Clinical Practice

Immigration Enforcement and Health Centers: Knowing Your Rights as a Provider

  Webinar Slides(PDF) In light of recent policy and enforcement activities involving immigrants, this discussion will provide legal background on providers’ rights and responsibilities with regard to law enforcement and the privacy and confidentiality of patients’ identifying information (as well as personal health information). Information related to “sensitive locations,” how front desk and other health […]

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Resources for Building Health Center & Housing Partnerships: Literature Review & Resource Bank

With the growing appreciation of housing as a social determinant of health, health center and housing partnerships are on the rise nationally. Recognizing the layers to developing a health and housing partnership, this Literature Review and Resource Bank is intended to provide background and data resources that can be used in grant applications or in

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Health Centers and Coordinated Entry: How and Why to Engage with Local Homeless Systems

Health center program grantees know the catchphrase, “housing is a social determinant of health,” and many have begun to try to assess and address patients’ housing challenges in order to improve health outcomes. A critical tool available to health centers lies ‘outside the four walls’ of the health center in local homeless coordinated entry systems1,

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Coffee Chat: Reproductive Health

Part of our new “Ethics Coffee Chats” series for clinicians, this discussion will explore ethical issues related to reproductive health. Clinicians often face challenging ethical situations when assisting people of reproductive age who are experiencing homelessness—from knowing which reproductive health issues to discuss with youth without homes to addressing the ethical considerations related to reproductive

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Preventing and Eliminating Burnout in Practice

This webinar was presented on April 18, 2017 as part of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved’s webinar series, Excellence in Team-Based Care for the Underserved. In this session, Dr. Eileen Barrett presents organizational strategies to promote retention and recruitment by reducing burnout and increasing job satisfaction, including: protecting clinicians from unnecessary challenges; providing

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Community Based Supportive Housing Serving Persons with Disabilities at Risk of Institutional Care

Long-term services and supports are a critical resource for individuals who have an intellectual, developmental, behavioral, and/or physical disability.1 Historically in many communities, long- term services and supports were primarily provided in institutional settings such as nursing homes. However with new advances in medical technology and through the Supreme Court Olmstead Decision2 to support independent

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Improving Care for Medically Complex Patients: Medical Respite and Supportive Housing

Medical respite programs are as unique as the individuals and communities they serve. From shelter-based care to stand-alone facilities, medical respite provides a transition for those exiting the hospital who have no permanent residence and are not well enough to return to the street. Hospital partners have seen the benefit of medical respite programs as

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Health Outcomes & Data Measures: A Quick Guide for Health Center & Housing Partnerships

Partnerships between health centers and supportive housing providers employing a “Housing First” approach1 have shown reductions in emergency department utilizations, inpatient hospital stays, and costs to the health system, increased use of preventative primary and behavioral health care as well as high rates of housing retention.2 Clinical outcomes assessing changes in mental health status and

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