About the Health Center Excellence Academy
The Health Center Excellence Academy: Accelerated Learning by Renaye James Healthcare Advisors is the training division of Renaye James Healthcare Advisors. The academy provides training, technical assistance, and tools to implement data-driven and team-based approaches for health centers and healthcare teams as they work to improve the clinical quality and patient safety of their patients and the communities they serve. Renaye James Healthcare Advisors is a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAP) award recipient. Training activities are tailored specifically for the needs of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and FQHC look-alikes.
Our Training Objectives
The Health Center Excellence Academy will present training activities in the following areas, based on HRSA’s National Needs Assessment and aligned with HRSA’s Advancing Health Center Excellence Framework:
Upcoming Training Activities
Being a Champion for Cultural Humility: A Guide for Health Centers – Cultural Humility with LGBTQ Communities
NTTAP Webinar
Thursday, April 25, 2024 | Noon ET
This training will reinforce the value of having all employees, from frontline staff to management and executive leadership, receive foundational instruction and training in four areas. Participants will learn to design a core training curriculum incorporating skills and practices including: Patient-centered care, trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and de-escalation.
Diabetes Care Management: The Right Way, Part 1
NTTAP Webinar
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | 2 p.m. ET
This webinar will review how to build a collaborative model to manage patients with diabetes. The information will help health centers build relationships with their patients to have a positive care management and care coordination experience since care management is used to improve patient care, quality, and health outcomes. The Patient-Centered Medical Model sets expectations that healthcare organizations use care management to help patients develop and meet treatment plan goals.
Approaches to Behavioral Health Screening
Publication / Resource Document
This resource document will provide current evidence-based behavior health screening tools and details who can administer them, under what setting, their use with special populations (non-verbal, limited English proficiency), and how to interpret results. This resource document is intended to help inform healthcare staff of the utility of behavioral health screenings so that they can become more prevalent and provide early intervention to substance use and mental health needs.
Maternal Health and Essential Community Connections
NTTAP Webinar
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 | Noon ET
This webinar will discuss how to connect with local hospitals, obstetrics practices, health departments, and social service agencies to improve access to maternal health services in rural and urban communities.
Senior Advisor, Practice Transformation, Renaye James Healthcare Associates
NTTAP Webinar:
Webinar Maternal Health and Essential Community Connections
MD, FAAP
Medical Director/Deputy Director
NTTAP Webinar:
Webinar Maternal Health and Essential Community Connections
AVP, Research & Evaluation, Unite Us
NTTAP Webinar:
Webinar Maternal Health and Essential Community Connections
Customer Success Associate Principal, findhelp
NTTAP Webinar:
Webinar Maternal Health and Essential Community Connections
Community Health Manager, Lone Star Circle of Care
NTTAP Webinar:
Webinar Maternal Health and Essential Community Connections
Training and Programming Design Coordinator, Center for LGBTQ Health Equity, Chase Brexton Health Care
NTTAP Webinar:
Being a Champion for Cultural Humility:
A Guide for Health Centers - Cultural Humility with LGBTQ Communities
MS, BSN, RN
Director, Clinical Services,
Renaye James Healthcare Advisors
NTTAP Webinar:
Diabetes Care Management:
The Right Way, Part 1
Clinical Services Advisor, Renaye James Healthcare Advisors
NTTAP Webinar:
Diabetes Care Management:
The Right Way, Part 1
Chief Medical Officer, BlueNovo
NTTAP Webinar:
Diabetes Care Management:
The Right Way, Part 1
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