Resources

Health Equity 

Webinars

Training Resources 

1. Gender Spectrum - The Language of Gender (definitions), support for families and children, schools legal support, medical referrals, trainings annual conference for professionals and families

2. Cardea Services - Online trainings (clinical and administrative) eg. Advancing Health Equity through Gender Affirming Systems

General Resources

1. HealthEquityGuide.com A Human Impact Partners Project 

2. mypronouns.org Name and pronouns matter 

3. Achieving Health Equity: A Guide for Health Care Organizations, Institute for Health Care Improvement white paper

4. California Endowment Building Health Communities 

5. GARE: Government Alliance on Race and Equity

6. BARHII: Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative 

7. Cal-Adapt provides a view of how climate change might affect California 

8. CalEnviroScreen 3.0 - California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen) that identifies California communities by census tract that are disproportionately burdened by, and vulnerable to, multiple sources of pollution 

9. Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

10. California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Office of Health Equity

11. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) 

12. American Public Health Association - Climate Change, Health, and Equity

13. California Healthy Places Index - Data visualization

14. Transhealth.ucsf.edu - Trans health training, guidelines    

15. Transgender Law Center - Name and gender change, advocacy 

16. Achieving Health Equity - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

17. A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

18. Books 

    1. Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh 

    2. How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

    3. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo

Complex Care

Webinars 

Training Resources 

1. Center for Excellence in Primary Care:  Under “tools for transformation” you will find videos and teaching modules for health coaches, case managers and care coordinators on health coaching, medication reconciliation, team care, etc.

2. California Health Workforce Initiative:  Product of the Workforce and Economic Development Division of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.  Curriculum with easily utilized teaching modules on six “soft skills” for medical assistants including team care, motivational interviewing, embracing diversity.  Free “train the trainer” sessions have been made available across the state.   

General Resources 

1. AMA Steps Forward: Building an Intensive Primary Care Practice, Module by Alan Glaseroff, MD and Ann Lindsay, MD:  Outlines steps to set up a primary care practice to meet needs of patients with complex health conditions 

2. CERC/Stanford Coordinated Care Team Training website, Tools and Resources:  Protocols to enable non-licensed staff to expand job responsibilities, job descriptions for MA/Care Coordinators and RN in a primary care practice for high need  patients, links to power points and webinars on topics of interest regarding care of high need patients

3. California Quality Collaborative:  Hour-long webinars on palliative care, caring for cognitively impaired, Patient Activation Measure, Trauma Informed Care 

4. Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), White Paper on Care Coordination  

5. Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Care Redesign Guide:  Offers a structured improvement process for redesigning care for people with complex needs and high healthcare costs. 

6. The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs:  Links to resources, reports of research, webinars including trainings for professional and non-professional staff on addiction and trauma informed care and more featuring Dr. Cory Waller

7. The Field Guide to Human Centered Design:  Useful in designing care with high need patients

8. Return on Investment Calculator by Victor Tabbush.  The calculator facilitates return on investment projections, allowing for adjusting calculations based on staffing levels and variable costs. (Dr. Parag Agnihorti, CHCF Alum working at Sharp has used this tool.)   Search for "return on investment calculator" under “publications.” 

9. National Academy of Medicine: Effective Care for High Need Patients. Review of 14 successful models of care for high needs people detailing:  (1) key characteristics of high-need patients; (2) the use of a patient categorization scheme—or a taxonomy—as a tool to inform and target care; (3) promising care models and attributes to better serve this patient population, as well as insights on “matching” these models to specific patient groups; and (4) areas of opportunity for policy-level action to support the spread and scale of evidence-based programs. 

10. National Academy of Medicine:  Taxonomy and Care Model Presentation 

Provider Resiliency 

1. Prevalence of Burnout Among Physicians:  A Systematic Review - JAMA, Sept 18, 2018

2. Physician Burnout & Practice Transformation in Primary Care - Alen Voskanian, Cohort 10, presented at CHCF Fall Alumni Meeting, Sept 2018

3. Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Framework for Improving Joy in Work. Alameda Health System has adopted IHI's approach to improving joy in work as a strategy to create a work environment that is positive, solution oriented and engaging. The framework involves 1) what Matters to You? conversations with leaders, providers and staff about what’s currently working and what needs improvement, 2) identification of locally managed improvements (pebbles) and system level issues (boulders), 3) development of an action plan and use of QI to drive improvement, 4) communicating progress to all stakeholders. - Holly Garcia, Cohort 13

Webinars