by PNTC Webmaster | Jan 11, 2017 | Blog, PNTC News, PNTC Workshop Announcement
Thank you for your patience last week as we resolved issues with our course registration system. It is back up and and ready to accept your registrations! Upcoming workshops Community Health Worker 101 This two-day training is based on the foundations of our Patient...
by PNTC Webmaster | Jan 4, 2017 | Blog, Online, Upcoming Events
In this webinar, you’ll learn about progress made toward achieving the Healthy People 2020 Access to Health Services Leading Health Indicators. You’ll also learn how Door to HealthCare, a regional consumer assistance organization, is using navigators to increase...
by PNTC Webmaster | Jan 3, 2017 | Blog
Our course registration web site through the Center for Public Health Practice is currently down, possibly for a few days. We apologize for the inconvenience. This main site (patientnavigatortraining.org) is functional and you may browse upcoming workshops, but you...
by PNTC Webmaster | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, PNTC News, Upcoming Events
Patient Navigators can practice with mock patients, receive one-on-one coaching The Patient Navigator Training Collaborative (PNTC) is offering a unique opportunity to help patient navigators improve their motivational interviewing (MI) skills. Participants in the...
by PNTC Webmaster | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, PNTC News, PNTC Workshop Announcement, Upcoming Events
2017 is going to be a great year. We will have our usual array of courses in the Denver metro area and will be visiting the western slope (Glenwood Springs) as well as Durango in the spring. In addition, there will be an opportunity to get involved with two ECHO...
by PNTC Webmaster | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog, Upcoming Events
Patient Navigation Community Health Worker and Promotor de Salud Alliance Meeting 1-3 pm Jan 5 We are happy to announce 2017’s first PN CHW and PdS Alliance meeting on January 5 Alliance Meeting (in person and via Zoom web). You must register for this meeting to...
by PNTC Webmaster | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
New cancer control video series to aid public health professionals, help save lives A new video series focusing on cancer control for public health and population health improvement has just been launched by the Colorado School of Public Health’s Rocky Mountain Public...
by PNTC Webmaster | Dec 9, 2016 | Blog, Online, Upcoming Events
Discover HIV Navigation Services: A New Model for Patient Navigation December 15, 2016 ~ 10-11:30 am MT (9 am Pacific/11 am Central/12 pm Eastern) This 90-minute webinar will discuss the CDC’s HIV Navigation Services framework for health care providers working in...
by PNTC Webmaster | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog, Denver Metro, Upcoming Events
Tools for the Journey: Working with Children from Addicted Homes December 19, 9 am-4:30 pm Betty Ford Center, 14001 E Iliff Ave #120, Aurora, CO 80014 For more information and online registration, please visit: Tools for the Journey: Working with Children from...
by PNTC Webmaster | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog
The Comprehensive Cancer Program and Women’s Wellness Connection (WWC) of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) have funds to support implementation projects in the following areas highlighted in the Colorado Cancer Plan: Efforts to...
by PNTC Webmaster | Nov 28, 2016 | Blog
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a new fact sheet that examines key questions around the potential changes President-elect Donald Trump and the next Congress may seek to make in Medicaid, a program that covers 73 million people nationally. Depending on how it is...
by PNTC Webmaster | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog, Patient Navigator News, Patient Navigator Training Collaborative, PNTC Workshop Announcement
Spring 2017 workshop schedule coming soon! We are working hard on our workshop calendar for 2017! Here’s a preview of what’s to come: Level 1: Patient Navigator Fundamentals January: Denver March: Fort Collins May: Glenwood Springs We are planning to offer...
by PNTC Webmaster | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog, Upcoming Events
Human services workers face a multitude of challenges—from diminishing funding to new measures evaluating the use of those funds; from increased workloads on fewer professionals, to greater accountability expected of them; from a vastly more diverse client population,...
by PNTC Webmaster | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog, Job Posting
The Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine is seeking a Professional Research Assistant position who will serve as a Patient Navigator. Drs. Stacy Fischer and Regina Fink have recently been awarded funding from the...
by PNTC Webmaster | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Patient Navigator News
There is a lot of uncertainty on the future of healthcare since the presidential election. Patients and healthcare providers alike are grappling with this uncertainty, as there is a lot we simply don’t know. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to repeal...
by PNTC Webmaster | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Online, Upcoming Events
Health insurance is an important piece of the employment conversation. This webinar, presented by Cancer + Careers, will provide attendees with information about existing health insurance options as well as the changes in healthcare brought about by the Patient...
by PNTC Webmaster | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog, Online, Upcoming Events
Through the fall and early winter, the Patient Navigator/Community Health Worker/ Promotoras de Salud Alliance will be offering opportunities to hear from CHW and PN experts who have devoted resources and their expertise to develop tracking and data collection...
by PNTC Webmaster | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog, Online, Upcoming Events
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is offering two introductory webinars in November on diabetes prevention programs in tribal communities. Join to hear more about the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) & Diabetes Prevention...
by PNTC Webmaster | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog, Colorado Springs, PNTC Workshop Announcement
Want to help your patients reach their goals? This course provides tools and strategies to help clients around diet, exercise, diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention and control. Advanced Health Behavior Change focuses on chronic disease, including diabetes...
by PNTC Webmaster | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog, Patient Navigator News
By Alejandra Armenta, PNTC Intern The second annual Colorado Health Literacy Coalition Conference was held at the University of Colorado Hospital Conference Center on Oct. 21, 2016. This event was aimed primarily at clinicians, health educators, patient navigators,...
