As part of a Cooperative Agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Network for Oral Health Access worked with Baylor College of Dentistry in 2013 to develop and administer a survey of Health Center oral health providers and executive directors. The purpose of the survey was...
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NNOHA Operations Manual for Health Center Oral Health Programs: Chapter 5 – Workforce
This chapter provides helpful tools and resources for tackling the issues related to workforce, and addresses the following questions: What are the recommended staffing and equipment ratios? What staffing models are applicable for Health Center oral health programs? What are some recruitment strategies for Health Center oral health programs?...
View moreMCN Health Center Recruitment and Retention Review Tool
This toolkit contains guidelines for health centers in the development, improvement or modification of a recruitment and retention plan. It is designed to be used in the context of a technical assistance site visit. MCN clinical staff piloted this process with two migrant health centers in 2003. Prior to...
View moreCA AHEC New Clinician Orientation Guide
Staff retention can be one of the most challenging aspects of any business, but even more so for administrators of community health centers and clinics. For those clinics located in rural areas, the challenges are compounded by their distance away from medical schools. Many factors account for the challenges,...
View moreCA AHEC New Clinician Orientation Checklist
This tool proves a high-level overview of things to do before a new clinician arrives at your site, as well as a checklist for building an effective onboarding and orientation program.
View moreNACHC – Hometown Scholars Program
NACHC has a long-standing partnership with A.T. Still University (ATSU) to educate, train, and recruit high-quality, community-minded healers–physicians and dentists–for health centers. This partnership includes a strategy to recruit applicants from populations served by Community Health Centers. Twice yearly, NACHC requests health center leaders to consider patients, employees, and...
View morePhysicians Practice Physician Orientation Checklist
This very basic checklist will help you start planning the full orientation for a new physician at your health center. Physician Orientation Checklist
View moreNACHC – Calculating the Cost of Turnover in Your Health Center
This tool, part of the Recruitment, Onboarding, & Retention Toolkit, helps you calculate the costs of turnover at your health center. Although the costs of staff turnover can be difficult to calculate and, strictly speaking, do not appear as a line item your health center’s books, they are real...
View moreHRSA Provider Recruitment and Retention Checklist
This checklist, available on the Bureau of Primary Health Care Templates and resources Center, outlines high-level isses and ideas to improve your recruitment and retention program.
View moreACU Key Informant Interview Report
In building the STAR² Center, The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) sought to learn about the work that other organizations were already doing to address clinician workforce issues, and talk to known experts in the field about recruitment and retention challenges, opportunities, and needs. The group of...
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