Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County

Providing a high level of customer service is crucial to achieving your health center’s mission and serving your community, yet during these challenging times, service excellence can seem difficult to attain. In this impactful and highly interactive training -- designed for health center employees at all levels -- participants discuss the critical nature of customer … Continue reading Customer Service: The Art of Caring →

Overwhelmed primary care teams can lead to increased costs and strain on the health system as a whole, as well as unnecessarily high morbidity and mortality rates from sub-optimally managed chronic conditions and avoidable medication related problems. An innovative solution in various stages of maturity across the country, from pilot phase to full adoption, is … Continue reading Closing Gaps in Quality and Safety through Clinical Pharmacist Integration →

This training will assist health center leadership, staff, and board members in preparing for changes and growth through various strategic planning methods and ideas, especially while grappling with the ongoing effects of COVID-19 on health center operations. Utilizing our recent publications, “Strategic Business Planning Handbook for Health Centers,” and “Market Assessment Toolkit for Health Centers,” … Continue reading Strategic Planning: Preparing in Times of Uncertainty →

Assessing risk among patient populations is a critical component of identifying patient needs and connecting them to beneficial resources. This training will provide (1) background and need for risk stratification across patient panels, (2) data commonly used to inform risk stratification criteria, (3) workflows and strategies to implement patient analysis and identification of risk, and … Continue reading Risk Stratification 101 →

Process mapping is a quality improvement method that helps a team know where to start making improvements that will have the biggest impact for patients and staff. The ‘Model for Improvement’ provides a framework that incorporates the development of project aims, targets and measures, and introduces a way of testing ideas before wide scale implementation. … Continue reading Process Mapping for Quality Improvement 101 →

Health centers invest significant time and resources collecting a wide range of data, but too often that data, and the information it tells us, does not reach the individuals who need it. In this webinar, staff from the Institute for High Quality Care will explore strategies for turning the data health centers collect into meaningful … Continue reading Data Visualization – Using ECM Impact Measures to Drive Improvement →

The goal of quality improvement is to make changes that bring you closer to an ideal state, recognizing that we will never be perfect, but we can make changes in a systemic and thoughtful way. How do we know whether we are making the improvements we want? A big part of understanding our success is … Continue reading Data Driven Quality Improvement 101 →

The Non-Violent Crisis Intervention® (NCI) program is considered the worldwide standard for crisis prevention and intervention training. This two half-day virtual training (9am-12pm) and in-person training (9am-3pm) will teach clinic staff de-escalation techniques and intervention strategies for workplace violence prevention. The workshop includes independent self-paced content, lecture, and situation-based guided practice with certified instructors. Now … Continue reading Non-Violent Crisis Intervention® →

After two decades of working with social impact leaders, coach Chrysta Wilson has learned that changemakers like you, working to create a more just and equitable health care system, can face unique challenges when it comes to telling stories of the good work you’re doing without exploiting the very people you serve. Via progress reports, … Continue reading Communication Without Exploitation: Introduction to Ethical Storytelling →