Updating your service area is a crucial step for community health centers aiming to align services with community needs. It’s also required. Chapter 3 of HRSA’s Site Visit Protocol asks if the health center uses the most recent Uniform Data System (UDS) to update the zip codes on HRSA’s Form 5B-Service Sites annually. Here's a quick guide on what to consider and how to make this happen.

More than almost any other nonprofit, health centers have a tremendous burden to ensure that board minutes are readable and clearly indicate compliance with HRSA requirements. Future board members might read these minutes to understand what was decided, but a HRSA reviewer certainly will read them to determine if your organization is still worthy of receiving significant taxpayer funding to fulfill the mission of providing high-quality healthcare to communities that otherwise lack access.

When it comes to Chapter 12 of the HRSA Site Visit Protocol (SVP),so many of get stopped in our tracks. For the rest of us, we just assume the documents we selected for Form 5A are sufficient. Neither response is correct. With a review of the details in the Site Visit Protocol for Chapter 12: Contracts and Subawards along with the Compliance Manual, we can nail down with certainty what reviewers need for compliance and why.

In this blog post we will review what documents are required, what questions are being answered, and why those questions are being asked. We’ll turn to the Site Visit Protocol for the first two points, and the revert back to the Compliance Manual for the last point.

RegLantern has developed a clever solution to the Naming Convention in our platform to assist users with easily applying the naming convention in front of the document name for all HRSA documents.

Bringing on a new CEO or Program Director is an exciting time for a health center. There is fresh energy and new opportunities. There are also learning curves for the CEO, Board and staff as everyone adjusts to a new leadership and a new vision for the organization.

Which policies must the Board approve? Does the Board adopt policies or approve them? Is there a difference?

The Bureau of Primary Health Care is piloting a new Virtual Operational Site Visit (vOSV) format called Engaging Health Centers in Compliance and Excellence Site Visit (HCCESV).

Let’s remove the barriers to understanding discounts for patients.

During kick-off calls for VOSVs, Health Centers are being handed documents with extensive Naming Conventions. What does this mean? How do I handle them having different numbers?