Is Your Health Center Ready to Tackle Quality Improvement? |
Four-session Learning Collaborative kicks off next month |
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In November and December, NHCHC will facilitate a Learning Collaborative for health center staff serving people experiencing homeless. These discussions will focus on quality improvement strategies and identifying quality measures that are relevant for serving people who are unhoused.
Session Dates:
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- Nov. 4: Introduction to the Learning Collaborative and basics of quality improvement
- Nov. 18: How do we use existing UDS reporting requirements for quality improvement?
- Dec. 2: What quality measures are important for serving people experiencing homelessness?
- Dec. 16: Building out quality improvement systems
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Post Your Job Listing on Our Careers Page |
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Organizational members of the Council are invited to share their job postings for our job board! Just let our Membership Team know what openings you have, and we'll include the links on our careers page and put the listings in our newsletters to help get the word out!
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Be Part of the Movement by Joining the Council! |
Is your organization's Council membership up to date? Our member-only benefits are extended to all staff of organizational members. Here are just a few:
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- Get an annual conference discount
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| - Join our networks and committees
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| - Receive member-only publications
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| - Help shape the future of the movement
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| Election Day Is in Three Weeks! |
People experiencing homelessness have been disempowered in many ways, including at the ballot box. In our roles as service providers and advocates, it is not only legal but encouraged for us to encourage disenfranchised groups to vote!
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Discussion Will Explore Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Voting |
On Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. CDT, members of the Ellen Dailey Advocacy Committee (a part of the National Consumer Advisory Board), will lead a discussion inviting personal stories from people with lived expertise of homelessness regarding the barriers they faced when trying to vote, and strategies for overcoming those barriers.
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Want to stay up to speed on diagnosing and treating Post-COVID Conditions? Check out the PCC Toolkit from Americares!
And be sure to catch the rest of the year's PCC Online Learning Series courses here.
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Oct. 22: The HITEQ Center will help us examine how health centers can address positive social need screens and operationalize data more effectively for better outcomes. Register here
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Oct. 23: Join CommonSpirit Health, USC Street Medicine, and NHCHC to explore the complex needs of individuals experiencing homelessness during and post hospitalization. Register here
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Council Voices in the News |
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Infected Wounds, Housebound Seniors: Racing to Contain Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Impact, Health Center Staff Put Their Own Hardships Aside (Direct Relief, October 2024) Featuring Cherokee Health Systems and National Association of Community Health Centers
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Personal stories and performances in benefit for Family Health Center of Worcester (Worcester Magazine, October 2024) Featuring Health Center
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Pine Street Inn spreading message that homeless people are allowed to vote (Boston.com, October 2024) Featuring NHCHC
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$26M, 42-unit affordable housing project, Sojourner Place at Park, moves ahead on downtown Baltimore’s West Side (Baltimore Fishbowl, October 2024) Featuring Health Care for the Homeless
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Ripple effects continue 10 years after Boston's Long Island Bridge and shelter, treatment programs closed (WBUR Boston, October 2024) Featuring Boston Health Care for the Homeless
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Replacing vacant buildings with affordable housing in downtown Baltimore (WMAR Boston, October 2024) Featuring Kevin Lindamood of Health Care for the Homeless
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Baltimore's Visionary Project Transforms Hotels into Supportive Housing to Tackle Homelessness (Hoodline, October 2024) Featuring Health Care for the Homeless
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These Massachusetts organizations are leading the Commonwealth to a sustainable energy future with help of the Sponsors of Mass Save (Boston Business Journal, October 2024)
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Oct. 16, 2024 • Volume 7, Issue 9 • Archives
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