Culturally Competent Care

Culturally Competent Care
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 (Session #1)
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 (Session #2)
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 (Session #3)
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 (Session #4)

Increasingly diverse racial, ethnic, and socio-cultural backgrounds of patients, colleagues, and staff challenge physicians as they strive to deliver care to their patients. Cultural and language difference may engender misunderstanding, a lack of compliance, or other factors that negatively influence clinical situations and the health outcomes of our nation’s diverse populations. As a result, the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) developed national standards for providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS).
To assist Health Centers in the adoption of the CLAS Standards and to equip providers with the competencies that will enable them to better treat the increasingly diverse population, NCHPH will be offering a 4-part learning collaborative. The interactive sessions will cover the fundamentals of cultural competency, language access, and building community partnerships through a combination of case studies and didactic learning.