Learning Collaboratives:
Building an Effective Collaborative Care Team to Address Diabetes in Special and Vulnerable Populations: Tailoring Care for Social Context
This session focused on the necessary elements to develop a high functioning patient-centered team for diabetes prevention, management, and treatment in primary care. The session addressed the roles of all members of the team including the critical role of leadership and clinical champions to building an effective collaborative team. This session laid the groundwork for the full series by engaging participants in a discussion of how to tailor diabetes care for social context. The conversation focused on the key elements needed for treating diabetes in the primary care and community setting with an emphasis on team-based approaches to wellness.
Building Value and Return on Investment in Housing and Health Partnerships
This learning collaborative from NCHPH and National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) will guide health center staff through practical steps to help build value and return on investment in their current health center and housing authority partnerships. The learning collaborative consists of four modules that discuss strategies, case studies, and promising practices to increase the impact of partnership activities, ultimately improving the health and social outcomes for residents of public housing. The modules will discuss how to optimize the health center workforce and resources, evaluate existing and developing partnerships, and measure and improve their impact.
Community Partnerships to Address the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Residents of Public Housing
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated mitigation strategies are expected to have significant psychosocial, behavioral, socioeconomic, and health impacts, which are exacerbated in populations that experience health disparities and other vulnerable groups. Those experiencing health disparities prior to the COVID-19 pandemic are at increased risk of infection and other COVID-19 related consequences, such as job loss, unpaid leave, and lost wages. Given the urgent need for prevention and mitigation strategies (i.e., physical distancing, wearing face coverings, frequent handwashing, disinfecting surfaces, shelter-in-place, self-isolation upon suspected exposure, leaving home only for essential activities, etc.), there is also a need to leverage and scale existing partnerships, resources and platforms and ongoing mitigation efforts within communities to attenuate adverse outcomes. This learning
developing partnership strategies to address the negative health impacts of COVID-19 in vulnerable populations.
Forging Community Collaborations
During this learning collaborative conference call, NCHPH and PHPC Health Centers discuss the most recent topics regarding public housing and public housing primary care, including Envision Centers, Smoke Free Public Housing, Chronic Disease Management, and Integrated Care, and PHPC trends. PHPC leaders offer new perspectives and solutions to improve the health status of public housing residents.
Partnerships and Collaborations in PHPC Settings
On this call, PHPC Health Centers discuss the changing face of public housing, strategies to increase access to care in public housing primary care, and current and emerging issues affecting Health Centers located in and/or immediately accessible to public housing developments.
To view more learning collaboratives, please visit our website at nchph.org.