The document presents the importance of starting or expanding student experience programs at health centers, particularly Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), highlighting the benefits for workforce infrastructure and student education. It emphasizes the role of Community Health Center, Inc. in providing education, training, and technical assistance to enhance team-based care and support the training of future health professionals. Additionally, it outlines the collaborative efforts needed to optimize the student learning experience and recruit skilled graduates into nurse-led health centers.

1. Health Professions Students in FQHCs
Why Start or Expand Student Experience Programs At
Your Health Center?
March 8, 2016

2. Community Health Center, Inc.
Foundational Pillars
1. Clinical Excellence- fully Integrated teams, fully
integrated EMR, PCMH Level 3
2. Research & Development- CHC’s Weitzman Institute is
the home of formal research, quality improvement, and R&D
3. Training the Next Generation: Postgraduate training
programs for nurse practitioners and postdoctoral clinical
psychologists as well as training for all health professions
students
CHC Profile:
•Founding Year - 1972
•200+ delivery sites
•130k patients

3. The Community Health Center, Inc. and its Weitzman Institute will provide
education, information, and training to interested health centers in:
Transforming Teams
• National Webinars on advancing team based care
• Invited participation in Learning Collaboratives to advance team based care at
your health center
Training the Next Generation
• Two National Webinar series on developing Nurse Practitioner and Clinical
Psychology residency programs and successfully hosting health professions
students within health centers
• Invited participation in Learning Collaboratives to implement these programs at
your health center
Email your contact information to nca@chc1.com and visit www.chc1.com/NCA.

4. Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will describe two ways in which FQHCs will experience a
benefit from providing education and training to students of the health
professions.
2. Participants will identify two benefits to the workforce infrastructure of a
FQHCs who forms a health professions training program.

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6. Why Start or Expand Student
Experience Programs At Your
Health Center?
Presented by:
Kristine Gonnella
Manager, Technical Assistance and Consultation
Community Health Partners for Sustainability, a program of the
National Nursing Centers Consortium

7. HRSA Disclaimer
Community Health Partners for Sustainability, a program of
the National Nursing Centers Consortium, is supported by the
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under
grant number U30CS09736, a National Training and Technical
Assistance Cooperative Agreement (NCA) for $450,000, and is
100% financed by this grant. This information or content and
conclusions are those of the author and should not be
construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any
endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S.
Government.

8. Who are we?
•Community Health Partners is a program of the National
Nursing Centers Consortium
•History routed in the Nurse Managed Health Center (NMHC)
movement
•Defined in ACA as nurse practice arrangements, managed by
APRN that provide primary care or wellness services to
underserved or vulnerable populations and are associated
with a school, college, university or department of nursing
(H.R. 3590--111th Congress).

9. Who are we?
• NMHCs: primarily managed by Nurse Practitioner (NP)
working with interdisciplinary teams of health care
professionals (social workers, nurses, physician
assistants, physicians, etc.).
• NNCC expanded it’s scope and branded Community
Health Partners (CHPFS) to support all health centers in
their mission of quality service delivery and sustainable
programming.
• In 2008, CHPFS received a National Cooperative
Agreement from Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) to provide technical assistance to
CHC’s across the country

10. Challenges Facing U.S. Healthcare
Fragmentation
Healthcare
disparities
Aging and sicker
population
Primary care
shortage
High costs

11. Mission
Community Health Partners’ uniquely positioned to
support the advancement of nurse-led care, a model
that FQHCs are increasingly interested in adopting as
practice transformation moves towards
collaborative, team-based models of care.

12. Vision
Nurse-led health centers seek optimal ways to:
• support the training of students,
• recruit highly skilled students and
• retain these students as employees and leaders
in nurse-led health centers.

13. Process
Community Health Partners works with CHCs to:
• Identify current processes by which students are trained
• Partner with clinic and administrative staff to streamline and
minimize the productivity strain and student onboarding
GOAL: develop an infrastructure which maximizes the student
learning experience and increase student placements, supports
the preceptor experience with minimal impact on productivity

14. Lessons Learned
• Must implement innovative approaches to the student
education experience like intensive block training and
supervision models.
• Culture of the institution must support the educational
experience.
• Preceptor support and training is essential
• Explore funding opportunities for student training.
• Identify student training coordinator

15. Kristine Gonnella, MPH
Program Manager
267.350.7632 Direct Phone
kristine@chpfs.org Email
………………………………………………………………………
Community Health Partners for Sustainability
Strengthening Healthcare for Residents of Public Housing
Centre Square East
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
www.chpfs.org
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16. Caroline Lloyd Doherty, AGACNP-BC, AACC
Advanced Senior Lecturer, AGACNP Program,
Director of Implementation: CMS/Graduate
Nursing Education Demonstration
phone: 215-898-0296
email: ctl@nursing.upenn.edu
Claire M. Fagin Hall,
Room 357
418 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

17. PUBLIC HEALTH
MANAGEMENT
CORPORATION
Centre Square East
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
PHMC.ORG
Frank Killian
SHS Director of Finance
and Regulatory Affairs
215.985.2514 PHONE
267.765.2325 FAX
frank@phmc.org EMAIL

18. Trisha Mims, MSN, MBA/HCM
Health Center Director
Johnson City Community Health Centers
East Tennessee State University
College of Nursing Community Health Centers
365 Stout Drive, Box 70403
Johnson City, TN 37614
P 423-929-6932
C 423-946-0981
MimsTL@etsu.edu
www.etsu.edu/nursing/practice/sites
Johnson City Community Health Center
ETSU CON has 14 nurse-led practice sites, that consist of school
based clinics, 5 FQCHCs, and 1 RHC
Student Affiliations:
Nurse Practitioner (DNP and MSN)
Medical
Pharmacy
Speech/Audiology
Physical Therapy
Physician Assistant
Bachelor of Nursing
Bachelor/Master Social Work
Psychology
Public Health
Dental Assistants
Dental Hygiene
Certified Medical Assistants
Radiology Students (Fall ’16)

19. Interprofessional Student Experience at the
Community Health Center, Inc.
Veena Channamsetty, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Mary Blankson, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, Chief Nursing Officer
Timothy Kearney, Ph.D., Chief Behavioral Health Officer
Heather Crockett-Miller, DDS, MPH, Chief Dental Officer
Recognizing common and unique needs among students of the health professions

20. Open Space for Discussion

21. Reminders
Sign up for our next webinar in this series:
Creating a Process that Works for You: Infrastructure for a
Successful Student Training Program
Tuesday, March 22nd 3–4 p.m. EST
Complete our survey!
Sign up at www.chc1.com/NCA

22. Speakers
From Community Health Center, Inc.:
Margaret Flinter, APRN, PhD, Senior Vice President & Clinical Director
Kerry Bamrick, MBA, Senior Program Manager
Veena Channamsetty, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Mary Blankson, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, Chief Nursing Officer
Timothy Kearney, Ph.D., Chief Behavioral Health Officer
Heather Crockett-Miller, DDS, MPH, Chief Dental Officer
From National Nursing Centers Consortium:
Kristine Gonnella, MPH, Program Manager, Community Health Partners for Sustainability
From Johnson City Community Health Centers:
Trisha Mims, MSN, MBA/HCM, Director
From University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Caroline Lloyd Doherty, AGACNP-BC, AACC, Advanced Senior Lecturer, AGACNP Program, Director of
Implementation: CMS/Graduate Nursing Education Demonstration
From Public Health Management Corporation
Frank Killian, SHS Director of Finance and Regulatory Affairs