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: Suzanne Cohen
Phone: 215-246-5445 Fax: 215-246-5445
E-Mail Address: scohen@healthfederation.org
Website Address: www.healthfederation.org
Amount of Funding Requested: $1,000,000 for Year 1
The Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) (current HCCN grant number H2QCS30281) 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 38-year history of developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining a wide array 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 on the success of our prior Health Center Controlled Network grants to assist participating health centers to leverage health information technology and data in support of high-quality, culturally competent, equitable, and comprehensive primary care. Participating are 32 Pennsylvania health centers with 656,044 patients, comprising 74 percent of the state’s total FQHC/FQHCLA patients, and over 225 care delivery sites. Participating health centers represent a range of communities across the state, including rural, suburban and urban areas and vary from very small, serving 1700 patients annually at one site, to very large, serving 100,000 patients across dozens of sites. Of participants, four health centers with seventeen sites are look-alikes, while the other twenty-eight are program award recipients.
In this Cooperative Agreement, HCCN activities will focus on a number of areas that present important improvement opportunities for Pennsylvania health centers, including remote patient monitoring and other digital engagement programs, optimization of patient portals and telehealth, engagement with effective health information exchange, digital literacy and access for patients, increased and sustainable staff competency related to digital tools, and advanced data analytics and population health management, including incorporation and use of attribution data, risk stratification, and care management/coordination. Finally, the HCCN will support participating health centers in moving to the submission of disaggregated, patient-level data as required by HRSA.