Charlie Alfero, our founder, was among the Rural Health Care System Innovators to serve on a Rural Health Policy Research Institute’s (RUPRI) Health Panel to discuss strategies and models for rural health care system innovation. Alfero was one of the convened state and community leaders with firsthand knowledge of diverse, innovative health financing and service […]
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How and why do some New Mexico community collaborative efforts to build a healthy community work better than others? To help answer this question we completed an in-depth study of two New Mexico counties, Santa Fe and Doña Ana. From this study, we developed and tested a framework with two those counties that are engaging […]
07 October 2020Are you a Community Health Worker (CHW), or Promatora? FORWARD NM AHEC offers training for CHW’s looking to continue their education. As of right now we offer QPR: Suicide Prevention and Lupus Education trainings in all four of our service area counties – Grant, Hidalgo, Luna and Catron! If you would like to have a training in […]
05 October 2020As an independent nonprofit organization, CHI is uniquely situated to provide non-biased health policy analysis and engage multiple stakeholders in discussion and action. Examples of our health policy work include: Conducted a Health Impact Assessment of the quality and quantity of food available to low income families in New Mexico. Click here for the findings […]
05 October 2020CHI provides support to nonprofit organizations with a public health and/or social service focus. Using a shared services model, we provide financial, program management, resource development, and organizational and systems improvement services. CHI manages several grants and contracts on behalf of, or in collaboration with nonprofit, public health partners. Nonprofit we provide service: NM Primary […]
05 October 2020As an independent nonprofit, CHI is highly innovative and adaptable, which is not always the case with government agencies or universities. CHI is uniquely situated to engage a broad range of stakeholders, from grassroots non-profits to government agencies, in discussion and action to make communities healthier. Recent convening of innovators include: Convened a 2007 Health […]
05 October 2020CHI partners with universities and other researchers to provide community participatory research, as well as translation of existing data sources to inform healthcare systems, programs and policy. Research coauthored by CHI staff members includes: The Role of Community Health Centers in Assessing the Social Determinants of Health for Planning and Policy (2014); Advancing the Transition […]
05 October 2020CHI staff provides strategic consulting and technical assistance to individual organizations, community coalitions, state and federal agencies and national associations and organizations. Our clients have included the New Mexico Primary Care Training Consortium, the National Center for Frontier Communities, the National REACH Coalition, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Centers for Disease Control […]
05 October 2020The Center for Health Innovation (CHI), headquartered in Silver City, NM is seeking a Human Resource/Payroll Specialist to assist with Human Resources and Payroll Management. This position requires a bachelor’s degree in human resources and administration management and 2 years of relevant experience. Review full position description below. Send resume and letter of interest by […]
05 October 2020[sp_wpcarousel id=”701″] New Mexico AHEC Scholars will be selected from various health professions programs and regions of the state. They will participate in a two year program that includes 40 hours per year of didactic training related to six core topic areas: Inter-professional education Behavioral health integration Social determinants of health Cultural competency Practice transformation Current […]
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