NC-AHEC Organizational Description:

The North Coast Clinics Network (NCCN) is a consortium of community health centers (CHC) working to improve access to high quality medical, mental and dental health care for all people, regardless of their ability to pay, through information sharing, community education, shared administrative activities and direct services projects. Our service area extends three counties across Northern California-Humboldt, Del Norte, and Trinity. Each year NCCN member clinics, together, provide over 200,000 patient visits to nearly 56,000 people - 1/3 of the region's population. NCCN supports recruitment and retention of sufficient health care providers and staff to provide care in underserved communities on the North Coast by posting job vacancies, creating promotional videos, funding health care professional education, and posting National Health Service Corp positions. For a list of NCCN member clinics', current programs and job listings visit North Coast Clinic's webpage.

North Coast Clinics Network was designated as the North Coast Area Health Education Center (NC-AHEC) in 2008. As the North Coast Area Health Education Center (AHEC), NCCN is committed to providing medical professionals with informative current education resources as well as supporting and promoting linkages for health professions training for students.

 

Current Activities:

• Provide education to medical professionals by sponsoring education costs and offering health education events
• Support on-site learning for health professions students at NCCN member clinics
• Educate nursing students to provide health education to community members
• Develop and sustain pipeline programs which encourage disadvantaged youth to pursue health careers, i.e. Spare Change

 

Upcoming Training Events:

• Strategies for Safe Opioid Prescribing - Available on PriMed, this learning session is led by distinguished faculty members and Program Chair Dr Brennan. Earn up to 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

• Expert Review in Colorectal Cancer—The Changing Landscape of Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: This CME-certified Expert Review features an expert discussion on the selection and sequencing of therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), including important new data from 2012, selecting appropriate first-line therapy for mCRC, sequencing therapies in the second-line and beyond, and managing treatment-related adverse events. After successful completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to: (1) Identify optimal treatment approaches for patients with mCRC, including integration of emerging agents based on recent clinical data; (2) Discuss considerations for the sequencing of therapy for mCRC across multiple lines of treatment; and (3) Evaluate strategies for monitoring and managing treatment-associated adverse events in patients with mCRC to improve patient care. Featured Experts: Craig Lockhart, MD from Washington University and John Marshall, MD from Georgetown University

• Integrating Quality Sexual + Reproductive Health Care into Primary Care Settings - California Family Health Council (CFHC) and California Primary Care Association (CPCA) are partnering to present an exciting new training series (3 webinars) featuring best practices for integrating quality sexual + reproductive health care into primary care settings. This training series will explore how integrating sexual + reproductive health into primary care delivery can improve patient outcomes and enhance the overall patient experience.

• California Health Information Partnership & Services Organization (CalHIPSO) – Meaningful Use Education & Trainings - Education and training resources are available on CalHIPSO’s website and include pre-recorded webinars on Meaningful Use, registering for the EHR incentive program and more.

• Humboldt-Del Norte Grand Rounds (2013) - Grand Rounds are formal meetings at which physicians discuss the clinical case of one or more patients. Grand rounds originated as part of residency training wherein new information was taught and clinical reasoning skills were enhanced.

• Humboldt DHHS Trainings (2012)*

• Stanford Geriatric Education Center Webinar Series (Jan.-June. 2013) - State of the Science: Dementia Evaluation and Management among Diverse Older Adults and their Families

On-Demand Web-Based Continuing Education:

Health Care Quality