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post Federally Qualified Health Centers Can Help Address the Opioid Crisis For decades, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) — facilities that are federally funded to provide primary care services to individuals...

February 2024

post Finding a Place to Be Somebody “Seven years ago, I lived on the streets of West Oakland, California — one of the legions of human...

February 2024

resource New Ways to Finance Community Health Worker Services in Medicare States and health plans focused on engaging and sustaining the community health worker (CHW) workforce can use this blog...

February 2024

resource Integrating Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan Materials to Promote Enrollee Understanding of and Access to Benefits Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) that operate with exclusively aligned enrollment and cover Medicaid benefits through the D-SNP...

February 2024

post Establishing Effective Technical Advisory Committees to Advance Health Equity Goals Highlights key recommendations for developing and running an effective technical advisory committee to support health equity goals.

February 2024

resource Strategies for Effective Health Equity Committees and Councils: Experiences from Safety Net Health Plans Safety net health plans are using health equity committees and councils to align internal and external stakeholder priorities and...

February 2024

resource What is Health Literacy? Personal health literacy is the “degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and...

March 2024

resource Identifying Limited Health Literacy Many people have limited health literacy skills. Even strong readers may have difficulty with unfamiliar health terms and concepts....

March 2024

resource How Improving Health Literacy Can Advance Health Equity Improved health literacy is crucial to advancing health equity. Limited health literacy can inhibit access and efficacy in care...

March 2024