CCHHS is seeking funding to provide Title X family planning and preventive health to 3000 unduplicated clients in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada. Services will be provided in according to Title X program priorities, guidelines, and legislative mandates. This project will deliver high quality care that is consistent with nationally recognized standards to women, adolescent and men to include a broad range of family planning methods, reproductive life planning, basic infertility services, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, pregnancy testing, counseling, and education. CCHHS will advancing health equity by improving family planning and related health services access for identified disparities that occur for those of Hispanic ethnicity as well as adolescents in the service area. Advancing National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) will be a main goal in quality improvement efforts.
CCHHS has been responsive during the pandemic by expanding access through creative models of drive-up care and telehealth services and is prepared to respond into the future. This grantee has a long history with adopting an electronic health record and practice management system, assisting clients towards health insurance enrollment, contracting with third-party payers, and engaging collaborative relationship with primary care and substance use providers that will continue into this project period as funded.
CCHHS will ensure the delivery of quality care monitoring progress through the annual FPAR, client surveys and ongoing quality assurance and improvement activities. The project is actively working towards collecting and submitting FPAR 2.0 data. A waiver is enlisted for calendar year 2022 FPAR 2.0, but all conditions look to be met by 2023. Finally, CCHHS will ensure clinical and cost effectiveness through same day/next day patient scheduling, inventory management, and staff education.