What's New
May 1 Start Date? Review Your Patient Target
We recently updated patient targets for Health Center Program award recipients with a May 1 budget period start date. On Thursday, May 27, we sent an email message to the Authorizing Officials and Project Directors of these health centers, which indicated whether the health center would complete a fiscal year (FY) 2022 Service Area Competition (SAC) or Budget Period Progress Report. The email also included a direct link to the updated patient target. Health centers that will complete an FY 2022 SAC for awards starting May 1, 2022, should review their patient target and take appropriate action in EHBs by Thursday, June 17.
View the recorded tutorial of the EHBs Patient Target Management Module. Other resources are available on the SAC TA webpage , including how to access your patient target in EHBs.
Submit questions using the BPHC Contact Form (select “Patient Targets” on the “BPHC Category” screen).
Optimizing Virtual Care Funding Opportunity
FY 2022 Optimizing Virtual Care (OVC) applications are due in Grants.gov on Friday, July 16, and in EHBs on Tuesday, August 17. Visit the OVC TA webpage for the Notice of Funding Opportunity, pre-recorded TA webinar, and other resources. Submit questions using the BPHC Contact Form (select “Health Center” on Question screen, “Applications” for Issue Type, and “Optimizing Virtual Care (OVC)” for Issue Sub-type).
TODAY! Join the OVC applicant question and answer session:
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If you prefer to join by phone: 833-568-8864
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Funding for Training and Technical Assistance Partner Organizations
New FAQs are available for Primary Care Associations, National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAPs), and Health Center Controlled Networks to support development of their American Rescue Plan submissions by Monday, June 28.
COVID-19
Health Center COVID-19 Weekly Survey
As a reminder: Due to Memorial Day, the current survey is not due until Wednesday, June 2, at 11:59 p.m. your local time.
We know you have a lot on your plates and we appreciate your effort to share this important information. As part of our continuous improvement efforts, we reviewed the survey, aiming to reduce the number of questions. Beginning this Friday, June 4, we’re removing four questions: 4, 8, 13, and 14. (Visit our website for the text of the questions.) We also simplified the answers for question 5, which asks about the time it takes to receive test results. We did not make any updates to the addendum.
We’ll update our website to reflect these changes by Friday.
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Vaccine Administration in Dental Clinics Job Instruction Sheet
The National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA) has worked with health center dental leaders engaged in delivering COVID-19 vaccines to develop this job instruction resource for dental providers. This tool is intended as a resource to train dental providers on the new processes for vaccine administration. NNOHA is a HRSA-funded NTTAP.
The First Three Months: COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment
This publication by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) evaluates health centers' challenges with administering the vaccine in the first three months of vaccine deployment. NACHC is a HRSA-funded NTTAP.
 Health centers across the nation have distinguished themselves in responding to the current pandemic. Here’s a recent example:
Santa Clara County Partners with the 49ers to Make Strides to Vaccinate Teens
Thanks to support from the Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program, Santa Clara County partnered with the San Francisco 49ers last month to get more teens vaccinated through a series of youth nights at Levi’s Stadium.
As of May 10, only 16% of 16- and 17-year-olds in Santa Clara County were fully vaccinated. The teen vaccination nights held May 11-13 sought to increase that percentage.
Several thousand high school students from the area came to the mass vaccination site, urging their peers to follow their lead through TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. As a result of the Levi’s Stadium clinics, nearly 3,000 teens age 16-18 were vaccinated. Read this recent CBS San Francisco Bay Area article to learn more.
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How is your health center helping your community address COVID-19? Send your story to our Health Center Stories inbox. We are especially interested in hearing about efforts to promote equity in vaccine distribution and boost vaccine confidence. We may share your story in future issues of the Digest, on Today with Macrae webcasts, or via HRSA social media.
If sharing a photo, please include a high-resolution image along with the names of everyone in the picture, and make sure each person has signed a HRSA Photo Release Form.
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These COVID-19 related items ran in previous issues of the Digest.
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Vaccine Equity in Action: Public Health and Primary Care Connection
Join HRSA’s webinar series to explore vaccine confidence in affected communities, identify promising practices, and share experiences and expertise regarding vaccine equity and best practices for vaccine education. View the pages for date/time and registration.
Health Center COVID-19 FAQs
We continue to update our COVID-19 FAQs webpage. Other resources:
Behavioral Health
Quick Guide for Supporting the Behavioral Health of Sexual Minority Men
Although many sexual minority men maintain healthy behaviors, research has shown that as a population, they are at greater risk for substance use disorders (SUD) and mental health problems. The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center’s quick guide overviews the risks, the contextual factors driving those risks, and potential interventions to mitigate the root causes. The center is a HRSA-funded NTTAP.
Intersection of Substance Use, HIV, and HCV: What Behavioral Health Providers Need to Know
Patients co-diagnosed with HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and SUD face unique challenges—and their care challenges providers. Access to medical treatment, substantially disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, has further complicated the unique needs of patients with multiple diagnoses.
In this webinar series, experts from the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center will discuss emerging and important SUD, HIV, and viral HCV topics.
Sessions take place from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET:
Part 1: Alcohol, HIV, and HCV – Wednesday, July 7
Part 2: Opioids, HIV, and HCV – Wednesday, September 8
Part 3: Stimulants, HIV, and HCV – Wednesday, October 13
HIV
Participate in HRSA's HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day Twitter Thread Campaign
Join our #HRSAHonorsHIVSurvivors Twitter thread campaign in honor of HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day. It begins today and will continue through Saturday, June 5, which is both HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day and the 40th anniversary of when the first five cases of what later became known as AIDS were officially reported. #HRSAHonorsHIVSurvivors will promote advancements in HIV care and treatment, honor the lives of people with HIV, and support people with lived experience in sharing their stories.
@HRSAgov will tweet five messages connected to HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day. Please post your own content to our Twitter thread or comment on, like, and retweet the posts each day. Use the hashtag #HRSAHonorsHIVSurvivors throughout this week-long campaign.
Intersection of Substance Use, HIV, and HCV: What Behavioral Health Providers Need to Know
See announcement above.
Workforce
New Site Application Extended
Apply now to be a new National Health Service Corps (NHSC) site. This year, previously approved sites that have become inactive may also apply to recertify their approved status during the open cycle. Your site may be eligible if you provide outpatient, ambulatory, and primary health care services (medical, dental, and behavioral health) to populations residing in high-need urban and rural areas. Additional eligible site types include facilities providing general SUD treatment, a medication-assisted treatment program, or an opioid treatment program. Applications are due Thursday, July 1, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Learn more.
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Pre-Register for the Upcoming Virtual Job Fair
HRSA’s next Virtual Job Fair will take place later this month.
Wednesday, June 23
7:00-10:15 p.m. ET
In addition to being a NHSC- or Nurse Corps-approved sites, your organization must:
- Need to fill at least one medical, nursing, dental or behavioral health position at a site located in an underserved community.
- Have a completed profile on the Health Workforce Connector with the opportunities you will promote during the Virtual Job Fair listed.
Promote your job opportunities: Pre-register by Wednesday, June 16.
Newly Updated: NNOHA Workforce Manual
This updated chapter of the NNOHA Operations Manual provides helpful tools and resources for tackling issues related to workforce in health center dental programs, including recruitment and retention strategies, academic partnerships, and staffing ratios.
HRSA-funded NTTAPs invite health centers to join these upcoming learning collaboratives:
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The Two Pandemics Impacting Asians and Asian Americans: Anti-Asian Racism & COVID-19: Join the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations to learn about the two pandemics impacting Asian and Asian-American community members: anti-Asian racism and COVID-19. Participants will explore diverse perspectives of the two pandemics and highlight innovative care models for Asian- and Asian American-serving community health centers. Apply by 5:00 p.m. your local time TODAY.
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Strengthening Responses for Farmworkers on Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking during COVID-19: Explore the impact of the pandemic and domestic violence on farmworkers and innovations to increase vaccine access and safety supports. Faculty from Futures Without Violence will share a new universal education tool that the cohort will help inform and refine, and the new tool will be disseminated nationally following the learning collaborative. Learn the evidence-based “CUES” approach. Apply by Friday, June 11.
Addressing Provider Burden
Join the Health Information Technology, Evaluation, and Quality (HITEQ) Center in peer-to-peer learning and discussion about electronic health record training practices, and workflow and documentation support to reduce provider burnout. Participants will be encouraged to consider the broad scope of provider burnout and the opportunities their particular settings may have for meaningful interventions. Learn more or register (under “Resource Links”). The HITEQ Center is a HRSA-funded NTTAP.
Additional Resources
Webinar Series: Introduction to Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring
HRSA will host a two-part webinar series on self-measured blood pressure monitoring (SMBP). In Part 1, speakers from HRSA, CDC’s Million Hearts® initiative, and NACHC will highlight key resources for health centers to use and reference as they prepare to implement SMBP. In Part 2, HRSA-funded health centers will share their experiences planning for and implementing SMBP, including challenges and best practices learned along the way.
SMBP 101: Best Practices for Implementing SMBP
Friday, June 11
1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Register here
SMBP 102: Challenges and Lessons Learned Implementing SMBP (Stories from the Field)
Thursday, June 24
12:30-2:00 p.m. ET
Register here
NTTAP Directory
NACHC created this online organizational directory of the 21 HRSA-funded NTTAPs that provide targeted training and TA to community health centers.
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