Planning Grantee Webinar Series
This webinar series is designed to assist those organizations and communities that are considering starting an FQHC. Whether you received a recent planning grant or not, these eight sessions are an excellent resource to guide you through everything you need to know about becoming an FQHC. You can either sign up for one webinar or all 8!
Session #1
An Overview of Health Center Finances – What You Need to Know to be Successful
Date: Wednesday, January 18
Online registration deadline: Monday, January 16
Presenter: Curt Degenfelder, President, Degenfelder Consulting
Registration Fee: 99.00
The health center’s multi-payer environment leads to many complexities in the financial environment of a health center. Health centers depend on different types of funding including federal grants, local grants, Medicaid payments, private insurance payments, etc, which just adds to the intricate financial make-up of the center. Learn options for how health center financing can strengthen and advance the center.
Session #2
Designing and Recruiting an Effective Governing Board
Date: Wednesday, February 29
Online registration deadline: Monday, February 27
Presenter: Pamela Byrnes, Director, Health Center Growth and Development, NACHC
Registration Fee: 99.00
A highly functional health center board is essential to the success of a health center. Understanding the board requirements is the first step in achieving a high functioning board followed by effective recruiting. This webinar will take you through the roles and responsibilities of the board and recruitment techniques.
Session #3
Affiliations and Collaborations – How to Effectively Partner within the Community
Date: Wednesday, April 4
Online registration deadline: Monday, April 2
Presenter: Marcie Zakheim, Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer and Fidell
Registration Fee: 99.00
Partnerships are necessary to maximize resources, to reduce duplication of effort, and to improve quality, efficiency, and accessibility of health care services. The changing face of America’s underserved population, the restricted resources under which FQHCs operate, and the desire and need for more fully-functioning and better prepared public health and primary care systems all demand a health care system based in local partnerships. This session will address various partnership models, including key terms for written agreements to implement an affiliation approach that is compliant with applicable FQHC federal rules and requirements.
Session #4
Developing a Health Center: A Guide for Health Center Staff and Boards on Managing the Design and Construction Process
Date: Wednesday, April 25
Online registration deadline: Monday, April 23
Presenter: Capital Link
Registration Fee: 99.00
Facility development is a complex endeavor that relies on many different professions. It can be intimidating to realize that you must depend on all these people—and pay them a lot of money—and yet you may know little about their professions or how to manage them. This webinar will help you understand the process of developing a facility project, and will help you formulate a management approach for success. In addition, Capital Link will discuss the services that it offers to health centers as they navigate through the capital development process!
Session #5
An Overview of Health Center Billing and the Sliding Fee Scale
Date: Wednesday, May 9
Online registration deadline: Monday, May 7
Presenter: Ray Jorgensen, President and CEO, Priority Management Group, Inc.
Registration Fee: 99.00
The key to having a viable health center is one that fiscally healthy. This session will provide an in-depth overview of health center billing and the sliding fee scale. Learn the importance of fee schedules and their regular updates, various nationally utilized charge setting methodologies, Federal Poverty Guidelines and finally their impact to the organizations revenue.
Session #6
Provider Recruitment - Where do I begin?
Date: Wednesday, May 23
Online registration deadline: Monday, May 21
Presenters: Jim Dowling, Maine PCA; Mike Shimmens, Missouri PCA
Registration Fee: 99.00
One of the health center’s most valuable resources are its providers. However, many CHCs struggle to recruit and retain providers. This ongoing challenge to recruit and retain providers is an issue that will be discussed during this webinar, as well as recommendations for effective recruitment and retention of providers and other health center staff.
Session #7
Building an HIT System – What you need to know
Date: Wednesday, June 6
Online registration deadline: Monday, June 4
Presenter: Shane Hickey, Director, HIT, NACHC
Registration Fee: 99.00
Health Information Technology (HIT) consists of an enormously diverse set of technologies for transmitting and managing health information for use by consumers, providers, payers, insurers, and other groups with an interest in health and health care. This webinar will walk you through the steps of building your HIT system which includes developing the request for proposals (RFP) for this system.
Session #8
Time to Apply – How to complete the budget section of the New Access Point and Look-Alike Applications
Date: Wednesday, June 20
Online registration deadline: Monday, June 18
Presenter: Curt Degenfelder, President, Degenfelder Consulting
Registration Fee: 99.00
You have done all of your due diligence and research and now it is time to apply for a New Access Point (NAP) or FQHC Look Alike status. This last webinar in the 8-part series will walk you through the budget creation process for the applications. You cannot afford to miss this one!
