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Fighting cancer is difficult enough, but living with it is even tougher - and that's where the Cleaning for A Reason Foundation steps in.  This nonprofit offers free professional housecleaning, and maid services to improve the lives of women undergoing treatment for cancer - any type of cancer.

To allow employees time to vote in national and local elections

To ensure all data is maintained and properly backed up to maximize recovery in the event of disaster and to make the file accessible to other staff.

To establish a procedure by which a LSCHC dentist may refer a patient to the medical clinic for a nurse only visit (without a medical provider visit) to have parenteral antibiotics for an emergency dental abscess.
A sample health center policy for assessing patient satisfaction.
A 7-page application for a behavioral health position. The application includes personal information, professional training and work history, referrences, areas of competence, insurance carriers, malpractice claims history, disclosures, and a release form.
A 3-fold brochure template with space to describe providers in addition to basic clinic information.
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Sample credentialing policy (see Human Resources for other credentailing resources).
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A 5-page staff satisfaction survey in Word which covers issues such as; physical space, resources to do your job, working relationships, communication, overall perspectives, and job enhancements.

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Sample policy stating that the clinic will orient all new employees to infection control, employee health and their individual risks.

Maria Fernandez, 42, of Cancun, Mexico, sits outside a shoddy trailer she shares with other workers. "Everybody around here always has headaches, coughs, running noses," she said. "It has to do with that dust on the plants from the chemicals. You are always breathing it in."

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Clinicians can use this form to collect information from patients about their prior use of non-traditional or alternative care providers and medications.

Health centers can also adapt the form and/or incorporate into their EHR.

PCMH Standard 2 Element B: Clinical Data, Factor 9: List of prescription medications with date of update for 80% of patients.

PCMH Standard 3 Element D: Medication Management, Factor 3: Provides information about new prescriptions to more than 80% of patients.

PCMH Standard 5 Element B: Referral Tracking and Follow-up, Factor 5: Asks patients about self-referrals and requests specialist reports.

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Public health surveillance for acute pesticide intoxications is discussed. Explanation of the goals, components and functions of population-based surveillance is provided with reference to key informational sources.

These bilingual posters educate workers on how to work safely with machinery on the farm.  Developed by two Occupational Health Interns (OHIP) during their internship with the National Farm Medicine Center, these posters accompany the Seguridad en las Lecherías curriculum.

Aedes species mosquitoes transmit chikungunya virus, as well as dengue and Zika viruses, and bite most often during the day.* Infectious mosquito bites frequently occur in and around homes (1,2). Caribbean countries first reported local transmission of chikungunya virus in December 2013, and soon after, chikungunya virus spread throughout the Americas (3). Puerto Rico reported its first laboratory-positive chikungunya case in May 2014 (4), and subsequently identified approximately 29,000 suspected cases throughout the island by the end of 2015 ...

Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause congenital microcephaly and brain abnormalities (1,2). Since 2015, Zika virus has been spreading through much of the World Health Organization’s Region of the Americas, including U.S. territories. Zika virus is spread through the bite of Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, by sex with an infected partner, or from a pregnant woman to her fetus during pregnancy.* CDC estimates that 41 states are in the potential range of Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquitoes (3), and on July 29, 2016, the Florida Department of Health identified an area in one neighborhood of Miami where Zika virus infections in multiple persons are being spread by bites of local mosquitoes. Read full article here.

 

How Typical Health Insurance Works

 

An infographic illustrating the cycle of how "typical" health insurance works.