UDS Clinical Quality Measure Dashboard now available on SharePoint

You can now use the UDS CQM Dashboard to summarize and visualize data on Clinical Quality Measure (CQM) trends at national, state, and health center levels between 2018 and 2022, and for select health center characteristics.

The dashboard provides pre-set options based on common UDS data requests, including:

• Regional, state, and health center annual CQM snapshots
• CQM trends charts from 2018 to 2022
• CQM state and territory maps
• Health centers meeting Healthy People 2030 targets
• Improvement in CQMs between the two most recent reporting years

Learn more about the dashboard. Submit questions via the BPHC Contact Form (Uniform Data System > UDS Data Request > UDS Data Access or UDS Data Interpretation/Validation).

Need communications help? Contact your OSBO communication liaison!

OSBO communication liaisons work with BPHC offices and divisions to support their communication needs. Your liaison is your primary OSBO Communications Division contact and will work with you to navigate communication projects such as:

• Strategizing the best ways to communicate your communication needs
• Helping you develop an effective communication plan
• Promoting new tools, resources, and information
• Launching a new webpage or social media strategy
• Ensuring bureau content is accessible (e.g., 508 compliance and plain language)
• Generating written and visual storytelling

Contact your liaison at any time to discuss your specific projects (ideally at the beginning of a project). Many divisions meet biweekly or monthly with their liaison, depending on need. See the list of liaisons.

Getting to know Andrea Hobby

Editor’s note: Interested in participating in a “Getting to know” column for the first or second time? Take a look at the questions to see what’s involved and check out our Getting to Know BPHC Staff page.

Meet Andrea Hobby, Data Scientist, Data and Evaluation, OQI:

When did you join the Bureau of Primary Health Care? How does your current role contribute to the Health Center Program?

December 2023.

My role will be focused on developing statistical/machine learning models with the UDS+ data when it arrives. I’ll also do research to show the impact of the Health Center Program.

What is one thing your co-workers would be surprised to learn about you, for example, a hidden talent?
I ran the Detroit half-marathon last year.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be:
A professional tennis player.

What special event would you like a VIP pass to attend?
U.S. Open Tennis Championships.

Learn more about Andrea. Email BPHC Insider to submit your name for a future Getting to Know.

TODAY: Black History Month observance — African Americans and the Arts

Join your colleagues today for a presentation to commemorate Black History Month by Dennis Biddle and W. James Cobbin, former Negro League baseball players and members of Yesterday’s Negro League Baseball Players Foundation.

This event is co-sponsored by HHS’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, Diversity & Inclusion and CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; in collaboration with CDC’s Blacks in Government chapter.

1:00-2:15 p.m. ET
Registration page

TODAY: Keynote address for International Data Privacy Day 2024

The HHS Office of Privacy and Information Management invites you to its keynote session commemorating International Data Privacy Day, which was Sunday, January 28. This annual event commemorates the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. Learn about the presenter, University of Michigan Professor Kayte Spector-Bagdady, on the HHS Privacy Skill Up intranet site.

Privacy Challenges for Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Technologies
1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Join the session

White House Initiative on AANHPI detail experiences

Join the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group (ERG) for a panel on temporary detail experiences at the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Wednesday, February 7
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Event details and access

Join the weekly Bible Study Club

Join HRSA’s Bible Study Club for prayer, study, and fellowship Wednesdays at noon ET in room 18NEH01 or virtually. Email Philip Passarelli or Kimberly Sherman for more details.

A round-up of previously announced items

• Watch the January 24 HRSA All-Hands meeting featuring Administrator Carole Johnson, the latest HRSA Scholar graduates, Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) final results, and much more.
• Read about our 2023 accomplishments in the BPHC 2023 Year in Review SharePoint page.
• See the recording of the January 9 CFC Talent Show featuring BPHC staff and the final results of HHS OpDiv/StaffDiv CFC Goals and Contributions.
• See the HRSA Staff Reflects on Dr. King column which commemorated the MLK holiday in the “HRSA Weekly.”
• The Abriendo Puertas workgroup is gathering information through a voluntary survey for all HRSA staff on their Spanish language competency and training needs. Take the survey by TOMORROW (Friday, February 2).
• Download the new internal BPHC resource tool (PDF) to help Program Specialists review change in scope requests that include formal agreements and the updated the Form 5B Accuracy Worksheet (PDF).
• See the 2024 GS Locality Pay tables. You will receive your SF-50 in your eOPF by Friday, February 2, which will reflect the change in pay. You will see the raise in your February 2 paychecks and Leave and Earnings Statement.
• Learn about the Follow Me Print service for the Konica Minolta copiers at 5600 Fishers Lane in the instructions (PDF) and the Scan to Email Print Guide (PDF).
• Learn how to protect your eye health in our January Take 5 to Thrive column, posted in the Take 5 to Thrive archive.
• Check out the 2024 DEIA Challenge (PDF)! DWM will accept submissions at the end of the year, so save a copy on your computer to track your progress.

New EHBs features

Several recent improvements in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) allow users to use the system more efficiently. These changes became effective on Thursday, January 25.

• The Send Email Component attachment feature displays attachments in the attachment section of the email. Previously attachments were shown in the body.
• The Export button changed from Export to Export to Excel on the Search all FTCA Grants – List page. Exporting now generates a list of grants based on your filtered criteria. Previously, exporting pulled the full list of grants regardless of filter selections, requiring people to filter again within the exported spreadsheet.
• The grid on the FTCA Oversight List page now allows multi-column sorting. Previously, only single-column sorting was available. The change allows multiple columns to be sorted ascending or descending.