Education Programs: News and Updates
It is the goal of CPCA's Training department to enhance community health centers' (CHCs) capacity and competitiveness by developing timely and leading-edge trainings. Integrating practical, strategic, and relational skill-building will increase CHCs' abilities to respond to and evolve within the ever-changing health care environment. CPCA is committed to serving our members' training needs and as such has developed and/or partnered on educational programs on numerous topics in 2019.
Two new educational programs launched this year. Medical Assistants (MAs) play a critical role in expanding capacity within care teams and providing care to patients, yet often aren’t equipped with the necessary skills to be the most effective or successful in complex care settings. MedicalAssistant+ (MA+) is a six-month training and retention program, designed in conjunction with Macman Management Healthcare services, that is a combination of online and in-person trainings that help build the necessary skills a successful MA team requires -- guiding them towards career advancement and certification. With 7 participants, this inaugural offering wraps up in November of 2019. Keep your eyes open for the next cohort in 2020.
Also new this year, CPCA launched the first cohort of QualityImprovement+ (QI+) with subject matter expertise provided by Community Health Solutions (CHS), whose mission is to help organizations create positive impact for the people they serve. QI+ is a nine-month blended learning program which supports the unique training and staff development needs of CHCs to build the fundamental skills and infrastructure necessary to adapt and position themselves for current and future value-based care delivery. QI+ was developed to help health centers improve and sustain the infrastructure needed to provide high quality care, with special attention on developing a culture of quality throughout the organization. The first QI+ program launched in September of 2019 with 24 participants and will wrap up mid-2020.
CPCA’s longest running educational program, HealthManagement+ (HM+), provides leaders at all levels of health centers with the skills that they need to effectively manage in this new era of health care. In partnership with We Will, Inc., CPCA graduated Cohort 11’s 26 participants in June 2019 and launched 2 additional cohorts which will both graduate by January 2020. A formal HealthManagement+ Alumni program also launched at the CPCA Annual Conference in October. Cohort 14 will begin in January 2020.
In addition to CPCA’s, HealthManagement+ program, CPCA is developing a new leadership program focused on emerging health center C-Suite leaders. Working with Melissa Schoen Consulting, CPCA has been collecting feedback from health centers and other stakeholders to develop a self-sustaining innovative program that will meet the needs of California’s CHCs with the intent of launching this new offering in 2020.
If you are interested in, or have questions about, any of the programs that CPCA provides, please contact the CPCA Training Team at training@cpca.org.