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Description: LGBT older adults have unique psychosocial needs, including differing social support networks, family structures, risk for isolation, and resiliency. This webinar, also presented in collaboration with SAGE, will summarize relevant research, and will familiarize health care providers and administrators with services and programs available to address these needs. The speakers will also explain how current policies affect the lives and health outcomes of LGBT older adults.

Date, Time: February 6, 2013, 2-3pm EST

Description: Having coped with a lifetime of discrimination, LGBT older adults face unique barriers to accessing health care. This webinar, presented in collaboration with SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) will familiarize participants with the major clinical and psychosocial issues facing LGBT older adults, and will recommend ways to provide culturally sensitive care to older LGBT patients.

Date, Time: January 22, 2013, 2-3pm EST 

Description: This webinar will discuss ways to improve health care for transgender patients. Attendees will gain a better understanding of transgender identities, and will discover ways to create a welcoming and affirming environment for transgender patients and staff, including learning ways to use and document patient names and pronouns in clinical records.

Date, Time: December 11, 2012, 2-3 pm EST

Community Benefit is an obligation of nonprofit hospitals to invest in the communities they serve beyond the provision of direct medical services. The Affordable Care Act calls for strengthening and clarifying this obligation. Our panelists will introduce the concept of community benefit, review new requirements for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy under the ACA, and discuss implications and opportunities for health centers and public health.

This webcast will feature two experts speakers from the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services: Sara Rosenbaum, Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, and Maureen Byrnes, Lead Scientist. Our panelists will introduce the concept of community benefit, review new requirements for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy under the ACA, and discuss implications and opportunities for health centers and public health.

Ask The Experts Webinar:
Clinical Conundrums in LTBI Treatment
A National Webinar
December 18, 2012

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (PST), 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (MST),
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (CST), 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EST)