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Healthcare Apprenticeship and Training Program in Washington State Expands
Tag: Health Center Workforce
Let’s Innovate Together in 2022!
Launched in the middle of 2021, NACHC’s Center for Community Health Innovation has made impressive progress during our startup phase.
Celebrating Nurses in 2020
When people ask me what my days were like as a Community Health Center nurse, I don’t have a short answer. Health center nurses often find themselves directly engaged in patient care — triaging, administering medications and immunizations and treating wounds, but also navigating patients via phone, calling pharmacies to troubleshoot medications, attending meetings, and …
A Boost for the Primary Care Workforce Pipeline
We are pumped that A.T. Still University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona‘s (ATSU-SOMA’s) work to foster the primary care workforce of tomorrow has been recognized. The university has received a $1,999,650 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) [view press release here]. The funding, which will be …
Young or Young at Heart: Check Out the YP Track at the 2018 CHI
The Young Professionals Leadership Exchange (YPLE) is gearing up for the 2018 Community Health Institute (informally known as C-H-I or CHI (pronounced like chai tea)), beginning this weekend in Orlando. This year’s CHI will once again feature a Young Professionals track, which will kick-off with the YPLE Reception on Sunday, August 26th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in …
Honoring Health Center Heroes
We all know that it takes more than a village to care for the 28 million patients who rely on a health center for their care. It takes a multitude of dedicated health care heroes. In fact, more than 224,000 people work at health centers, including care coordinators, clinicians, community health workers, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, …
What Makes a Health Center Hero?
The theme of this year’s National Health Center Week, “Celebrating Health Centers: Home of America’s Health Care Heroes,” has got us thinking about all of the ways health centers and their staff go above and beyond to treat the more than 27 million patients they see each year. Did you know that health centers have …
Tools for Building a Health Center Workforce
We regularly invite writers to share ideas and topics helpful to the health center community. Today’s guest blog post is by Shannen Camarena, Marketing Coordinator, UST Community Health Centers nationwide face common challenges like recruiting and retaining workforce. According to a NACHC report, 95 percent of all health centers have a clinical staff vacancy and …
NACHC Partners with Colleges to Support Educational Opportunities for Health Center Workforce
Even before the expiration of the Community Health Centers Fund, workforce shortages posed a challenge for health centers. A 2016 NACHC survey found that almost all health centers were experiencing at least one clinical vacancy and more than two-thirds were recruiting for at least one family physician. To combat this problem, NACHC is working with …
Calling All Young Professionals!
The excitement is building for the Young Professional Leadership Exchange Track at this year’s Community Health Institute (CHI)! With less than three weeks to go, the CHI is gearing up to be a well-attended conference in beautiful San Diego – home of the Padres and a very famous line from Anchorman. This year’s Young Professional programming …