Guidance for health center care teams who want to provide education about the new pediatric COVID-19 vaccines for staff and patients.
Communicating About the New Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines
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Medical Respite Care and Housing as Health Care
Learn the importance of medical respite care and how it coordinates with health centers. Medical respite care is not a replacement for housing and housing is health care.
Defending the 340B Program from Every Direction
The 340B Drug Pricing Program has weathered attacks from different health care actors for years. Just months after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers launched attacks by refusing to sell 340B-priced drugs to health centers that use contract pharmacies to increase patient access. This combination of manufacturer restrictions, alongside existing discriminatory contracting actions taken …
Expanding Oral Health Care with Dental Therapists
With more than 61 million people living in areas of the United States designated as Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (Dental HPSAs), it’s important to shine a light on an emerging dental care team provider that is helping community health centers expand access to dental care, the dental therapist. Oral Health in America (NIH 2021) provided …
Mental Health First Aid: NACHC and Americares Award Training Scholarships
Through a partnership, NACHC is helping health centers to expand their support for communities’ mental well-being through training in “mental health first aid.”
Why Protecting 340B Matters
The 340B Drug Pricing Program makes it possible for Community Health Center patients to afford life-saving medications and is an an essential source of support for health centers to stretch increasingly scarce federal resources and reinvest in patient care. Over the course of the past few years, while health centers have been fighting COVID-19, the program …
New Innovation Blog Series: Leading Change
Leading Change was a unique opportunity to be able to work together with the field in offering groundbreaking approaches and novel strategies for delivering virtual care at home
National Diabetes Month: New Prevention and Oral Health Resources
With approximately 35.6% of all Community Health Center patients struggling with diabetes, here are some useful resources available for health centers.
NACHC’s Quality Center: Leading Change with Virtual Care
fronting the challenges of a global pandemic and the need for innovative virtual models of care, NACHC is delivering solutions through the Quality Center.
CDC Launches New Dental Infection Prevention & Control Training
CDC has released a great learning resource, “Foundations: Building the Safest Dental Visit,” a free online, self-paced training.