What's New
SAC-AA HRSA-18-108 Deadline Reminder
Applications
for HRSA-18-108, the Service Area Competition-Additional Areas (SAC-AA) funding
opportunity for the Newark, New Jersey, and York, Pennsylvania, service areas
are due in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday,
March 27, and in HRSA’s EHBs by 5:00 pm ET on Wednesday, April 11. Technical
assistance materials are available on the SAC-AA
technical assistance website.
Behavioral Health Job Fair
On April 11, HRSA is hosting a Virtual Job Fair specifically for behavioral health professionals. Create your searchable profile on the Health Workforce Connector in advance so employers can find you before or after the event. During this online job fair, representatives from 100+ health care organizations nationwide will be available to discuss their open positions for:
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers
- Licensed Professional Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses, specializing in behavioral health
- Physician Assistants specializing in behavioral health
Employers will discuss their organization’s benefits, their clinical environments (including approaches to integrated care), the populations they serve, and the rewards of providing care in their communities. You can meet with sites of interest in “virtual rooms,” where each site makes a 15-minute presentation followed by a question and answer period. At the end of the job fair, the site’s information, job openings, and contact information will be provided to you for follow-up. Register today.
AHRQ's Tools to Promote Patient Involvement
"Questions Are the Answer," AHRQ's ongoing public education initiative on patient involvement, offers several information tools to help clinicians and their patients communicate to make health care safer. AHRQ's website features these valuable tools:
- A seven-minute DVD of patients and clinicians discussing the importance of asking questions and sharing information, which is ideal for a lobby or waiting room area.
- A brochure, titled "Be More Involved in Your Health Care: Tips for Patients," that offers helpful suggestions to follow before, during and after a medical visit.
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Notepads to help patients prioritize the top three questions they wish to ask during their medical appointment.
"Questions Are the Answer" is designed to promote safer care and better health outcomes. To request a free supply of these materials, email AHRQpubs@ahrq.hhs.gov or call 800-358-9295.
National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program
Primary care medical, dental, and mental and behavioral health
clinicians can receive up to $50,000 to repay their health profession student
loans in exchange for a two-year commitment to work at NHSC-approved sites in
high-need, underserved areas. Applications
are due Monday, April 23, before 7:30 p.m. ET. Learn more about the NHSC Loan
Repayment Program.
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NHSC State Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) Notice of Funding Opportunity
Eligible state and U.S. territory entities may apply for the NHSC SLRP to assist them in operating their state educational loan repayment programs for primary care providers serving in Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) in their state. This year, SLRP has added a new discipline, substance abuse counselors, to the list of health professionals who may apply for the program in their state. Applications are due Monday, May 7, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Prospective applicants should visit the NHSC SLRP page for more information or the HRSA Grants page to begin the application process.
Resources
Workforce
Strategies for Developing Integrated Primary Care Behavioral Health and
Substance Use Disorder Services
Join HRSA as we highlight two awardees of Access Increases for Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Services grants that have developed innovative
strategies to meet AIMS goals. One health center will discuss how they
leveraged academic partnerships to recruit behavioral health staff, while the
second health center will discuss how they strategically developed their
medication-assisted treatment (MAT) program to fit the needs of their
community.
Wednesday March 28
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Join
the webcast the day of the session
Call-in: 888-889-6572
Passcode: 9405125
Clarifying HIPAA Privacy Rules for Mental Health and Addiction
Crises
The National Council for Behavioral Health
will host a webinar to explain the rules and regulations surrounding HIPAA and
new guidance from HHS' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on what patient
information a provider can and cannot share.
Monday, March 19
12:00-1:00 p.m. ET
Register here
Hear how OCR's new guidance relates to the
opioid epidemic, the rules on sharing patient information with friends, family,
and other providers and how providers can empower consumers and family members
to exercise their rights.
How Can Your Health Center Increase Colorectal
Cancer Screening?
These
resources may be useful to health centers interested in increasing screening
rates:
Stay tuned to
the next week's Digest for resources to support patient education.
NIDAMED
Clinician Education and Outreach on Substance Use Tools and Resources
NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
offers CME/CE courses
for clinicians such as “Collaborative Care Approaches for Management of Opioid
Use Disorder (OUD)” and “Identification, Counseling and Treatment of OUD.”
NIDAMED also offers clinicians access to patient screening tools including the NIDA-Modified
ASSIST Tool and the Screening Tools for Adolescent Substance Use. To
learn more visit NIDAMED.
CMS Safety-Net
Providers Open Door Forum
This conference call is your opportunity for live dialogue with CMS; it
is intended for all stakeholders who interact with CMS or work with consumers
who rely on services that CMS provides.
Wednesday, March 21
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Call-in: 800-837-1935
Conference ID #: 31647889
TTY services: 711 or 800-855-2880
Please dial-in at least 15 minutes prior to call start time.
Access an audio recording of the call beginning at 5:00 p.m.
ET on Wednesday, March 21, by calling 855-859-2056; conference ID: 31647889.
The recording expires after two business days.
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