Health center controlled network - health center partners of southern california (HCP) is a regional primary care consortium consisting of 17-member organizations, operating 170 practice sites in…

Health center controlled network - health center partners of southern california (HCP) is a regional primary care consortium consisting of 17-member organizations, operating 170 practice sites in SAN diego, imperial, riverside, SAN bernardino, and orange counties. The HCP consortium includes thirteen federally qualified health centers (FQHCS), three tribal health programs, and the local planned parenthood affiliate. All thirteen FQHCS are recognized by the national committee for quality assurance (NCQA) as patient centered medical homes (PCMH). To advance common objectives, ten HCP members that receive grant funding under the health resources services administration's (HRSA) health center program (H80) agreed to collaborate with HCP in the formation of a health centered controlled network (HCCN) and leverage health information technology (health IT) to improve access to care, enhance quality of care, and achieve cost efficiencies through the redesign of practices to integrate services and optimize patient outcomes. HCP applied for and received a grant (H2Q) from HRSA for a three-year project (august 1, 2016 - july 31, 2019) to establish the HCCN with ten participating health centers (PHCS). Upon completion of that project the HCP HCCN was awarded an additional three-year project for the period august 1, 2019 - july 31, 2022, to improve quality of care and patient safety by strengthening health IT infrastructure to achieve cost savings, accomplish operational efficiencies, and improve care coordination. Strengthened health IT will be instrumental to the PHCS achieving value-based care transformation which will result in greater patient empowerment, improved transparency between patients and providers, and increased value and quality. To facilitate the transition towards value-based care delivery, the network is engaged in activities to advance data sharing and analytics capacity and develop population health management tools. The HCP HCCN will build on the successes of the two previous projects (FY16 and FY19) in the FY22 project by leveraging health IT and data to deliver high-quality, culturally competent, equitable, and comprehensive primary health care, with a specific focus on improvements in clinical quality, patient-centered care, and provider and staff well-being. The HCCN will help the PHCS efficiently use digital health tools such as electronic health records (EHRS), telehealth, patient portals, electronic registries, remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices and the virtual care platforms that support their integration, and arcadia, HCP's population health management tool in use by the nine PHCS that participate in HCP's clinically integrated network. The HCCN will also support the PHCS with translating robust clinical and population data into culturally competent, patient-centered care using, in part, data collected through digital health tools. With this data, the PHCS will improve clinical quality, while more effectively advancing health equity.