#CoCHCs, vote for your favorites in NACHC’s National Health Center Week photo and video contest by Friday afternoon! Northwest Colorado Health and Peak Vista Community Health Centers have entries! Go to healthcenterweek.org/2018contestfinalists/ #NHCW18 #CHCSuperPower
2018 Picture & Video Contest Finalists
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Congratulations to the 2018 NHCW Picture & Video Contest finalists! VOTE NOW! Click here for voting options. Pictures: Videos: Annette James- Care Alliance Health Center Cecilia Quintero…#CoCHCs are key economic drivers. Ross Brooks, Mountain Family Health Centers, and Pam McManus, Peak Vista Community Health Centers, discussed it with Eric Galatas, PNS NEWS #CHCsInnovate
Report: Colorado Community Health Centers Key Economic Drivers
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado's community health centers not only provide top-notch care, they're also boosting state and local economies, according to new research. A report released today quantifies direct contributions, such as payroll and goods and services purchased from local businesses...Community Health Centers bring economic activity and health care careers to communities across Colorado. See the new economic impact analysis here: ow.ly/jg7X30lS6yR #CoCHCs #CHCsInnovate
We’ve been in Breckenridge today hosting the Clinical Integration Summit! We started the morning with a presentation on addressing implicit bias in Community Health Centers, then moved into a panel discussion on Medication Assisted Treatment for opioid use disorder featuring a dental, medical, and behavioral health director. After lunch, we discussed a team-based care approach to diabetes prevention and management and then had small group discussions on how to enhance integrated care. What a day! Thank you to all of the amazing Colorado CHCs who participated! #CoCHCs #IntegratedCare
Legal problems can make people sick. Read @Michael Booth’s article @The Colorado Trust about an innovative partnership at Salud Family Health Centers that’s addressing the issue: ow.ly/NPLd30lLhHG #CoCHCs #CHCsInnovate
When Legal Problems Make People Sick
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A Colorado program linking health care patients with attorneys delivers results.CCHN is closed today, Sept. 7, due to technological problems. Staff has limited access to email. We are working to fix the problems. #CoCHCs
We'd like to give a big shout-out to the over 5,600 health care heroes working at Colorado Community Health Centers. Please have a happy, safe, well-earned Labor Day!
Denver Health and Salud Family Health Centers present their work at the NACHC Community Health Institute (CHI) and Expo in Florida! #CoCHCs
We’re proud that all 20 Colorado CHCs received quality improvement grant awards from the US Dept. of Health and Human Services to continue to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of their health care services. Eight were recognized as Health Center Quality Leaders, ranking them among the top 30% of nearly 1,400 CHCs nationwide for best overall clinical outcomes. They are Clinica Family Health, Clinica Tepeyac, Northwest Colorado Health, River Valley Family Health Center, Salud Family Health Centers, Pueblo Community Health Center, Sunrise Community Health, and Uncompahgre Medical Center. Congratulations to all of our #CoCHCs and their hard-working staff!
HHS awards $125 million to support community health center quality improvement
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Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $125 million in Quality Improvement grant awards to 1,352 community health centers across all U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), health cente...National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc.
"The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program." n.pr/2MxqeLx
