What's New
Funding Update
Under the Consolidated
Appropriations Act signed on Friday, March 23, the Health Center Program received a final appropriation for
FY 2018. All health center grantees are currently receiving monthly
funding through Saturday, June 30. HRSA will begin awarding the balance of
funds by Saturday, June 30.
Health Center Quality Leader Digital Badges
If you are one of the 440 health centers that recently received a National or Health Center Quality Leader recognition certificate and would like to post the HRSA Quality Leader badge to your health center’s website and/or social media pages, keep an eye out for an email from us in the coming week. In response to your requests, we are making the badges digitally available!
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 HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) by 5:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, April 11. Technical assistance materials are available on the SAC-AA technical assistance website.
UDS Modernization Initiative:
Welcoming Your Feedback and Innovative Ideas
The UDS Modernization Initiative
aims to reduce reporting burden, improve data quality and usage, and better
reflect Health Center Program services and outcomes. An exciting new
opportunity is now available for continuous stakeholder feedback on the UDS, in
addition to the traditional Federal Register Notice process. Submit questions
or provide feedback via the UDS Modernization Initiative webpage. Access the webpage today to learn
more!
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, with a lifetime risk of 1 in 21 for men and 1 in 23 for women for developing CRC. According to the UDS, health centers provided more than two million patients with recommended colorectal cancer screenings in 2016. Research links early diagnosis of CRC through screening with improved prognosis.
Addressing health disparities is critical—especially around preventive screenings and diagnosis. The percentage of African-American (54.7%) and Hispanic (55.4%) patients who reported receiving a colonoscopy in HRSA’s 2014 Health Center Patient Survey is below the national average of 60.3% (CDC’s National Health Interview Survey, 2015). Health centers also serve a high proportion of uninsured patients, who have lower rates of CRC screening.
Among the 7,002 participants in HRSA’s 2014 survey, of the patients at least 50 years of age:
- 38.1% of uninsured health center patients reported receiving a colonoscopy, compared to 24% of the nation’s uninsured patients (American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Facts and Figure Report, 2017-2018).
- 56.9% of all health center patients living below 100% of the poverty line reported receiving a colonoscopy, compared to 42.8% nationally (CDC’s National Health Interview Survey, 2015).
Read more about disparities in CRC screening.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s
Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS) Funding Opportunity Announcement
CTRIS seeks
applications to develop and test T4 implementation
strategies for preventing and/or managing heart, lung, and blood diseases
and/or sleep disorders (HLBS conditions). For purposes of this funding
opportunity, “T4 Implementation Research” is research to identify strategies to
enhance sustainable uptake of proven-effective interventions into routine
clinical practice. The proposed strategies must be adaptable and responsive to
community needs and contexts, and must account for cultural and organizational
factors. Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 14.
Join a technical assistance webinar for this funding
opportunity:
Wednesday, April 18
12:00-1:00 p.m. ET
Join
the webcast the day of the session, event password: CTRIS123
Call-in: 650-479-3208
Access code: 621 475 006
Submit questions in advance by emailing ctrisgrants@nih.gov by Wednesday, April 11.
Call for Innovative Outreach Practices
Does your health center use outreach-focused activities to provide
diabetes prevention education and care services to your patients? Health
Outreach Partners, a HRSA-funded National Cooperative Agreement (NCA), would
like to feature you in our 2018 Innovative Outreach Practices report. Send your
innovative outreach practices to Project Manager Caitlin
Ruppel by Monday, April 30. You may contact her for questions at 510-268-0091,
ext. 107.
Integrating Primary Care, Oral Health and
Behavioral Health for Older Adults
The National Center for Equitable Care for Elders, a HRSA-funded NCA,
is launching a national
learning collaborative to accelerate learning and collaboration
across community health centers that aim to improve the health outcomes for the
ever-growing older adult population in their communities. The learning
collaborative seeks to improve services for the elderly (65 years and older) through
better evidence based practice, better collaborative and integrated practice,
authentic participation and better use of feedback and clinical outcomes across
all services. Apply
by Friday, March 30.
HUD Policy Brief: Housing Opportunities for
Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) and HOPWA Modernization
The Corporation for Supportive Housing, a HRSA-funded NCA,
recently published a HUD
Policy Brief that highlights the impact and potential for
health centers that utilize the HOPWA program.
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 (AIMS)
grants who 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
Accreditation Initiative and Patient Safety
Resources
HRSA recently hosted a National Patient Safety Week celebration,
focusing on programs and resources that improve health care quality and ensure
patient safety. Here are some of the patient safety and infection control
training and technical assistance resources shared at the onsite celebration:
The
Joint Commission’s Patient Safety/Infection Control Resources
The Joint Commission’s Training and Technical
Assistance Resources:
For additional questions on
accreditation, please contact us.
Workforce Grand Rounds Webinar Recording
Available
In case you missed HRSA’s Workforce Grand Rounds Webinar Series: Successful
Models of Inter-Professional Oral Health and Primary Care Training Programs,
the recording
is now available. You will be able to download the
presentations directly from the recording.
In case you missed it, read last week’s Primary Health Care Digest.
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