Clinical Guidelines

Dr. Alexis Hodges, a volunteer nurse practitioner at the Community Care Clinic of Dare in Nag's Head, North Carolina, provides patients with tip sheets and other resources from the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit created by Americares and The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. December 5, 2022. Credit to Mike Demas/Americares

Post-COVID Conditions (PCC) Toolkit for Health Care Professionals from Americares

Post-COVID Conditions (PCC) Toolkit for Health Care Professionals from Americares Nearly half of Americans with post-COVID conditions (PCC) turn to their doctors for guidance. At NHCHC and Americares, we understand the critical role you play and the challenges you may face in staying current on this evolving field. We’re here to support you with the […]

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LL – Service Delivery and Reimbursement Models for Utilizing Nurse-Led Care Across HCH Settings

Nurse-led care models are often underutilized and can have a significant impact on individual patients’ lives and on community and population health outcomes. Co-sponsored with the National Nurse Led Care Consortium (NNCC), this session will discuss various models for building and operating nurse-led care teams across a variety of settings. Speakers will provide case examples

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Meeting People Where They Are: Interprofessional Collaboration in the Community to Support PEH

This session will explore leveraging interprofessional collaboration to reduce healthcare disparities in people experiencing homelessness through innovative care delivery models. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, at a large urban academic medical center, health care for people experiencing homelessness was disparate and siloed. The pandemic necessitated a level of collaboration across professions and organizations that was

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A trauma-informed and multi-disciplinary approach in offering outpatient post-sexual assault care

An increase in homeless patients reporting sexual assaults to clinical and non-clinical members throughout the organization led to the creation of a post-sexual assault treatment protocol to provide trauma-informed care that is initiated at time of disclosure. Post-sexual assault care is often retraumatizing which prevents patients from reporting these assaults to care teams. This protocol

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Implementing a One Health Clinic

Pet ownership in the population experiencing homelessness can be instrumental in the decision and ability to seek health and social services. The “One Health Clinic” was designed to remove barriers to primary healthcare for PEH with pets in the United States and support the human-animal bond to encourage utilization of services. This clinical care model

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Clinical Guidelines: The Importance of Assessing and Addressing Health Management

Health management is an essential task for maintaining a person’s overall health and well-being, particularly for people experiencing homelessness who have increased prevalence and higher onset of chronic health conditions. Health management is defined as “activities related to developing, managing, and maintaining health and wellness routines, including self-management, with the goal of improving or maintaining

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Capacity Building to Increase Health Care Access for People Experiencing Homelessness

  Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) administrators’ knowledge of and adherence to the Health Center Program Compliance Manual (Compliance Manual) is fundamental to increasing access and improving the quality of health care for people experiencing homelessness. The main goals of this Learning Collaborative (LC) are to: identify and discuss promising practices for better adherence

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Expanding Medical Respite Care: Breaking Down Silos through Multi-Sector Collaboration

Collaborative partnerships are crucial to the delivery of high quality, equitable community- based care. While these partnerships are essential, it can be difficult for funders, large health systems, and smaller nonprofits/social service organizations to navigate, understand one another, and to build mutual partnerships that create a lasting impact. As we continue to work to de-silo

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