This multi-prong and high-touch vaccination strategy is proving to be very effective and getting hundreds of people who are homeless, or at-risk for homelessness, vaccinated.
Vaccinating Hundreds in Denver’s Homeless Community
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Expanding the COVID Workforce Through Integration of Pharmacy Teams
Photo credit: Holyoke Health Center Pharmacy vaccinates Holyoke public school staff. Clinical pharmacists at community health centers were involved in immunization efforts long before the COVID-19 pandemic, making them well-positioned to become leaders in initiatives to comprehensively protect the public from COVID-19. In response to the pandemic and the emergency need to increase the COVID-19 …
Better Data for Health: Tracking Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data
With correct social data, including SO/GI, we can know exactly how many trans patients receive services at health centers and in turn, health centers can identify opportunities for more culturally and medically adept LGBTQAI+ services.
How Health Centers Are Ensuring Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
While mass COVID-19 vaccination sites continue and vaccinations are being incorporated into routine or other clinic visits, health centers are reaching deep and wide into their communities to ensure they are equitably distributing vaccines. Laura Miller, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at the Community Health Center Network (CHCN), a nonprofit Medi-Cal managed care organization providing business …
How Dentists Can Aid Health Centers’ COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
Using dental providers and staff, who have been trained extensively to give injections both orally and subcutaneously, will help put more COVID-19 shots in arms.
A Progress Report on Health Centers and Vaccinations
Community Health Centers have administered more than 10 million vaccine doses and have increased the number of vaccines they initiate each week by almost five-fold from January 8 to May 7. As they begin the last mile of the vaccination campaign to end the pandemic, their efforts are now directed toward developing successful models to bring …
Clinics Respond to Anti-Asian Hate with Many Kinds of Support
Asian health centers have been uniquely positioned to support communities in trying times.
Lowell Community Health Center: Using Technology to Help Multilingual Patients Access COVID Vaccines
Lowell’s leadership team knew it needed to embrace, invest in, and better leverage technology to best serve its patient community, ensure health equity, and reduce stress and demands placed on staff over the past year.
Q&A: Dr. Kimberly Chang, Asian Health Services
In observance of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, NACHC is featuring leaders in the health center movement. Kimberly S.G. Chang, MD, MPH, is a NACHC Board Member and a Family Physician and Director of Human Trafficking and Health Care Policy at Asian Health Services, a Community Health Center in Oakland, California. Also, view our Q&A with Teresita …
NACHC Launches the Center for Community Health Innovation with Support of RCHN Community Health Foundation
o build on its 50-year history of services and support for the nation’s Community Health Centers, NACHC has launched a new Center for Community Health Innovation (CCHI).