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OCHIN and Lyon-Martin Community Health Services partnered to expand options for sexual orientation and gender identity as well as surgical history in the OCHIN Epic EHR system.

A new $720,000 award from AmeriCorps and the CDC will support up to 25 new Public Health AmeriCorps positions to bolster local public health efforts in rural and medically underserved communities.

Today’s health care organizations face a barrage of increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats. That is why OCHIN is advocating for a stronger, more resilient health IT infrastructure with advanced tools and training in rural and underserved communities to support access to care for all patients, even during a crisis.

After a three-year hiatus, OCHIN members from across the nation gathered at the OCHIN Learning Forum April 2-5 in Las Vegas to engage in firsthand learning, best practice sharing, and peer-to-peer collaboration.

The award places OCHIN among 50 nonprofit organizations nationwide whose employees indicated an exceptional work experience via an employee survey

To identify best practices for addressing challenges related to social risk screenings, OCHIN partners on research to test strategies for helping community health centers identify and address patients’ social risks.

OCHIN was awarded a $15 million grant to support a new workforce development partnership in California that will help rebuild, strengthen, and diversify the health care workforce through job training and placement.

Community-based providers face challenges in connecting patients to non-medical resources and support. That is why OCHIN is advocating to improve social risk screening and intervention practices through patient-centered technology, workforce development, and national SDOH standards.

Highlights of our 2022 annual report include: our work to strengthen the U.S. health care system and improve the health of systemically underserved communities, our impact on advancing health equity through insights and innovation, and progress to grow and strengthen the collective voice of our nationwide network

For five years, a women-led research team at OCHIN studied the impact of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act on access to comprehensive preventive, contraceptive, and pregnancy-related care. They also explored the role that health centers play in connecting women to quality reproductive care.