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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"federally qualified health center"”.
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Improving Pharmacy-Led Smoking Cessation Practices at a Federally Qualified Health Center
… interventions stand to positively impact patient health. Pharmacists’ effectiveness in multifaceted roles, including membership in multidisciplinary healthcare teams, disease factor recognition, and patient-focused recommendations, places them in an advantageous position to deliver tobacco …
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Implementing a Social Determinants of Health Screening Tool at a Federally Qualified Health Center
Abstract Social determinants of health (SDOH) are social conditions, forces, and systems shaping individuals’ daily lives. Education, employment, income, safety, social support, and access to healthy food items and exercise are all social conditions that impact individual and community health …
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Improving enrollment in outpatient group therapy at a federally qualified health center : a quality improvement project
… in demand for psychotherapy and a mental health provider shortage have created limited access to psychotherapy services. Group therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy modality that improves access to psychotherapy but is often underutilized. Local Problem: An FQHC in Battle Creek, …
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Co-Creating Collaborative Health Care in a Federally Qualified Health Center: Exploring Clients' Experiences of Behavioral Health Services
… in poverty exacerbates the risk for poor mental health, yet low-income people are less likely to seek mental health treatment than are people in higher income brackets. The research literature reports that this reluctance to seek behavioral health care is often due to a variety of barriers, such …
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A Standardized Transition To Practice Program For Novice Advanced Practice Registered Nurse(s) In A Federally Qualified Health Center Setting
<p>Novice Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Federally Qualified Health Centers are expected to assimilate to the autonomous clinician role rapidly and meet the threshold of clinical expertise required for their new role. Mentorship is widely demonstrated in the literature as an important …
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Assessing physical activity behaviors among patients in a federally qualified health center (FQHC) : implications for physician-based physical activity counseling.
Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for overall health. However, the high prevalence of physical inactivity is concerning. Race/ethnic minority groups, such as Blacks and Hispanics, report significantly lower levels of PA. Behavior change theories, such as the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), can …
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Breast Cancer Referral And Screening Rates In A Federally Qualified Health Center: Implementing The Point Of Care Integrated Breast Cancer Screening Model
… Cancer Referral and Screening Rates in a Federally Qualified Health</p> <p>Center: Implementing the Point of Care Integrated Breast Cancer Screening Model</p> <p>In this paper we discuss the implementation of the point of care integrated breast</p> <p>cancer screening model (PCISM) to …
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Procurement Of Housing In Depressed, African-American Homeless Patients In A Large Urban Federally Qualified Health Center: A Pilot To Improve Workflow Processes, Identify Best Practices And Impact Outcomes
… vulnerable to poor physical and chronic mental health problems, chief among them is depression. African-American homeless individuals have high rates of depression and experience disparities in utilization and access to health care. To address this problem within a healthcare systems level …
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A Model Of Primary Care To Meet The Needs Of The Underserved: Haven Free Clinic
… recognized the need for a broader safety net of health care systems to care for the underserved. The Society for Student-run Free Clinics has 149 registered clinics throughout the United States and Canada2. At this time, HAVEN Free Clinic, a collaboration of the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, …
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Reducing missed behavioral health appointments in a federally qualified center : a quality improvement project
… has highlighted the importance of mental health in public health services, leading to an increased reliance on telehealth for behavioral health care (Koonin et al., 2020). However, the shift to telehealth has been associated with higher rates of missed appointments in behavioral health …
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Attempts to Collect: A Quantitative Analysis of Medical Debt Lawsuits Filed in Thurston County in 2020
… required to provide charity care. We found one Federally Qualified Health Center and three public hospital districts that sued Thurston County patients in 2020. We also found 16% of lawsuits originated from dental services.
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Promoting Mental Health Awareness And Reducing Stigma In Spanish-Speaking Communities Through Educational Interventions
… experience significant disparities in mental health access driven by language barriers, low mental health literacy, and cultural stigma. These factors contribute to the underutilization of services, early treatment dropout, and poor outcomes. </p> <p>Objective: This quality improvement project …
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A Nurse-Practitioner-Led Collaborative Care Model Of Shared Medical Visits For Adult Patients With Diabetes Using The Centering® Group Healthcare Model
… Medical Visit (SMV) intervention to address the health needs and challenges of an adult population with type-2 diabetes (T2D) in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) setting, the fidelity to the intervention, as well as to determine the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention. …
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Improving Equity In Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk
… The Life’s Essential Eight (LE8) categories of healthy diet, sleep, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, total cholesterol, and blood glucose could reduce two million ASCVD events per year. The documentation of Z codes 55 – 65 describe social drivers of health (SDH) like …
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Reducing Preventable Emergency Department Visits by Improving Patient Care Access to Primary Care
… a system was developed to connect patients to a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) for primary care services in that county. The lack of access to a medical home is associated with higher ED visit rates; FQHCs can possibly reduce preventable emergency department (ED) visits for the primary …
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Insights in Depression Screening at a Latino-Serving, Integrated FQHC Clinic
… among patients and medical providers at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) through an ethnic-linguistic lens. Binary logistic regressions were performed to determine the effects of ethnicity and language on PHQ-2 screening rates for 10,285 adult patients seen during a primary care …
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La Maestra’s Circle of Care: Studying the Impact of an Integrated Service Model on the Health and Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
… <p>There is an urgent need to reform the health care delivery system in the United States, as recognized through current bipartisan efforts. Society’s vulnerable populations especially need health care reform as health care outcomes are the poorest among disadvantaged populations. …
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Enhancing Telehealth Use To Reduce No-Shows in a Rural Arizona Outpatient Clinic
… as a strategy to reduce no-show rates at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). The project examined whether a brief educational session could improve provider understanding and willingness to use telehealth. Background: Patients missing appointments is a common problem in rural clinics …
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Assessing the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Pregnant Hispanic Women: Developing an Effective Educational Intervention for Gestational Diabetes
… This study was conducted in two phases at a Federally Qualified Health Center. The first phase was a formative exploration to study the knowledge, behavior, and attitudes of 48 pregnant low-income Hispanic women in order to determine issues to be addressed a prototype intervention. The …