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Outreach and enabling services are critical for identifying farmworkers and other underserved populations and helping them to access health care. Under the Health Center Expanded Services Supplemental Funding grant, health centers have the opportunity to expand their medical capacity and to add new services or expand existing services, including oral health, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, and/or enabling services.

Course Directors: Merry, Stephen P., M.D. Wright, Alan J., M.D.

A Taste of Tropical Medicine is a 1.5 day course designed to prepare physician, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, residents, and medical students to do short term global health volunteer work.

The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center is pleased to announce a 75-minute web-based seminar, followed by a 15-minute question and answer period. The seminar will be broadcast live, via the internet on Wednesday, January 12, 2011.

Goals
This training will:

The Francis J. Curry National TB Center in San Francisco is pleased to announce our upcoming Tuberculosis Clinical Intensive, scheduled for February 15-17, 2011 in San Francisco, CA. This three-day course is designed for physicians and other licensed medical professionals who diagnose and treat tuberculosis (TB). Topics include: diagnosis, management, and treatment of active TB and latent tuberculosis infection, TB transmission and pathogenesis, pediatric TB, drug-resistant TB, and more.

Dr. Berwick needs to hear from doctors like you about how to improve Medicare and Medicaid at this critical time of reform. Can you help get 500 doctors and medical students to join next Friday’s call? Dr. Berwick has been instrumental in improving health care delivery systems throughout his career. Prior to leading CMS, he served as President of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), where he led the successful 100,000 Lives Campaign that dramatically reduced preventable mortality in American health care.

Many FIMR Programs work closely with local SIDS organizations to increase awareness of protective behaviors like placing infants on their backs to sleep. October’s observance provides additional opportunities to link up with local and national educational campaigns like the “Back to Sleep” campaign. Visit these websites during SIDS Awareness Month.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
a.    To explain the basic structure and provisions of the Affordable Care Act
b.    To explain the people and money flows associated with the law
c.    To provide summary conclusions about the law and its impact

You are invited to join Surgeon General Regina Benjamin on a conference call to learn about two historic opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act:

Dr. Peter Shin, lead author of a recent Geiger Gibson/ RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative report, and Ellen Lawton, Esq., Executive Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and leader in the MLP field, will examine the role of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) as catalysts for improving the overall health of low-income and vulnerable patients by addressing their legal needs. Joining them will be Dr.

Media can be a very effective way of mobilizing communities around a public health issue and getting the word out about your organization's programs and activities.  However, without an advanced media and PR department, how can a small organization utilize the resources they have to ensure quality media coverage?