What's New
Deadline Reminders
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Service Area Competition Applications with January 1 Starts: Applications for HRSA-20-015, the Service Area Competition (SAC) funding opportunity for service areas with a January 1, 2020, project period start date, are due in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, July 15, and HRSA’s EHBs by 5:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, August 14. TA materials are available on the SAC TA webpage.
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Service Area Competition-Additional Areas: Applications for HRSA-20-090, the Service Area Competition-Additional Areas (SAC-AA) funding opportunity for the Bishop, CA, and Jackson, MI, service areas, are due in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, July 22, and HRSA’s EHBs by 5:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, August 21. TA materials are available on the SAC-AA TA webpage.
Health Center Profile Updates
HRSA has updated the UDS health center profile pages with a 2018 Operational Site Visit Badge for those who achieved 100% compliance during calendar year 2018. (2019 badges will be updated in the fall.) You can also see your health center’s project period length, end date, and any program conditions. Visit the Health Center Program Awardee Data page to access your health center’s profile.
EHBs Diabetes Action Plan User Guide for Health Centers
Health centers receiving an Operational Site Visit or diabetes targeted TA visit in 2019 will participate in a performance analysis review of the health center’s UDS diabetes measure. The health center will identify three performance improvement actions to reduce the percentage of patients with uncontrolled diabetes. HRSA will monitor the health center’s diabetes performance improvement actions using the EHBs Action Plan Module. Access the Diabetes Action Plan User Guide within the EHBs Help and Knowledge Base to learn the system steps.
HUD Policy Briefs for Health Centers
Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), a HRSA-funded National Cooperative Agreement (NCA), offers two new HUD policy briefs:
- In August 2018, HUD launched “All Routes Home: Ending Homelessness in Rural America,” a strategy for building the capacity of rural communities to address the needs of persons experiencing homelessness. HUD Policy Brief on Rural Homelessness: Understanding the Impact and Potential for Health Centers outlines specific steps health centers serving rural areas can take to better connect their consumers experiencing homelessness or housing instability to housing and services.
- Health centers can address social risk factors for their patients through partnerships and linkages to local housing and service resources. Health centers are increasingly working with HUD Continuums of Care (CoCs) to refer patients who are unstably housed or homeless to Coordinated Entry for services and housing interventions. One model of this is Rapid Re-housing, described in this HUD Policy Brief on Rapid Re-Housing: Understanding the Impact and Potential for Health Centers.
Substance Use Disorder & Behavioral Health
Primary Care and Behavioral Health Integration: Building Workforce Capacities
During this HRSA webinar, HRSA-funded health centers will share their unique approaches to developing behavioral health workforce training programs and practices that provide high-quality, integrated behavioral health care.
Wednesday, July 31
3:00-4:30 p.m. ET
Join the webcast the day of the session
Call-in: 877-917-4906
Passcode: 9450742
New Free E-Learning Program on Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
HHS’ Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced a new, free and accredited e-learning program: Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals. The program is designed to develop behavioral health providers' knowledge and skills related to culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS).
HIV
Promising Practice: KC CARE Integrates HIV Testing and PrEP into Primary Care
Learn how KC CARE Health Center in Kansas City, MO, integrates HIV testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) into primary care. KC CARE emphasizes HIV prevention and making HIV treatment and care a continuum. They operate an HIV-integrated care model to provide comprehensive, wraparound service for their patients. Case managers specialize in supporting specific groups like youth, lost-to-care, and families.
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Oral Health and Primary Care Integration for People Living with HIV
HRSA recently hosted a two-part webinar series on oral health and primary care integration to support people living with HIV. The strategies discussed are designed for all HRSA recipients serving people living with HIV regardless of whether the organizations deliver oral health care directly, refer out for all services, or are somewhere in between. Access recordings and slides for the webinars:
Workforce
National Health Service Corps Rural Community Loan Repayment Program Application Webinar
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Rural Community Loan Repayment Program will make fiscal year 2019 loan repayment awards, in coordination with HRSA’s Rural Communities Opioid Response Program initiative to provide evidence-based SUD treatment, assist in recovery, and prevent overdose deaths across the nation. Health care clinicians qualified to provide SUD treatment may be eligible for loan repayment in return for service at an NHSC-approved SUD treatment facility. The application closes Thursday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m. ET.
HRSA will hold several online question and answer sessions. Join a session anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET on these days:
Thursday, July 11
Tuesday, July 16
If you join after a session starts, you can scroll back to past questions.
Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program
HRSA is accepting applications for the fiscal year 2020 Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program. Apply by Friday, August 30. The THCGME Program provides funding to support the training of residents in a new or expanded primary care residency training program in rural and underserved communities.
Join a TA webinar for application questions:
Wednesday, July 10
2:00-3:30 p.m. ET
Join the webcast the day of the session
Call-in: 888-795-2173
Passcode: 4462445
Primary Care and Behavioral Health Integration: Building Workforce Capacities
See announcement above.
Oral Health
Oral Health and Primary Care Integration for People Living with HIV
See announcement above.
Telehealth
HRSA Telehealth Learning Series: The Use of Telehealth to Improve Children’s Access to Health Care
This webinar features speakers from the University of Iowa Division of Child and Community Health and Child Health Specialty Clinics discussing current telehealth initiatives to improve access to pediatric specialty care in Iowa. In addition, the Project Director from the Indiana Rural Health Association/Indiana Rural Schools Clinic Network will share best practices on how to establish school-based telehealth clinics.
Wednesday, July 10
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Register here
Additional Resources
Primary Care and Home Visiting Partnerships to Promote Maternal and Child Health
This HRSA webinar will provide an overview of evidence-based home visiting programs and how health center and home visiting program partnerships can help achieve primary care goals and improve patient outcomes. The presentation will feature experts from HRSA, the Johns Hopkins University, and HRSA-funded health centers to provide insight into the value and development of these partnerships.
Tuesday, July 30
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Register here
Leveraging Technology to Support Outreach: Innovative Outreach Practices from the Field
Health Outreach Partners, a HRSA-funded NCA, published this new resource, which includes examples of how technology can support or complement outreach services nationwide and provides strategies for replication.
Health Equity Starter Kit
Explore Health Outreach Partners’ newly released Health Equity Starter Kit. The purpose of the Starter Kit is to provide health centers a starting point to build a foundation of understanding around health equity.
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