REMINDER: October 1st Deadline Approaching for Required Cultural Competency Training
8/25/2022
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Posted by Provider Relations
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has approved training offered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Minority Health education program, Think Cultural Health, to fulfill the requirement for provider annual cultural competency training. The training is online, free, and offers several provider specific programs accessible at the following link: Education - Think Cultural Health (hhs.gov).
The Think Cultural Health training offers several provider specific programs.
These provider specific programs include:
- Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors, Nurses, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Social Workers – four courses
- Health Care Administrators and Providers – one course
- Maternal Health Providers – one course
- Nurses – three courses
- Oral Health Professionals – three courses
- Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants – three courses
The Department highly suggests providers complete the required training that corresponds with the provider’s scope of practice. Certain provider training programs have multiple courses within the training program. The provider is only required to take one of the courses if there are multiple courses within the provider training program. Providers can alternate year-to-year between the various courses within the training program.
New York State previously approved cultural competency training for behavioral health providers (see: https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/bho/docs/cultural_competency_curriculum.pdf ). Therefore, behavioral health providers, may utilize either the Think Cultural Health or the approved BH training to meet this requirement.
Once the cultural competency training has been completed, providers need to verify completion of the program by emailing the Cultural Competency Attestation Form to CulturalCompetencyTrainingAttestation@fideliscare.org. Please be sure to complete this required Cultural Competency Training on or before October 1, 2022, and then annually thereafter.
If you have any questions, please email omcmail@health.ny.gov, call our Provider Call Center at 1-888-FIDELIS (1-888-343-3547) or contact your local Provider Relations Specialist.