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Workforce Collaborative Trains Medical Assistants to Enhance Care at Community Health Centers

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Resource Type Document
Description Highlights a partnership including Area Health Education Centers, community health centers, and others that addressed area workforce needs. Focuses on their initial project which trained medical assistants to become medical interpreters, patient navigators, and community health workers while providing career ladder opportunities.
Date 7/2011
Author Blash L, Chapman S, Dower C
Organization Center for the Health Professions
Tagged keywords Area Health Education Centers, Best Practices and Model Programs, Community Health Workers, Education and Training, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Massachusetts, Medical Assistants, Medical Interpreters, Patient Navigators, Recruitment and Retention

Last updated September 19, 2011