRSA-funded health centers operate more than 15,000 service sites nationwide. If Congress appropriates additional funding in FY 2025, these NAPs will expand the number of health centers in the HRSA Health Center Program and help HRSA-funded health centers open new locations. NAP applicants may be currently funded health centers, look-alikes, or new organizations (those not yet part of the Health Center Program).

Applications are due in Grants.gov on August 15, 2024, and in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks on September 30, 2024. Visit the New Access Points webpage for the Notice of Funding Opportunity and resources to help develop your application.

HRSA will host a Question and Answer webinar for applicants:

Thursday, June 13

1:00-2:15 p.m. ET

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FY25 Quality Improvement Fund – Transitions in Care for Justice-Involved Populations

Now accepting applications: HRSA/BPHC Notice of Funding Opportunity via BPHC annual Quality Improvement Fund, which supports one-time funds to support innovative projects in health centers. This opportunity is focused on transitions to care for justice-involved populations.

The QIF-Transitions in Care for Justice-Involved Populations NOFO is live here.

Grants.gov Application Due Date: June 10, 2024

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