Please join the WVPCA and Dianne Pledgie, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, for a 3-part webinar series discussing 42CFR - Part 2.

 

This webinar series is scheduled for January 15, 2019 - 1:00 pm-2:00 pm, January 17,2019  - 1:00 pm-2:00 pm, and February 1 , 2019 - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm.  Registration is available here.  This webinar series is intended for Community Health Center (CHC) staff involved in medical records management, including, but not limited to: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, CMOs, Behavioral Health and Quality Improvement.  This educational series is intended only for Community Health Center staff.

 

The webinar series will provide an overview of the Part 2 regulations, including the new rules issued in 2017 and 2018.  The first webinar will focus on determining whether Part 2 applies to health center programs and when the health center may be required to comply with Part 2 based upon records it receives from other Part 2 Programs.  The second webinar will identify the required elements of a Part 2 patient consent form and determining whether records protected by Part 2 may be disclosed without patient consent under an exception; and identifying the required elements of the patient notice requirement.  The final webinar will include a series of case studies created from participant questions submitted as part of the webinar series.  Potential topics include determining whether Part 2 applies to various models of providing substance use disorder services in health centers, revising consent and authorization forms for purposes of Part 2 compliance, and determining how Part 2 information can be disclosed to health information exchanges. 

 

Please note - There is only a one-time $75 registration for the series of 3 webinars.  To ensure future access to the archived recording(s) and material(s), please assign someone to represent your health center as the recording(s) will only be available to those who participate on the call due to contractual obligation.

 

Please note - our registration process has changed and is now exclusively online. If you experience any difficulty with the registration process, please contact the WVPCA at 304.346.0032.

Please join the WVPCA for a one-hour webinar, Telling the Story: Use of Genograms in Assessment & Treatment . Understanding how adolescent patients view their world is critical in having successful outcomes, although connecting with these patients can sometimes pose a challenge.  As part of this webinar, participants will learn ways to maximize the collection of information in the initial assessment through the use of storytelling by the patient and constructing a genogram to capture the information.  This training is targeted to West Virginia Community Health Center Behavioral Health Clinicians.

 

This webinar is scheduled for January 24, 2019 at noon at no cost to the participant. Registration is available here .

 

Please note - our registration process has changed and is now exclusively online. If you experience any difficulty with the registration process, please contact the WVPCA at 304.346.0032.

According to a recent release from HHS, U.S. Surgeon General Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams issued an advisory in December stressing the importance of protecting children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction and associated health risks by immediately addressing the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use.

 

E-cigarette use among youth has skyrocketed in the past year at a rate of epidemic proportions. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration's National Youth Tobacco Survey, the percentage of high school-age children reporting past 30-day use of e-cigarettes rose by more than 75 percent between 2017 and 2018. Use among middle school-age children also increased nearly 50 percent.

 

For facts about the risk of e-cigarettes, and how to protect our youth, visit:

e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov.

Read the entire release here. 

Quarterly 340B Program site registration is open from January 1 to 15. Health centers are still able to register a site that has been verified as implemented and with a site status reflected as "active" in HRSA's Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) Form 5B through Friday, February 22, after which the system will close to prepare for the April 1 start. Email the 340B call center or call 888-340-2787 (Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. ET) to register a new site or ask questions.

You will need to provide the following information when calling:

The authorizing official will receive an email message that the account is unlocked and a registration may be submitted.

Access to report Uniform Data System (UDS) data for calendar year 2018 is now available to health centers through HRSA's Electronic Handbooks (EHBs). All HRSA-supported health centers are required to submit complete and accurate UDS reports by Friday, February 15.

Upon successful submission, we will assign your UDS Report to a UDS Reviewer who will work with you to finalize your data submission through March. You are not permitted to change your center's UDS report after Sunday, March 31. It is critical that you submit your report on time and make sure that the data is verifiably accurate.

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment to people with substance use disorders and those at risk of developing these disorders.

To promote continuous quality improvement in SBIRT implementation, the Health Information Technology, Evaluation, and Quality Center (HITEQ), a HRSA-funded National Cooperative Agreement (NCA), will host a webinar on promising practices for the use of health IT to facilitate SBIRT workflow integration.

Thursday, January 17  | 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET  | Registration is available here. 

The discussion will focus on:

It will also feature the experiences and practices of health centers that are currently using health IT to facilitate SBIRT service delivery. For questions, please contact [email protected].

A few months ago, HRSA created this graphic, which illustrates what to expect after submitting a Service Area Competition (SAC) or Renewal of Designation (RD) application to HRSA. Take a look to learn more about the updated HRSA review process.

A new quick reference guide tells SAC and RD applicants how to manage correspondence requests from HRSA about their application. It will help you respond quickly to the 14-day turnaround time in EHBs.

For more details, check out our fiscal year 2019 SAC and RD application and review award process Frequently Asked Questions .

The  National Health Service Corps (NHSC) provides financial assistance to health care professionals in exchange for a commitment to work at approved sites in high-need, underserved areas. This week the NHSC opened the application cycle for two programs - its Loan Repayment Program (LRP) and a new Substance Use Disorder Workforce LRP (SUD Workforce LRP). Both applications close on Thursday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Office of Quality Improvement in HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care invites you to learn about best practices, challenges, and successes related to improving cervical cancer screening rates. La Red Health Center, 2018 Clinical Quality Improvement Award Recipient for cervical cancer screening, will share activities that have significantly improved their screening rates. OCHIN (a Health Center Controlled Network) will present their quality improvement strategies related to Health IT and electronic health records (EHR) to strengthen the quality of care at health centers. All health centers, PCAs, HCCNs are invited to join this session.

 

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET

Join the webcast the day of the session

Call-in: 888-233-9404 |  Passcode: 9859485

With support from the CDC,  Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO), the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity to CHCs to pilot a breastfeeding support model. In addition to funding, NACCHO will provide technical assistance (TA) to CHCs as they explore and adopt policy system and environmental change solutions to increase their capacity to provide consistent and coordinated breastfeeding promotion and support services to the families they serve.

 

NACCHO will select three to six CHCs to design and implement a 6-month breastfeeding promotion and support project.  Organizations will be awarded up to $20,000 each. 

Online application submissions are due on January 6, 2019.

For more information about the application and to apply, please visit: https://application.naccho.org/Public/Awards/Detail/244 

You will be prompted to create a free NACCHO online account in order to apply.

A new SAMHSA report discusses Medicaid coverage of FDA-approved medications for treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorders, limitations on coverage (such as prior authorization requirements), federal laws and policies and state-level innovative practices and policies.

If your providers have questions about how to treat pregnant or parenting women with substance/opioid use disorder, these resources may help:

HHS is soliciting written comments on the proposed objectives for Healthy People 2030. The public can comment on the proposed objectives and also propose their own objectives. Previous public comments on the proposed Healthy People 2030 framework helped shape the vision, mission, foundational principles, plan of action, and overarching goals for Healthy People 2030. In this public comment period, HHS would like input on the proposed Core, Developmental, and Research objectives.

In response to stakeholder input, Healthy People 2030 will be a streamlined set of national health objectives guiding the nation in efforts to improve health. Heathy People 2030 will continue to represent critical public health priorities by addressing the leading causes of morbidity and mortality and driving action at the national, state, and local levels.

NIDCR will host a webinar on Thursday January 10, 2019, from 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm EST  to update the public on the status of the new Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health, and to request public input to help guide development of the report.   The webinar is free and open to the public; no registration is required.  A link will be provided here: https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/news-events/webinar-surgeon-general-report-oral-health  . The webinar will also be recorded and archived for future viewing.

How to Submit Comments

Written comments on the upcoming Surgeon General's Report must be received on or before January 25, 2019.

Interested persons or organizations are invited to submit written views on oral health, including the importance of poor oral health as a public health issue, contemporary issues affecting oral health, new knowledge that may transform the oral health of the nation, and future directions.  Please note that comments received, including any supplemental material provided with the comments, are part of the public record and subject to public disclosure. Do not include any information in your comment or supporting materials that you consider confidential or inappropriate for public disclosure. NIDCR will carefully consider all comments submitted and may include relevant information in the upcoming Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health.

Information about the upcoming Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health was first published in a previous  Federal Register Notice  on July 27, 2018.