This toolkit walks through an overview of the signs and consequences of burnout and how to avoid burnout in your professional life.
Self-Assessment Tool Resources
The following resources were created to support health centers as they complete the ACU Self-Assessment Tool. The primary purpose of the tool is to help health centers to identify strategies that may improve their success with provider recruitment and retention. Results from the tool are also used to craft...
ACU R&R Plan Template Resources
The STAR² Center released an updated version of the 2016 Provider Retention and Recruitment (R&R) Plan Template in the fall of 2022. The 2022 Health Center Comprehensive Workforce Plan Template is meant to be a working, living document that can be easily modified to adjust to changing conditions within...
NACHC – Workforce Snapshot October 2016
NACHC released a snapshot titled Community Health Center Workforce and Staffing Needs. This resource documents health centers’ current clinical staffing makeup nationally while summarizing their clinical vacancy experiences as well as the impact of those vacancies.
SHEC – Cultural Competency Resource Guide and White Paper
“Cultural Competency: What is it and Why is it Necessary?” is a white paper defining “cultural competency” and explaining its importance and need in the alleviating issues of disparities within health care systems. Commonly used terms and concepts are explored in this paper. The “Cultural Competency Resource Guide” is...
Capital Link – Predictive Analytics: An Overview for Community Health Centers
Developed by Capital Link and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), this resource provides health centers with a definition of predictive analytics, its history and development, the data and resources needed to predict a patient’s future behavior, and how health centers can begin utilizing it. It also...
Capital Link – Developing an Organizational Culture that Sustains the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Lessons Learned
This resource examines the cultural challenges and successes health centers face in sustaining a patient-centered, team-based model of primary care delivery, offering considerations for the patient, family, and staff experience and flexible organizational structures for team-based care.
athenaHealth – The Reimagined EHR: Improving the Physician Experience
After gathering extensive input from more than 5,000 providers across 15 specialties and various practice sizes, athenahealth has reimagined the EHR as a tool that respects a physician’s time, designed for meaningful communication rather than just data entry. This whitepaper covers details of the reimagined EHR such as: Smart...
HWTAC – Health Workforce Analysis Guide 2016 Edition
The Health Workforce Analysis Guide, 2016 Edition was developed to provide an updated framework for health workforce planners, policymakers, and researchers interested in developing a better understanding of available health workforce data and how to use these data to conduct health workforce research. The guide covers a wide array...
NACHC – PRAPARE
The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a national effort to help health centers and other providers collect the data needed to better understand and act on their patients’ social determinants of health. Follow the link to access the PRAPARE assessment tool...