Health Center Controlled Network - Project Title: Health Center Controlled Networks Applicant Organization Name: The Health Federation of Philadelphia Address: 123 South Broad St, Suite 650, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19109 Project Director Name: Holly Hainsworth Phone: 215-246-5429 Fax: 215-246-5429 E-Mail Address: hhainsworth@healthfederation.org Website Address: www.healthfederation.org Amount of Funding Requested: $1,205,000 for Year 1 The Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) (current HCCN Cooperative Agreement award number 5 U86CS45873-03-00) was established as a health center controlled network in 1983, making it one of the oldest networks of Federally Qualified Health Centers and look-alikes in the country. HFP has a 41-year history of developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining a wide range of network initiatives, with a focus on health information technology, integrated primary care services, workforce development, and quality improvement. HFP is proposing to expand and build upon the success of our prior Health Center Controlled Network funding to assist participating health centers in leveraging health information technology and data to enhance how they deliver affordable, accessible, and high-quality primary care. Thirty-five (35) health centers from across the state of Pennsylvania have signed on to participate in this project to date, one (1) of which is new in this round of funding. PHCs represent 688,914 patients, or approximately 68% of the state’s total FQHC/FQHCLA patients, and 239 delivery sites. Our Participating Health Centers continue to represent a range of communities statewide, including rural, suburban and urban areas, and they vary from very small health centers, serving just over 1,300 patients annually at one service delivery site, to very large PHCs, serving more than 75,000 patients across thirty-eight sites. In this Cooperative Agreement, HFP HCCN activities will focus on supporting the identified needs of Participating Health Centers in a number of areas that present important opportunities for improvement and innovation, including leveraging data and analytics tools to improve clinical, financial and operational processes and outcomes; enhancing interoperability and the capture of data points and information from external sources that are challenging to report on from within the EHR but are a lynchpin for effective and efficient care; enhancing value-based care work at PHCs; and addressing the promises and challenges around the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in the healthcare space. Finally, the HFP HCCN will continue to support Participating Health Centers in submitting disaggregated, patient-level data to HSRA for UDS+.
