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As fall rounds the corner to winter, it’s time to start planning your staffing needs for the holiday season. Every year, many facilities find themselves without adequate coverage from November through January. Facilities end up missing out on potential revenue and, more importantly, hinder the quality of care without appropriate staffing levels.

We will be at the National Association of Community Health Center's (NACHC) 2019 Financial, Operations Management/IT (FOM/IT) Conference in Chicago, IL, October 24-25.

We will be at the NACHC 2019 Community Health Institute & EXPO, August 18-20, 2019 in Chicago, IL.

CommonWealth Purchasing Group (CPG) is the leading group purchasing organization for community health centers and other community-based non-profit organizations, offering members significant savings on supplies, services, and products they purchase every day. CPG's goal is to enable and support their mission, and provide a high level of service and assistance to their procurement departments and administration.

Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Annual Golf Tournament New Place: Hopkinton Country Club, Hopkinton, MA. New Date: Monday, July 22, 2019 New Time: Registration & Lunch: 11 a.m. Shotgun Start: Noon

Physician vacancies are affecting the majority of health centers across the country. This paper examines some of the recruitment and retention challenges that Federally Qualified Health Centers are facing and how to overcome them.

Today, September 19th, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded over $396 million to combat the opioid crisis. The investments will enable HRSA-funded community health centers, academic institutions, and rural organizations to expand access to integrated substance use disorder and mental health services.

Imagine ordering all your medical and office supplies from multiple vendors from one simple system! We are pleased to introduce emapp®, an online marketplace and procurement solution designed for the healthcare community. By replacing manual, paper-based systems, emapp® enables cross-communication between departments, facilitating greater fiscal responsibility across your entire organization.

CPG's newest vendor W.B. Mason offers office supplies, janitorial products, custom printing, breakroom, office furniture and much more at amazingly low prices! Through CPG’s contract with W.B. Mason, CPG members will see savings of at least 10%! W.B. Mason always offers FREE delivery, no minimum order size, easy and INSTANT returns & refunds, personal service representatives and local warehouse & management teams. CPG and W.B. Mason will complete a FREE cost analysis to compare your current office supply spend to the savings offered by W.B. Mason through CPG's contract pricing.

Promotions offered exclusively to CPG members by our 50+ contracted vendors.

March 2018: Issue Thirty-nine CommonWealth Purchasing Group (CPG) is the leading group purchasing organization for community health centers and other community-based non-profit organizations, offering members significant savings on supplies, services, and products they purchase every day. CPG's goal is to enable and support their mission, and provide a high level of service and assistance to their procurement departments and administration.

Forty-three percent of today’s active physicians are over 55. With such a large percentage of physicians set to retire…projected demand for physicians will continue to grow faster than supply, leading to a projected shortfall of 40,800 to 104,900 by 2030. With job candidates in such high demand, community health centers will need to adopt modern recruitment technologies and techniques to compete and attract viable applicants.

February 2018 Issue Thirty-eight CommonWealth Purchasing Group (CPG) is the leading group purchasing organization for community health centers and other community-based non-profit organizations, offering members significant savings on supplies, services, and products they purchase every day. CPG's goal is to enable and support their mission, and provide a high level of service and assistance to their procurement departments and administration.

The wrong hire can have devastating consequences on the health and well-being of your patients as well as your health center's financial future and reputation. To address these challenges, health centers are looking beyond traditional employee background checks to not only get a snapshot of a candidate’s past but a look inside their future.