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 moreNNOHA: Partnering with Academic Institutions and Residency Programs to Develop Service Learning Programs
This paper provides background on how Health Centers can partner with academic institutions or residency programs to offer service learning programs at Health Centers and thereby foster interest in Health Center careers among the next generation of oral health professionals. The paper explores different collaboration models and provides suggestions about issues for Health Centers to consider when...
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 moreU.S. DoL Veterans Hiring Toolkit
While this resource is not specific to hiring providers, it offers relevant information about developing or enhancing a veterans hiring intiative at your organization.
View more3RNet Job Board
3RNet works to improve rural and underserved communities’ access to quality health care through recruitment of physicians and other health care professionals, development of community based recruitment and retention activities, and national advocacy relative to rural and underserved health care workforce issues. 3RNet works through its 53 members to...
View moreACU Career Center
This nationally-linked job board is a great resource to post your open positions and connect with clinicians looking for the right position.
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