Your patients have grown increasingly comfortable with texting and they expect their healthcare providers to also use this medium. Email is another tool that increases our ability to openly communicate with patients in a way that is convenient, effective, and … Read More
Oral health is health, but many underserved communities lack access to dental care. For many, the Community Health Center setting is the only place where they have access to affordable treatment for oral health needs. Traditionally, dental health has been … Read More
From a recruiting perspective, it’s the talent that just comes to you that is the icing on the hiring cake. Employer branding can help your organization stand out as an employment destination that attracts highly talented candidates. If you do … Read More
Telehealth emerged as the quiet hero of the 2020 global pandemic. Virtual visits skyrocketed as house-bound and other facility-dependent patients sought care during COVID. Instead of traveling to a remote site and waiting in a front office to see the … Read More
You have a lot riding on ensuring recruiting success to your FQHC or community health organization. The longer the time to hire the harder it is on the team that’s picking up the extra work stemming from the vacancy. The … Read More
We’ve seen a lot of changes to the work world since COVID came on the landscape. In healthcare, the pandemic affected provider burnout, even as a new administration came into Washington and began to change the regulatory landscape. Simultaneously to … Read More
Most FQHCs know there’s a psychiatrist shortage. Certainly, healthcare recruiting teams are aware of the phenomenon. This is a huge problem for patient populations already struggling with continuing stresses related to COVID-19. One in five U.S. adults has a mental … Read More
Here we go again. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the 2021 physician fee schedule final ruling. Within the confines of the rule, we some big changes in how we provision remote patient monitoring (RPM) … Read More
The move to value-based reimbursement has been a buzzword for a few years now, but these payment models are still new to many of us in the community healthcare field. Value-based care seeks to pay providers based on healthcare outcomes, … Read More
The positive link between prescription medications and healthcare outcomes is clear. Medication is an obvious tool of the trade for healthcare providers, but the cost of brand-name oral prescription drugs rose more than 9% each year from 2008 to … Read More